Well, good afternoon,
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I am so glad all of you are here
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at 3ABN Spring Camp meeting,
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and are all of you having
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a good enjoyable
time here at 3ABN?
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Amen.
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You know, I want to
encourage all of you that,
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our viewing
audience all over the world,
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just want to encourage you,
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next time you hear that
there is a 3ABN camp meeting,
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make plans now to
come and be a part of it
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because it will
encourage you, won't it?
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It will bless you mentally,
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physically,
emotionally, and spiritually,
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you won't leave here
the same way you came.
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How many of you
want to be changed?
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I don't wanna be the same
as how I got here this morning,
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I want to be changed
and the way we get changed
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is through the
power of the Holy Spirit
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as God works through His Word
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and we've got some
tremendous speakers,
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we do every year.
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Speakers, ministers, and singers
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and we've got a
tremendous singer
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with us now.
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I want to
introduce our lovely sister,
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Jennifer LaMountain.
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Jennifer, will you come on now.
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I've got to know
her through the years
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and I just have
learned to love this lady.
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She's full of God's Holy
Spirit as well as a little boy
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that's coming
here before very long.
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But, Jennifer,
you're gonna minister
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a beautiful song for us,
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"Make me like Jesus".
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Thank you. Thank you.
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This is such a
simple little song.
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It's a children's hymn actually
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but the truth of it is something
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that is so hard to learn.
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We spend a lifetime learning
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what it means to be like Christ.
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Teach me Father
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What to say
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Teach me Father
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How to pray
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Teach me all
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Along the way
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How to be
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Like Jesus
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Teach me
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How we may be one
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Like the Father
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And the Son
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And when all
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Is overcome
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I will be
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Like Jesus
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Lord make me like You
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Please make me like You
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You are a servant
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Make me one too
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Oh, Lord, I am willing
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To what You must do
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To make me like You, Lord
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Make me like you
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I would be
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Like Jesus
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I would be
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Like Jesus
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Help me Lord
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To daily grow
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More and more
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Like Jesus
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Thank you, Jennifer.
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Well, we have an
afternoon speaker here
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this evening or this afternoon,
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someone that I
am very partial to.
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I think he's a
mighty man of God,
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full of valor.
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I would like to
introduce now, my husband,
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Pastor Hal Steenson, if
you will come out, please.
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He's got a message for us
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and I think that
it's going to be a message
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that will touch
every one of our hearts.
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It's the
accuser of the brethren.
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How many of you
have read in the Bible
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about the
accuser of the brethren?
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Well, today, we want
to learn more about that.
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Bless you, baby. Thank you.
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It's an honor to be here.
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How many of you have
your Bibles with you?
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If you will, turn to
Revelation the 12th Chapter,
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we're gonna start
with the 9th verse.
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We're gonna take a look at
the accuser of the brethren,
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find out how your enemy works,
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and how you can overcome him
instead of him overcoming you.
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All right. Let's go
to the Lord in prayer.
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Father, we're here
for no other reason,
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no other purpose today,
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other than to worship You.
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God, if we get out of here
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and we've not
built a spiritual bridge
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from this pulpit,
through this congregation
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to the people that
are watching this at home,
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then God we failed You.
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Lord, we don't want to do that.
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We want to allow
Your word to come alive.
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Your word will work if
we will work Your word.
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We thank You for
it, in Jesus name,
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how many of you can say amen?
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Amen.
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Now I'm from the south but
I had lady tell me recently
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you don't talk slow
like you're from the south.
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I speak a 120 words a
minute which goes to up to 500.
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So buckle your
seatbelts and hang out
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and let's get into this, okay.
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What we're gonna do
is we're gonna examine
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our foundational scripture,
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it's very important
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that we take a look
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at what the scripture is saying.
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The reason why is
because one of the reasons
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that I was in a church recently
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and they were telling me
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where we got the new
this and God's provided this,
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and we have the new
this and the new that
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and everything.
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And I pointed to the
baptismal pool and said,
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"How many people,
you've had this for 10 years,
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how many people have
been baptized in that pool?"
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And he got real quiet.
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We can have the
silver communion service,
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we can have the padded pews,
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but that's not
what it's all about.
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What it's all
about is J-E-S-U-S,
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it's Jesus is
what it's all about.
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Okay, Revelation 12:9,
starting verse 9, it says,
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"And the great
dragon was cast out,
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that old serpent
called the devil and Satan
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which deceiveth the
whole world," the what?
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What is it saying?
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"The whole world, he
was cast out into the earth,
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and his angels
were cast out with him.
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And I heard a loud
voice saying, in heaven,
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now is come
salvation," this is number one
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and strength, number two,
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and the kingdom
of God, number three,
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and the power of
His Christ, number four.
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Now, what causes these things
to happen in the end time here
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that we're in.
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It says, "For the accuser
of the brethren is" what?
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"Is cast down."
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This is what we
need to learn today.
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If you don't hear
anything else, I say,
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I want you to hear this.
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The accuser of the
brethren must be cast down.
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Now don't think for one minute
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this is some far off
distant day scripture
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because it's
not, it's a right here
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and now scripture.
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And when we learn how
to recognize our enemy,
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and how to cast
down the forces of hell
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and the powers of darkness,
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then what we're gonna have is
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we're gonna start
having salvations.
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We're gonna
start seeing strength,
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we're gonna start seeing
the kingdom of God manifest
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in the power of His
Christ in our churches,
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and in our services.
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We need the power
of God in our services.
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In the latter days
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and the outpouring
of the Holy Spirit,
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Sister White
says, "We need to be
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so well acquainted with
the gifts of the Spirit,
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lest we look at the
real and call it fanaticism."
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Some of us that are
cold and sit back into
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and think oh, I
don't want anybody
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to even say amen,
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you better get used to it
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because in this last outpouring,
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in the latter days, the
Holy Spirit, Brother Cox,
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they're gonna be
such manifestations
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of the Holy Spirit and
the gifts of the Spirit
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that it's going to trigger
some of us, half to death.
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I like you all.
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"And they
overcame him by the," what?
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"By the blood of the Lamb
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and by the word
of their testimony,
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and they love not
their lives unto death."
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They overcame him by what?
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By the blood of the Lamb
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and by the word
of their testimonies.
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Now listen to this, okay.
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More churches
have been destroyed
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by the accuser of the
brethren and his faultfinding
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than either by immorality
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or abuse of church
funds, stay with me,
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so widespread is his
influence in our society,
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our churches,
our prayer ministry,
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such as 3ABN
Broadcasting Network,
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that among many,
faultfinding has been elevated
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to the status of a
God ordained ministry.
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God help us.
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What is your ministry?
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I have the
ministry of faultfinding.
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I don't think so.
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There is no such thing
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as the ministry of faultfinding,
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but it has been elevated
to a God ordained ministry.
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However, in these last days,
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the Lord has
promised that in His house,
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accusing one another
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will be replaced
with prayer of the saints,
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and
faultfinding demons with love
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that covers a multitude of sins.
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How many of you like to
have a multitude of sins
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covered today?
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An attempt to
frustrate, if not all together
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stop the process of
the next move of God,
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Satan has set forth an
army of faultfinding demons
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against God's children.
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The purpose of this assault
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is to entice the body of Christ
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away from the
righteousness of Jesus
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and on to the
blemishes of one another.
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I don't know about you guys,
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but I got a lot of blemishes.
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I got a lot that I
would like to cover up.
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But what I do is I cover them up
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with the blood of Jesus.
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Not with a
faultfinding demon out there
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to point their finger
and look down their long nose
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and sister long
tongue and sister gossip.
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How many of you know
that every church has
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a church gossip?
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You weren't there
when she was voted in
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or he was voted in, but
you have a church gossip.
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If you don't think so,
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who came to mind
when I said this?
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Somebody came to
your mind, didn't it?
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The faultfinding spirit's
assignment is to assault
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spiritual
connections on every level.
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It attacks every family.
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It attacks every denomination,
we're not above it.
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It attacks every prayer ministry
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such as 3ABN and Danny Shelton,
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and Inter Church
Association seeking to bring
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permanent division to our unity.
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Let me ask you
some questions here.
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Why aren't we seeing
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abundant salvations
in our church today?
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Where is the strength?
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Where is the kingdom of God?
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And where's the power of Christ?
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Let me tell you where they are.
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According to
Psalms 119:89, it says,
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"Forever, O Lord,
thy word is for settled
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in the heavens."
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All four of these promises
are there in the spirit realm,
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they are out there.
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However, the
accuser of the brethren
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is blocking them,
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and how do we bring
them out of the spirit realm
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and into the natural realm.
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We need to have
people flooding in here.
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We need to have so many
people that gets born again
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and seeking the Word of
God that we need to set up
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a 24-foot swimming pool out here
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and have about 20
pastors in there baptizing them
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and getting them in
and getting them out.
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I mean, we got the message,
we got the remnant church,
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the end time church,
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and we don't need to put
it somewhere on a backstreet,
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we need to get it
out on four lane highway
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where it belongs.
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Can I hear an amen? Amen!
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We need to start
selling some of these
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old rundown Baptists
and Methodists buildings
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that our
denomination has bought,
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we need to start selling
them back to somebody else
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and believe God for
something that will stand
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under the pressure
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and fill up the people
that's gonna be coming in here.
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They're going
to flood into here,
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do you hear this?
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The nations are gonna flow
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into the mouth
in the Lord's house.
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They're gonna fill
your churches up, when?
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When the accuser of the brethren
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is cast down.
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We must realize that
our foundational scriptures
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are a way back, yonder
scripture is right now.
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Somebody hit me
with this, John 10:10,
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"The thief cometh
not but for to," what?
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"Steal and to kill and destroy."
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He said, "But I've come
that you might have life
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and that they might
have it more abundantly."
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We must evaluate our
attitude toward others,
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in fact, thoughts or anything
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other than
faith working by love,
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then we are
missing it as big as Texas.
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So let's thoroughly
examine the characteristics
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of this faultfinding spirit.
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And you're gonna
find that you know one,
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that you're acquainted with one,
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that there's one in your area,
might be one in your church,
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and you'll be able to know
how to deal with this thing,
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and know how to handle it.
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And God help,
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anybody that's in
here that may be one.
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But, boy, all we
need to do is just repent.
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What do we do?
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We repent.
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"First,
masquerading as discernment,
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the faultfinding spirit
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will slip into our
analysis of other people
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and their views of
us, leaving us critical
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and judgmental."
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True
discernment, please hear this,
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True discernment will
always line up with God's Word."
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Hebrews 4:12 says,
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"For the Word of God
is quick and powerful
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and sharper than
any two edged sword,
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piercing even to
the dividing asunder
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of the soul and the spirits,
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and the joints and the marrow,
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and is a
discerner of the thoughts
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and the intents of the heart,"
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true discernment.
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I have people tell me, well,
I have the gift of discernment,
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that's why I have a God ordained
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faultfinding ministry,
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no true discernment.
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True discernment is
biblical discernment
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will be divided into two camps.
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It will always be
either Satan or Christ,
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who's it gonna be?
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It's either gonna be Satan
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or it's either
going to be Christ,
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there's no difference in there.
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On the left side of the page,
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you can put Satan.
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On the right side, you
can put the Holy Spirit.
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And discernment under Satan
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first is the flesh.
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Satan deals in the
areas of the flesh.
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Well, why do you say that?
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Because John 3:6 says,
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"That which is born
of the flesh is flesh,
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that which is born
of the Spirit is," what?
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"Is spirit."
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Under Satan, you got flesh.
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Under the Holy
Spirit, you have spritely.
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So here's your flesh
and here's your spirit.
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Under Satan, you
have the accuser.
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Who is Satan?
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He's the accuser.
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Under spirit,
you have the helper.
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Under flesh, you
have, under Satan,
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you have that
he's a faultfinder.
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But under the spirit
you have that he is a what?
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He's a restorer.
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Under the Satan and the flesh,
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you have that he is a destroyer
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but under the Holy
Spirit, what is he?
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He is our redeemer.
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I've heard it said
that what people think of us
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is none of our business.
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You know, I'll buy that.
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I can go along with that.
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But what they say
about me is my business.
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What they think
about me, I can't control,
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but what they
say about me I can.
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I can take authority over it.
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I can stand up and say that
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that's not so
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and that this is
coming from nowhere else
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but the accuser of the brethren.
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If God gives and God does,
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if God gives
somebody real discernment,
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God ordained discernment
enough to see the problem,
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they should also
receive enough anointing
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of the Holy Spirit
to receive the solution.
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Are you with me here?
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Oh, I see a problem here.
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Well, if you see a problem,
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you've discernment
to see that problem,
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then you should be given
godly Holy Spirit discernment
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of how to solve that problem,
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or deal with that problem.
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Are you with me here?
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Let me share
this with you, okay?
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God saw a problem
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and that problem
was in John 3:16-17.
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It says, "For God
so loved the world
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that He gave His
only begotten Son,
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that whosoever believeth
in Him should not perish
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but have everlasting life."
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You see, God saw
problem, a world fallen in sin.
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What's the solution?
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The solution was
the supreme sacrifice
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of His Son, Jesus Christ.
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"For God sent not
His Son into the world
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to condemn the
world but to," what?
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"But that the world through Him
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might be saved."
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Do you realize how
gracious our Jesus is?
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Do you realize how
forgiving our God is?
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I would not be here.
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I would not be here today,
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I would not be
standing before you today
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if we did not have a
forgiving, loving God.
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I would be somewhere off
out in the wild blue yonder
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or I tell people,
God would have killed me
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a long time ago
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but He didn't, you
know what He's done?
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He loved me.
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He sent His Son to die for me.
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He solved the problem,
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but He also by the grace of God
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saw the solution.
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Even when Jesus
by the discernment
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corrected the churches in Asia,
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He sandwiched His rebuke
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between praise and promise.
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This is how good our God is.
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True discernment doesn't center
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in only on the
negative of the matter.
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There's a
positive to every negative.
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I used to have people come to me
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and they say, "Oh, Pastor Hal,
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I just got
caught up in the spirit
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and I went over the
spirit and there's angels
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all in there."
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And I said, "Well, how
many demons did you see?"
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"Oh, none."
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"Well, let me tell you what,
you get in the spirit realm,
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there's not only angels
but there's also demons,
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but we don't
center in on the demonic,
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we center in on
the Spirit of God."
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Are you with me here today?
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Here's the praise,
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Revelation 2:3-7,
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"And hast born,
and has patience,
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and for my name's
sake hast labored,
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and hast not fainted."
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That's the praise.
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Here's the rebuke, Nevertheless
I have somewhat against thee,
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because thou hast
left thy first love."
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Remember therefore
from whence thou art fallen,
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and repent, and
do the first works,
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or else I will
come unto thee quickly,
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and will remove thy
candlestick out of his place,
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except thou repent."
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Here is the praise.
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All right, here is the rebuke
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and now here's the promise.
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"But this thou hast,
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that thou hatest the
deeds of the Nicolaitanes,
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which I also hate.
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He that hath an ear,
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let him hear what the Spirit
had said unto the churches,
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to him that overcometh,
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" to whom that do what?
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"To him that overcometh
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will I give to eat
of the tree of life,
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which is in the midst
of the paradise of God."
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Even with the
church of Thyatira,
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I'll never forget the
first time I saw this,
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even with the church of Thyatira
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that was steeped in error,
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Christ still offered
grace if they changed.
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Revelation 2:20 says,
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not withstanding or 2:20-21,
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"Not withstanding, I have
a few things against thee,
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because thou have
suffered the woman Jezebel."
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You never
noticed there's two names
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that people
don't name their kids.
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They don't name
the girl Jezebel,
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they don't mean the boy as what?
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Judas.
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Yeah, "Sufferest
the woman Jezebel
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which calleth
herself a prophetess,
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to teach and to seduce
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my servants to
commit fornication,
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and to eat things
sacrificed unto idols."
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I'll never forget
first when I saw this.
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"And I gave her space to
repent of her fornication,
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and she repented not."
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Isn't that amazing?
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Christ gave Jezebel
an opportunity to repent.
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We're dealing with
faultfinding spirit,
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the accuser of the brethren.
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Do you hear the
song that we sang?
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We don't want to, I
don't want to be like Moses,
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I don't want to be like David,
I don't want to be like John,
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I don't want to be like Peter,
I don't want to be like Paul,
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I want to be like Jesus.
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And if I'm like Jesus,
00:21:36.79\00:21:38.13
and I can give everybody
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an opportunity to repent,
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no matter what they've done,
00:21:42.10\00:21:43.77
instead of
putting him in a shoot,
00:21:43.80\00:21:45.13
sending him to hell,
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they don't cross go and
they don't collect $200.
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That's not what God wants.
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Well, we serve a
loving God, a loving Father.
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Christ even gave
Jezebel a chance to repent,
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but she didn't.
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How many of you
ever read in 1 Kings 21,
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there was a man named Naboth
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and he had a plot of
land near the summer home
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of Ahab and Jezebel.
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And Ahab wanted Naboth's
land to plant him a what?
00:22:09.16\00:22:13.03
A little garden and a
little vineyard there.
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And so he went back in
00:22:15.56\00:22:17.07
because Naboth
wouldn't let him have it.
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He went back and
he covered his head
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and he wouldn't eat
and he had a pity party.
00:22:20.90\00:22:25.24
You know, who
shows up at a pity party?
00:22:25.27\00:22:27.81
Only two people,
00:22:27.84\00:22:29.61
you and the devil.
00:22:29.64\00:22:31.85
But this time,
there was another one
00:22:31.88\00:22:33.21
that came in and
Jezebel was there
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and here's what happens.
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I want you to see
this in the Message Bible.
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I like this way that reads,
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"She wrote letters
over Ahab's signature,
00:22:41.26\00:22:43.46
stamped them with
his official seal,
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and sent them to the
elders of Naboth's city
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and to the civic leaders.
00:22:48.76\00:22:50.27
She wrote, 'Call for a fast day
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and put Naboth at
the head of the table.
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Then seat a
couple of stool pigeons.'
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"I like this."
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One translation says
a couple of scoundrels.
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Then seat a
couple of stool pigeons
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across from him
00:23:06.28\00:23:07.62
who, in front of
everybody will say, 'You!
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You blasphemed
God and the king.'
00:23:10.12\00:23:12.82
Then they'll throw him
out and stone him to death.'"
00:23:12.85\00:23:17.69
Verse 11,
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"And they did it.
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The men of the city, the elders
00:23:21.43\00:23:22.76
and the civic leaders
followed Jezebel's instructions
00:23:22.80\00:23:25.63
that she wrote in
the letter sent to them,
00:23:25.67\00:23:27.37
they called for a fast
00:23:27.40\00:23:29.00
and seated Naboth at
the head of the table.
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Then they brought
in two stool pigeons."
00:23:31.14\00:23:36.01
I just like the way
that sounds, stool pigeons.
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You know what I'd say?
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In Alabama you say about them,
00:23:41.62\00:23:43.22
they were dumber
than a box of rocks.
00:23:43.25\00:23:48.26
Their porch light was
on but nobody was home,
00:23:48.29\00:23:52.33
that they would do
something like this.
00:23:52.36\00:23:55.26
"And seated
them opposite Naboth.
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In front of
everybody the two degenerates
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accused him,
00:23:59.20\00:24:00.54
'He blasphemed
God and the king!'"
00:24:00.57\00:24:02.57
The accuser of the brethren
00:24:02.60\00:24:04.14
will never
overcome God in the end.
00:24:04.17\00:24:06.37
The accuser of the brethren
00:24:06.41\00:24:07.81
will never
overcome God in the end.
00:24:07.84\00:24:11.25
My mother has a saying,
00:24:11.28\00:24:14.32
my mom had a lot to say,
00:24:14.35\00:24:17.12
good Southern lady she was.
00:24:17.15\00:24:19.82
Her saying was,
"Every dog has its day."
00:24:19.85\00:24:22.16
I mean, you've
ever heard that before?
00:24:22.19\00:24:25.26
Yeah, we got some
older people in here
00:24:25.29\00:24:26.70
know these old sayings.
00:24:26.73\00:24:28.86
Oh, me, every dog has its day.
00:24:28.90\00:24:30.87
The only thing
about this is the dog
00:24:30.90\00:24:32.63
that's in this story is the
one that licked Jezebel's bones.
00:24:32.67\00:24:37.01
Did she pay a price
00:24:37.04\00:24:39.27
for getting these
two stool pigeons in here
00:24:39.31\00:24:41.91
and being
accuser of the brethren
00:24:41.94\00:24:43.75
over a little plot of land
00:24:43.78\00:24:45.68
that was given to
Naboth as an inheritance?
00:24:45.71\00:24:47.95
Yes. Did she pay a price for it?
00:24:47.98\00:24:50.39
Did Ahab
eventually through his family
00:24:50.42\00:24:52.62
pay a price for it?
00:24:52.65\00:24:53.99
Yes.
00:24:54.02\00:24:55.36
Let me tell you, there are
faultfinding demons out there.
00:24:55.39\00:24:58.23
There's those that are
accuser of the brethren
00:24:58.26\00:25:00.23
that thinks
everything's going fine,
00:25:00.26\00:25:02.10
that they're gonna be elevated
00:25:02.13\00:25:03.47
to the status of somebody
that's really accomplished
00:25:03.50\00:25:05.83
something for
the kingdom of God,
00:25:05.87\00:25:07.57
and their children
and their grandchildren
00:25:07.60\00:25:09.54
will pay a price for it.
00:25:09.57\00:25:12.01
God help us.
00:25:12.04\00:25:13.91
Help us to recognize
the accuser of the brethren.
00:25:13.94\00:25:17.78
Now second, let's look at this.
00:25:17.81\00:25:19.88
Where do these
faultfinding demons
00:25:19.91\00:25:21.62
found their
accusations against others?
00:25:21.65\00:25:23.92
In the body of Christ?
00:25:23.95\00:25:25.35
Where did they
find them, Pastor Hal?
00:25:25.39\00:25:27.62
With you repented of your sins
00:25:27.66\00:25:29.06
they're under
the blood of Jesus.
00:25:29.09\00:25:31.36
The enemy can only
draw his accusations
00:25:31.39\00:25:33.60
from either hell itself,
00:25:33.63\00:25:35.33
or from the black hearts of man.
00:25:35.36\00:25:39.03
Now, I'm gonna have to
show you that this is true.
00:25:39.07\00:25:42.24
Psalms 103:12 says,
00:25:42.27\00:25:43.87
"As far as the
east is from the west,
00:25:43.91\00:25:45.91
so far hath he removed
our transgressions from us."
00:25:45.94\00:25:49.28
Isaiah 43:25,
00:25:49.31\00:25:50.91
these are good,
you need to get the DVD
00:25:50.95\00:25:52.68
or the CD or whatever.
00:25:52.71\00:25:54.05
Give this to somebody
00:25:54.08\00:25:55.48
that's out there
wounded and heartbroken
00:25:55.52\00:25:57.72
because their
life has been shattered
00:25:57.75\00:26:01.16
by an accuser of the brethren.
00:26:01.19\00:26:03.59
Isaiah 43:25 says,
00:26:03.63\00:26:05.43
" I, even I,
00:26:05.46\00:26:06.80
am he that blotteth
out thy transgressions
00:26:06.83\00:26:08.93
for mine own sake,
00:26:08.96\00:26:10.33
and will not remember thy sins."
00:26:10.37\00:26:12.27
Praise God.
00:26:12.30\00:26:13.90
Isaiah 44:22,
00:26:13.94\00:26:15.47
"I have blotted
out, as a thick cloud,
00:26:15.50\00:26:17.54
thy
transgressions, and, as a cloud,
00:26:17.57\00:26:19.31
thy sins, return unto me,
for I have redeemed thee."
00:26:19.34\00:26:24.61
Hebrews 8:12,
00:26:24.65\00:26:26.95
"For I will be merciful
to their unrighteousness,
00:26:26.98\00:26:29.55
and their sins
and their iniquities
00:26:29.58\00:26:31.29
will I remember no more."
00:26:31.32\00:26:34.76
With God that we
could be like Jesus,
00:26:34.79\00:26:37.89
and we could forgive somebody.
00:26:37.93\00:26:40.33
I just wrote devotional recently
00:26:40.36\00:26:41.86
about a guy that was out fishing
00:26:41.90\00:26:43.60
and he stayed out three hours
00:26:43.63\00:26:44.97
and he's
supposed to take his wife
00:26:45.00\00:26:46.33
to the fireworks
display, and he realized
00:26:46.37\00:26:47.70
because he'd stayed
out three hours too late.
00:26:47.74\00:26:49.50
He didn't have to take
her to the fireworks display.
00:26:49.54\00:26:52.04
When he got
home he was gonna see
00:26:52.07\00:26:53.54
the fireworks display.
00:26:53.58\00:26:56.91
Yet when he got
home, he walked in
00:26:56.95\00:26:58.71
and he's gonna make up this lie
00:26:58.75\00:27:00.08
about the boat
motor running out,
00:27:00.12\00:27:01.68
or quitting
00:27:01.72\00:27:03.05
and left his cell
phone in the truck.
00:27:03.08\00:27:04.42
But he said no, why add to it?
00:27:04.45\00:27:06.02
So when he walked
through the front door,
00:27:06.05\00:27:08.16
he put his arms
around and he said,
00:27:08.19\00:27:09.66
"Honey,
00:27:09.69\00:27:11.23
I'm sorry, I promised you
that it wouldn't happen again.
00:27:11.26\00:27:15.03
And yet it happened
again, will you forgive me?"
00:27:15.06\00:27:16.97
And she said,
"Sure, I'll forgive you."
00:27:17.00\00:27:19.60
The words were like a
symphony coming out of her mouth
00:27:19.63\00:27:22.34
and he said, "This is amazing.
00:27:22.37\00:27:25.54
I've done this before,
00:27:25.57\00:27:27.94
and yet I've done it again,
and yet you still forgive me?"
00:27:27.98\00:27:30.68
And she said, "Well,
before when you did it
00:27:30.71\00:27:32.78
and you asked for forgiveness,
I really forgave you.
00:27:32.81\00:27:37.29
I didn't hold a
grudge against you.
00:27:37.32\00:27:39.12
I forgave you
00:27:39.15\00:27:40.49
for what you
asked forgiveness for."
00:27:40.52\00:27:42.46
Now, this is like the first time
00:27:42.49\00:27:43.99
that this has ever happened.
00:27:44.03\00:27:46.29
Would it be something
if we did, Jesus said,
00:27:46.33\00:27:48.70
"Oh, Jesus, would You forgive me
00:27:48.73\00:27:50.40
for the sins
that I've committed."
00:27:50.43\00:27:51.77
He's no, no, no,
I'm not gonna do it.
00:27:51.80\00:27:54.07
Now, you did that
before and you told me
00:27:54.10\00:27:55.67
you weren't going
to ever do it again.
00:27:55.70\00:27:57.04
Now you've done it again.
00:27:57.07\00:27:58.41
So you can forget
about forgiveness.
00:27:58.44\00:27:59.77
Aren't you glad that
Jesus will never do that to us,
00:27:59.81\00:28:02.71
that we can go to Him
00:28:02.74\00:28:04.28
time and time and time again
00:28:04.31\00:28:07.02
and He'll forgive us.
00:28:07.05\00:28:09.42
Romans 8:33,
00:28:09.45\00:28:10.79
"Who shall lay anything to
the charge of God's elect?"
00:28:10.82\00:28:15.06
Anything to the
charge of God's elect?
00:28:15.09\00:28:17.23
It is God that justifieth.
00:28:20.33\00:28:22.96
How many of you realize
that Satan does not have access
00:28:23.00\00:28:26.57
to the
investigative judgment books
00:28:26.60\00:28:29.14
that Jesus is
reviewing in the Holy of Holies?
00:28:29.17\00:28:32.87
He is not in the Holy of Holies
looking over Jesus shoulder
00:28:32.91\00:28:35.91
and saying, "Whoa,
there's Bill and Mary, man,
00:28:35.94\00:28:38.61
I didn't know they did that.
00:28:38.65\00:28:39.98
I'm gonna go get on him for."
00:28:40.02\00:28:41.35
No.
00:28:41.38\00:28:43.28
So the only place
00:28:43.32\00:28:44.65
that he can draw the
accusations against you
00:28:44.69\00:28:47.79
is either from the pits of hell
00:28:47.82\00:28:50.09
or from the black hearts of men.
00:28:50.13\00:28:53.16
Whenever the
accuser of the brethren
00:28:53.19\00:28:54.63
comes against you to
try to tear you down,
00:28:54.66\00:28:56.83
tear your ministry down,
00:28:56.87\00:28:58.33
tear up the kingdom of God.
00:28:58.37\00:29:00.04
He did not get
those accusations from God
00:29:00.07\00:29:03.74
or from the Holy Of Holies
00:29:03.77\00:29:05.14
because he
doesn't have access it.
00:29:05.17\00:29:07.38
Aren't you glad?
00:29:07.41\00:29:09.34
Jesus going through the books.
00:29:09.38\00:29:10.71
I don't want Satan
looking over my life.
00:29:10.75\00:29:14.12
This is where the
accuser of the brethren
00:29:14.15\00:29:15.72
was cast out of heaven
by the Cross of Calvary.
00:29:15.75\00:29:17.72
We overcame him by the what?
00:29:17.75\00:29:19.69
By the blood, the blood was
not until the Cross of Calvary
00:29:19.72\00:29:22.39
and just put him out
of the Holy of Holies.
00:29:22.42\00:29:24.13
Let me assure you
that he has no place in it.
00:29:24.16\00:29:27.70
This is the blood that
we use to overcome Satan.
00:29:27.73\00:29:31.47
Nevertheless, I have to admit
00:29:31.50\00:29:34.24
that the accuser of the brethren
00:29:34.27\00:29:35.60
has constant demonic reports
00:29:35.64\00:29:38.21
on your present
sins and he can't wait
00:29:38.24\00:29:39.94
to throw your
past sins in your face.
00:29:39.97\00:29:44.31
You've asked
forgiveness for something,
00:29:44.35\00:29:46.98
and you go back to God,
00:29:47.02\00:29:49.05
5 minutes later you say,
00:29:49.08\00:29:50.42
"God,
00:29:50.45\00:29:52.95
You know that
sins that I committed
00:29:52.99\00:29:54.32
that I asked You
to forgive me for."
00:29:54.36\00:29:55.69
You know what God will say?
00:29:55.72\00:29:57.06
"No.
00:29:57.09\00:29:59.36
I don't remember it."
00:29:59.39\00:30:01.33
You know, that God's omniscient,
00:30:01.36\00:30:02.83
He's all knowing.
00:30:02.86\00:30:04.33
Do you know that God
doesn't have a memory?
00:30:04.37\00:30:05.77
He had to turn to Gabriel, say,
00:30:05.80\00:30:07.14
"Hey, Gabriel, when
was it that we went down
00:30:07.17\00:30:09.47
and we did that thing
back with the Red Sea?"
00:30:09.50\00:30:11.81
Can you help me
with that?" God doesn't.
00:30:11.84\00:30:13.54
He's omniscient,
He's all knowing.
00:30:13.58\00:30:16.31
And yet He forgives
and forgets our sins.
00:30:16.34\00:30:18.61
And the reason why He does
00:30:18.65\00:30:20.22
is because He chooses to.
00:30:20.25\00:30:22.35
He does what?
00:30:22.38\00:30:23.72
He chooses to
forgive these things.
00:30:23.75\00:30:27.66
Today, God is
seeking to raise up
00:30:27.69\00:30:29.36
His true servants of God
00:30:29.39\00:30:32.39
with 100 fold power.
00:30:32.43\00:30:35.10
Well, I'd like to see the day
00:30:35.13\00:30:37.33
when the remnant company,
00:30:37.37\00:30:39.57
the 100 fold company
00:30:39.60\00:30:41.90
would be walking in this earth
00:30:41.94\00:30:43.51
as Jesus walked in the earth
00:30:43.54\00:30:45.37
and they bring in
people to be healed
00:30:45.41\00:30:47.38
and people to be filled
00:30:47.41\00:30:48.74
and people to make Jesus
Christ Lord of their lives.
00:30:48.78\00:30:51.71
Do you know that that
100 fold remnant company
00:30:51.75\00:30:54.02
clean out the funeral homes,
could clean out the hospitals?
00:30:54.05\00:30:57.19
And the power of God be
released in the churches.
00:30:57.22\00:30:59.55
Or just stack
the data back there,
00:30:59.59\00:31:01.56
they're not in any
hurry forward anyway.
00:31:01.59\00:31:04.59
Get the ones down here
00:31:04.63\00:31:05.96
that need a touch
from God right now.
00:31:05.99\00:31:07.76
This is what the authority
00:31:07.80\00:31:09.13
of the remnant
company of believers,
00:31:09.16\00:31:10.97
when this process begins,
00:31:11.00\00:31:12.33
there will be pruning stages.
00:31:12.37\00:31:13.90
What will there be? Pruning.
00:31:13.94\00:31:15.97
How many of you
have been pruned?
00:31:16.00\00:31:19.51
There will be
pruning stages in your life.
00:31:19.54\00:31:21.21
The faultfinding spirit
will seek to use those times
00:31:21.24\00:31:23.81
to destroy the brethren.
00:31:23.85\00:31:27.58
You know the weakest
times that I've ever been
00:31:27.62\00:31:29.72
and some of you
that have been there.
00:31:29.75\00:31:32.85
The weakest moments in my life
00:31:32.89\00:31:35.76
have been right after I
stepped out of the pulpit
00:31:35.79\00:31:38.19
and the Spirit of God,
00:31:38.23\00:31:39.83
and the power of God
manifest in such a way.
00:31:39.86\00:31:43.33
And I get in the car,
00:31:43.37\00:31:45.63
and I go.
00:31:45.67\00:31:48.20
Now sometimes I
had a little help.
00:31:48.24\00:31:51.37
Honey Sue,
00:31:51.41\00:31:53.98
Mollie Sue,
00:31:54.01\00:31:55.41
she used to
grade me on my sermons.
00:31:55.44\00:31:57.55
I quit asking her too.
00:32:00.88\00:32:03.28
I'd get in the car and I'd say,
00:32:03.32\00:32:04.65
"Honey, what was that?"
00:32:04.69\00:32:06.02
She'd say, "Oh, that was a B."
00:32:06.05\00:32:07.99
Another time she might
say, "Oh, that was good.
00:32:08.02\00:32:09.56
That was A. It's A
minus but it was an A."
00:32:09.59\00:32:12.59
All right.
00:32:12.63\00:32:13.96
And I got in the car one
night after service and I said,
00:32:14.00\00:32:16.97
I know I didn't do real
good, "How was it, honey?"
00:32:17.00\00:32:19.83
She said, "Yeah,
that was an F minus."
00:32:19.87\00:32:23.51
I said, "There's no
such thing as F minus."
00:32:23.54\00:32:25.64
And she said, "It is now."
00:32:25.67\00:32:27.11
When we're being pruned,
00:32:30.85\00:32:33.25
the true children
of God must water those
00:32:33.28\00:32:35.12
with dryness and with prayer
00:32:35.15\00:32:37.35
that are being pruned.
00:32:37.39\00:32:39.95
If we do not intercede
for these men and women of God
00:32:39.99\00:32:44.16
and I know several right now
00:32:44.19\00:32:47.10
that are being pruned,
the faultfinding demons
00:32:47.13\00:32:49.06
will be standing
there in the shadows,
00:32:49.10\00:32:51.37
waiting to make
false accusations.
00:32:51.40\00:32:55.10
How do you know?
00:32:55.14\00:32:56.47
Because I've been
there, that's how I know.
00:32:56.50\00:32:58.37
We had one of
the largest churches
00:32:58.41\00:32:59.74
anywhere in this
area and many of you know
00:32:59.77\00:33:01.31
Mollie and I came out of
the charismatic movement.
00:33:01.34\00:33:03.11
Can I hear praise God?
00:33:03.14\00:33:05.05
And we are now
00:33:05.08\00:33:06.41
in the
Seventh-day Adventist church,
00:33:06.45\00:33:08.32
we are water baptized
00:33:08.35\00:33:09.78
and we are members of this body.
00:33:09.82\00:33:11.79
And let me tell you
something, I'm proud of it!
00:33:11.82\00:33:14.42
December 25, 1999,
00:33:14.46\00:33:16.59
Mollie and I
came into this church.
00:33:16.62\00:33:19.39
My friends thought I was crazy.
00:33:19.43\00:33:22.10
They said, "You're a nut."
00:33:22.13\00:33:24.90
I thought, "I might be a nut,
00:33:24.93\00:33:26.27
but praise God, I'm
screwed on the right boat."
00:33:26.30\00:33:30.34
And His name is Jesus Christ.
00:33:30.37\00:33:34.18
But in 1995,
under a lot of pressure,
00:33:34.21\00:33:36.44
I'm not going to go into details
00:33:36.48\00:33:37.91
but I had a complete breakdown.
00:33:37.95\00:33:41.32
It was on April 19, 1995,
00:33:41.35\00:33:44.09
any of you
remember what happened
00:33:44.12\00:33:45.45
on April 19, 1995?
00:33:45.49\00:33:47.92
The Oklahoma City bombing.
00:33:47.96\00:33:50.63
Timothy McVeigh and
there was a rumor that
00:33:50.66\00:33:52.39
there was John Doe Number 2
00:33:52.43\00:33:54.66
that had purchased or
rented the truck with him
00:33:54.70\00:33:57.37
and everybody was
looking for John Doe Number 2.
00:33:57.40\00:34:00.87
So first thing
you know the rumor
00:34:00.90\00:34:02.57
all over Southern
Illinois in a Free State area
00:34:02.60\00:34:05.77
is that Hal Steenson,
00:34:05.81\00:34:07.14
that's why he had a breakdown
00:34:07.18\00:34:08.64
because he was
John Doe Number 2.
00:34:08.68\00:34:12.28
I promise y'all I
did not have anything
00:34:12.31\00:34:14.08
to do with the assassination
of John F. Kennedy,
00:34:14.12\00:34:16.42
I did not.
00:34:16.45\00:34:18.32
Somebody said a
few months before that,
00:34:18.35\00:34:20.86
"Well, Hal
Steenson is the antichrist?"
00:34:20.89\00:34:24.83
Well, Satan must be a dummy.
00:34:24.86\00:34:27.20
He's going to restore the church
00:34:27.23\00:34:28.56
by sending Hal Steenson
to West Frankfort, Illinois.
00:34:28.60\00:34:32.93
They got one stance, says,
00:34:32.97\00:34:34.30
"You are now entering
and leaving West Frankfort."
00:34:34.34\00:34:36.14
Antichrist.
00:34:40.71\00:34:43.38
The accuser uses
yet another weapon.
00:34:43.41\00:34:45.28
He uses it well.
00:34:45.31\00:34:46.65
There are times in our walk
to increase our fruitfulness,
00:34:46.68\00:34:49.18
the father prunes us back.
00:34:49.22\00:34:52.65
This is a season of preparation
00:34:52.69\00:34:54.26
where the Lord's
purpose is to lead His servants
00:34:54.29\00:34:56.93
into a new level
of power in ministry.
00:34:56.96\00:35:00.60
During this time, God requires
new levels of surrender.
00:35:00.63\00:35:05.40
Have any of you in
here ever been broken
00:35:05.43\00:35:08.54
by the Spirit of God,
00:35:08.57\00:35:10.47
where you couldn't do anything,
00:35:10.51\00:35:11.94
you couldn't say anything?
00:35:11.97\00:35:14.11
I mean, one time the Spirit
of God broke me in such a way,
00:35:14.14\00:35:16.51
I was out on the platform.
00:35:16.54\00:35:18.21
Brother Cox, and our
elders were over here
00:35:18.25\00:35:20.62
and they were
sitting on the stage,
00:35:20.65\00:35:21.98
I think there was 12 of them.
00:35:22.02\00:35:23.42
And I was out
here and I was talking,
00:35:23.45\00:35:24.95
the Spirit of God came on
me and broke me in such a way
00:35:24.99\00:35:27.76
that I literally
almost crawled over
00:35:27.79\00:35:29.86
to where the elders were
00:35:29.89\00:35:31.23
because I thought,
"If God's gonna kill me,
00:35:31.26\00:35:33.29
He gonna get to
kill all of them with me.
00:35:33.33\00:35:36.06
Get rid of all
of us at one time."
00:35:36.10\00:35:37.77
But to truly be broken
00:35:37.80\00:35:39.97
by the Spirit of
God, listen to this,
00:35:40.00\00:35:41.80
be broken by the Spirit
of God is a pruning stage
00:35:41.84\00:35:44.77
where people are vulnerable.
00:35:44.81\00:35:47.21
And this is where
this faultfinding Spirit
00:35:47.24\00:35:48.98
will come in.
00:35:49.01\00:35:50.38
John 15, every
one of you know this,
00:35:50.41\00:35:52.61
15:1-2, says,
00:35:52.65\00:35:55.92
"I am the true vine
00:35:55.95\00:35:57.29
and the father
is the husband man.
00:35:57.32\00:35:58.82
Every branch in me that beareth
not fruit he taketh away."
00:35:58.85\00:36:02.72
He does what?
00:36:02.76\00:36:04.09
If you're bearing fruit
or me that beareth not fruit,
00:36:04.13\00:36:07.30
what does he do?
He takes you away.
00:36:07.33\00:36:09.36
"And every branch
that beareth fruit,
00:36:09.40\00:36:11.13
he purgeth it, that it may bring
00:36:11.17\00:36:12.77
forth more fruit."
00:36:12.80\00:36:14.70
Mollie Sue says it like this,
00:36:14.74\00:36:16.20
"You pruned if you do
and you pruned if you don't."
00:36:16.24\00:36:19.87
So we might as
well be fruit producers.
00:36:19.91\00:36:22.94
Unfortunately, this is a
time of weakness in a parent,
00:36:22.98\00:36:26.11
not only to other men and women
00:36:26.15\00:36:28.05
at the body of Christ,
00:36:28.08\00:36:29.42
but it frequently occurs
before the entire church.
00:36:29.45\00:36:34.06
You're going
through a tough time,
00:36:34.09\00:36:35.49
you're experiencing
depression, you've got sickness,
00:36:35.52\00:36:38.59
you got cancer,
whatever the case may be,
00:36:38.63\00:36:40.60
and I'm not
saying, God puts it on you.
00:36:40.63\00:36:42.93
But it seems
like when you're down,
00:36:42.96\00:36:44.30
the enemy is
right there to do what?
00:36:44.33\00:36:46.77
To kick you.
00:36:46.80\00:36:49.40
The faultfinding spirits
00:36:49.44\00:36:50.77
and those who have come
to think of as it thinks
00:36:50.81\00:36:52.94
and act as it acts,
00:36:52.97\00:36:54.64
finding their targets
to be very vulnerable.
00:36:54.68\00:36:58.31
The accuser
uses this opportunity
00:36:58.35\00:37:00.25
to crush him and crush her.
00:37:00.28\00:37:03.12
Hear this statement,
00:37:03.15\00:37:04.95
"Time and again,
00:37:04.99\00:37:07.12
what would have otherwise
become an incubator of life
00:37:07.16\00:37:12.09
becomes a coffin of death
00:37:12.13\00:37:14.93
for a mighty
man or woman of God.
00:37:14.96\00:37:17.83
Mighty more warriors
00:37:17.87\00:37:19.33
who might have
otherwise emerged for clarity
00:37:19.37\00:37:21.27
and the power of
God's prophetic vision
00:37:21.30\00:37:23.27
are beaten down and abandon.
00:37:23.30\00:37:25.14
They're cut off
from the very people
00:37:25.17\00:37:27.28
who should have
prayed them through
00:37:27.31\00:37:28.84
to resurrection
and to restoration."
00:37:28.88\00:37:32.28
What was that word I just used?
00:37:32.31\00:37:34.35
Restoration.
00:37:34.38\00:37:37.59
We have got people...
00:37:37.62\00:37:38.95
How many of you know somebody
00:37:38.99\00:37:40.32
that was serving
God wholeheartedly,
00:37:40.36\00:37:41.69
now they're out
away from the church
00:37:41.72\00:37:43.06
and away from God
and not serving God?
00:37:43.09\00:37:44.79
Why are these
people not restored?
00:37:44.83\00:37:47.40
Why do we have
men and women of God
00:37:47.43\00:37:48.86
that are in the
pulpit and in eldership
00:37:48.90\00:37:52.37
and deacons in the church
that have gotten away from God,
00:37:52.40\00:37:56.54
and are not
serving the purpose of God?
00:37:56.57\00:37:59.61
Galatians 6:1-2 has the answer.
00:37:59.64\00:38:02.04
It says,
"Brethren, if any of you be
00:38:02.08\00:38:03.45
overtaken in a fault,
00:38:03.48\00:38:05.01
ye which are spiritual."
00:38:05.05\00:38:08.32
Smile at me, okay?
00:38:08.35\00:38:10.89
Ye which are spiritual,
here's what the reason is,
00:38:10.92\00:38:14.52
because so many people
are not being restored.
00:38:14.56\00:38:17.86
They're out there away from God,
00:38:17.89\00:38:19.46
wounded and bleeding and dying.
00:38:19.49\00:38:23.90
Once again, how
many of you know somebody
00:38:23.93\00:38:25.80
that's gotten
away from the church
00:38:25.83\00:38:27.17
and away from
God because of this?
00:38:27.20\00:38:29.70
And let me see your hands again,
00:38:29.74\00:38:31.07
if you're going to be truthful.
00:38:31.11\00:38:32.44
How many of you in
here have been attacked
00:38:32.47\00:38:34.94
by the accuser of the brethren
and faultfinding demons?
00:38:34.98\00:38:38.65
Let me see your hands.
00:38:38.68\00:38:40.12
Yeah.
00:38:40.15\00:38:42.28
We need this message,
00:38:42.32\00:38:45.72
not over there,
00:38:45.75\00:38:47.22
not back there.
00:38:47.26\00:38:48.59
We need this message right now
00:38:48.62\00:38:51.79
to counter at the counterfeit.
00:38:51.83\00:38:55.06
It says, if any person be
overtaken in misconduct or sin
00:38:55.10\00:38:59.53
of any sort you
which are spiritual,
00:38:59.57\00:39:02.24
who are responsive and
controlled by the Spirit.
00:39:02.27\00:39:04.47
This is the Amplified.
00:39:04.51\00:39:06.31
The reason why
brethren are not being restored
00:39:06.34\00:39:08.64
is because we,
00:39:08.68\00:39:11.68
you see this
finger pointing to me,
00:39:11.71\00:39:13.62
we are not
spiritual enough to restore.
00:39:13.65\00:39:15.62
Brother Cox's
message last night, wow!
00:39:18.89\00:39:22.66
Man, get that.
00:39:22.69\00:39:24.43
Listen to it
over and over again.
00:39:24.46\00:39:25.79
He talked about faultfinding.
00:39:25.83\00:39:27.66
He talked about
being judgmental.
00:39:27.70\00:39:30.57
We need to stop looking
down our nose at people.
00:39:30.60\00:39:33.80
When somebody is down,
we don't need to kick him.
00:39:33.84\00:39:36.74
When their marriage is
being torn all the pieces
00:39:36.77\00:39:38.77
by the force of the
evil and the powers of hell,
00:39:38.81\00:39:41.68
we need to pull
on in the all in one.
00:39:41.71\00:39:43.68
The reason why people
aren't restored is because
00:39:48.28\00:39:52.49
we don't cast down imaginations.
00:39:52.52\00:39:56.62
Pastor Bill was
driving home late one night
00:39:56.66\00:40:00.06
after vespers...
00:40:00.10\00:40:01.43
and there was this hitchhiker
on the side of the road.
00:40:04.43\00:40:06.23
It was raining, it was
cold, it was damp, it was wet,
00:40:06.27\00:40:10.07
sleeting a little
bit and he thought,
00:40:10.11\00:40:11.44
"Man, the Christian thing to do
00:40:11.47\00:40:12.94
would be pick
this young man up."
00:40:12.97\00:40:15.78
So sure enough,
he stopped the car.
00:40:15.81\00:40:17.35
The young man got in
00:40:17.38\00:40:18.71
and sat down next
to him in the car.
00:40:18.75\00:40:20.15
He took off driving on off
and it was dark in the car.
00:40:20.18\00:40:23.55
He didn't know this young
man and so he got to thinking,
00:40:23.59\00:40:26.65
"You know, my
wallet's in my coat here
00:40:26.69\00:40:28.32
in the middle of the
car right between us.
00:40:28.36\00:40:31.03
I don't know this man.
00:40:31.06\00:40:32.39
He's probably gotten
my wallet out of my coat
00:40:32.43\00:40:34.50
while I'm driving along here."
00:40:34.53\00:40:37.97
So sure enough, he
slid his hand over there
00:40:38.00\00:40:39.83
slid in his coat pocket
00:40:39.87\00:40:42.57
and his wallet was there.
00:40:42.60\00:40:46.57
He slammed on the
brakes, he jerked the door open,
00:40:46.61\00:40:49.14
he went around the
other side of the car.
00:40:49.18\00:40:50.88
He jerked the door
open, told this young man,
00:40:50.91\00:40:52.81
"Get out of the car!"
00:40:52.85\00:40:54.82
The guy got out
of the car, he said,
00:40:54.85\00:40:56.18
"Now give me the wallet!"
00:40:56.22\00:40:57.55
The guy said, "Okay,
and handed him the wallet."
00:40:57.59\00:41:01.42
You already know, don't you?
00:41:01.46\00:41:03.46
He gets back in
the car goes home,
00:41:03.49\00:41:04.83
he's anxious to tell
his wife about this guy
00:41:04.86\00:41:06.56
trying to steal his wallet.
00:41:06.59\00:41:07.93
He walks in before
he can open his mouth,
00:41:07.96\00:41:09.70
she says, "Bill,
before anything else happens,
00:41:09.73\00:41:12.10
do you know that
you left your wallet
00:41:12.13\00:41:13.67
at home this morning?"
00:41:13.70\00:41:15.07
Do you know that
there are encouragers
00:41:20.04\00:41:21.68
and there are discouragers?
00:41:21.71\00:41:23.91
Do you know what
a discourager is?
00:41:23.95\00:41:26.38
If someone that
takes courage from you.
00:41:26.41\00:41:29.52
An encourager is someone
that puts courage in you.
00:41:29.55\00:41:34.26
Now I've run across three
00:41:34.29\00:41:35.72
of the most powerful encouragers
00:41:35.76\00:41:38.03
that I've ever
run across in my life.
00:41:38.06\00:41:39.46
Number one is my wife, Mollie.
00:41:39.49\00:41:41.26
She's probably a
Rock of Gibraltar.
00:41:41.30\00:41:42.93
She's not any different
here than she is at home.
00:41:42.96\00:41:45.37
She's always the
same. She's constant.
00:41:45.40\00:41:47.60
I wish I could
say that about myself.
00:41:47.64\00:41:49.90
Another one is Roy Ewing,
00:41:49.94\00:41:51.27
our system
department director in pastoral.
00:41:51.31\00:41:54.38
She encourages
you no matter what.
00:41:54.41\00:41:57.68
And the other one
is Angie Lomacang.
00:41:57.71\00:41:59.45
How many of you been
around Angie Lomacang?
00:41:59.48\00:42:01.48
You ought to spend
10 minutes around her,
00:42:01.52\00:42:03.85
I'll tell you what,
00:42:03.89\00:42:05.22
she would just build
you up and encourage you.
00:42:05.25\00:42:07.79
But in the 12 years
00:42:07.82\00:42:09.16
that Mollie has
been working for 3ABN,
00:42:09.19\00:42:11.63
I have never heard her say
00:42:11.66\00:42:13.29
one negative thing about 3ABN.
00:42:13.33\00:42:17.70
I've seen her come home mad.
00:42:17.73\00:42:21.20
But I've never
heard her say anything
00:42:21.24\00:42:22.90
damaging about 3ABN
00:42:22.94\00:42:25.07
or about Danny Shelton.
00:42:25.11\00:42:27.51
Never, not one time.
00:42:27.54\00:42:29.64
And she's truthful.
00:42:29.68\00:42:31.78
And I asked her
sometime, "Do we need to talk?
00:42:31.81\00:42:34.88
Is there something?" No.
00:42:34.92\00:42:36.85
"Is there
something bothering you?"
00:42:36.89\00:42:38.22
No, nothing that
I can't work out?
00:42:38.25\00:42:39.95
But instead of
discouraging someone,
00:42:39.99\00:42:43.73
she encourages
and she builds up.
00:42:43.76\00:42:47.60
How many of you ever
heard this expression before,
00:42:47.63\00:42:51.37
"Eat honey
everything on your plate
00:42:51.40\00:42:53.44
people in China
starving to death?"
00:42:53.47\00:42:55.40
I got the shower here while back
00:42:59.07\00:43:00.74
and I looked in
the full length mirror,
00:43:00.78\00:43:03.65
and I'm standing there
00:43:03.68\00:43:05.91
and I said to myself,
00:43:05.95\00:43:07.28
"Dear Lord, how's this
helping the people in China?"
00:43:07.32\00:43:09.65
We got married, I
weighed 128 pounds,
00:43:13.39\00:43:15.26
now one of my leg
weighs 128 pounds.
00:43:15.29\00:43:17.49
She doesn't find
fault, Mollie doesn't,
00:43:20.50\00:43:22.26
that's why she's truthful.
00:43:22.30\00:43:24.57
Roy Ewing and Angie
Lomacang is truthful too.
00:43:24.60\00:43:28.04
And I stood down
looking in the mirror
00:43:28.07\00:43:29.50
and I got to
looking at all the lines
00:43:29.54\00:43:31.31
and wrinkles on
my face and the hair.
00:43:31.34\00:43:33.88
I used to have a lot
of hair and no belly.
00:43:33.91\00:43:36.38
Now I see the other way around.
00:43:36.41\00:43:38.98
I got to look at myself,
00:43:39.01\00:43:40.35
Pastor Cox. I had
wrinkles, my hair falling out,
00:43:40.38\00:43:42.78
my tummy
protruding a little bit here,
00:43:42.82\00:43:46.35
just a little bit.
00:43:46.39\00:43:49.52
I went in and I told Mollie,
00:43:49.56\00:43:50.89
I said, "Honey, say
something to encourage me.
00:43:50.93\00:43:53.09
My hair's falling out.
00:43:53.13\00:43:54.46
I got wrinkles all over my face.
00:43:54.50\00:43:55.96
My eyesight is getting
poor and I'm getting fat."
00:43:56.00\00:43:58.43
And she looked at me, she said,
00:43:58.47\00:44:00.64
"You got great eyesight."
00:44:00.67\00:44:02.17
And I said, "No,
come on encourage me!"
00:44:05.71\00:44:09.18
And she said,
"You don't sweat much
00:44:09.21\00:44:10.58
for a fat person."
00:44:10.61\00:44:13.48
Now listen, when we can do this,
00:44:13.52\00:44:15.62
and we can do it and
we can laugh about it,
00:44:15.65\00:44:17.65
when someone is down
and broken and bleeding,
00:44:17.69\00:44:21.09
and they're pleading
for someone to help them,
00:44:21.12\00:44:24.66
we need to encourage them.
00:44:24.69\00:44:27.33
We need to say, come on.
00:44:27.36\00:44:29.43
I remember my dad, I
was round in third base,
00:44:29.46\00:44:31.40
never hit a home
run, first one ever hit.
00:44:31.43\00:44:34.20
I was round in third base.
00:44:34.24\00:44:36.81
My dad was an excitable man,
00:44:36.84\00:44:38.51
but I could hear him yelling,
00:44:38.54\00:44:42.08
"Come on son!
00:44:42.11\00:44:44.35
Run, boy, run!
00:44:44.38\00:44:45.98
Come on, son, you can make it!"
00:44:46.01\00:44:48.25
This way God does us.
00:44:48.28\00:44:50.72
That's the way we
need to do others,
00:44:50.75\00:44:52.09
"Come on, come
on, you can make it."
00:44:52.12\00:44:54.26
Third, this next
this faultfinding demon
00:44:54.29\00:44:56.46
will attack you whenever
00:44:56.49\00:44:57.99
and wherever you're
the most vulnerable.
00:44:58.03\00:45:00.30
Most often you will
be accused and attacked
00:45:00.33\00:45:02.56
when you're giving birth
to a new dimension of ministry
00:45:02.60\00:45:05.50
that God has for you.
00:45:05.53\00:45:08.37
Revelation 12:1-4,
if you can turn to this,
00:45:08.40\00:45:11.04
you need to turn to this.
00:45:11.07\00:45:12.41
It says, "And there
appear a great wonder in heaven,
00:45:12.44\00:45:14.24
a woman clothed with the sun,
and the moon under her feet,
00:45:14.28\00:45:17.45
and upon her head a
crown of twelve stars.
00:45:17.48\00:45:19.91
And she being with child
cried, travailing in birth,
00:45:19.95\00:45:22.98
and pained to be delivered.
00:45:23.02\00:45:24.65
And there appeared
another wonder in heaven,
00:45:24.69\00:45:26.35
and behold a great red
dragon, having seven heads
00:45:26.39\00:45:29.76
and ten horns,
00:45:29.79\00:45:31.13
and seven crowns upon his head."
00:45:31.16\00:45:32.96
Now listen to
this. This is important.
00:45:32.99\00:45:35.20
How many of you
ladies have ever, in here,
00:45:35.23\00:45:37.50
have ever given birth?
00:45:37.53\00:45:39.93
Do you know
00:45:39.97\00:45:41.30
that's one of the
most vulnerable positions
00:45:41.34\00:45:42.97
that you will
ever be in your life?
00:45:43.00\00:45:45.97
Here is the woman, a
representation of the church,
00:45:46.01\00:45:49.31
she's in a birthing position.
00:45:49.34\00:45:51.35
Verse 4, says,
"And his tail drew
00:45:51.38\00:45:52.85
the third part of
the stars of heaven,
00:45:52.88\00:45:54.68
and did cast them to the earth,
00:45:54.72\00:45:56.05
and the dragon
stood before the woman
00:45:56.08\00:45:58.05
waiting to devour her."
00:45:58.09\00:45:59.69
No.
00:45:59.72\00:46:01.39
That's not what it says.
00:46:01.42\00:46:03.53
"He stood before the
woman was ready to be delivered
00:46:03.56\00:46:06.19
for to devour her child
00:46:06.23\00:46:08.76
as soon as it was born."
00:46:08.80\00:46:12.43
Now I'm gonna say something
it's going to shock you
00:46:12.47\00:46:14.07
but it's the truth.
00:46:14.10\00:46:16.74
Satan doesn't give a rip
00:46:16.77\00:46:19.47
about 3ABN.
00:46:19.51\00:46:21.74
Satan could care
less about Danny Shelton,
00:46:21.78\00:46:25.45
could care less
about Hal Steenson,
00:46:25.48\00:46:27.38
could care less about 3ABN.
00:46:27.42\00:46:29.82
What he is upset with
00:46:29.85\00:46:31.55
is what 3ABN is birthing.
00:46:31.59\00:46:35.52
He wants to devour
what's about to be birth.
00:46:35.56\00:46:39.09
How many of you
in here know that
00:46:39.13\00:46:40.46
we went on DISH
Network this week
00:46:40.50\00:46:42.46
and picked up 30,
00:46:42.50\00:46:43.83
I think Connie Keen our
marketing director said,
00:46:43.87\00:46:47.17
34-35 million new people.
00:46:47.20\00:46:50.67
Boy, the devil laughed
00:46:50.71\00:46:52.04
when we were
taken off the Sky Angel,
00:46:52.07\00:46:54.11
250,000 viewers,
00:46:54.14\00:46:56.08
oh, he thought he had us.
00:46:56.11\00:46:59.28
What he meant for
bad, God turned for good.
00:46:59.31\00:47:02.78
So we lost 250,000,
00:47:02.82\00:47:05.82
we picked up 34 million,
00:47:05.85\00:47:07.66
and you know what
came with the package?
00:47:07.69\00:47:09.62
The 250,000 that we lost
00:47:09.66\00:47:12.09
is back in there
with the package.
00:47:12.13\00:47:14.13
This is what...
00:47:14.16\00:47:15.50
Yeah, I mean give the Lord hand.
00:47:15.53\00:47:16.87
This is what the enemy wants
00:47:22.77\00:47:25.74
what we're birthing.
00:47:25.77\00:47:27.38
If I'm not mistaken
there's nine satellites
00:47:27.41\00:47:29.48
that we're on now, Mollie?
00:47:29.51\00:47:30.85
Ten. Ten.
00:47:30.88\00:47:32.21
Okay, I can't keep up with
it, it is happening so fast.
00:47:32.25\00:47:34.38
Moses Primo, pray for him
00:47:34.42\00:47:36.25
because the enemy
would like to devour him.
00:47:36.28\00:47:38.95
He's an armed in a deadly weapon
00:47:38.99\00:47:40.32
against the forces of evil,
and the powers of darkness.
00:47:40.36\00:47:42.76
He's punching darkness,
00:47:42.79\00:47:44.13
or punching holes in
the darkness of hell,
00:47:44.16\00:47:45.79
the forces of
evils what he's doing.
00:47:45.83\00:47:47.86
Ten satellites, we
just went on in China.
00:47:47.90\00:47:51.67
The enemy could care about 3ABN,
00:47:51.70\00:47:54.90
but you watch it, I believe,
00:47:54.94\00:47:56.27
Isaiah Chapter 2
where it says that,
00:47:56.30\00:47:58.14
"The nations are going to flow
00:47:58.17\00:48:00.84
into the mountain
of the Lord's house."
00:48:00.88\00:48:03.88
I believe, there's going to be
00:48:03.91\00:48:05.25
such an outpouring
of the Holy Spirit,
00:48:05.28\00:48:06.61
y'all listen to me, okay?
00:48:06.65\00:48:08.05
This is not just faith speaking.
00:48:08.08\00:48:10.19
This is B-I-B-L-E.
00:48:10.22\00:48:13.02
We are going to
see a great revival,
00:48:13.05\00:48:15.62
an end time revival
00:48:15.66\00:48:16.99
and an outpouring
of the Holy Spirit,
00:48:17.03\00:48:18.36
like we've never seen before.
00:48:18.39\00:48:19.73
Are you with me here?
00:48:19.76\00:48:21.83
Well, what all as 3ABN done?
00:48:21.86\00:48:24.57
4.8 million
00:48:24.60\00:48:27.84
Ten Commandments
Twice Removed books
00:48:27.87\00:48:30.14
that were given away.
00:48:30.17\00:48:33.31
I mean, you can find
them everywhere, you could.
00:48:33.34\00:48:35.01
When it is just going
on, you go to a restaurant,
00:48:35.04\00:48:37.31
may be people at the
restaurant handing out books.
00:48:37.35\00:48:40.52
On the streets of Washington DC,
00:48:40.55\00:48:42.48
in the subways
people handing out books,
00:48:42.52\00:48:45.59
passing in to them.
00:48:45.62\00:48:47.19
Brother Merle was
telling me the other day,
00:48:47.22\00:48:48.79
he handed out to every
friends that he has, and said,
00:48:48.82\00:48:52.23
"Now if you are not going
to use these," now how many?
00:48:52.26\00:48:54.86
Six million.
00:48:54.90\00:48:56.23
What? Six million!
00:48:56.26\00:48:57.60
I told you I can't keep up with,
00:48:57.63\00:48:59.03
it is happening so fast.
00:48:59.07\00:49:01.40
Six million of these books.
00:49:01.44\00:49:04.11
That's more people
than it is in Thompsonville.
00:49:04.14\00:49:09.01
Six hundred in Thompsonville.
00:49:09.04\00:49:11.78
But we got 6 million books out,
00:49:11.81\00:49:14.75
we got 34 million
new DISH Network viewers.
00:49:14.78\00:49:17.99
For you those of you
00:49:18.02\00:49:19.35
that have friends
that own DISH Network,
00:49:19.39\00:49:20.72
call them and tell them
00:49:20.76\00:49:22.09
to watch 3ABN.
00:49:22.12\00:49:23.89
We get calls every
day from people that said,
00:49:23.93\00:49:27.16
"I've been watching
3ABN, just yesterday.
00:49:27.20\00:49:29.16
Graccious was
telling me had someone,
00:49:29.20\00:49:30.87
and watching 3ABN,
ready to be baptized."
00:49:30.90\00:49:32.87
We're having people
to walk in, in Las Vegas,
00:49:32.90\00:49:34.87
people that are watching
3ABN walking in off the street,
00:49:34.90\00:49:38.31
ready to be baptized.
00:49:38.34\00:49:39.67
And the pastor at first said,
00:49:39.71\00:49:41.04
"No, we need to give you
00:49:41.08\00:49:42.41
some Bible studies
and Bible lessons."
00:49:42.44\00:49:43.78
They said, "You
don't understand.
00:49:43.81\00:49:45.15
I've been watching 3ABN.
00:49:45.18\00:49:46.51
I've been watching Kenneth Cox.
00:49:46.55\00:49:47.88
I've been
watching Doug Batchelor.
00:49:47.92\00:49:49.25
I've been watching these men
00:49:49.28\00:49:50.62
and listening to their teaching,
00:49:50.65\00:49:51.99
I'm ready to be baptized."
00:49:52.02\00:49:53.76
The Wisconsin
Conference send people down here
00:49:53.79\00:49:55.86
to find out what's going on
00:49:55.89\00:49:57.23
'cause they had so many
people come into their church
00:49:57.26\00:49:59.73
is ready to be baptized.
00:49:59.76\00:50:02.56
And there's some people
out there faultfinding spirits
00:50:02.60\00:50:05.20
that doesn't want 3ABN
00:50:05.23\00:50:06.80
even though 3ABN's
filling their churches up.
00:50:06.84\00:50:10.41
No, let me free.
I'm sorry, Father.
00:50:10.44\00:50:12.14
God is filling their churches up
00:50:12.17\00:50:13.78
through 3ABN.
00:50:13.81\00:50:16.98
The last thing
I want you to see,
00:50:17.01\00:50:19.48
"We must be conscious
of how the accuser gains
00:50:19.51\00:50:21.78
access into our
lives and even our bodies.
00:50:21.82\00:50:25.02
The accuser of the
brethren cannot accomplish
00:50:25.05\00:50:27.66
one single
thing without a, what?
00:50:27.69\00:50:31.46
A warm body."
00:50:31.49\00:50:33.13
How many warm
bodies we have in here?
00:50:33.16\00:50:36.03
He cannot accomplish a
thing without a warm body.
00:50:36.06\00:50:39.43
I mean, he's ready,
willing and able to do anything,
00:50:39.47\00:50:42.27
but without men and women...
00:50:42.30\00:50:44.54
he can't do anything.
00:50:47.91\00:50:50.48
So help me.
00:50:50.51\00:50:52.18
Who does he do it through?
00:50:52.21\00:50:54.25
Men and women.
00:50:54.28\00:50:55.62
Who does he use?
00:50:55.65\00:50:56.99
Men and women.
00:50:57.02\00:51:00.39
You know what? Listen to this.
00:51:00.42\00:51:01.76
Satan's not sitting in a
bar, somewhere on a barstool,
00:51:01.79\00:51:04.36
in a bar booth.
00:51:04.39\00:51:06.53
He's sitting in churches
00:51:06.56\00:51:09.13
where he can do the most damage.
00:51:09.16\00:51:12.27
And people that
think they're doing good
00:51:12.30\00:51:15.60
don't even realize how
much damage they are doing.
00:51:15.64\00:51:18.14
It's taken me 11 years
00:51:21.18\00:51:25.68
to get over the fact
that I'm not John Doe Number 2
00:51:25.71\00:51:27.75
in Oklahoma City Bombing.
00:51:27.78\00:51:30.32
I don't know if
people living now there
00:51:30.35\00:51:31.69
and they say,
00:51:31.72\00:51:33.56
"Weren't you accused of
being John Doe Number 2?"
00:51:33.59\00:51:36.86
I told them, "I
am John Doe Number 1,
00:51:36.89\00:51:38.59
they got John Doe Number 2."
00:51:38.63\00:51:39.96
The accuser of
brethren number one method
00:51:42.90\00:51:44.50
of entering into
00:51:44.53\00:51:46.10
and through someone
is through their mouth.
00:51:46.13\00:51:49.24
Through their
what? What did he say?
00:51:49.27\00:51:51.01
Through their mouth.
00:51:51.04\00:51:53.48
The only voice
the accuser has comes
00:51:53.51\00:51:55.74
through a human's mouth.
00:51:55.78\00:51:57.38
Ephesians 4:29,
00:51:57.41\00:51:58.85
help me with this,
00:51:58.88\00:52:00.22
"Let no corrupt communication
proceed out of your mouth,
00:52:00.25\00:52:02.95
but that which is good
to the use of edifying,
00:52:02.98\00:52:05.39
that it may be minister
grace unto the hearers."
00:52:05.42\00:52:09.32
Matthew 12:37, says,
00:52:09.36\00:52:10.83
"For by thy words
thou shalt be justified,
00:52:10.86\00:52:12.86
and by thy words
thou shalt be condemned."
00:52:12.89\00:52:16.73
Now, I love this scripture.
00:52:16.77\00:52:18.30
I've never seen this before.
00:52:18.33\00:52:19.87
But it talks about a
lying tongue two times
00:52:19.90\00:52:22.24
in the scripture.
00:52:22.27\00:52:23.84
It's in Proverbs, yes,
I heard somebody say it.
00:52:23.87\00:52:26.31
Proverbs 6:16-19.
00:52:26.34\00:52:28.78
"These six things
that the Lord hate, yea,
00:52:28.81\00:52:31.15
seven are an
abomination unto him."
00:52:31.18\00:52:33.38
Verse 17, says, "A
proud look, a lying," what?
00:52:33.42\00:52:36.02
"A lying tongue, and
hands that shed innocent blood,
00:52:36.05\00:52:38.75
an heart that
deviseth wicked imaginations,
00:52:38.79\00:52:40.76
feet that be swift
in running to mischief,"
00:52:40.79\00:52:43.46
and here it's again,
00:52:43.49\00:52:45.16
"and a false
witness that speaketh lies."
00:52:45.19\00:52:49.16
What do you think God
hates the most out of all this?
00:52:49.20\00:52:52.50
Is lying.
00:52:52.53\00:52:54.50
God hates those that
would lie, not tell the truth,
00:52:54.54\00:52:58.21
those that would stand
against the truth of God
00:52:58.24\00:53:01.04
and anything contrary to
the Word of God is a lie.
00:53:01.08\00:53:06.58
We need to be
encouragers, not discouragers.
00:53:06.61\00:53:11.45
The second easiest way for
the accuser of the brethren
00:53:11.49\00:53:13.92
to gain bodily entry
is through someone's ears.
00:53:13.96\00:53:17.43
Through, what?
00:53:17.46\00:53:18.79
Their mouth and their ears.
00:53:18.83\00:53:21.40
Listen to this, Adventist Home,
00:53:21.43\00:53:24.70
this ought to
tear your heart out.
00:53:24.73\00:53:26.94
"Gossip and Talebearing.
00:53:26.97\00:53:28.30
We think with horror
00:53:28.34\00:53:29.67
of the cannibal who
feasts on the still warm
00:53:29.70\00:53:32.01
and trembling
flesh of his victim,
00:53:32.04\00:53:34.98
but are the results of
even this practice more terrible
00:53:35.01\00:53:38.35
than are the agony and ruin
00:53:38.38\00:53:39.75
caused by
misrepresenting motive,
00:53:39.78\00:53:42.38
blackening reputation,
00:53:42.42\00:53:44.42
dissecting character?
00:53:44.45\00:53:46.35
Let the children,
and the youth as well,
00:53:46.39\00:53:49.16
learn what God
says about these things,
00:53:49.19\00:53:51.56
'Death and life are in
the power of the," what?
00:53:51.59\00:53:54.66
"Of the tongue.'
00:53:54.70\00:53:56.13
The spirit of
gossip and talebearing
00:53:56.16\00:53:57.90
is one of
Satan's special agencies
00:53:57.93\00:53:59.70
to sow discord
00:53:59.73\00:54:01.54
and strife, to separate friends,
00:54:01.57\00:54:04.41
and to undermine
the faith of many
00:54:04.44\00:54:06.41
in the
truthfulness of our positions.'
00:54:06.44\00:54:10.28
" You got to hear this.
00:54:10.31\00:54:12.25
Here are three keys
that can change your life
00:54:12.28\00:54:15.02
and stop the
accuser of the brethren.
00:54:15.05\00:54:18.35
I wish I could say that
I got this all on my own,
00:54:18.39\00:54:20.56
but I got it from Mollie Sue.
00:54:20.59\00:54:24.59
She's taught me
everything I know.
00:54:24.63\00:54:25.96
And I tell you, I
still don't know anything.
00:54:25.99\00:54:28.76
That woman is crazy about me.
00:54:28.80\00:54:32.50
When someone comes up to
you and tells you something,
00:54:32.53\00:54:34.54
if you're pastor in here, elder,
00:54:34.57\00:54:36.30
you really get it
because people come in
00:54:36.34\00:54:38.07
and throw up on
you under the guise of,
00:54:38.11\00:54:40.98
you need to know this.
00:54:41.01\00:54:42.61
When someone comes to you
00:54:42.64\00:54:43.98
and tells you or
starts to tell you something
00:54:44.01\00:54:45.95
that might be a faultfinding
00:54:45.98\00:54:47.32
or an accusing spirit,
here's the first thing you do.
00:54:47.35\00:54:50.25
You ask them, "Why
are you telling me this?"
00:54:50.29\00:54:54.26
Now, what?
00:54:54.29\00:54:55.62
"Why are you telling me this?"
00:54:55.66\00:54:58.39
The second thing you ask them
00:54:58.43\00:55:00.36
is what was the
source of this information,
00:55:00.40\00:55:03.47
and if they know it is factual
00:55:03.50\00:55:05.43
or not just hearsay.
00:55:05.47\00:55:07.94
Number one, "Why are
you telling me this?"
00:55:07.97\00:55:09.80
Number two, "Do you know
that this information is true?"
00:55:09.84\00:55:13.27
And here's what you shut him up.
00:55:13.31\00:55:15.58
Number three,
00:55:15.61\00:55:17.55
"May I quote you on this?"
00:55:17.58\00:55:21.05
Oh, no, dear Lord,
00:55:21.08\00:55:22.48
don't ever tell
anybody I said that,
00:55:22.52\00:55:24.05
well, then don't tell me.
00:55:24.09\00:55:25.42
A lady called me one
time, said Pastor Hal,
00:55:25.45\00:55:26.99
"I shouldn't be
telling you this,"
00:55:27.02\00:55:28.36
and I said, "Then don't click."
00:55:28.39\00:55:31.43
She called me back and
said, "I need to tell you this."
00:55:31.46\00:55:33.19
I thought, "You told me,
00:55:33.23\00:55:34.56
you didn't need to
be telling me this."
00:55:34.60\00:55:36.03
When we talk to
or about someone,
00:55:36.06\00:55:38.37
we must talk to
or about that person,
00:55:38.40\00:55:40.80
as if we were talking
to or about God Himself.
00:55:40.84\00:55:44.91
They're not to put
the fear of God in us.
00:55:47.94\00:55:50.75
If we're to usher
in the Second Coming
00:55:50.78\00:55:52.11
of our Lord, the
Savior Jesus Christ,
00:55:52.15\00:55:54.12
and reach the
world with an undiluted
00:55:54.15\00:55:55.88
three angels' messages
00:55:55.92\00:55:57.25
and cast down the
accuser of the brethren
00:55:57.29\00:55:58.92
on every
opportunity, and on every level.
00:55:58.95\00:56:02.19
I taught one time, when
somebody comes up to you,
00:56:02.22\00:56:04.66
I don't care if there's
10 people standing around
00:56:04.69\00:56:06.13
and they start
badmouthing somebody else,
00:56:06.16\00:56:08.10
do this and say,
00:56:08.13\00:56:09.46
"Let's lift this
conversation to a higher level."
00:56:09.50\00:56:12.97
Do that with me, come on.
00:56:13.00\00:56:14.44
Let's lift this
conversation to higher level.
00:56:14.47\00:56:16.40
And you watch, hey it's dug.
00:56:16.44\00:56:17.77
When you're in a group,
00:56:17.81\00:56:19.57
usually one that dugs.
00:56:19.61\00:56:21.68
If you're here and
you've been wounded
00:56:21.71\00:56:23.45
by the accuser of the brethren,
00:56:23.48\00:56:24.81
I want you to
stand to your feet, okay?
00:56:24.85\00:56:26.65
Or you got people in your family
00:56:26.68\00:56:28.02
that's been wounded.
00:56:28.05\00:56:29.38
We only have about 30 seconds.
00:56:29.42\00:56:30.75
I want to pray with
you and pray for you
00:56:30.79\00:56:32.85
that there would be
restoration in your life.
00:56:32.89\00:56:34.52
If you've been wounded,
I want you to stand, okay?
00:56:34.56\00:56:37.86
The accuser of the
brethren has attacked you.
00:56:37.89\00:56:40.93
We're going to look
at the people standing.
00:56:40.96\00:56:42.36
Look at the people standing.
00:56:42.40\00:56:43.73
Do we need
00:56:43.77\00:56:45.10
to cast down the
accuser of the brethren?
00:56:45.13\00:56:46.94
Yes.
00:56:46.97\00:56:48.30
Do we need to know how
he works in his accusations?
00:56:48.34\00:56:51.41
Reach out, take somebody's hand,
00:56:51.44\00:56:53.64
we're gonna go out pray, okay?
00:56:53.68\00:56:55.28
Father, I thank You.
00:56:55.31\00:56:56.85