In just a moment
Brothe Ron's gonna come and
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speak to us again, but
before he does we would
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like to welcome back
Steve Darmody tonight.
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Steve, we enjoyed
your concert, may the
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Lord bless tonight as
you minister to us again.
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Tonight, you've come
from all over the conference,
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somebody from out of
state and some of the
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suburb states
around. And you know,
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as I look out
among I know that you're
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my brother and
you're my sister, but
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I really don't know
you. I don't know your heart;
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I don't know what
the struggles you've
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been faced with,
but I do know this,
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you're part of a
wonderful grand movement
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of God's remnant people.
You've been called with a
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destiny to fulfill in
your life and in your world,
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may take sacrifice, it
may take earnest effort,
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but I promise you this,
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it will be worth it
all when we see him.
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Through many
dangers, toils, and snares,
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I have already
come; 'tis grace has
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brought me safe
thus far, and its
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His grace that
will lead me home.
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Of times road seems
dark our trials hard to bear,
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We're tempted to
complain, to murmur and despair;
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But Christ will soon
appear to catch His Bride
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away, All tears forever
over in God's eternal day.
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It will be worth it
all when we see Jesus,
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Life's trials will seem
so small when we see Christ;
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One glimpse of His dear
face all sorrow will erase,
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So bravely run the
race till we see Christ.
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Only faintly now I see Him,
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With the darkening veil between,
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But a blessed day is coming,
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When His glory shall be seen.
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Face to face shall I behold Him,
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Far beyond the starry sky;
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Face to face in all His glory
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I shall see Him by and by!
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One glimpse of His dear
face all sorrow will erase,
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So bravely run the
race till we see Christ.
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It's great.
Beautiful, tonight I'm gonna do
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something
different to what it says in
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your bulletin. And
I hope to get back on
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schedule tomorrow
night, but tonight I got to
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talk to you about
the serious thing,
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the remnant. I
think you're very problem
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in the world today
and the very problem even
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in the church
today is, the idea that
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everybody is going
in different direction,
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but we're gonna
finally get there. And so,
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I want you to look
at this with me tonight.
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Let's bow our
heads in a word of pray,
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lets seek the
presence of Christ.
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Listen carefully to
what the spirit says
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to His church. Father
God, which art in heaven,
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we humbly bow in your presence.
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We pray for the
outpouring of your Holy Spirit.
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We're not satisfied
that we're still here.
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We want to be in the Kingdom.
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We pray Father
that you're reveal to us
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to wonderful
truth to the word of God
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that we'll be
faithful to the Bible.
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And we know you're
gonna be faithful to us.
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And so speak through your word
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and we'll give
you honor and praise
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and glory in the name
of Christ, amen, amen.
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He looked old and
haggard, deep lines drawn
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by the pen of
pain ached his face.
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His back was bent
over from years of hardship
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and you could tell
by meeting Him that
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he was a man that had
felt the bad side of life.
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The life had
gone out in his eyes
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I mean when I
first met him he was
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living in
Manhattan, New York City.
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And he wasn't poor
by any means he had
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New York real estate,
oh! New York, real-estate
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and let me tell you, he
knew how to turn a buck.
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Beautiful
apartment, Central Park West,
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over looking the
Park, drove a limo,
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or he didn't drive it,
the limo driver drove it,
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he just rode in it.
A large bank account,
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but he was
poverty-stricken in soul.
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He was a lonely man,
he was a rejected man,
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he was a hopeless
man, he reluctantly
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told me his story.
He was born in Poland,
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in a fine Jewish
family, if it had been any other
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time in history, anyother
time in periodic history,
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he would have known
the best side of life,
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he would have, I
mean he would have enjoyed
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the comforts of a rich
home and a rich heritage.
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But the year was
1940; it wasn't a good year
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for Jews in Poland.
In fact, he told me the
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story how that one
night they came and,
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and cattle cars and
the Squala and the death,
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he arrived at
Auschwitz. He arrived in hell,
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he wept as he told
me the story and as
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he showed me the
mark of Auschwitz.
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He talked of the
starvation and he
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talked about
the stench of death.
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And now I read about
the holocaust, to think
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between 1939-1945, six
million Jews were killed.
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The holocaust
was much more than an
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attack on Jewish
people, the holocaust was
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more than a decision
to kill every last Jew
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in the world for the
crime of being a Jew.
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The holocaust was
more than mass murder,
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it was an assault on
the values as people, of the
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people of God. The
holocaust degraded them,
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it turned them into an
anonymous massive people,
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holocaust killed
the spark in them, the
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picture showed
faceless presence emaciated
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head dropped, shoulder stooped,
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the Nazi's concluded
death by firing squad
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was too much
money. So, they used
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insecticide which
caused them a half a
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penny for a person
that was the holocaust.
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Some people say
there was no such
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thing as the
holocaust; well they're probably
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the same people
who don't believe
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in such a place as
hell. And then my friend
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with tears
streaming down his face
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told how one night he was freed,
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miraculously by
the allied forces,
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and then he came to America and,
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and he, he then said something
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I'll never
forget, he looked at me
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and he said,
I'm going home soon.
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Where is your home
Poland? He said, no Israel.
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I'm going back to
the land of my fathers,
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the land of Abraham,
of Isaac and of Jacob.
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Now, he's
somewhere now in Israel.
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But this evening
I want you to focus
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your attention on
a different remnant.
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The remnant of
God, you see God has
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always had a remnant,
I mean he's prosecuted
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at times, impoverished
at times, faithful at
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times, backsliding at
times, pagan at times,
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but always a remnant
of the people of God.
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You cannot reach
scripture without
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coming
face-to-face and discovering
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one glorious
truth, basic truth that
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God is leading,
God is guiding through
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the centuries.
Amen. That's why the
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gifted woman
said; lest we forget the
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way that God has
led us in the past.
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Now, it's not
popular today to talk
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about the
remnant, I mean higher and
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lower criticism has
tried to erase the truth
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of the remnant, it
matters little to me
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what is written,
it matters little to
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me what is said
against the church today.
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I believe and I'm
certain that church is the
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defective as it
is, we'll compromise
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the remnant of
God when Jesus Christ
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comes back the second time.
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A redeemed
remnant, now this remnant we
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must consider this
evening, the times demand
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it. Let's take a
close look at this great
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Biblical truth the
remnant. My text is taken
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from the Old
Testament, I mean it's an
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ancient world
written by a Holy Man,
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a Holy Man of
God, it was written in
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ancient time, it
is applicable to day
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to the people of
God, it's applicable to
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every generation, for God is the
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same yesterday,
He is the same today
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and He is the
same forever. Amen.
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It was first written
between 750 BC and 700 BC.
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The man who wrote
it and the words was a
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City Preacher, so I
right away attracted to him.
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I'm an Urban
Evangelist; I'm really attracted
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to him. He was the son of Amos,
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his name was
Isaiah. He is the one who
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defends the idea of the remnant;
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he is the one who
writes about the remnant.
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Isaiah is the spokesman for God,
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he is gifted of
speech, but more he
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is gifted of Spirit.
Now, it's interesting
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to me personally, how little
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we actually know about Isaiah?
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Do you ever
consider that? I mean Isaiah
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seems to be
shrouded in mystery and
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I guess that's the
ligament of so many,
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world's great
men and great women,
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poets and
writers who have impacted
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our minds with
words that personally
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they remain a mystery.
I think of Shakespeare.
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We know so little
about the man by the way,
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in fact there is a
question of how to spell
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his name, not
only that some say that
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was no such person,
it was either Christopher
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Marlowe or Francis
Baker. I think of Dante,
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that great Italian
poet. I mean we know
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less about him than
we do about Shakespeare,
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I think of Homer,
he was another world's
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great writers and
yet we know little
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as if nothing about
him. Where was he born,
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what was the
university attended? I mean,
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how did his
writings evolve, the method
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and the madness of the man, we
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know little,
the great patriarchs
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and prophets we can understand,
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we can get our minds around,
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we could put our arms around.
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Abraham, we
know a lot about him,
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we know about Jacob and
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we know about Moses,
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the great deliver of his people.
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We can read the story of Joseph
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and put his life
together and say, Ah!
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What a man? What
a man of integrity.
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But not Isaiah,
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now I grappled with that point.
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As a, a Bible
student I struggled with
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that point, as an
expositor of the Bible
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I've, I've, I've
wrestled with that
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point to explain it
and I came up with this,
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perhaps in the
providence of almighty God
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that God hide
the man in the mist,
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shrouded his form,
shrouded his figure.
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So, that the voice
of God could be heard,
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the man is not important,
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it matters little of the man,
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but it matters lot the truth
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that he speaks. Amen.
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A man comes from
the seed of woman,
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the message from the
seed of Almighty God.
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Perhaps that's an explanation,
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but what we do know
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about this man, he
was a City Preacher,
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we know that much,
he was born in the city,
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he was labored in the city,
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he was a prophet to
the City of Jerusalem,
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his ministry lasted fifty years,
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which he spent City Preaching,
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praying for the multitudes,
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Isaiah was a court preacher,
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how do we know
that? The figures of
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speech he uses, I
mean the references,
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the poetic speech of the man.
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He was one of the
little, great of the thing,
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little, great
preachers or great preachers
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of the City of the past.
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He was like
Jeremiah was to Jerusalem,
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he was like Paul was to Ephesus,
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he was like Christendom
was to Constantinople.
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He was like
Savonarola was to Florence
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and Calvin was to Geneva,
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and Spurgeon was to London.
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He was the first
and foremost a preacher
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and so he spoke the word of God.
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We need more
preaches from the pulpit
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and don't give us suggestions
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or some kind of
pop-spiritual psychology.
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We don't need
sermons about bubbling brooks
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and how nice we are.
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We need sermons to convict us
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of our need for
God, could convict us
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that we're here
for one purpose alone
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and that's to share Jesus and to
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uphold him before the multitude.
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We need conviction in
our church again. Amen.
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Little pansy type preachers.
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He was a man of culture Isaiah.
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In fact, he's an
aristocrat in birth,
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he was an
aristocrat in his bury,
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the little bit
we know about him,
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he was a man of poetry,
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he was an
artist, painting words,
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word pictures, he was
a master of the language,
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he was known to be
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beyond that of Demosthenes,
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he employs every form of speech,
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of iteration and
parable and dialogue
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and interrogation
and metaphor and simile.
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He rises to the
heights of poetry
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beyond what we
could even imagine,
00:18:14.38\00:18:16.27
that's the man
hidden in the mist. Amen.
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His words are God breathe
00:18:22.19\00:18:23.94
and that does
some thing to a word.
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God, he is a
poet and a preacher,
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but say most he is a prophet.
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And he speaks to the church
00:18:36.75\00:18:38.33
in every age. He
delivers from his pen
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dipped in the ink of inspiration
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the eternal
truth of the remnant.
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And listen
carefully, if have your Bibles
00:18:48.01\00:18:50.02
turn with me to
the Book of Isaiah,
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and let's look
carefully at the first chapter,
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the introduction
to this man's message.
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And I want you to
notice he starts out
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with the message
itself in verse 9,
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that's Isaiah chapter 1
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verse 9, it's
amazing medical science.
00:19:06.58\00:19:09.52
I can see a fly at
5000 paces on the wall,
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but I have to use
magnifying glasses
00:19:15.68\00:19:17.44
to read my
Bible. Anyway amazing,
00:19:17.45\00:19:20.85
verse 9 "Except
the Lord of hosts
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have left unto us
a very small remnant,
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we should have been a Sodom,
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and we should
have been like unto
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Gomorrah." Like
Sodom and like Gomorrah.
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Now, the Greek Septuagint,
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translation of
this world by the way,
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remnant is sperma,
from the word sperma
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we get the word sperm or seed,
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if the Lord had not left sperma,
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if the Lord had not left a seed,
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a band of faithful followers,
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we would have been
a Sodom and Gomorrah,
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we would be no more, if God
00:20:05.64\00:20:07.76
had not preserved
the seed. Amen. Wow! Wow!
00:20:07.77\00:20:14.56
I wrote a book
called Prayer Warriors.
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How many have read it,
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any of you? Wow!
There is quite a few
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intelligent people
here in this audience
00:20:24.31\00:20:26.21
this evening, but I, I
00:20:26.68\00:20:29.54
I was struggling with the armor.
00:20:29.92\00:20:31.65
For years I preached only armor.
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What is the first piece of armor
00:20:35.20\00:20:36.44
that he tells you to put on?
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No, not the helmet of salvation,
00:20:39.15\00:20:40.51
not the breast
plate of righteousness,
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they like to talk about
that, but it's not that.
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First thing he tells you to
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put on is the loincloth,
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why? Because it
protects the reproductive
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organ and what
the church is about,
00:20:51.37\00:20:53.05
it is to be reproduce itself,
00:20:53.06\00:20:54.72
that is what
this church is about,
00:20:54.73\00:20:56.72
it's not to entertain
you, it's to make you,
00:20:56.73\00:20:59.18
so that you might
reproduce Jesus on the Earth,
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that you might
be able to reproduce
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the truth on the Earth that.
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And so, the devil
when he attacks you,
00:21:05.67\00:21:07.82
he attacks you
not in your theology,
00:21:07.83\00:21:09.72
he attacks you at your
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reproduction and
your discipleship
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Think about it for a few months.
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And get the book
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that's the
commercial let's get back.
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I mean the doctor
of the remnant is found
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everywhere in
the Book of Isaiah.
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Isaiah 11:11, Isaiah 11:16,
00:21:32.90\00:21:36.51
Isaiah 36, check upon
me, Isaiah 37:1 and 3.
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We could see it
again in Isaiah 37 verse 31
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and 32, Isaiah 46 verse 3 and 4.
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Centuries later Paul
picks up the carrion call,
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the remnant Romans 9:27 and 28,
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and years later
the old man of Patmos
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writes his pen,
his pen dipped in
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the red blood
ink of Calvary drops
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his new found
faith like golden pollen
00:22:00.74\00:22:02.94
from stems of shaken lilies
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and they sweep the
lives of men in every age.
00:22:04.74\00:22:07.23
Old John writes, they couldn't
00:22:07.24\00:22:09.41
prison his hands and
his legs and he could
00:22:09.42\00:22:11.71
chain his legs, but they
00:22:11.72\00:22:13.13
could not chain his heart. Amen.
00:22:13.14\00:22:16.41
And he writes let's look at it.
00:22:19.19\00:22:22.61
Old man at Patmos,
00:22:24.01\00:22:25.57
by the way he got
the vision on Patmos
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and he finishes
the book at Ephesus
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in that wonderful
church we talked about.
00:22:30.97\00:22:32.76
Let's look at this
Revelation 12 and verse
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17, "And the dragon was angry
00:22:41.54\00:22:46.37
with the woman,
and went to make war
00:22:48.11\00:22:52.06
with the remnant
of her seed, sperma,
00:22:52.07\00:22:55.70
which keep the
commandments of God,
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and have the testimony
00:23:01.09\00:23:02.60
of Jesus Christ."
The doctor of remnant,
00:23:06.23\00:23:10.42
the little band of believers,
00:23:10.43\00:23:12.04
who are left on
the earth a tiny torn
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scattered remnant,
they've come through the
00:23:17.27\00:23:19.46
great prosecution,
they've come through the great
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tribulation,
they've come through the
00:23:21.81\00:23:23.63
shaking time,
they've come washed and clean
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through the blood of Christ.
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Isaiah deals
with two great things,
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the book deals
with two great things.
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One is the inevitable judgment,
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listen to me
payday someday Adventist,
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you hear me? Payday someday,
00:23:37.44\00:23:39.44
you can't play with the devil
00:23:40.32\00:23:41.68
and get away with him,
00:23:41.69\00:23:43.04
you can't play with
sin and get away from it,
00:23:43.44\00:23:45.86
payday someday,
the inevitable judgment
00:23:46.41\00:23:49.93
and secondly,
the incomprehensible
00:23:49.94\00:23:52.36
salvation. Amen.
00:23:52.37\00:23:54.25
In fact, Isaiah is
called the Gospel Writer
00:23:54.32\00:23:56.88
of the Old
Testament he deals with grace,
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but he deals with judgment.
00:24:00.29\00:24:02.04
Grace, the unmerited favor.
00:24:03.15\00:24:05.36
I remember the
first time I saw a grace,
00:24:05.69\00:24:08.07
no not the girl
grace I mean grace grace.
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I was a little kid in Brooklyn,
00:24:13.14\00:24:15.03
I threw a rock
through a window boom,
00:24:15.85\00:24:18.71
I was giggling
and took another rock
00:24:18.72\00:24:21.07
and boom, and I
turned around and run,
00:24:21.08\00:24:24.14
and I ran right
into the Irish cop,
00:24:24.15\00:24:27.63
into his arms.
Boom, he picked me up
00:24:29.05\00:24:32.22
by the scuff of
my neck, picked me up
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my feet was still going.
00:24:33.99\00:24:35.32
He said, young
man you threw a rock
00:24:38.02\00:24:39.95
through the window.
I said, no I didn't,
00:24:39.96\00:24:41.93
I said, I saw you threw
a rock through the window.
00:24:41.94\00:24:44.27
You're going to
jail, going to jail,
00:24:45.17\00:24:49.09
little feet still
going. He said, I'm taking you
00:24:49.10\00:24:54.16
to jail 68th Precinct
was jail, that building.
00:24:54.17\00:24:58.25
So, we started
towards the 68th Precinct.
00:25:00.42\00:25:03.15
Young man you can't throw rocks
00:25:03.16\00:25:05.64
through windows
and get away with it.
00:25:05.65\00:25:07.25
And then I'm thinking,
00:25:07.26\00:25:09.52
he is going to call dad,
00:25:10.06\00:25:13.34
he'll dress me up in a white
00:25:14.68\00:25:17.73
and black stripe
suit and I don't look
00:25:17.74\00:25:19.67
good in it, white
and black stripes.
00:25:19.68\00:25:22.84
I'm thinking, I'm behind bars,
00:25:25.02\00:25:27.24
dad's gonna come and kill me,
00:25:27.25\00:25:29.64
but then I
thought I said, oh! No,
00:25:29.65\00:25:32.85
maybe mom will
come, that's worse.
00:25:32.86\00:25:37.70
He said, young man
you can't go do that,
00:25:43.10\00:25:45.98
got up the stairs
just ready to book,
00:25:45.99\00:25:49.36
he set my feet down. He said,
00:25:49.37\00:25:53.33
will you do it again?
Oh! I never do it again.
00:25:53.34\00:25:57.30
What a liar? I'll
never do it again.
00:25:57.31\00:25:59.80
He said, don't
you ever do it again.
00:26:01.96\00:26:04.06
Boom! I ran straight
for home, that was grace.
00:26:04.07\00:26:06.66
I saw it for the
first time; you asked me,
00:26:08.01\00:26:11.43
did I break other windows?
00:26:11.44\00:26:13.24
I gotta confess,
I blamed a lot of it
00:26:14.88\00:26:18.70
on my brother, but it was me,
00:26:18.71\00:26:23.00
the incomprehensible salvation,
00:26:26.23\00:26:30.21
inevitable judgment.
00:26:31.33\00:26:32.83
You see, what he is saying here
00:26:33.71\00:26:35.09
is the earth
maybe destroyed it will,
00:26:35.10\00:26:36.66
but the remnant will be saved,
00:26:36.67\00:26:38.24
the saving of the
remnant is the miracle
00:26:38.25\00:26:40.35
when you consider
they have been preserved
00:26:40.36\00:26:42.88
from the
Holocaust of Armageddon,
00:26:42.89\00:26:44.58
they've been preserved from
00:26:44.59\00:26:45.85
the Holocaust of
economic boycott,
00:26:46.02\00:26:47.64
they've been saved from the
00:26:47.65\00:26:49.47
constitutional
changes and the death degree,
00:26:49.48\00:26:51.94
a remnant that
called out winds of God
00:26:51.95\00:26:54.15
from every church,
from every synagogue,
00:26:54.16\00:26:56.56
from every
mosque, a remnant of God,
00:26:56.57\00:27:00.00
Isaiah is the prophet,
00:27:02.05\00:27:03.24
preacher and the prince
00:27:05.02\00:27:08.70
leaps is it were from despair,
00:27:09.52\00:27:12.31
to hope, from threat to promise,
00:27:13.42\00:27:18.81
from earth to heaven,
00:27:19.73\00:27:23.70
from the
destruction to the restoration.
00:27:24.85\00:27:28.81
We see this
illustrating the doctrine
00:27:30.53\00:27:32.22
of the remnant, I
mean several things
00:27:32.23\00:27:33.54
are obvious about this remnant;
00:27:33.55\00:27:35.06
the world cannot
be destroyed as long
00:27:35.07\00:27:36.51
as the remnant are here.
00:27:36.52\00:27:37.63
God is not
causing a delay because
00:27:41.82\00:27:43.45
you haven't done your thing.
00:27:43.46\00:27:44.78
He'll do your thing if
you don't do your thing. Amen.
00:27:45.64\00:27:48.81
But He can't. As
long as there's someone
00:27:52.46\00:27:56.93
As long as there's someone
00:27:58.33\00:27:59.30
that loves God. He said,
00:27:59.31\00:28:01.21
he, it would be
Sodom and Gomorrah,
00:28:01.22\00:28:02.42
you would remember the story
00:28:02.43\00:28:03.40
of Sodom and
Gomorrah, God came right down,
00:28:03.41\00:28:05.26
I mean he had to
lift them up and take,
00:28:05.55\00:28:07.12
He send angels to get
them, out of the city,
00:28:07.13\00:28:09.88
I mean God had the
literally lifted them up
00:28:09.93\00:28:12.54
to take them out,
00:28:12.55\00:28:13.58
but Sodom could not be destroyed
00:28:13.97\00:28:16.19
as long as lot
was in the city. Amen.
00:28:16.38\00:28:18.02
By the way that's why
the close of probation,
00:28:23.27\00:28:25.48
God is coming
for His, his people
00:28:27.82\00:28:31.18
and then He's going to bring
00:28:32.87\00:28:34.07
judgment on this world.
00:28:34.08\00:28:35.26
I mean Genesis
19:22 tells us that,
00:28:37.10\00:28:39.97
as long as the
righteous remained in
00:28:40.58\00:28:41.99
the city God could not,
God would not destroy it.
00:28:42.15\00:28:44.28
And there is
still hope for our world
00:28:44.40\00:28:45.66
because God knows there's people
00:28:45.67\00:28:47.98
here who love God
and there are people in
00:28:47.99\00:28:50.13
the church who love God.
00:28:50.14\00:28:51.62
And as long as they are here,
00:28:51.63\00:28:52.84
and as long as he knows that,
00:28:53.02\00:28:54.69
he will not destroy them. Amen.
00:28:54.70\00:28:57.82
Men and women of
a perverse culture
00:29:02.60\00:29:04.12
that still love God,
00:29:04.13\00:29:05.32
remain faithful to God,
00:29:07.25\00:29:08.74
are you
faithful to God? Come on.
00:29:08.75\00:29:10.68
Well, that's
your name on the books
00:29:13.91\00:29:15.60
just good and regular standing
00:29:16.34\00:29:17.89
whenever that means.
00:29:17.90\00:29:19.20
You see Matthew 24
verse 22 tells us that,
00:29:21.84\00:29:24.59
I mean it's the
elect to being reprieve,
00:29:24.63\00:29:26.76
it's the elect who bring hope,
00:29:26.88\00:29:28.71
it's the elect of God.
00:29:28.75\00:29:30.50
Never forget it
the church still the
00:29:30.51\00:29:32.90
apple of God's,
of God's eye. Amen.
00:29:32.91\00:29:35.52
And He's not forsaken us.
00:29:37.06\00:29:38.55
Nor will he forsake us.
00:29:39.74\00:29:40.89
Look in Revelation chapter 11,
00:29:40.90\00:29:42.67
look at verse 3 God
will not forsake us,
00:29:42.68\00:29:45.50
God is not a God of forsaking,
00:29:45.93\00:29:47.34
God is a God of forgiveness,
00:29:47.35\00:29:48.72
do you understand that?
00:29:48.95\00:29:50.23
Do please let your
children know that,
00:29:50.24\00:29:52.16
let your children
know about this grace.
00:29:53.02\00:29:55.25
Revelation 7 and verse 3,
00:29:57.72\00:30:01.03
notice what the
word of God says,
00:30:02.59\00:30:04.44
"Saying, hurt not the earth,
00:30:11.13\00:30:13.69
neither the sea, nor the trees,
00:30:13.70\00:30:18.34
till we have sealed
the servants of our God
00:30:18.35\00:30:21.78
in their foreheads."
You see, it's they who
00:30:21.79\00:30:30.33
bring the message
of hope to a world,
00:30:30.34\00:30:31.88
it's those who are been
sealed in their forehead.
00:30:31.89\00:30:35.04
And I mean it's those,
remember histories remnant
00:30:35.05\00:30:37.81
do you remeber how God took care
00:30:37.82\00:30:40.77
of them? Yeah. I
mean Israel the children
00:30:40.78\00:30:43.53
of God picked up
by a sovereign mind,
00:30:43.54\00:30:46.55
placed in this
world by a sovereign hand,
00:30:46.56\00:30:49.63
protected by
omnipotent power, the remnant,
00:30:49.64\00:30:52.67
the Israel of God,
when the Midianites came
00:30:52.68\00:30:54.90
against them, the
land of Israelites locust,
00:30:54.91\00:30:58.10
I mean God raises up
Gideon, and he has 32000
00:30:58.11\00:31:01.37
that respond to go to war,
00:31:01.38\00:31:02.64
if I were to ask
your church now in here
00:31:02.65\00:31:04.64
in Oklahoma would 32,000 say,
00:31:04.65\00:31:07.32
I'm ready to go to
war for Jesus Christ,
00:31:07.33\00:31:09.81
most aren't even
ready to go on a picnic,
00:31:09.82\00:31:13.06
no less war,
32,000 respond. God says,
00:31:13.07\00:31:19.76
that's too many.
Judges 7:4, the faint heart,
00:31:19.77\00:31:27.04
hearted leave, those
that wanted to leave,
00:31:27.05\00:31:29.05
they left. And by
the way many of you
00:31:29.06\00:31:30.63
are gonna leave
when you want to leave,
00:31:30.64\00:31:32.28
if you want to
leave, you're gonna leave.
00:31:32.29\00:31:33.90
Then 10,000 remain,
too many Judges 7:5 and 6.
00:31:33.91\00:31:41.79
And then comes
down to what? Come on,
00:31:41.80\00:31:47.13
good, 300, when you
say the shrinking time
00:31:47.14\00:31:53.00
coming listen to me, I
travel around this nation,
00:31:53.01\00:31:55.51
it's already
happening in North America,
00:31:55.52\00:31:57.37
the shaking time, he
succeeded with the remnant,
00:31:57.38\00:32:01.67
history records it,
there were 12 tribes and,
00:32:01.68\00:32:06.67
and ten were
carried off and destroyed.
00:32:06.68\00:32:09.49
They were two tribes
left and they remained
00:32:09.50\00:32:11.61
and they were
carried off into slavery,
00:32:11.62\00:32:13.37
but they returned as a remnant,
00:32:13.38\00:32:15.10
Zerubbabel,
Joshua the high priest,
00:32:15.11\00:32:17.40
Nehemiah the
Governor, Ezra the scribe,
00:32:17.41\00:32:19.71
a remnant shall
returned, history records it.
00:32:19.72\00:32:22.70
The remnant was there
in the days of a flood,
00:32:22.71\00:32:24.81
a family locked in an
Ark with stinking animal,
00:32:24.82\00:32:28.34
protected by God to the storm.
00:32:28.35\00:32:31.01
And the rain and the
wind and the earthquakes,
00:32:31.02\00:32:33.74
they're
protected by Almighty God.
00:32:33.75\00:32:36.14
The remnant was there
in the days of Abraham,
00:32:36.15\00:32:38.04
I mean father of the faithful.
00:32:38.05\00:32:39.76
History records it,
the remnant was there
00:32:39.77\00:32:41.92
in Egyptian
captivity, history records it,
00:32:41.93\00:32:44.33
the remnant was
there in the days of
00:32:44.34\00:32:45.86
Carmel's
Apostasy, when Elijah the
00:32:45.87\00:32:48.61
prophet stood before his people.
00:32:48.62\00:32:50.13
And he said,
"Choose ye this day whom
00:32:50.14\00:32:52.54
ye will serve, if the
Lord be God serve him,
00:32:52.55\00:32:55.45
if Baal serve him." Amen.
00:32:55.46\00:32:59.37
It was there with
the remnant in the upper
00:33:01.36\00:33:06.62
room, history records it.
00:33:06.63\00:33:10.81
The remnant was there
in ecclesiastical days
00:33:10.82\00:33:14.96
in darkness, when,
when one Roman catholic monk
00:33:14.97\00:33:21.29
thanked God for
the Roman Catholics
00:33:21.30\00:33:23.14
in the Dark Ages
because there was a remnant.
00:33:23.15\00:33:26.07
One monk, here I
stand the remnant,
00:33:31.21\00:33:35.75
they traveled on
foot through desert
00:33:35.76\00:33:37.45
the remnant, to
serve a living God,
00:33:37.46\00:33:39.84
they traversed
across the seas as pilgrims
00:33:39.85\00:33:42.28
of the faithful,
the remnant of God,
00:33:42.29\00:33:45.12
the baptist sea
captain and a Methodist teenage
00:33:45.13\00:33:47.99
and a few during
the disappoint and
00:33:48.00\00:33:50.54
the remnant of God.
00:33:50.55\00:33:51.52
The remnant is
here in this place,
00:33:51.53\00:33:53.82
this very night, amen.
00:33:53.83\00:33:56.17
Listen to the words of Isaiah,
00:34:00.53\00:34:02.21
Isaiah chapter
40, listen as he dips
00:34:02.22\00:34:07.78
his pen in the inspiration of,
00:34:07.79\00:34:10.42
inspiration and
listen to what he says
00:34:10.43\00:34:15.26
in 40th chapter,
"Comfort ye, comfort ye
00:34:15.27\00:34:23.64
My people, saith your God.
00:34:23.65\00:34:26.83
Speak ye
comfortably to. Jerusalem,
00:34:26.84\00:34:29.84
cry unto her, and her
warfare is accomplished,
00:34:29.85\00:34:33.18
that her iniquity is pardoned:
00:34:33.19\00:34:34.94
for she hath received the Lord
00:34:34.95\00:34:37.10
and double for all of her sins."
00:34:37.11\00:34:40.72
Did you know Isaiah
named his first born
00:34:43.58\00:34:46.18
Shear-Jashub his son you know,
00:34:46.19\00:34:50.61
what it means? A
remnant shall return.
00:34:50.62\00:34:54.57
Even when he named his son,
00:34:54.58\00:34:57.61
he was thinking of the remnant.
00:34:57.62\00:34:59.96
I mean Satan and
others have tried
00:34:59.97\00:35:01.74
desperately to destroy
the remnant in history.
00:35:01.75\00:35:03.70
I mean the waters of the Red Sea
00:35:03.71\00:35:05.70
could not drown out to remnant.
00:35:05.71\00:35:07.93
The gallows of Haman could not
00:35:07.94\00:35:10.33
hang out the remnant.
00:35:10.34\00:35:11.57
The great fish could
not digest the remnant.
00:35:11.58\00:35:14.55
You see because God said,
00:35:14.56\00:35:16.36
I'm with you
always. I mean the fires
00:35:16.37\00:35:19.01
of Babylon could
not synch the remnant,
00:35:19.02\00:35:20.97
I'm with you,
read this book from
00:35:20.98\00:35:23.37
cover to cover.
And you will discover
00:35:23.38\00:35:25.43
it every word black and white.
00:35:25.44\00:35:27.35
The story of God's protection
00:35:27.36\00:35:29.40
and God's providence,
let Egypt come against us,
00:35:29.41\00:35:32.48
let the Assyrians
come against Israel
00:35:32.49\00:35:39.08
with that wets sword
wet with Jewish blood.
00:35:39.09\00:35:41.57
That Babylon comes
with clinking change
00:35:41.58\00:35:45.62
they fought for Jacob's sons.
00:35:45.63\00:35:47.52
And let them tell
how and lonely exile
00:35:47.53\00:35:51.06
in dank prison and
in pit of bondage that
00:35:51.07\00:35:55.20
they tried to crush
the seed, they tried to
00:35:55.21\00:35:58.06
defeat the seed,
but when you crush it,
00:35:58.07\00:36:00.63
it comes forth in the
lily of the valley. Amen.
00:36:00.64\00:36:06.16
She survived, they stoned
00:36:06.17\00:36:12.51
Stephen yet she has survived.
00:36:12.52\00:36:17.06
Peter crucified
upside down then his
00:36:17.07\00:36:22.90
will was right side up. Amen.
00:36:22.91\00:36:27.82
They dragged him
through the streets
00:36:30.15\00:36:31.46
until their flesh
came off their bone,
00:36:31.47\00:36:33.04
they stabbed them with spear,
00:36:33.05\00:36:34.65
and they
beheaded them. Thomas runs
00:36:34.66\00:36:39.16
through with a
sword, but she has survived.
00:36:39.17\00:36:42.41
I mean the church
militant becomes the
00:36:42.42\00:36:44.33
church triumphant,
why? Because I am with thee.
00:36:44.34\00:36:47.80
Why has she survived?
00:36:47.81\00:36:49.08
There is only one explanation,
00:36:49.09\00:36:51.09
not only because
she was God created,
00:36:51.10\00:36:53.79
she was God
loved, she was God call,
00:36:53.80\00:36:56.33
she was God elected,
she was God protected,
00:36:56.34\00:36:59.13
a creation, the
first Adam wounded in
00:36:59.14\00:37:01.46
the side that came
forth Eve the bride.
00:37:01.47\00:37:03.88
The second Adam of
the cross is crucified
00:37:03.89\00:37:06.43
and he's pierced in aside.
00:37:06.44\00:37:08.59
And there comes
forth the new Eve
00:37:08.60\00:37:10.03
the church of
Jesus Christ. Amen.
00:37:10.04\00:37:13.46
The remnant stands,
the pin-headed theologians
00:37:15.52\00:37:20.87
with the Ph.Ds
and a ThDs and a DDT's
00:37:20.88\00:37:26.82
cannot changed
it. And the scholars
00:37:26.83\00:37:31.62
cannot change
it. Nor our enemies;
00:37:31.63\00:37:40.86
they cannot change
it, for the remnant stands
00:37:40.87\00:37:47.04
separated from all
the powers of this world.
00:37:47.05\00:37:52.82
The seed is crushed
by sword and by fire
00:37:52.83\00:37:56.71
and by water
beneath, but it rises again.
00:37:56.72\00:38:00.44
There is no, did I in the church
00:38:00.45\00:38:01.54
has been whipped
and stoned and robbed
00:38:01.55\00:38:04.47
and raped, and
torched, and crucified,
00:38:04.48\00:38:08.30
but she lives on. Amen.
00:38:08.31\00:38:13.72
Hallelujah, amen.
She lives on, amen,
00:38:13.73\00:38:19.95
let me say with
Isaiah. Listen carefully;
00:38:19.96\00:38:24.40
Dark, and treasures
is a night before us.
00:38:24.41\00:38:30.91
Things are not
going to get better,
00:38:30.92\00:38:33.29
so you can be better;
00:38:33.30\00:38:34.73
Dark is the night before us.
00:38:34.74\00:38:37.71
Trials and
tribulations are about to
00:38:37.72\00:38:40.99
break upon to us,
time for the church to stop
00:38:41.00\00:38:44.01
fighting with itself. Amen.
00:38:44.02\00:38:47.79
Little pompous will be
careful. Sitting on board,
00:38:47.80\00:38:54.34
exacting his stay on God.
00:38:54.35\00:38:56.41
I build this church, if
he did, it's gonna burn,
00:38:56.42\00:39:01.91
but if Christ did it,
it's gonna last forever.
00:39:01.92\00:39:04.78
Its time for the
church. Amen, amen
00:39:04.79\00:39:09.14
Quit playing cheap
politics, for dark is,
00:39:09.95\00:39:14.25
is treacherous is
the night before us.
00:39:14.26\00:39:17.40
Trials and
tribulations are breaking
00:39:17.41\00:39:20.40
around us, but we do
not fear the future say,
00:39:20.41\00:39:25.30
we forget the way
that God has let us
00:39:25.31\00:39:27.81
send them past. Amen.
00:39:27.82\00:39:29.44
His glory shines
through upon the remnant.
00:39:29.45\00:39:32.79
I was traveling
with my grand kids,
00:39:32.80\00:39:35.99
when they were young I was going
00:39:36.00\00:39:37.53
to camp meeting
with Daine's children
00:39:37.54\00:39:39.35
where they stay
with us in the summer.
00:39:39.36\00:39:41.08
And it was one
of those rainy days
00:39:41.09\00:39:43.49
and I was trying to make time
00:39:43.50\00:39:44.57
and quit making time and I,
00:39:44.58\00:39:46.13
I was getting late and I had the
00:39:46.14\00:39:47.67
preach opening
night, Friday night and
00:39:47.68\00:39:49.81
come all the way
from Florida on our way,
00:39:49.82\00:39:51.52
on our way to, all
the way to Maryland
00:39:51.53\00:39:53.01
and or to Virginia and
it was gloomy and windy
00:39:53.02\00:39:58.91
and rainy and I
knew you were gonna be
00:39:58.92\00:40:00.71
attended you know, how it is.
00:40:00.72\00:40:02.66
I was complaining, I do that.
00:40:02.67\00:40:06.75
And I was complaining
to my wife and my wife
00:40:06.76\00:40:11.33
was listening
and just as we pulled
00:40:11.34\00:40:16.10
on to the camp, there
was a rift in the cloud,
00:40:16.11\00:40:19.40
and the Sun came
through on the tent
00:40:19.41\00:40:21.31
and my little Kelsey
she was just four years old
00:40:21.32\00:40:23.92
or so she says,
Papies, she calls me Papies.
00:40:23.93\00:40:27.20
She says, Papies,
look glory, glory.
00:40:27.21\00:40:32.41
That shut me up
the rest of the trip.
00:40:32.42\00:40:35.20
Out of the mouths
of babes glory shines
00:40:36.51\00:40:42.50
upon his remnant.
Amen. Skeptics thought
00:40:42.51\00:40:45.74
about it. I mean
mockers scorn it,
00:40:45.75\00:40:48.37
crowds apathy
towards it. I mean Pagan's
00:40:48.38\00:40:51.90
blasphemy and
execution is sort, devil lies
00:40:51.91\00:40:55.46
have not diminished
our hope fromour hearts.
00:40:55.47\00:40:57.82
I have faith in
you Jesus says. Amen.
00:40:57.83\00:41:02.40
And I have my
sperm, my seed, my remnant.
00:41:02.41\00:41:08.09
World War II broke
out, for some of you,
00:41:08.10\00:41:13.20
you were back
then, for some you just
00:41:13.21\00:41:15.86
read it in your history books.
00:41:15.87\00:41:17.24
It was a terrible
war, every war is.
00:41:17.25\00:41:20.54
And the Nazi
forces were slowly taking
00:41:23.11\00:41:28.67
Europe and controlling
the conscious of men,
00:41:28.68\00:41:33.59
but the great
tragedy was that many of
00:41:33.60\00:41:36.74
the churches
surrendered their morals,
00:41:36.75\00:41:44.14
their ethics to the
Nazi regime and tried
00:41:44.15\00:41:49.99
to justify and I
have to say in some cases
00:41:50.00\00:41:53.92
even Adventist
Church is in Europe,
00:41:53.93\00:41:57.10
God forgive us.
But there was one man
00:41:57.11\00:42:01.72
by the name of
Dietrich Bonhoeffer,
00:42:01.73\00:42:04.39
and he was a minister and he was
00:42:04.40\00:42:09.29
imprisoned for
his faith. I mean he,
00:42:09.30\00:42:17.98
he, he, he stood for
to, and when they came
00:42:17.99\00:42:19.72
and said, can you
run your church and,
00:42:19.73\00:42:22.70
and yet believe in
the Nazi philosophies,
00:42:22.71\00:42:27.04
said no I cannot.
He said, it's against
00:42:27.05\00:42:30.21
everything we
Christians believe. So,
00:42:30.24\00:42:32.85
they threw him in
prison. He defied the gas
00:42:32.86\00:42:36.93
and the Gestapo, he said,
00:42:36.94\00:42:39.98
you are my impassible
enemy, national socialism
00:42:39.99\00:42:45.66
and its totalitarian
demands, told the citizen,
00:42:45.67\00:42:48.37
I will defy it
with my last breath,
00:42:48.38\00:42:51.00
took courage. They
not only threatened him,
00:42:51.01\00:42:57.55
they tortured him.
They arrested his family,
00:42:57.56\00:43:01.16
his fiancee they
two were imprisoned.
00:43:01.17\00:43:06.15
In 1944, when his
friends made an attempt
00:43:06.16\00:43:11.93
to liberate him and to
take him safely abroad,
00:43:11.94\00:43:15.06
he decided to
remain in prison in order
00:43:15.07\00:43:18.86
not to endanger others. He said,
00:43:18.87\00:43:22.08
we can get you out.
No, I will stay here,
00:43:22.09\00:43:24.64
I do no want to
endanger anyone else
00:43:24.65\00:43:27.11
because if I escape
they'll take a hundred
00:43:27.12\00:43:31.42
and kill them. The
Christians in that prison
00:43:31.43\00:43:38.74
camp were moved
by what he has said,
00:43:38.75\00:43:40.73
and what he did? The
Catholics and Protestants
00:43:40.74\00:43:43.10
alike with his simple simplicity
00:43:43.11\00:43:46.72
and his great faith.
Bonhoeffer was never tried,
00:43:46.73\00:43:53.34
he went stand
steadfastly on his way to be
00:43:53.35\00:43:58.46
hanged. And with
calmness and dignity as they
00:43:58.47\00:44:04.76
put the rope around his neck,
00:44:04.77\00:44:06.18
he heard the prayer.
God, his love for God,
00:44:06.19\00:44:16.82
it was a costly grace
and that is the privilege
00:44:16.83\00:44:23.99
of taking the cross
for others and of affirming
00:44:24.00\00:44:32.86
his faith in
martyrdom. Will we remain
00:44:32.87\00:44:36.92
that steadfast?
Will we be that faithful?
00:44:36.93\00:44:42.49
When someone says
something to us now
00:44:42.50\00:44:46.02
we're ready to leave the church,
00:44:46.03\00:44:47.75
but we will be
faithful even unto death
00:44:47.76\00:44:49.92
if they saw it.
Will we be that faithful
00:44:49.93\00:44:54.28
that we will be
apart of that remnant,
00:44:54.29\00:44:56.39
that seed and
in spite it of all,
00:44:56.40\00:45:02.07
faithful to the very
end. That's my prayer
00:45:02.08\00:45:08.06
for you and for me. Amen.
00:45:08.07\00:45:10.10
That we will be
faithful as His remnant.
00:45:10.11\00:45:14.18
Father, which art in heaven,
00:45:14.19\00:45:16.09
I thank you for that
preach us to be obedient,
00:45:16.10\00:45:22.65
to be strong, to
be militant and by our
00:45:22.66\00:45:30.30
faith. And though
everyone forsakes us
00:45:30.31\00:45:35.84
we know you
will never and though
00:45:35.85\00:45:39.42
they persecute
us, we know that you
00:45:39.43\00:45:41.09
will persevere
for us. And we know
00:45:41.10\00:45:45.91
that can never take our
life because it's hidden
00:45:45.92\00:45:49.72
in you and like a
seed buried in the earth
00:45:49.73\00:45:54.10
we will come forth in
that glorious resurrection,
00:45:54.11\00:45:59.26
keep us in the name
of Christ, amen, amen.
00:45:59.27\00:46:07.57
Remember you leave this place,
00:46:08.61\00:46:09.70
but you never leave
the presence of God.
00:46:09.71\00:46:13.45