Hello friends and
welcome to 3ABN Camp Meeting
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2010, the Lord has been
blessing us and we are so
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happy that you have
chosen to tune into what I
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considered one of the
high points of camp meeting.
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Have you been blessed
so far can we say Amen?
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Amen. You are glad
that you are going to be
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sitting down and
listening because Alder Brookes
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God has called him
for such a time as this to
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bless our hearts in an
abundant way so sit back
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invite your friends
and family members to enjoy
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this message with you
if you are at work take a
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break right now, you
don't want to miss what God
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has install for you.
What a blessing it is all
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weekend long if you are
in the Southern Illinois
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area we would like
to invite you to come to
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Thompsonville the biggest
little city in the Midwest
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where God is being
blessing through Alder
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Brookes, David
Asscherick, pastor Batchelor is
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going to be here and a
number of other dynamic
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speakers as we cover
the Pillars of Our Faith on
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this weekend
wonderful music from all of our
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guests as well as
those who are part of 3ABN
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family but before we
go into the message I want
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to invite you to just
sit back and relax as we ask
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the Lord to
blesses. Let's bow our heads.
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Gracious father thank
you for your goodness,
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thank you for your
mercy and thank you for your
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grace give to us
father what we are in need of,
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this we ask in
Jesus name we pray Amen.
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And sometimes it
seem himself serving to
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introduce the song but
I want to share with you
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today a song that I
believe sun raises the
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beauty of Jesus to us.
We are not worthy of his
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grace nor his
salvation but when you ask the
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question that is
addressed in this song.
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We give glory to God
that is not who we are?
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But who he is, that
makes a difference in
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our salvation
listen to the message?
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When I think of how
He came so far from glory
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Came and dwell to
among the lovely such as I
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To suffer shame
and such disgrace
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On Mount Calvary take my place
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Then I ask myself
this question Who am I?
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Who am I that The King
would bleed and die for?
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Who am I that He
would pray not my will,
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Thine Lord? The
answer I may never know
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Why He ever loved me so?
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That to an old rugged
cross He'd go, for who am I?
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When I'm
reminded of those words,
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"I'll leave you never
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If you'll be true, I'll
give to you life forever"
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Oh, I wonder
what I could have done
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To deserve God's only Son
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Who fight my battles
until they're won, for who am I?
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Who am I that the King
would bleed and die for
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Who am I that He would
pray not my will, Thine
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Lord The answer I may never know
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Just why He ever loved me so?
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That to an old
rugged cross He'd go, yes
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That to an old
rugged cross He'd go,
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For who am I
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Amen, Amen. I
greet you again in the
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name of Lord Jesus
Christ, Amen. My pleasure to
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come back and for
myself and all that I represent
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I would like to extend
congratulations to God's
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special miracle
ministry 3ABN, Amen! And I see
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that you love it as much
as I do. It's a privilege
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to be here with my wife
again and to worship with
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you. And to see you the
fellowship to share hope,
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the promises of God.
The title of my simple
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message is the Last
Mile Home. Last year I
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remember giving you an
allegory this year I offer
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an analogy and ask you
follow and see where we
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will go. When I was 14
or 15 years of age I can
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remember very well,
being proud to tell folk
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I was a country boy.
Oh! I love that life but
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we were picked up each
morning of the week and
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carried of to city
schools and so as I begin to
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reach those years
when socializing became
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important to one. I
wanted to stay in town
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as long as possible and
friends homes or wherever
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else we went but
there was one thing I had to
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keep in mind and that
was the last bus that went
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in the direction of
my house. Left the town
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square at 11 p.m. Now,
I couldn't wish that a way
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or change it. If I'd
going to get home on time
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I had better keep that
in mind and be there out.
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Usually at that all
other crowd had dwindled and
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the bus was never
crowded but right on 11
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on the clock the
driver would head up North Elm
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street to Battle
Ground Avenue that's a strange
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name I guess to
sound Battle Ground Avenue.
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In the area where I
lived General Nathaniel Greene
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had defeated
Lord Cornwallis in the
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Revolutionary world.
That's how my town got
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to be called
Greensboro. I remember it with a
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great deal of affection
of course. About a half
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an hour after we had
taken off I might be the
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only passenger on
that bus and yet the driver
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had to go all the way
out but make no mistake about
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it the driver did not
take me home. He took me to a
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nice community
called Kirkwood and where he
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made a left turn I
disembarked and began
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the last mile and a
half to where I lived. It's a
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matter of fact they
were only three or four
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blocks of lightened
houses and then darkness
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that sometimes seemed
palpable. The last mile
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and I have home and
there I was 15 at most I
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graduated at 16 and I
have got this lonely dark
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dangerous route all
to myself. Very settled
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then at that hour
would you even see a car on
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the road. Those who
wanted to be some way
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out were there. And
here I go, I want to tell
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you something
however I would come to a
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spot in that road
more than ones and that
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would come a moment
of decision if I would
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take the footpath
there were two forests if
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I would dare and
face the unknown in the
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blackness of night along
that footpath. I could cut
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off a half mile so it
became the last mile home.
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As I stood there all by
myself contemplating what
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I should do I would
always remember there was
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pretty full little shack
where the grass was never
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caught and you never
saw the lights on. I would
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come by there in the
day light its still gave you
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chance and cause your
pose to quicken. But at
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night it was terrifying
so l should there wondering
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what should my
decision be? I had been told
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clearly over, and
over, and over again that the
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little white haired lady
that lived in that pretty
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full shack was a bonafide witch.
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The last mile home
involves spiritualism if
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you catch my
meaning. So, I pondered what I
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should do than I would
look at that longer road
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it wasn't much better
the forest came right up to
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the edge of it no cars
generally I would decide
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to go through the
forests by myself at night and
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even when I would do
that I would boost to my
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courage with the
much old motion that real
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man are not
afraid of anything. Amen!
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I was tough I am
ready at least that's what I
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would tell myself.
Once I have moved passed
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that little shack there
was any regular path that
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went almost straight
down hill and it wasn't
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easy to negotiate
especially when you
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couldn't see very well.
At the bottom of that hill
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it was noisy little
creek there were no lights
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there. If you miss
the stepping stones to the
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other side you would
either stand or sit in
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about two feet of cold,
cold water. Once you got
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across the creek you
had left the grimed little
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shack you are safely
on the other side than you
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entered the Pine
forest this were those tall
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southern pines. The
canopy way up there and
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because of the
niggles it caught the wind and
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kept the humming
sound all the time and than
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this little nocturnal
creatures would torment
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me with that cracking
of a lamb or a romantic
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little call to a
meet somewhere up there.
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It paid that time to
concentrate on objectives
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and the number one
objective was to get hold.
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Well, I see you are
following me. The number
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one objective was to
get home, now the bus ride
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was easy and normal
and peaceful no problem
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just riding along but
that last mile, that last
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mile it wanted to think
about safety and the joy
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of being at home.
Where you are securely
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locked in by a parrot
who saw to that as the
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last act every night
but the most important thing
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was home and when
you got there. And only
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then your nerves
would settle down.
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Now, I ought to tell
you that they were dog
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packs in those
forests. When you go back to my
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childhood you
going back to the great
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depression and there
were people who genuinely
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love dogs but they
couldn't afford to keep
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them. Let's say that
they would drive them to
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the forest edge and
simply turn them loose
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and these dogs would
get together. Big ones
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and little ones and
they would run through the
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night and keep up a
real racket. Now, I liked
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it when the noise
told me they were far from
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where I was, and you
could tell I never really
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had any experience
with them but we had a
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neighbor by the name
of the Mr. Foster who
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spent a whole night in
a tree. Because the dogs
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settle down beneath
him and so well may be you
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don't get it. But I will
tell you, if you got into
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trouble in those
forests you could yell until you
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were blue in the face
but nobody is going to
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hear you. You could
cry for help with all your
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myth but nobody
would respond that was the
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chance you are taking
in the Last Mile Home.
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There used to be a
spiritual that they would
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saying you got to
walk that lonesome valley.
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You got a walk it by
yourself no body else can
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walk it for you out.
You got to walk it by
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yourself I hope I am
impressing you with a
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fact that the Last
Mile Home is going to be the
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hottest of the evening
the darkest of the evening
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and pertains the most
dangerous of all but you
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got to keep
concentrate on home and keep
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moving in the right
direction there is a
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familiar and favorite
text of mine I used to write
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it on every letter I
sent to my precious mother.
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God show wipe a way
all tears from there eyes
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there shall be no more
death neither sorrow nor
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crying. Neither shall
there being anymore pain
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for the former
things are passed away.
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And those words for
her were like fruit from
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the tree of life and
for me they represented
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comfort and courage
and hope. Jesus said as
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it was in the days of
Noah so shall also the
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days of the coming
of the son of man being.
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That's what Jesus said
well, how was it in the
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days of the Noah?
Genesis chapter 6, also
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sink little sentence
says that the world was full
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of violence. Ladies
and gentlemen we are now
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way out. Amen! 2nd
Timothy chapter 3, this
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Noah also that in the
last days equivocating
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you don't miss that
unless you don't know
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what last means or
days means now last days
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perilous time show
God, this is what the
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apostles said we are
nearing being and it will
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be dangerous just to
be alive. I hear it on the
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news almost daily
people who hadn't planned to
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die cording cross fires
of rival gangs. A little
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girl Nine years old
shot in the head two weeks
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ago. It's dangerous
just to sit on your steps and
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talk to prayer, it
dangerous to be in your
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bedroom. When the
bullet start to fly and people
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are struck with in
the sanctity of their own
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homes, as we near
there, we have got to face
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things that we had
never seen before. We are
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living in a world
where there is no promising.
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We are living in a
world where our freedoms are
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being threatened day
by day. We are living in a
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world where we better
get acquainted with the
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promises of God and
believe him. Amen! Well,
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God has said I will
never leave you nor forsake
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you God said that.
And there are times when I
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am with in the shadow
of death it seems and I
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look up to heaven and
repeat his words to him.
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I learn that from
Shelly tell God what he said
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already. Let him know
that you believe in it and
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that you live by it and
then you hear the song his
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eye is on the sparrow.
I know he is watching me
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24/7 heaven is open
for business and there is a
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living God on our
living though there be billions
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of worlds in the
Cosmos, he is able to single out
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the planet in
rebellion and there are billions
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of people down here
but he knows my address.
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Amen! He has counted
the hair, that is what the
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Bible said the Bible
doesn't say the hairs on
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your head are
counted it says they are
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numbered. Which says
just was on concerned
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means that God knows
that this hair right here
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is number 175 and the
one the next to it is 178
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and a couple have
dropped out he has numbered
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the hairs on our
heads. He knows more about us
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than we could
possibly know about him.
00:24:05.04\00:24:09.18
This are the foresight
think I always seem to be
00:24:10.60\00:24:14.84
a bit more religious
on that Last Mile Home.
00:24:14.99\00:24:19.25
I know I prayed more
on that last mile home and
00:24:21.15\00:24:27.59
than after emerging
from the Pine Forest I
00:24:27.70\00:24:31.11
was smacked-dab in
the middle hatches tobacco
00:24:31.14\00:24:33.95
plantation. A
huge tobacco farm and
00:24:34.10\00:24:38.95
Mr. Hatcher was an
unusual person he had
00:24:39.04\00:24:42.68
two barns, two
tobacco barns and a great big
00:24:42.81\00:24:46.64
house and five crazy dogs. Amen!
00:24:46.81\00:24:51.90
Now, I got to go
passed his house I remember
00:24:54.09\00:24:58.57
coming through there
in day light when you
00:24:58.67\00:25:00.45
were not so terrified
and those dogs would come
00:25:00.48\00:25:04.36
as those to go rip
your part and they would
00:25:04.50\00:25:06.59
make a circle and
they would move in and out
00:25:06.62\00:25:09.94
snapping as they did
and I remember looking
00:25:10.06\00:25:12.90
and Mr. Hatchers was
reading his paper just a
00:25:12.94\00:25:15.58
few yards away and
he didn't event look up.
00:25:15.76\00:25:18.23
I had own a pair
heavy boots and I hold that
00:25:20.75\00:25:23.42
way and kicked one of
those dogs and he went
00:25:23.45\00:25:25.60
up in the air and
made an announced when he
00:25:25.68\00:25:28.58
came down he and all
the rest took off and I
00:25:28.70\00:25:32.60
looked back again
and Mr. Hatcher was still
00:25:32.71\00:25:34.95
reading his paper. I
came to the conclusion he
00:25:34.98\00:25:38.76
didn't care about me
or his dogs. Now, I got
00:25:38.84\00:25:43.93
to good bye him at
night, how best to do it now
00:25:43.96\00:25:51.29
if you lived in the
country such as I did you
00:25:51.78\00:25:55.20
had a mixture of sand
and clay that was your
00:25:55.31\00:25:57.80
soil. And whenever the
rain is came heavily it
00:25:58.04\00:26:02.80
leads the clay from the
sand and lift the sand in
00:26:03.18\00:26:07.30
the sand ditches on
either side of the road and I
00:26:07.33\00:26:10.06
had learned a secret
to get in the sand nobody
00:26:10.09\00:26:13.17
can hear yet. You can
run silently, so, when I
00:26:13.24\00:26:18.69
approach Mr.
Hatchers home I assumed,
00:26:18.77\00:26:21.92
I presumed that those
dogs had enough scene to
00:26:22.15\00:26:25.42
sleep in the back and I
would by as best I could.
00:26:25.60\00:26:31.07
As fast as could
running in the sand you couldn't
00:26:31.61\00:26:36.14
hear my foot falls at
all. And by the time those
00:26:36.20\00:26:39.82
dogs were away up.
You see they also have the
00:26:40.00\00:26:42.97
sense of smile I read
somewhere out 175 times
00:26:43.10\00:26:47.67
more sensitive they
are hearing and smelling
00:26:47.81\00:26:51.80
than in a human
being. But eventually whether
00:26:51.90\00:26:56.94
they are sleeping or
not that I don't know they
00:26:56.97\00:26:59.22
would discover
somebody was passing that
00:26:59.25\00:27:02.77
somebody by that time
had passed. Running in
00:27:02.89\00:27:08.55
the sand running in
the sand I wanna tell you
00:27:08.69\00:27:14.61
something when you
on the Last Mile Home
00:27:14.69\00:27:21.70
and you know it fears
to run silently sometimes.
00:27:22.21\00:27:28.94
Ellen White indicates
that an ultra sensitive
00:27:29.86\00:27:32.23
person can't be
saved because they always
00:27:32.42\00:27:35.27
thinking evil. You
know their folk who look at
00:27:35.37\00:27:39.15
you and decide you
don't like him or they decide
00:27:39.18\00:27:43.62
you have said
something about them. You have
00:27:43.80\00:27:45.92
met him and talked
about them. I had that,
00:27:46.14\00:27:48.82
had happened to be
once that I remember
00:27:49.39\00:27:51.05
enlightening the poor
soul by saying I really
00:27:51.64\00:27:54.65
didn't have you on my
mind at all. At the time
00:27:55.29\00:27:59.89
you indicate, I want
to tell you something that
00:27:59.93\00:28:03.45
we got to take
seriously Bible says that dragon
00:28:03.77\00:28:07.61
Revelation 12,
verse 9 tells who that is.
00:28:08.75\00:28:11.24
The dragon was
rough angry with the woman
00:28:11.52\00:28:15.15
the church and went
to make war not with just
00:28:15.38\00:28:19.57
everybody
particularly everybody self us
00:28:19.74\00:28:24.90
because Satan doesn't
love anybody as a matter
00:28:25.13\00:28:28.22
of fact Ellen White
says the demons in hell
00:28:28.32\00:28:30.51
don't even like each
other. But in a special
00:28:30.74\00:28:35.95
sense Satan has made
war against a special
00:28:36.10\00:28:40.97
people who are they?
Bible tells you the woman
00:28:41.13\00:28:46.16
what is that mean? the
final group of those who
00:28:47.50\00:28:50.72
remain well, how do
we know who they are
00:28:50.95\00:28:55.39
same verse they
keep the commandments of
00:28:56.12\00:28:58.98
God how many all ten.
If you don't keep all ten
00:28:59.08\00:29:04.99
you are not keeping
any but the Bible says in
00:29:05.02\00:29:07.95
James 2:10 if you
keep the whole law and the
00:29:08.11\00:29:10.14
other finding one port
you give them all. So it
00:29:10.26\00:29:14.71
narrows down doesn't
it? And you keep in mind
00:29:14.94\00:29:19.44
Satan is at war
against those who keep the
00:29:19.68\00:29:23.98
commandments of God
and here's comes our
00:29:24.23\00:29:27.33
English lesson again
they are coordinating
00:29:27.46\00:29:30.23
conjunction
connecting words and phrases of
00:29:30.39\00:29:33.10
equal rank and
importance. So, that what comes
00:29:33.31\00:29:36.35
after and is just as
important as that which
00:29:36.59\00:29:39.15
proceeds and. Now,
let's read it together they
00:29:39.42\00:29:42.12
keep the
commandments of God and have the
00:29:42.29\00:29:46.21
testimony of Jesus
Christ what's that?
00:29:46.43\00:29:48.68
Chapter 19 in verse 10
tells you it is the gift of
00:29:49.42\00:29:52.91
prophecy and I have
never seen the Lord's
00:29:53.10\00:29:57.16
servant under attack
as she is the devil. Amen!
00:29:57.38\00:30:01.62
That peaceful soul
that did so much made so
00:30:01.67\00:30:05.78
many sacrifices oh I
got to talk about her
00:30:06.00\00:30:09.06
tomorrow but they
despise her and I will tell
00:30:09.20\00:30:13.20
you why people are
down on putting her up
00:30:13.33\00:30:16.78
on and many who
criticized have never read
00:30:16.96\00:30:21.98
a page of her council.
I have never met a soul
00:30:22.22\00:30:27.66
not one soul who was
made worse by reading
00:30:27.77\00:30:32.39
and believing the
spirit of prophecy. I have
00:30:32.42\00:30:36.19
talked to those who
love to false and I don't and
00:30:36.32\00:30:39.89
if you want to talk
after I make statement go
00:30:40.66\00:30:42.70
ahead. But I say that
to them I have never met a
00:30:42.87\00:30:47.13
soul now I have met
a few fanatics who took
00:30:47.32\00:30:49.80
things out of
context, Amen! I have met a few
00:30:49.88\00:30:52.85
racists who took
things out of context as in
00:30:53.24\00:30:58.27
volume 9 for which the
gift and the Lord servant
00:30:58.39\00:31:03.21
are not responsible I
tempted to give you an
00:31:03.48\00:31:09.06
illustration. When I
was a boy I read statement
00:31:09.20\00:31:14.67
that I am worship on
my faith. Ellen White says
00:31:14.70\00:31:18.94
blacks or colors should
not seek to be equal with
00:31:19.40\00:31:22.61
white's period will
that. But I remember
00:31:22.98\00:31:27.92
something that I am
going to tell you tomorrow
00:31:28.07\00:31:29.46
night. And I had
blessing enough to differ
00:31:29.67\00:31:37.67
judgment and then one
day a wonderful minister
00:31:37.92\00:31:44.30
pulled a little book
out of his draw called as
00:31:44.39\00:31:47.05
southern work and read
the statement in context.
00:31:47.28\00:31:50.66
Now, listen color
shouldn't seek to be
00:31:50.88\00:31:53.31
equal with whites
because they are not his
00:31:53.47\00:31:57.01
example. Well, I can
live that, Christ is the
00:31:57.23\00:32:03.09
model if you want to
copy a live copy he is.
00:32:03.32\00:32:07.87
Amen for the gift of
prophecy, Amen, Amen,
00:32:10.17\00:32:13.34
and I have thank God
many of time that I didn't
00:32:13.68\00:32:16.30
jump to a conclusion
because had I done that I
00:32:16.52\00:32:19.74
would have been
in jeopardy my own
00:32:19.83\00:32:22.94
personality he is
to understand truth and
00:32:23.04\00:32:25.24
stand on it that if I
had call that what she said
00:32:25.46\00:32:28.97
I would have had a
problem for my own.
00:32:29.78\00:32:32.11
What, thank God I
didn't do that. Amen.
00:32:33.68\00:32:39.77
The dragon is
wroth with the woman.
00:32:39.80\00:32:41.40
That's right. He has
picked out the remnant.
00:32:41.96\00:32:44.07
His attack is
against them. What do they do
00:32:44.85\00:32:48.43
that makes him so
upset? They teach and
00:32:48.54\00:32:51.79
believe and lay
them obedience to all the
00:32:51.97\00:32:55.49
commandments of
God, does that make them
00:32:55.60\00:32:58.16
legalists absolutely
not. Legalism is when you
00:32:58.30\00:33:04.09
think you can earn
heaven by obeying the
00:33:04.16\00:33:06.76
commandments nor you
can't. Ellen White says
00:33:06.88\00:33:10.19
not one whipped of
what a man does. You know
00:33:10.37\00:33:14.34
as you read you find
such interesting words
00:33:14.65\00:33:18.14
from the Lord
servant. Not one whipped I was
00:33:18.30\00:33:23.36
reading another area
she said I wouldn't give a
00:33:23.52\00:33:26.04
straw, like that what is
this wonderfully it sound
00:33:26.27\00:33:30.66
like me. Not one
whipped of what a man does
00:33:30.70\00:33:34.44
can earn him salvation.
It's all Jesus but once
00:33:34.62\00:33:38.29
we allow him to claim
us and we will to do his
00:33:38.68\00:33:42.28
will and what is his
will? The Bible says his will
00:33:42.43\00:33:47.47
is to keep his
commandments you are
00:33:47.80\00:33:50.16
my friends if you do
whatever I command you.
00:33:50.19\00:33:52.42
And the people who
love to forsake but wait a
00:33:54.30\00:33:56.54
minute their works
involved in obedience.
00:33:56.71\00:33:59.97
No, no, no, obedience
is a lifestyle it's a way
00:34:00.62\00:34:03.97
you live if you being a
liar you stop lying when
00:34:04.18\00:34:07.21
Jesus comes in if you
have been Palendriai you
00:34:07.29\00:34:09.93
stay home with your
wife when Jesus comes in.
00:34:10.07\00:34:12.55
That is the lifestyle of
the Christian you are not
00:34:13.10\00:34:15.98
trying to earn
anything not one whipped oh what
00:34:16.18\00:34:21.90
a man does can
earned him salvation. And I
00:34:21.93\00:34:26.58
believe that with
whole my heart but folk it
00:34:26.72\00:34:30.31
would be wise to
remember that in the Last Mile
00:34:30.38\00:34:35.68
Home people you
counted on will let you down.
00:34:35.71\00:34:39.37
People in the church
will stir up problems they
00:34:41.11\00:34:44.79
already got banks of
people put preparing for
00:34:44.93\00:34:47.83
Atlanta, Already got
there signs presented
00:34:47.94\00:34:52.00
already supporting
sight on there that warning to
00:34:52.80\00:34:56.43
rare up against the
church that must teach
00:34:56.66\00:35:00.31
and preach the
word of God. They cannot
00:35:00.51\00:35:05.18
succeed and that's
not our battle. We have a
00:35:05.41\00:35:10.21
positive message to
obey out we will do well to
00:35:10.32\00:35:13.07
bare it and we need to
be, we need to understand
00:35:13.31\00:35:17.74
that souls are not one
I am talking as one whom
00:35:17.80\00:35:21.62
got call to do
evangelism. By his grace I have
00:35:21.76\00:35:25.82
baptized thousands but
not a one is brought into
00:35:26.03\00:35:30.79
the church through a
personality like mine.
00:35:30.82\00:35:33.46
Every soul that is
converted to the truth
00:35:34.41\00:35:36.91
is one but a Holly
Ghost would you say Amen
00:35:37.45\00:35:40.65
out there. And we
better keep that in mind it
00:35:40.78\00:35:45.70
surely helps in many
ways when you understand
00:35:45.90\00:35:49.19
that it takes the
whole of members Ellen White
00:35:49.27\00:35:52.44
says one soul is
worth more than the whole
00:35:52.58\00:35:54.78
world. Try to digest
that and you will not
00:35:54.92\00:35:58.15
baptized three or
just to get a big number.
00:35:58.37\00:36:01.16
That's not my business
my business is to tell the
00:36:02.80\00:36:05.29
truth. The Holy
Ghost is working where the
00:36:05.41\00:36:08.49
truth is told and the
Holy ghost will whisper to a
00:36:08.66\00:36:12.11
man or a woman which
is the way will eve in it.
00:36:12.37\00:36:18.03
Amen! There would be
attacks of one nature
00:36:18.53\00:36:22.35
and another against
God's people and some that
00:36:22.49\00:36:26.21
you really counted on
will seem that let you
00:36:26.25\00:36:29.05
down. The Bible
talks about accuser of the
00:36:29.26\00:36:33.10
brotherhood, accuser
of the brotherhood he
00:36:33.29\00:36:37.30
loves to stir up
trouble and accuse you even the
00:36:37.54\00:36:41.80
things you are guilty
of some of the things we
00:36:41.83\00:36:44.25
are guilty of. When
God buried Moses up there
00:36:44.36\00:36:49.57
that devil came, it
forgive my imagination
00:36:49.80\00:36:53.08
but I have seen the
devil coming when he knew
00:36:53.93\00:36:56.05
Christ was coming at
the Moses. He went up
00:36:56.29\00:36:59.62
there and planted his
foot right on the grave
00:36:59.86\00:37:02.09
of Moses and declared
he had a right to him.
00:37:02.22\00:37:05.12
And he began to tell
God all the faults of Moses
00:37:06.01\00:37:08.96
he was impatient he
would let him go into the
00:37:09.32\00:37:11.67
promise land because
he disobeyed John and the
00:37:11.87\00:37:16.73
Bible simply says
when he did that Christ did
00:37:16.92\00:37:20.00
not bring against
Moses railing acquisition but
00:37:20.18\00:37:24.18
he simply said the
Lord rebuke the Satan.
00:37:24.21\00:37:27.18
That's right! In
other words this man and all
00:37:27.41\00:37:29.91
these out here today
who are truly converted to
00:37:29.94\00:37:33.41
Jesus you have made a
decision he has claimed
00:37:33.56\00:37:38.68
you as his own and
when the devil accuses you
00:37:38.74\00:37:42.75
and you might have
been guilty. Because the
00:37:42.98\00:37:45.68
devil knows he can't
lie to God. He accuses you
00:37:45.79\00:37:51.11
and the Lord says to
him I rebuke you Satan.
00:37:51.59\00:37:55.13
What you mean by
that? I am taking away his
00:37:55.85\00:37:58.56
unrighteousness and I
am covering him with my
00:37:58.80\00:38:01.70
light. Now if you
can accuse me go ahead.
00:38:01.87\00:38:05.21
The Lord rebuking I
imagine further the Satan
00:38:08.12\00:38:10.91
saying but in order
reedmen you got to come
00:38:11.02\00:38:13.92
and you have down
that yet. So, you have not
00:38:14.56\00:38:17.93
taken him out of
my power and out of my
00:38:18.03\00:38:20.15
prison house that I
couldn't imagine the Lord
00:38:20.28\00:38:23.42
saying charge him
to me. And when in the
00:38:23.55\00:38:29.17
fullness of time I
come down to this earth if I
00:38:29.26\00:38:32.45
don't pay up you
can have him back.
00:38:32.57\00:38:34.41
Yeh! What your Satan,
Moses, and Elijah were
00:38:35.56\00:38:37.49
talking about on
Mount of Transfiguration.
00:38:37.80\00:38:39.66
The Bible says they
were talking about his
00:38:40.60\00:38:42.72
disease which should
be accomplished shortly at
00:38:42.83\00:38:45.25
Jerusalem, that's what
they were talking about.
00:38:45.42\00:38:47.73
They had a wasted
interest in Christ going to the
00:38:48.03\00:38:51.36
cross. Otherwise
Enoch, Moses and Elijah
00:38:51.51\00:38:56.31
would have to come
back down here. Oh! Bless
00:38:57.01\00:39:01.83
God for the gospel,
aren't you glad for gospel.
00:39:02.15\00:39:05.43
Well, finally you get
passed Hatchers place and
00:39:06.97\00:39:15.06
there was one more
forest I had to get
00:39:15.09\00:39:17.48
through a small one.
That equally as terrifying it
00:39:17.64\00:39:22.34
seemed to trees
almost enveloped here.
00:39:22.59\00:39:24.65
Now, I want to follow
what I am about to say,
00:39:26.43\00:39:29.83
my older brother had
recently brought a dog to
00:39:30.77\00:39:36.96
our place that was
a strange dog he had
00:39:37.04\00:39:45.06
nothing he would
brought in as a guest.
00:39:45.22\00:39:49.09
My father had tenderly
got for old dome animals
00:39:50.73\00:39:54.14
he would tell me son
a horse can ask for what
00:39:54.30\00:39:57.49
he needs. You must
anticipate his need and
00:39:57.54\00:40:00.40
take care of it that
was my dads philosophy so
00:40:00.51\00:40:04.04
it is dog he has
brought in and what's pretty I
00:40:04.13\00:40:06.92
think it was a child
somebody say they all
00:40:07.00\00:40:10.01
mean, that dog was
so mean that when I feed
00:40:10.13\00:40:13.90
him I had to put the
food in his tray and get
00:40:14.01\00:40:16.92
a long pole and push
it up the way it can reach
00:40:17.10\00:40:20.55
it. He had no
understanding at all
00:40:20.65\00:40:24.44
well on this night he
did home that's my last
00:40:27.30\00:40:30.72
big obstacle that dog
knew my voice. That dog
00:40:30.94\00:40:35.95
knew the smell of me
didn't bother him at all
00:40:36.25\00:40:39.84
he would raise hand.
And he had such a big
00:40:39.99\00:40:44.17
mouth when he
started raise his hand dogs
00:40:44.35\00:40:46.85
allover the neighborhood
joined him. And they
00:40:46.94\00:40:51.04
all began to carry on
and I can't see him because
00:40:51.29\00:40:55.33
its dark and I began
the wonder I have nothing
00:40:55.36\00:40:58.90
with which to depend
on myself and that two
00:40:58.93\00:41:02.52
dogs that knew me
along side of him they
00:41:02.83\00:41:06.41
were led by him and
they were barking at me.
00:41:06.57\00:41:10.37
Oh! It was terrible
that devil bog would come
00:41:14.63\00:41:20.29
tarring at me that some
how I could shout at him
00:41:20.59\00:41:24.35
and intimidating.
And he would back down a
00:41:24.91\00:41:28.20
little and grudgingly
give me some space then
00:41:28.29\00:41:32.62
I would be able to
make it home. Now, who
00:41:32.65\00:41:35.38
would him I have
thought that a dog with now
00:41:35.41\00:41:38.95
member, member of
the family. I am talking
00:41:39.05\00:41:44.20
about this one day in
the family. Ellen White
00:41:44.30\00:41:48.88
says that many will
be disaffected and become
00:41:49.17\00:41:53.36
bitterest enemies'
folk we taught you in the
00:41:53.88\00:41:57.46
Sabbath school lesson
God forbid. Even those
00:41:57.54\00:42:02.30
who preach sometimes
God forbid, one great
00:42:02.45\00:42:09.10
television evangelist
poured into a whole block
00:42:09.29\00:42:11.84
of people they said
they all former seventh-day
00:42:11.87\00:42:14.20
Adventist I have
baptized them. He said
00:42:14.26\00:42:16.79
now ask them why did
you live that wonderful
00:42:16.91\00:42:20.10
church with such high
standards and they said
00:42:20.25\00:42:23.06
because there is no
love in that church.
00:42:23.29\00:42:25.73
Somebody heard it
came into me and I asked
00:42:27.42\00:42:29.95
one question where in
the Bible doesn't says
00:42:29.98\00:42:33.04
somebody has to love
you. Oh! It says you have
00:42:33.21\00:42:37.79
to love somebody
including your enemy but
00:42:37.98\00:42:42.42
it is not written that
somebody has to love you.
00:42:42.47\00:42:46.70
So, what I want
account all of that too is
00:42:49.50\00:42:52.99
deception say that
word with me. Deception,
00:42:53.18\00:42:57.70
that's got to be
Satan's prime tool the last mile
00:42:58.74\00:43:03.63
home, he is going in
a lie and expect you to
00:43:03.80\00:43:06.96
believe it deception
is going to cause many to
00:43:07.11\00:43:11.67
become like shifting
sand. I am reading from
00:43:11.82\00:43:15.08
Ellen White and she
said thousands were lived
00:43:15.76\00:43:19.66
but when they live
other thousands will come in
00:43:20.43\00:43:23.68
and the ranks of the
Lord's army will not be
00:43:24.11\00:43:27.10
the diminished so,
this thing is not about the
00:43:27.24\00:43:30.75
crowd not about the
group it's about you.
00:43:30.98\00:43:34.00
You got to walk this
lonesome valley, you got
00:43:35.09\00:43:38.15
to walk it all by
yourself. You got to walk it and
00:43:38.18\00:43:44.26
make decisions and
make have a will to do
00:43:44.33\00:43:48.78
God's will and learn
how to pray you got to
00:43:49.06\00:43:51.96
have a speaking
acquaintance with God
00:43:52.08\00:43:54.47
himself you got to
do it you have no other
00:43:54.78\00:43:59.18
choice. Ladies and
gentlemen we will not
00:43:59.41\00:44:03.58
surprise to hear me
say I am about to make a
00:44:03.72\00:44:07.16
statement to you Jesus
said there will be wars
00:44:07.33\00:44:12.66
and roamers of war but
you never see wars like
00:44:13.54\00:44:17.35
this. First place I
have read that other day that
00:44:17.57\00:44:20.98
28 wars going on
right now we are involved in
00:44:21.04\00:44:24.55
two in a very specific
way Afghanistan and Iraq.
00:44:24.68\00:44:28.82
But listen Satan
delights in war I am cording
00:44:30.20\00:44:33.61
right forward excites
the worst passions of the
00:44:33.73\00:44:36.78
soul. Let me ask you
a practical question how
00:44:36.91\00:44:40.42
do you fight a war
when people don't mind
00:44:40.71\00:44:42.57
dying. They quite
willing the brought
00:44:42.83\00:44:45.51
themselves out you
never saw war like that
00:44:45.68\00:44:49.25
people it makes you
think perhaps its an endless
00:44:49.40\00:44:54.93
war. Wars and rumors
of war and when Jesus
00:44:55.84\00:45:01.41
said there will be
earthquakes and divorce,
00:45:01.75\00:45:04.74
divorce simply means
divorce are different.
00:45:05.23\00:45:07.00
Earthquakes, when I
would hear of earthquake
00:45:08.11\00:45:10.29
I thought of
California when I hear about a
00:45:10.44\00:45:13.81
flood I was awake
of Midwestern and all
00:45:14.09\00:45:17.66
through here. And
then you drought this cruse
00:45:17.87\00:45:22.72
but now you think of
earthquakes you got to
00:45:23.56\00:45:27.90
think of Haiti,
China, Chile and others yes,
00:45:27.96\00:45:35.10
when you think of
floods you no longer just
00:45:36.27\00:45:41.44
think of the middle of
our country but you got
00:45:41.82\00:45:45.32
to think of France
and Great Britain and take
00:45:45.35\00:45:48.55
into consideration
the Tsunami that killed
00:45:48.58\00:45:51.83
250,000 people you
know when they were
00:45:52.08\00:45:57.41
collecting the
bodies someone noticed
00:45:57.72\00:46:01.52
something rather
strange the water has retired
00:46:01.55\00:46:04.87
and dead are
everywhere and destruction is
00:46:05.20\00:46:08.83
everywhere but in
that country they depend on
00:46:09.13\00:46:15.70
agriculture and
lumbering. So, they had many
00:46:15.90\00:46:21.91
animals strayed and
especially elephants and
00:46:22.16\00:46:26.86
yet as they are
collecting the dead they didn't
00:46:27.01\00:46:30.52
see any elephants or
ox in. And we did a little
00:46:30.69\00:46:37.79
reading into it and
we were told that animals
00:46:37.96\00:46:41.10
have an instinct and
when an earthquake is
00:46:41.26\00:46:47.21
about to occur they are
usually some soft shivers
00:46:47.39\00:46:51.58
before the main
strike and the minute the
00:46:51.97\00:46:55.54
elephant feels at
those great padded feet they
00:46:55.74\00:47:00.52
head a higher ground
somebody ought to say
00:47:00.82\00:47:03.53
amen now. So, the
dumb animals lived and that
00:47:03.62\00:47:12.99
human's died
tragically do you know that when
00:47:13.11\00:47:21.78
the Titanic went
down they had received
00:47:21.88\00:47:25.40
warning message one
after another God has told
00:47:25.79\00:47:31.41
us when you see this
things no that the coming
00:47:31.61\00:47:35.31
of the Lord go draw at
night. Its time to seek
00:47:35.34\00:47:39.86
higher ground a
closure relationship with the
00:47:40.09\00:47:43.75
Lord. Ellen White
suggest pray at three times a
00:47:43.89\00:47:47.33
day is not enough you
got to meditate, you got
00:47:47.45\00:47:50.27
to carry this word in
your heart you got to talk
00:47:50.33\00:47:52.76
it over with him
all through the day.
00:47:52.79\00:47:54.94
The Bible says
pray without ceasing and
00:47:55.22\00:48:00.35
then when you think of
these last days you got
00:48:00.38\00:48:04.52
to think of an oil
spill that's out of hand and
00:48:04.55\00:48:10.06
please don't forget
the immorality of Sodom.
00:48:10.09\00:48:13.44
Well, the Bible
spoke of that now I want to
00:48:14.77\00:48:17.91
come back in just
a moment to and talk
00:48:18.11\00:48:20.58
about spiritualism just
superficially. But their
00:48:20.62\00:48:24.95
was a woman I think
an Adventist she and her
00:48:24.98\00:48:28.75
husband loss their
little five-year-old daughter
00:48:28.78\00:48:31.13
and you can imagine
the grief and you can
00:48:32.25\00:48:34.38
imagine the
heartache and one day when the
00:48:34.51\00:48:37.56
wife was home
herself she heard that child
00:48:37.81\00:48:41.35
screamed mommy,
mommy, now they are
00:48:41.58\00:48:44.47
five section my mom
taught me that before I
00:48:44.64\00:48:46.86
went to school. You
got seeing and hearing,
00:48:47.08\00:48:49.38
smelling and tasting
and feeling you follow me
00:48:49.49\00:48:51.76
don't you. So, the
first sense appeal to was
00:48:52.02\00:48:55.18
hearing she heard the
child and then the child
00:48:55.39\00:48:58.20
runs into the corner
with her arms out stretch
00:48:58.27\00:49:00.22
and she saw the
child and then she reached
00:49:00.68\00:49:04.39
down and picked her up
and she felt the child.
00:49:04.52\00:49:07.74
And she pealing a
kiss on her chick and she
00:49:08.66\00:49:11.84
tasted that child
all of her senses were
00:49:12.13\00:49:16.66
assaulted and she was
enjoying it as some kind
00:49:16.95\00:49:21.95
of gift from
heaven when she suddenly
00:49:22.13\00:49:24.92
remembered the truth.
But than no not it is in,
00:49:25.03\00:49:30.01
they returned no more
to their houses and that's
00:49:30.86\00:49:35.42
those truths broke up
on her heart she dropped
00:49:35.59\00:49:40.41
down and prayed
forgiveness and asked
00:49:40.53\00:49:43.79
God to remove this
operation whatever it was
00:49:43.95\00:49:47.98
and rebuke the devil
for having brought it and it
00:49:48.14\00:49:51.17
was not only soul but
her grief was also swaged
00:49:51.29\00:49:54.77
from that very hour
that she didn't spend her
00:49:55.40\00:49:58.62
time mourning and
mourning the great loss
00:49:58.74\00:50:07.67
of her family.
Ladies and Gentlemen we are
00:50:07.77\00:50:11.73
nearing home we are
in the last mile see the
00:50:11.87\00:50:17.61
splendor gleaming
through the gates of joy.
00:50:17.79\00:50:21.03
See the glorious
streaming from the domes afar
00:50:21.56\00:50:24.63
we are nearing home
John come out and sing
00:50:24.82\00:50:29.35
this song please. Amen, Amen!
00:50:29.60\00:50:33.30
Just over the
mountains in the Promised Land,
00:50:36.46\00:50:42.69
Lies the holy city
built by God's own hand;
00:50:43.41\00:50:50.63
As our weary footsteps
gain the mountain's crest,
00:50:51.25\00:50:57.02
We can view our
homeland of eternal rest.
00:50:57.52\00:51:04.67
We are nearing
home! We are nearing home!
00:51:05.18\00:51:15.95
See the splendor
gleaming from the domes afar!
00:51:16.61\00:51:22.82
See the glory
streaming from the gates ajar!
00:51:23.21\00:51:29.35
There we soon will
enter, nevermore to roam,
00:51:29.70\00:51:36.82
Hear the angels
singing! We are nearing home!
00:51:37.32\00:51:43.74
We are nearing home!
My brother, my sister,
00:51:43.77\00:51:53.18
will you meet me there,
In that land of sunshine
00:51:53.55\00:51:59.78
where there'll be no
care? Accept of God's
00:51:59.99\00:52:06.38
message and to Him
be true, Then when Jesus
00:52:06.47\00:52:13.31
cometh, He will call for you!
00:52:13.64\00:52:17.94
Let's sing with him. Together.
00:52:17.97\00:52:18.94
We are nearing
home! We are nearing home!
00:52:19.32\00:52:29.52
See the splendor
gleaming from the domes afar!
00:52:29.87\00:52:35.59
See the glory
streaming from the gates ajar!
00:52:35.87\00:52:42.11
There we soon will
enter, nevermore to roam,
00:52:42.51\00:52:50.36
Hear the angels
singing! We are nearing home!
00:52:50.85\00:53:00.04
We are nearing home! I
would like to sing that
00:53:00.54\00:53:11.45
chorus one more time
that if your heart is
00:53:11.65\00:53:14.40
strangely move by the
spirit of God today and
00:53:14.64\00:53:17.61
you want to close our
relationship with him I
00:53:17.67\00:53:20.29
want to stand and
sing that chorus with John,
00:53:20.35\00:53:22.62
right now. Everybody sing
00:53:23.25\00:53:26.84
We are nearing
home! We are nearing home!
00:53:26.87\00:53:34.36
See the splendor
gleaming from the domes afar!
00:53:34.86\00:53:40.57
See the glory
streaming from the gates ajar!
00:53:40.95\00:53:46.90
There we soon will
enter, nevermore to roam,
00:53:47.39\00:53:55.26
Hear the angels
singing! We are nearing home!
00:53:55.90\00:54:04.91
We are nearing home!
I want to say something
00:54:05.30\00:54:15.74
to you before prayer
you are not ordinary people
00:54:15.91\00:54:20.46
now don't think for
a moment I promoting
00:54:22.10\00:54:23.54
arrogant in pride
no, no far the other way.
00:54:23.63\00:54:26.94
But those who have
been privilege to know to
00:54:28.20\00:54:30.51
truth will not like
the average guy walking on
00:54:30.66\00:54:34.58
the street and come
down for to how much has
00:54:34.74\00:54:37.79
given much as
required and if God has given
00:54:37.92\00:54:42.03
much and you fail for
or I fail we will be beaten
00:54:42.31\00:54:48.50
with many stripes a
Bible says and so I think of
00:54:48.65\00:54:53.97
the man who ran
through the streets of
00:54:54.18\00:54:56.49
Jerusalem just before
its destruction crying ooh!
00:54:56.72\00:55:00.73
ooh! to Jerusalem he
was the preacher of such
00:55:01.26\00:55:04.57
ooh! To Jerusalem
ooh! to the temple but when
00:55:06.34\00:55:10.28
you read it great
controversy Ellen White
00:55:10.41\00:55:13.44
said that man died in
the sewage oh! Lord had
00:55:13.65\00:55:18.50
mercy. I don't want
to know what I know and
00:55:18.57\00:55:21.24
preach what I preach
and here we preach by
00:55:21.40\00:55:24.17
God's servant and
come up short. Do you feel
00:55:24.33\00:55:28.63
that way? Amen! I
mean you are not kidding
00:55:28.75\00:55:31.03
today we are just
here standing because
00:55:31.13\00:55:33.46
everybody else
stood we are nearing home.
00:55:33.57\00:55:37.23
And we can make a
difference don't denigrate
00:55:38.67\00:55:42.07
yourself in the
sight of God. Your soul was
00:55:42.22\00:55:44.87
worth him going to
the cross, Amen! And he
00:55:45.03\00:55:48.04
loves you that much
and if you want that
00:55:48.21\00:55:52.31
experience bow your
head and pray with me
00:55:52.40\00:55:55.58
now. Oh! Heavenly
father, we are so grateful,
00:55:55.68\00:56:01.69
so grateful for the
truth but we are not to hold it
00:56:02.68\00:56:07.33
we have to share it, we
are to reach out to those
00:56:08.44\00:56:11.44
who don't know it, oh
Lord please convert us
00:56:11.58\00:56:15.44
make us what we ought
to be, keep us everyday
00:56:16.81\00:56:20.97
until that day when
thou shalt appear riding
00:56:21.58\00:56:25.35
down the skies and
chariots of flaming fire.
00:56:25.38\00:56:29.17
Let it be Lord that
everyone here and its
00:56:30.10\00:56:34.16
possible through
Jesus. Everyone here can meet
00:56:34.36\00:56:38.14
some where in globe,
amen, having overcome
00:56:38.22\00:56:41.30
by the blood of the
lamb that's what we request
00:56:41.33\00:56:44.71
as we stand in
and everything we ask,
00:56:44.80\00:56:47.94
we ask in Jesus his
name and because of him,
00:56:48.14\00:56:51.85
that's right, let
everyone save. Amen. Amen.
00:56:52.62\00:56:56.55