Welcome to
"Pillars of Prophecy."
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How are you all
having at-- what kind of time
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are you having, I should say?
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Everybody having a
wonderful and blessed time.
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You know, we have
so many people here
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at camp meeting who are
here for the first time.
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Let me see your hands again,
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if you're here
for the first time.
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I would say
probably 50% of this crowd
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is here for the
first time and we welcome
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each and every one
of you and we welcome
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those of you, who
are watching from home.
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Today, we have a
wonderful presentation
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that is going to be on preparing
your home for the second coming.
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Can you think of
anything more important?
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You believe
Jesus is coming soon.
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Amen, amen. And our speaker
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is going to be Jay Rosario.
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I remember the
first time I met Jay.
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I was up speaking at a
frontline youth initiative.
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He was also a speaker
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and he was a young
man, this was in 2006.
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And he came out, he was speaking
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on a familiar topic, but
God had given him new insight,
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fresh insight on this topic.
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And I was so
impressed when I heard him
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that I came back and said,
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"We've got to get
this young man on 3ABN."
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So we're very pleased to
have Pastor Jay Rosario with us.
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He has a two church district
in San Jose, California.
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And you may be
familiar with the ministry
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he and his brothers had for
so long called "Radiant Living."
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So Jay is a young man of
God and we are very please,
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but before Jay does
come to speak to us,
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we're going to have our
own Pastor John Lomacang,
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who will be singing a
song for the Lord, thank you.
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I'd rather have Jesus
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than silver or gold
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I'd rather be His
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than have riches untold
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I'd much rather have Jesus
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than houses or lands
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And I'd rather be led
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by his nail-pierced hands
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Than to be the king
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of a vast domain
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Or be held
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my sin's dread sway
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I'd much rather have Jesus
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Than anything
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This world affords today
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Would you rather have Jesus
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than men's applause
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Would you rather be faithful
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to His dear cause
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Would you rather have Jesus
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than worldwide fame
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Would you rather be true
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to His holy name
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Than to be the king
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of a vast domain
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Or be held
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my sin's dread sway
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I'd much rather have Jesus
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Than anything
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This world affords today
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Than to be the king
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of a vast domain
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Or be held
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my sin's dread sway
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I'd much rather have Jesus
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Than anything
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This world can affords today
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Would you rather have Jesus
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Than anything
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This world affords today
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Than this world can afford today
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Hello, everyone.
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Thank you Pastor
Lomacang for the beautiful song.
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Wasn't that lovely? Yes.
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It's good to be here again
at 3ABN in Southern Illinois.
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And I bring you
greetings from sunny California.
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Any Californians in the midst?
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Wow, we have
Californians in the mist.
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Praise the Lord.
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I want to send the
greetings to my churches,
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Cambrian Park SDA Church
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and Los Gatos SDA
Church in San Jose.
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You're probably
not watching 'cause
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you're tired of listening
to me speak every Sabbath.
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But those of you that
are watching in San Jose,
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I send you greetings.
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I'm very, very excited
about the message this morning.
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And I'm excited to hear about
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the other
presentations that are here.
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And I always love
coming to 3ABN camp meeting,
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because it's kind
of like a little bit
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of heaven on earth, amen. Amen.
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You have so many
different perspectives
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and so many relevant
messages that are shared.
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It's almost like, wow.
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I wish this never finished.
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And I think that's
what heaven's gonna be like.
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Except, the guest speaker
is gonna be Jesus, amen. Amen.
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So I'm looking
forward to that camp meeting.
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That's the camp meeting
you do not want to miss?
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Before we begin,
I want to invite you
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to bow your heads with me
as we invite the real speaker,
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which is the Holy Spirit.
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Pray with me.
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Father, in heaven, we thank You
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for the
privilege you've given us
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to be called sons
and daughters of God.
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And Lord, we need Your presence,
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we need Your inspiration
and we need your insight
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as we dive into Your word.
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Father, we have not come
to hear the words of a man.
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Thus, I pray that you
hide me behind the cross,
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because we have
come to hear Jesus.
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May we see Him?
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May we feel Him?
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May we hear Him?
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This is my Prayer
in His name. Amen.
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Amen. Our
presentation is entitled,
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"Preparing your Home for
the Second Coming of Christ."
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You know, I've-- I live
in a home, and you know,
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it's hard enough to prepare
your home for relatives, right.
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It's hard enough
to prepare your home.
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Somebody said, "Yes."
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Somebody is
testifying up here in the front.
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It's hard enough
to prepare your home
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for visitors and for guests.
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Prepare your home
for the second coming
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seems a bit
overwhelming, does it not?
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You know, I remember,
my mother always gets,
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I mean, when
she comes and visits
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my home periodically.
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And she always
says, Jay, you know,
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why is it that you do this?
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Or why don't you get
nicer curtains or what?
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Does anybody have any
mothers that are like that?
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You know, she is
kind of like my fashion,
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like my
interior designer police.
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And every time she visits me,
she's always giving me counsel.
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Oh, you know,
you got to do this,
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you got to do that.
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What I love about my
mother is that every time
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she comes visits
me, if it's for the week
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or for the weekend?
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In the course of a few
days, she turns my house
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into like a bachelor pad, right,
into like Pier 1 Imports, okay.
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Anybody went to Pier 1 Imports?
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You walk in and
just the fragrance
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just--like your stress
level is immediately dropped
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when you go to Pier 1 Imports.
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I just go in
there for the fragrance,
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'cause, I don't know what I'm--
I don't know what I'm buying,
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I don't know where to start.
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And that's kind of
how my mother does it.
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I don't know how she does it.
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She just has magical
hands and she has a touch for,
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I think it's a mother thing.
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And--but I would love to think
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that that's kind
of what we're supposed
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to do spiritually speaking in
our homes, preparing our homes
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for the second
coming of Christ, amen.
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Because the
second coming of Christ
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is not so much an
event in the future
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as it is a very,
very special guest
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approaching the
atmosphere, amen.
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And as much as
we kind of scramble
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and we hear last minute
that's a--there is a guest
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that's gonna be coming
in the next few minutes.
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Oh, put all of the
stuff under the bed.
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You guys have done that before.
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Don't raise your hand.
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You know, that's
kind of similar, where
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that's gonna comes to the--
the coming of Christ, you know.
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We have to get
our houses in order.
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We have to get
our homes in order.
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And I think the Bible
is kind of like the manual
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that teaches you and I
how to get our homes in order
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for the second coming of Christ.
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And the reason why this
is such a critical point
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is because you know, ever since
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I've started
working as a pastor.
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I've realized that
the number one issue
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that I have found.
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Maybe there's
another season pastor
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that's been working that
has a lot more experience.
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Maybe, I haven't tapped
into that person's insight,
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but at least right now
where I'm at in my ministry,
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I see that the number one issue,
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99.9% of the
issues in my churches,
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I see to be a home issue, amen.
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That somehow is transferred
into the board meetings, amen.
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That has transferred
into the committee meetings.
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That has
transferred into the different,
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you know, things
that we do at church.
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And that's what I
believe that if we understand
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the science of the
home, if we understand
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how to get our homes
on fire for the Lord.
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I think the whole--
getting our church on fire
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is just kind of the
product, the second product
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of that initial plan.
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So I want to invite you to open
your Bibles to Revelation 12.
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Because
Revelation 12, of course,
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there's always--
the Bible has good news.
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But the good news is only
as good as the bad news is bad.
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In the Revelation 12,
what we see is that the Bible
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is kind of unveiling,
revealing, exposing an enemy
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that is trying to
attack not only the church,
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but fundamentally that
is attacking our homes.
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And in Revelation 12,
when you're in Revelation 12,
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say a loud amen, please. Amen.
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Revelation 12 beginning in
verse 17, very popular text.
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The Bible tells us the dragon
was enraged with the women.
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By the way the
subtitle of preparing
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your home for the second coming.
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This is part one by the way.
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The subtitle for this would be,
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when the dragon
knocks on your door, okay.
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It sounds like a
horror flick, but isn't, amen.
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Verse 17, "And
the dragon was enraged
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with the woman,
and he went to make war
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with the rest of her offspring,
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who keep the commandments of God
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and have the
testimony of Jesus Christ."
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The Bible tells
us in Revelation 12,
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that the dragon who if you
read earlier in Revelation 12.
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It is identified
as that old serpents
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called the devil and
Satan is enraged with the woman.
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Now Bible
students, what does the woman
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represent in Bible prophecy?
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The church. So the
dragon is angry at the church,
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because he's
angry at the church,
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he wants to attack the church.
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Now let me ask
you this question.
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When you consider the
church, what is the church?
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What is the church made up of?
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They're made of
people. You guys are very good.
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You guys are good
bunch this morning.
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The church is made up of people,
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but generally speaking,
if you notice the people
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that come into your church
they--at times not always,
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but at times they come in units.
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Have you noticed that?
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Sometimes they come
in units not always,
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'cause sometimes some people
get there earlier than others,
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but that's a whole
another seminar for another day,
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getting to church on time.
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I'm gonna resist the temptation
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of deviating
from my presentation.
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So when you look at
church and when you see people
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coming into the Sabbath
school program etcetera.
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You see them
coming in by units, yeah.
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What do we
normally call these units?
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We call them families, right.
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And these families usually spend
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the bulk amount of
time together where?
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At home. Yeah, in a house,
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which if you
actually study carefully
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what the Bible
teaches, it's actually
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a little church, amen.
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That's why the
father or the husband
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is referred to as the priest.
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Now where do priest
usually hang out at?
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They hang out in
sanctuaries, right?
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They hang out in temples.
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They hang out in tabernacles.
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So if the father or the husband
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is called the
priest of the home,
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well, then that must mean that
the home is really a sanctuary.
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The home really is a tabernacle.
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The home really is a temple.
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But let me ask you a question?
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How many of us treat
our homes like a sanctuary?
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How many of us treat
our homes like a temple?
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How many of us treat
our home like a tabernacle?
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Not really, right.
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We usually-- we rarely consider
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our homes being a place
of sacred and holiness, yeah.
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I think this is
the fundamental issue
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that we're
having in having issues
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and problems in our church.
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We need to
rediscover what the home is.
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In fact some
secular, interesting,
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secular
historians have considered
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that when they have investigated
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some of the--the worst
epochs of earth's history.
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When they've seen the
disintegration of culture
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and
disintegration of civilization,
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they've actually tied that to
the disintegration of the home.
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So what they've
seen, they've shown these
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made connections to
some of the worst times,
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some of the worst
eras in earth's history.
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And they've seen that the reason
why it's been a negative outflow
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or negative manifestation
or negative expression
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is because all of that
was rooted into the home.
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The Bible tells
us in Revelation 12,
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that the dragon is
trying to attack the church.
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But ladies and gentlemen,
we have just identified
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that the church is
nothing more than people
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who come in by units.
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Yeah, that we call
families that spend
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the bulk of their time at home.
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So if the devil is
gonna do a successful job
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in attacking the
church or the woman
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which unfortunately
he's doing a pretty good job.
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He's gonna do so--
not so much bringing
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his weaponry, all of his bullets
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and all of his
grenades at church, amen.
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He's gonna focus
primarily on bringing
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his grenades in the
home, because if he can conquer
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your home ladies and gentlemen,
he conquers the church.
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So that's why we
need to be more vigilant
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when we come home than
when we actually go to church.
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And that's where I
believe, we need to rediscover
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and we need to really
take into consideration
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where the
spirituality and what condition
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our homes are in.
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In Revelation 12,
earlier in the chapter,
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the dragon was trying to
take out Jesus at His birth,
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if you read carefully.
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But of course,
he was unsuccessful.
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And when you look at the
earthly ministry of Christ,
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you always see the dragon
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trying to take Jesus
out in different scenarios.
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At His birth, he tried
through Herod, unsuccessful.
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He tried again in the
wilderness, unsuccessful.
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And I like to think
that the dragon was crouching
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in the Garden of
Gethsemane as he was trying
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to discourage Christ to deviate
from the plan of salvation.
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And the Bible
tells us in Revelation 12
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that the man-child
was caught up to heaven.
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And of course, that's
referring to the resurrection.
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So the dragon was unsuccessful
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in taking out
Jesus in Revelation 12.
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So the dragon now has
shifted his target from Christ,
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because now he's no longer
capable of attacking Christ
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to attacking the
object of God's affection.
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And that of course, is
none other than the church.
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We're told that the
church is God's appointed agency
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for the salvation of souls.
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We're told that the church
is the most important community
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that God
regards on planet earth.
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So obviously the devil
is going to try to attach
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that which is in
Christ's consideration,
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the most important
group of individuals.
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The devil is not going to
knock on your door and saying,
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"Hello I'm the devil.
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I'm here to take you out."
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That would be kind of
little bit obvious, no.
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The Bible tells us
that the devil is cunning,
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yeah, he's clever.
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So he's not gonna
come to you as an enemy.
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He's going to
masquerade himself as a friend.
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And unfortunately,
I see that the devil
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has been a very, very effective
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in masquerading
himself as a friend.
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You see, when you look
at the dragon's tactics
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throughout earth's history.
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During the dark ages
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how was it that the
dragon attacked the church?
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Persecution. We read so many
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different accounts
of many, many martyrs
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that were burnt at the stake.
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Many, many martyrs that suffered
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through the pains
of the wracks, right.
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In a different
torture instruments
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that were being used
to put away the heretics.
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So the dragon
the way that he dealt
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with that is he attacked
the church from the outside.
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But he realized
that there was a problem.
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Because for every martyr
that he would assassinate,
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10 martyrs were being revived.
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In fact, I think it's
a story of John Calvin,
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I forget the
details where he literally--
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he was probably
12 or 13 years old.
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I forget my details,
don't quote me on that.
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He was probably a little boy.
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When he was witnessing
the death of a martyr,
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who was burned at the stake.
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And it was that experience
that actually launched
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John Calvin's
inspiration to begin the work,
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continues the work of reform.
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So the dragon's
like, wait a second,
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this is not working out.
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We're attacking the
church from the outside
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and they're only
multiplying faster.
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So the dragon had to shift
gears from attacking the church
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from the outside,
from now attacking
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the church from the inside.
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And I believe that
he's even shifted again.
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He says, "No, no, no
this is not as effective."
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We shouldn't be attacking
the church in the sanctuary.
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We shouldn't be attacking
the church there in potluck.
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We shouldn't be attacking
the church in the pulpit.
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We need to attack the
church when the church is,
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when they have their guard down.
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And when does that usually
happen ladies and gentlemen?
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When we're at church?
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No, that usually
happens when we're at home.
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How many of you remember
the story of the Trojans?
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The Battle of Troy.
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If you remember
carefully and of course,
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there's many different versions
and variations of the story,
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but
traditionally that the Greeks
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were trying to take over
the city of Troy for 10 years,
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you know, 10 years
plus, unsuccessful.
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So finally, what
did they do in order
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to take over the city of Troy?
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They've built a wooden
horse, right, the Trojan Horse.
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And of course,
this is a common phrase
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used for a different gimmicks
00:21:57.75\00:21:59.66
and different
little trickery schemes.
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But the Trojan
Horse legend, of course,
00:22:01.81\00:22:04.41
is known for this
big giant wooden horse
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that was
constructed by the Greeks
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and inside the Trojan Horse
00:22:09.73\00:22:13.07
there was about
30 to 40 soldiers.
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And there was about two or three
in the part of the mouth, right.
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And as this--this
horse was kind of passing
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the gates to the city of Troy.
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It was supposed
to be a gift, right.
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Kind of like a truce,
we're at peace, right.
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Let's put all this strife behind
this and it is fascinating.
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Because when
you read that story,
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it is not until the sun
went down that the Trojans
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or the Trojan Horse
rather, finally the soldiers,
00:22:41.19\00:22:44.74
the Greek soldiers
came out of the Trojan horse
00:22:44.77\00:22:47.61
and they conquered the
city of Troy that night.
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They didn't do it
during daylight, right.
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'Cause then everybody
obviously would be alert,
00:22:52.34\00:22:54.43
they would be vigilant.
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They waited for
the sun to go down
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when everybody was
asleep and their guard was down,
00:22:58.19\00:23:00.94
because they knew that,
that is when the Trojans
00:23:00.97\00:23:03.28
would be the most
vulnerable for defeat.
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Ladies and gentlemen,
I believe that the dragon
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when he knocks on
our door, he subtly
00:23:10.36\00:23:12.69
puts Trojan
horses into our homes.
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And unfortunately,
those Trojan horses
00:23:16.19\00:23:17.62
that he introduces
into our home are not empty.
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They are filled with
many different influences.
00:23:20.43\00:23:23.97
Should I say many
different soldiers
00:23:24.00\00:23:26.36
that he has that
are there dedicated
00:23:26.39\00:23:29.41
for the spiritual
ruin of God's people.
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The dragon is
knocking on our doors
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and so many Trojan
horses are coming in
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and we don't even realize it.
00:23:35.09\00:23:36.48
And just like the
Greeks waited until sundown.
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I think one of the
biggest times that the Satan
00:23:41.58\00:23:43.64
takes advantage of God's
people is after sundown, right.
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He's not gonna attack you
on the Sabbath hours, right.
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Because that's when we have--
00:23:53.43\00:23:54.80
we have our best
clothing on, right.
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We're in the Sabbath mode.
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We're talking the right talks.
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We're saying the right things.
00:23:59.84\00:24:01.21
We're doing the right
things, some of us, amen.
00:24:01.24\00:24:04.09
Some of you go home and
do lay activities, right.
00:24:04.12\00:24:06.10
You lay down and asleep.
00:24:06.13\00:24:08.88
But the devil, the dragon waits
00:24:08.91\00:24:12.06
for you to go
home after sundown.
00:24:12.09\00:24:16.16
And if you are gentlemen,
00:24:16.19\00:24:17.67
he waits for you
to loosen your tie.
00:24:17.70\00:24:21.27
And if you're a lady, he waits
for you to take your heels off.
00:24:21.30\00:24:26.29
And that's when-- I
don't know what it is, right.
00:24:26.32\00:24:28.10
You know what's that?
00:24:28.13\00:24:29.50
Suddenly you take your--
you loosen your tie gentlemen.
00:24:29.53\00:24:32.04
All of a sudden, you
just become like, oh, right.
00:24:32.07\00:24:35.37
Become just
unkind for some reason.
00:24:35.40\00:24:38.42
And ladies, I'm not gonna say
00:24:38.45\00:24:39.82
anything about the ladies, amen.
00:24:39.85\00:24:41.22
I don't want to
get into trouble.
00:24:41.25\00:24:42.62
But you take the
heels the off and you know,
00:24:42.65\00:24:44.02
you know, that is, all right.
00:24:44.05\00:24:45.42
So the devil is
focusing primarily
00:24:45.45\00:24:48.15
when God's people
put their guard down.
00:24:48.18\00:24:53.02
And that is when arguments
take place in the home, yeah.
00:24:53.05\00:24:56.81
That is when Trojan horses
00:24:56.84\00:24:58.21
come in and it's
unsupervised by God's people.
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And ladies and gentlemen,
I believe that the reason
00:25:00.80\00:25:02.88
why our church and this is,
00:25:02.91\00:25:05.47
of course, it's
corporately speaking.
00:25:05.50\00:25:07.02
We're talking about,
you know, every church
00:25:07.05\00:25:08.42
is kind of struggling,
spiritually speaking.
00:25:08.45\00:25:10.23
It is because the devil
has foothold in our homes.
00:25:10.26\00:25:14.56
He has foothold in our
00:25:14.59\00:25:15.96
living rooms, in
the conversations.
00:25:15.99\00:25:18.82
The former Soviet
leader Nikita Khrushchev
00:25:18.85\00:25:21.26
reportedly told
the following story
00:25:21.29\00:25:22.81
to teach the need for vigilance.
00:25:22.84\00:25:25.33
At a time when there was a wave
00:25:25.36\00:25:27.19
of petty theft in
the USSR, the story goes.
00:25:27.22\00:25:30.31
The Soviet
authorities put guards
00:25:30.34\00:25:31.71
at many of the
state-owned factories.
00:25:31.74\00:25:34.45
At one of the
timber works in Leningrad
00:25:34.48\00:25:36.09
the guard knew the
workers very, very well.
00:25:36.12\00:25:38.89
The first
evening, I can't pronounce
00:25:38.92\00:25:40.57
his name very well,
Pyotr Petrovich came out
00:25:40.60\00:25:43.57
with a wheelbarrow
and, on the wheelbarrow,
00:25:43.60\00:25:46.36
a great bulky
sack with a suspicious-
00:25:46.39\00:25:48.23
looking object inside.
00:25:48.26\00:25:50.19
And the guard
approach Petrovich and he says,
00:25:50.22\00:25:52.46
"Come on, Petrovich.
00:25:52.49\00:25:54.38
What have you got there?"
00:25:54.41\00:25:56.10
Petrovich says, "Just
sawdust and shavings."
00:25:56.13\00:25:59.49
The guard said, "Come
on, I wasn't born yesterday.
00:25:59.52\00:26:01.87
Tip it out."
00:26:01.90\00:26:03.27
Petrovich did,
and out came nothing
00:26:03.30\00:26:04.90
but sawdust and shavings.
00:26:04.93\00:26:06.79
So he was allowed to put
it all back again and go home.
00:26:06.82\00:26:09.36
The same thing
happened every night all week,
00:26:09.39\00:26:12.85
and the guard was
getting extremely frustrated.
00:26:12.88\00:26:14.76
Finally his curiosity
overcame his frustration.
00:26:14.79\00:26:17.64
The guard said,
"Petrovich, I know you.
00:26:17.67\00:26:19.28
Tell me what you're
smuggling out of here,
00:26:19.31\00:26:21.39
and I'll let you go."
00:26:21.42\00:26:22.79
Petrovich
responded, "Wheelbarrows."
00:26:22.82\00:26:27.95
Clever, amen. I
believe that the devil
00:26:27.98\00:26:31.37
is smuggling into our
homes wheelbarrows, amen.
00:26:31.40\00:26:35.12
And in the process of
being vigilance for some reason,
00:26:35.15\00:26:38.53
he's caught us off guard
00:26:38.56\00:26:40.65
and that is why he's
made his way into our homes.
00:26:40.68\00:26:44.10
Is it possible that the
dragon is smuggling things
00:26:44.13\00:26:46.40
into your home
without you even knowing it?
00:26:46.43\00:26:50.54
Is it possible that
right now you're experiencing
00:26:50.57\00:26:53.17
a particular
spiritual obstacle in your life
00:26:53.20\00:26:57.48
that is keeping
you, is inhibiting you
00:26:57.51\00:26:59.15
from going to the next level?
00:26:59.18\00:27:01.39
Ladies and gentlemen,
don't attack the pastor, amen.
00:27:01.42\00:27:05.67
Don't attack the elders. Amen.
00:27:05.70\00:27:08.58
Go to your living room
00:27:08.61\00:27:10.37
and attack your
living room, amen.
00:27:10.40\00:27:13.39
We have to assess ourselves
and ask ourselves a question,
00:27:13.42\00:27:17.55
"Where are we in
our spiritual walk?"
00:27:17.58\00:27:19.87
I want to invite you to open
00:27:19.90\00:27:21.27
your Bibles to the
Book of Deuteronomy.
00:27:21.30\00:27:22.87
Deuteronomy is in
the Old Testament,
00:27:22.90\00:27:24.78
of course, and in Deuteronomy 6.
00:27:24.81\00:27:27.23
We read a fascinating text
00:27:27.26\00:27:29.46
that teaches us kind of
an interesting principle
00:27:29.49\00:27:31.47
of being
vigilant, yeah, particularly
00:27:31.50\00:27:34.48
in our homes and
in our family circles.
00:27:34.51\00:27:37.63
Deuteronomy 6 and when
you're there, please say amen.
00:27:37.66\00:27:41.97
Amen. And in verse 4,
00:27:42.00\00:27:43.37
we have the popular text that
what they call the Shema, right.
00:27:43.40\00:27:47.47
Shema Yisrael, Yehowah,
Elohainoo, Yehowah aichod.
00:27:47.50\00:27:52.17
"Hear, O Israel,
00:27:52.20\00:27:53.57
the Lord our
God, the Lord is one.
00:27:53.60\00:27:56.31
You shall love the Lord
your God with all your heart,
00:27:56.34\00:27:58.36
with all your soul and
with all your strength.
00:27:58.39\00:28:00.19
And these words
which I command you today
00:28:00.22\00:28:01.77
shall be in your heart.
00:28:01.80\00:28:03.17
You shall teach them
diligently to your children,
00:28:03.20\00:28:05.95
and shall talk of them
when you sit in your," where?
00:28:05.98\00:28:08.93
"House. When
you walk by the way,
00:28:08.96\00:28:10.62
when you lie
down, and when you rise.
00:28:10.65\00:28:12.59
You shall bind them
as a sign on your hand,
00:28:12.62\00:28:15.35
and they shall be as
frontlets between your eyes."
00:28:15.38\00:28:17.57
Notice verse 9, "You
shall write them on," where?
00:28:17.60\00:28:21.61
"The doorposts of your
house and on your gates."
00:28:21.64\00:28:26.90
Now ladies and
gentlemen, I'm not suggesting
00:28:26.93\00:28:28.49
that immediately
after this presentation
00:28:28.52\00:28:30.59
that you run over to
a Christian book store
00:28:30.62\00:28:32.61
and you get one of
those little placards
00:28:32.64\00:28:34.98
in front of your doorpost
and then all of your problems
00:28:35.01\00:28:37.32
are gonna
disintegrate, amen. Amen.
00:28:37.35\00:28:39.48
If that's what you think,
00:28:39.51\00:28:40.88
you've
misunderstood the point, amen.
00:28:40.91\00:28:42.28
This is talking
about a spiritual principle
00:28:42.31\00:28:44.14
that the
teachings of God's word,
00:28:44.17\00:28:45.70
amen--needs to be at the
front of our doorpost, yeah.
00:28:45.73\00:28:51.26
The Jews were
particularly instructed
00:28:51.29\00:28:53.17
that this is exactly
what they need to do.
00:28:53.20\00:28:54.62
In fact, you run
over to chapter 11,
00:28:54.65\00:28:56.02
you're there in chapter 6,
00:28:56.05\00:28:57.42
run over to
chapter 11 and it takes us
00:28:57.45\00:28:59.27
to the next level in verse 18.
00:28:59.30\00:29:01.23
Deuteronomy 11:18,
"Therefore, you shall
00:29:01.26\00:29:03.41
lay up lay up
these words of mine
00:29:03.44\00:29:04.81
in your heart and in your soul,
and you bind them as a sign
00:29:04.84\00:29:06.96
on your hand, they shall be
as frontlets between your eyes.
00:29:06.99\00:29:09.59
You shall teach
them to your children,
00:29:09.62\00:29:11.10
speaking of them when you
are sitting in your house,
00:29:11.13\00:29:13.81
when you walk by the way,
00:29:13.84\00:29:15.21
and when you lie
down, and when you rise.
00:29:15.24\00:29:16.61
And you shall write
them on the--" Where?
00:29:16.64\00:29:18.22
"Doorpost of your house
and on your gates," why?
00:29:18.25\00:29:22.47
"That your days and the days
of your children may be," what?
00:29:22.50\00:29:25.52
"Multiplied in the
land which the Lord
00:29:25.55\00:29:27.86
swore to your
fathers to give them,
00:29:27.89\00:29:29.90
like the days of the
heavens above the earth.
00:29:29.93\00:29:32.07
For if you carefully
keep all these commandments
00:29:32.10\00:29:34.00
which I command you to
do, to love the Lord your God,
00:29:34.03\00:29:36.44
to walk in all His ways
and to hold fast to him.
00:29:36.47\00:29:38.98
Then the Lord will drive out
00:29:39.01\00:29:40.38
all of these
nations from before you.
00:29:40.41\00:29:42.21
And you will dispossess greater
00:29:42.24\00:29:44.16
and mightier
nations than yourselves.
00:29:44.19\00:29:46.28
Every place on which
the sole of your foot treads
00:29:46.31\00:29:48.53
shall be yours
from the wilderness.
00:29:48.56\00:29:50.40
And Lebanon from the
River and the river Euphrates,
00:29:50.43\00:29:53.16
even to the western sea
shall be your territory.
00:29:53.19\00:29:55.01
No man shall be able
to stand against you,
00:29:55.04\00:29:56.76
the Lord your God
will put the dread of you
00:29:56.79\00:29:58.83
and the fear of
you upon all land
00:29:58.86\00:30:00.38
where you tread just
as he has set to you."
00:30:00.41\00:30:02.58
Isn't that fascinating?
00:30:02.61\00:30:03.98
Deuteronomy 11, God
is counseling His people.
00:30:04.01\00:30:05.98
He says listen, "Do
you want to have victory?
00:30:06.01\00:30:08.36
Do you want to
take over nations?
00:30:08.39\00:30:10.02
Do you want to
dispossess those enemies of God
00:30:10.05\00:30:13.49
and take over the lands
that God has promised you?
00:30:13.52\00:30:16.82
Notice He doesn't tell them
to go and get artillery, amen.
00:30:16.85\00:30:20.44
He doesn't tell
them to go get guns.
00:30:20.47\00:30:21.84
He doesn't go and tell them,
00:30:21.87\00:30:23.24
okay, now develop
a good art of war.
00:30:23.27\00:30:25.52
No. He simply says start, where?
00:30:25.55\00:30:29.62
Start in your house.
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He says, "Go home
teach the very things
00:30:31.87\00:30:34.88
that you believe
to your children."
00:30:34.91\00:30:36.28
And He says "put
it in your doorpost
00:30:36.31\00:30:38.47
in the front of your gates.
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If you do this, He says, "I
will dispossess the nations."
00:30:40.14\00:30:43.75
I believe that there're forces,
there're spiritual nations
00:30:43.78\00:30:46.23
that are
dominating our homes, amen.
00:30:46.26\00:30:48.15
There are
Canaanites in our homes.
00:30:48.18\00:30:50.75
There are
Jebusites in our living rooms
00:30:50.78\00:30:53.50
that need to be dispossess
00:30:53.53\00:30:54.90
and the only way we
can do this, my friends,
00:30:54.93\00:30:57.16
is if we resurrect the spirit
of spirituality in our homes.
00:30:57.19\00:31:01.63
One of those
things that we need to do
00:31:01.66\00:31:03.03
is resurrect the spirit
of family worship, amen.
00:31:03.06\00:31:06.17
By the way there's an art
00:31:06.20\00:31:07.57
that's almost
extinct these days.
00:31:07.60\00:31:09.31
And we wonder
why are young people,
00:31:09.34\00:31:11.24
when they come to
church they're, right?
00:31:11.27\00:31:14.41
Or they're texting away.
00:31:14.44\00:31:15.81
Well, the reason
why, it's very simple,
00:31:15.84\00:31:17.47
is because we're not
training them in the home.
00:31:17.50\00:31:20.26
So they come to
church, this is weird.
00:31:20.29\00:31:22.23
What is this preachy
preacher talking about?
00:31:22.26\00:31:25.05
What is all of these
holy people doing? You follow?
00:31:25.08\00:31:28.08
Where as if we train them
during the week, they come like,
00:31:28.11\00:31:30.39
"Oh, I remember
reading this on Tuesday.
00:31:30.42\00:31:32.01
Mom was reading about this.
00:31:32.04\00:31:33.73
Oh, yeah, we were just
praying for just so and so."
00:31:33.76\00:31:36.42
You follow? It's
a part of life now.
00:31:36.45\00:31:38.66
But what happens is our
young people come to church,
00:31:38.69\00:31:40.22
they're not trained and
then they act the way they act,
00:31:40.25\00:31:42.98
because they're
products of their environment,
00:31:43.01\00:31:44.67
i.e. their home.
00:31:44.70\00:31:46.07
And then we attack
them, yeah, for not living up
00:31:46.10\00:31:49.25
to an unrealistic expectation
00:31:49.28\00:31:50.78
that we have
imposed upon them. Amen.
00:31:50.81\00:31:53.44
And that's why our young people
00:31:53.47\00:31:54.87
are living the
church left and right, why,
00:31:54.90\00:31:56.92
because the home is
not what it supposed to be.
00:31:56.95\00:31:59.99
And we're told
that the home used to be
00:32:00.02\00:32:01.39
a training center. Amen.
00:32:01.42\00:32:04.59
To be learn how to
live in the home above.
00:32:04.62\00:32:08.98
And that's why God, and
that's where the devil is,
00:32:09.01\00:32:11.98
there's a war
between these two things.
00:32:12.01\00:32:14.03
And when you
read about Exodus 12,
00:32:14.06\00:32:15.71
won't go there
for the sake of time.
00:32:15.74\00:32:17.11
But when you read
Exodus 12, during the plagues,
00:32:17.14\00:32:19.27
you remember the last plague?
00:32:19.30\00:32:20.94
What was the last plague about?
00:32:20.97\00:32:23.79
It was death of
the firstborn, yeah.
00:32:23.82\00:32:25.81
How are God's people going
to be spare from this plague?
00:32:25.84\00:32:29.63
They have to get a lamb.
They have to get the blood.
00:32:29.66\00:32:32.87
And where did they
have to apply the blood,
00:32:32.90\00:32:34.68
ladies and gentlemen?
00:32:34.71\00:32:36.21
Doorpost of
where? Of their homes.
00:32:36.24\00:32:39.03
Deuteronomy, we see
that the word of God
00:32:39.06\00:32:40.60
needs to be at the
doorpost of our homes.
00:32:40.63\00:32:42.90
Number two, we see that
the Book of Exodus tells us
00:32:42.93\00:32:44.91
that the blood of
the lamb needs to be
00:32:44.94\00:32:46.49
dripping from our homes, amen.
00:32:46.52\00:32:49.30
And the Bible tells
us that the destroyer
00:32:49.33\00:32:51.66
would pass over that home.
00:32:51.69\00:32:54.37
I think you're making
the applications already.
00:32:54.40\00:32:55.83
I don't even need to do it.
00:32:55.86\00:32:57.30
In other words, when
our homes are founded
00:32:57.33\00:32:59.20
upon the word of God, amen.
00:32:59.23\00:33:00.98
And when our homes
are washed in the blood?
00:33:01.01\00:33:04.34
God is going to pass over
the plagues upon our homes.
00:33:04.37\00:33:08.88
Remember the
question is preparation.
00:33:08.91\00:33:11.74
How do we prepare our homes
for the second coming of Christ?
00:33:11.77\00:33:14.31
Deuteronomy and Exodus teach us
00:33:14.34\00:33:16.84
some of the
foundational principles.
00:33:16.87\00:33:18.65
Our homes need to be the place
00:33:18.68\00:33:20.97
where the word of God
is meditated upon, amen.
00:33:21.00\00:33:24.59
Is read out loud amongst
the presence of family members.
00:33:24.62\00:33:27.99
And the blood of
Jesus needs to be
00:33:28.02\00:33:30.29
magnified and
exalted in our homes.
00:33:30.32\00:33:32.45
When the devil
comes, when the dragon comes
00:33:32.48\00:33:34.33
knocking on the
door and he sees blood
00:33:34.36\00:33:37.43
and he sees the word
of God, what do you think,
00:33:37.46\00:33:39.25
he's gonna do,
ladies and gentlemen? Run.
00:33:39.28\00:33:40.82
It's like you know what?
00:33:40.85\00:33:42.22
I think I got the
wrong address, let me.
00:33:42.25\00:33:43.62
If the home is full
of the Spirit of God,
00:33:47.07\00:33:50.42
if the home is
full of reverence,
00:33:50.45\00:33:53.51
the church will be
full of all these things.
00:33:53.54\00:33:55.83
There's a lot talk about
reverence in the church, right?
00:33:55.86\00:33:58.53
It's very simple.
00:33:58.56\00:33:59.93
The reason why there is
irreverence in the church
00:33:59.96\00:34:01.49
is because there is
irreverence in the home, right?
00:34:01.52\00:34:06.17
The reason why is because
we have not trained ourselves
00:34:06.20\00:34:08.96
to be in the company of angels.
00:34:08.99\00:34:11.44
We don't know how to
behave in the midst of holiness,
00:34:11.47\00:34:14.67
hence when we come to church
we bring the vulgarity, yeah,
00:34:14.70\00:34:18.36
and we bring the earthliness
into the church setting
00:34:18.39\00:34:20.57
and that's why it's irreverent.
00:34:20.60\00:34:22.10
So many times we attack
00:34:22.13\00:34:23.50
and we try to create reverence
in the church when really--
00:34:23.53\00:34:25.94
Obviously we need to do the
best that we can to do that.
00:34:25.97\00:34:27.60
But the point is that, it
doesn't start in the church,
00:34:27.63\00:34:30.40
it starts in the home and
that's what we need to do.
00:34:30.43\00:34:32.71
We need to
reconsider our approaches
00:34:32.74\00:34:34.62
when we deal with these things.
00:34:34.65\00:34:36.02
How many of you
remember the encounter
00:34:36.05\00:34:37.52
that Moses had
with the God of Israel,
00:34:37.55\00:34:39.46
out in the desert?
00:34:39.49\00:34:40.87
The burning bush, remember that?
00:34:40.90\00:34:43.44
What did the burning bush say?
00:34:43.47\00:34:46.41
Take the sandals
off of your feet, why?
00:34:46.44\00:34:50.27
Because where you're
standing is holy ground.
00:34:50.30\00:34:53.37
Now let me ask you a
question. Where was Moses?
00:34:53.40\00:34:57.08
Was Moses at the burning
bush, Christian fellowship?
00:34:57.11\00:35:02.84
You follow? Was that a church?
00:35:02.87\00:35:05.19
Was he at camp meeting? No.
00:35:05.22\00:35:08.97
He was literally out
in the middle of nowhere,
00:35:09.00\00:35:11.21
but the reason why God
told him to take his sandals off
00:35:11.24\00:35:13.98
is because the presence
of God made that ground holy.
00:35:14.01\00:35:20.55
Ladies and gentlemen,
what I'm submitting to you
00:35:20.58\00:35:22.01
this day is that I believe
00:35:22.04\00:35:23.85
that we need to take
our sandals off of our feet
00:35:23.88\00:35:26.99
when we enter into our homes.
00:35:27.02\00:35:28.92
Now we had to do
that literally speaking
00:35:28.95\00:35:30.32
when I grew up, so
it's not that difficult,
00:35:30.35\00:35:32.51
because we always
used to play in the mud.
00:35:32.54\00:35:34.00
And my Mom said, "No,
no, you are not walking
00:35:34.03\00:35:36.23
in this house with
that stuff in here, right?
00:35:36.26\00:35:39.44
You guys, how many of
you, am I the only one?
00:35:39.47\00:35:41.52
'Cause we used to
play a lot of football,
00:35:41.55\00:35:42.92
we used to play a lot of sports.
00:35:42.95\00:35:44.32
My Mom's like, "No, no, no,
no, take your shoes off," right.
00:35:44.35\00:35:46.36
Spiritually speaking, we
need to do the same things.
00:35:46.39\00:35:48.89
Because life unfortunately
in the process of life
00:35:48.92\00:35:51.73
while we're wearing
our spiritual shoes,
00:35:51.76\00:35:53.35
we tend to pick up
some of the earthliness
00:35:53.38\00:35:55.75
in the soles of our feet, right.
00:35:55.78\00:35:58.53
And when we come into our homes,
00:35:58.56\00:35:59.93
we bring the
earthliness into the home
00:35:59.96\00:36:01.61
rather than taking
our shoes obviously.
00:36:01.64\00:36:03.09
Woo, woo, this is the
sanctuary of the home.
00:36:03.12\00:36:05.83
This is holy ground.
00:36:05.86\00:36:08.24
And we need to treat
this place with reverence.
00:36:08.27\00:36:10.68
And ladies and gentlemen,
that's where I believe
00:36:10.71\00:36:12.30
the devil is
being so successful.
00:36:12.33\00:36:16.16
The presence of
royalty changes the atmosphere.
00:36:16.19\00:36:20.02
Is it possible we have
lost this presence in our home?
00:36:20.05\00:36:23.47
The same one who said,
take your shoes off to Moses
00:36:23.50\00:36:25.56
is asking us today
to do the same. Amen.
00:36:25.59\00:36:28.67
And I believe that
if we take our shoes off
00:36:28.70\00:36:30.30
spiritually speaking, we would
be more respectful in the home.
00:36:30.33\00:36:33.90
There will be
more love in the home.
00:36:33.93\00:36:35.63
There will be
more grace in the home.
00:36:35.66\00:36:37.47
It would be a
little heaven on earth.
00:36:37.50\00:36:38.87
And when we have visitors, wow,
they wouldn't want to leave.
00:36:38.90\00:36:42.82
I became acquainted with
the teachings of the Bible,
00:36:42.85\00:36:46.42
I became a Christian,
00:36:46.45\00:36:47.82
I became a Seventh
day Adventist Christian,
00:36:47.85\00:36:49.76
because of somebody's home.
00:36:49.79\00:36:52.40
It wasn't in
evangelistic campaign,
00:36:52.43\00:36:54.08
it wasn't a fancy evangelist,
it wasn't a great preacher,
00:36:54.11\00:36:56.74
it wasn't a wonderful
camp meeting such as this.
00:36:56.77\00:36:59.68
It was simply a father
who took his experience
00:36:59.71\00:37:04.43
with God very seriously
00:37:04.46\00:37:06.77
and who dedicated a lot of time
out of his very busy schedule,
00:37:06.80\00:37:10.23
father of five children
to teach me, my two brothers,
00:37:10.26\00:37:13.80
my brother's two
roommates and another friend.
00:37:13.83\00:37:18.59
And because of the home circle,
00:37:18.62\00:37:20.30
because as I
walked into that home,
00:37:20.33\00:37:21.91
I felt like I was
walking into another planet.
00:37:21.94\00:37:24.96
I said, "Where did
these people come from?"
00:37:24.99\00:37:28.04
You know, like,
"Who are these people?"
00:37:28.07\00:37:30.24
I remember the first
time we visited them.
00:37:30.27\00:37:31.64
We had our first
vegetarian meal in my life.
00:37:31.67\00:37:34.01
And it was amazing.
00:37:34.04\00:37:35.41
I always thought
vegetarian basically was just,
00:37:35.44\00:37:36.96
you know, grass
and water, you know.
00:37:36.99\00:37:40.81
And I was like,
"Wow, this food is amazing.
00:37:40.84\00:37:43.14
Vegetarian have it all
right. It's not that difficult."
00:37:43.17\00:37:45.63
You know, I grew up
very carnivorous, you know.
00:37:45.66\00:37:47.64
In my home anything
that moved you, it was lunch.
00:37:47.67\00:37:51.26
You know, throw
out in the microwave.
00:37:51.29\00:37:52.70
What is it? Don't
ask just eat it, right.
00:37:52.73\00:37:55.52
So when I went to this home,
it was just so--it was just--
00:37:55.55\00:37:58.55
there was an aura,
00:37:58.58\00:37:59.95
there was an
atmosphere of peace in this home
00:37:59.98\00:38:02.63
and it was a very
committed family of God.
00:38:02.66\00:38:06.11
And they were
literally modeling,
00:38:06.14\00:38:08.79
how to be a Christian
without them even realizing it.
00:38:08.82\00:38:13.79
And out of that home.
00:38:13.82\00:38:15.19
By the way, I went to--
00:38:15.22\00:38:16.96
I call it the
institute of evangelism,
00:38:16.99\00:38:21.06
The Johnson
Institute of Evangelism.
00:38:21.09\00:38:23.37
It's the family
that taught me the Bible,
00:38:23.40\00:38:25.31
their names is Johnsons,
Mike and Sherrylynn Johnson,
00:38:25.34\00:38:28.33
they live in
Washington state now.
00:38:28.36\00:38:30.47
And as they
taught me the scriptures
00:38:30.50\00:38:32.10
that was my
introduction to the word of God,
00:38:32.13\00:38:34.20
that was my seminary, amen.
00:38:34.23\00:38:36.12
It was at dinner
table and there we were,
00:38:36.15\00:38:38.50
there were only
six students though,
00:38:38.53\00:38:39.90
so the tuition was pretty
low, but that's all right.
00:38:39.93\00:38:42.21
So there were six of us,
and we had Bible studies.
00:38:42.24\00:38:46.11
And I observe them the
way they talked to each other,
00:38:46.14\00:38:49.14
I observe their recreation,
00:38:49.17\00:38:53.82
I observe their humor,
00:38:53.85\00:38:57.20
I observe at the
things that they laughed at,
00:38:57.23\00:38:59.38
I observe at the
things that they said.
00:38:59.41\00:39:01.43
All of this was education to me
00:39:01.46\00:39:03.25
as what it means
to be a Christian.
00:39:03.28\00:39:06.05
And on top of
that they taught me
00:39:06.08\00:39:07.45
about the most
incredible book on the planet
00:39:07.48\00:39:08.85
which is the Bible.
00:39:08.88\00:39:10.90
And we would have Bible
studies 4, 5 times a week.
00:39:10.93\00:39:14.15
Not for 30, 40
minutes, for like 3, 4 hours.
00:39:14.18\00:39:17.21
Our Bibles says--
you know, they teach us,
00:39:17.24\00:39:18.87
you know, I went
00:39:18.90\00:39:20.27
to the Mission
College of Evangelism
00:39:20.30\00:39:21.67
directed by Louis Torres.
00:39:21.70\00:39:23.07
And we're taught, you know,
when you go to somebody's home,
00:39:23.10\00:39:24.47
you know, prepare
something around 10, 15 verses,
00:39:24.50\00:39:26.02
don't over do it, 'cause,
you know, the time you spend.
00:39:26.05\00:39:27.86
No, we didn't do none of that.
00:39:27.89\00:39:29.26
Okay, we--my teacher
went 35, 40 Bible text
00:39:29.29\00:39:33.82
and we literally just emerged
immersed ourselves in the word.
00:39:33.85\00:39:38.04
After 4, 5
months, 6 young people,
00:39:38.07\00:39:43.05
who had very, very
little connections with God
00:39:43.08\00:39:46.13
were baptize into the
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
00:39:46.16\00:39:48.91
Why? Because there was
a home that was living up
00:39:48.94\00:39:53.38
to the
expectation and the standard.
00:39:53.41\00:39:56.12
This presentation has
a very, very personal--
00:39:56.15\00:39:59.06
I have very, very
emotional connections
00:39:59.09\00:40:00.84
and appreciation to it,
00:40:00.87\00:40:02.24
because I am a product
00:40:02.27\00:40:03.65
of what I'd like to
call home evangelism.
00:40:03.68\00:40:06.50
Where somebody open their home,
00:40:06.53\00:40:08.36
not only did they
teaches the theory of truth,
00:40:08.39\00:40:10.28
they exemplified the truth,
00:40:10.31\00:40:13.17
but they also
loved us, accepted us,
00:40:13.20\00:40:15.48
and they basically
treated us as one of their own.
00:40:15.51\00:40:19.16
And when you look at
some of the fastest growing--
00:40:19.19\00:40:22.63
some countries where the--
00:40:22.66\00:40:24.03
where the church
is growing the fastest
00:40:24.06\00:40:25.43
Africa, South America and
some third world countries.
00:40:25.46\00:40:28.57
It is fascinating
that the fundamental method
00:40:28.60\00:40:31.16
of evangelism is not necessarily
a 30 day prophecy seminar,
00:40:31.19\00:40:36.44
did you know that?
00:40:36.47\00:40:37.93
It's actually a living room.
00:40:37.96\00:40:42.73
There was about 5 or 6
people, a guitar, the Bible,
00:40:42.76\00:40:47.83
and of course, a
lot of food, amen.
00:40:47.86\00:40:49.86
That always melts the eyes.
00:40:49.89\00:40:52.20
When you look at the
fact where the church
00:40:52.23\00:40:54.01
is growing the
fastest, ladies and gentlemen,
00:40:54.04\00:40:56.20
it is because
Christians are using their homes
00:40:56.23\00:41:00.19
as a vehicle to shed the light.
00:41:00.22\00:41:03.47
And I believe we need
to develop or resurrect
00:41:03.50\00:41:06.88
this concept of the home
circle in our day and age.
00:41:06.91\00:41:11.75
What is it that God
wants you to do in your home?
00:41:11.78\00:41:15.72
Are you the priest of your home?
00:41:15.75\00:41:18.08
What are the Trojan horses
00:41:18.11\00:41:19.48
that the devil is
introducing into your house?
00:41:19.51\00:41:23.57
There are many,
many different ways
00:41:23.60\00:41:24.97
that the dragon
can get into our homes.
00:41:25.00\00:41:26.37
I remember, listen to a story.
00:41:26.40\00:41:27.77
I was at a ministerial retreat
00:41:27.80\00:41:29.17
and one of the
ministers was actually sharing
00:41:29.20\00:41:31.38
about a case with his son.
00:41:31.41\00:41:33.43
His son, of course,
born and raise in the church,
00:41:33.46\00:41:35.12
went through Sabbath school,
pathfinders, you name it.
00:41:35.15\00:41:37.36
And all of the
sudden, out of the blue
00:41:37.39\00:41:39.41
the son started
having insane nightmares.
00:41:39.44\00:41:43.36
And the father, the pastor says,
00:41:43.39\00:41:44.89
you know, we don't
watch any horror movies.
00:41:44.92\00:41:48.76
We're not involved
in none of these things,
00:41:48.79\00:41:50.53
why are you having nightmares?
00:41:50.56\00:41:52.46
But then after
dialoging with his son,
00:41:52.49\00:41:55.02
he finally
discovered, he finally realized
00:41:55.05\00:41:56.96
that his son had a friend in
school that lends him a book.
00:41:56.99\00:42:03.86
And this book was kind
of like, book about magic,
00:42:03.89\00:42:06.44
you know, book about
different things, right.
00:42:06.47\00:42:10.01
And his son started reading it,
00:42:10.04\00:42:13.81
didn't think much of it
00:42:13.84\00:42:15.21
and just kind of
throw it in his closet.
00:42:15.24\00:42:18.39
And the title of the
book was "Harry Potter."
00:42:18.42\00:42:23.76
And the father
says, you mean to tell me,
00:42:23.79\00:42:25.16
you've read Harry--you've
been reading "Harry Potter?"
00:42:25.19\00:42:26.83
He says, "Well,
yeah, just a little bit."
00:42:26.86\00:42:28.23
See the son didn't
really know about it,
00:42:28.26\00:42:29.63
but the father knew.
00:42:29.66\00:42:31.03
He says, "Where is that
book?" It's in the closet.
00:42:31.06\00:42:32.49
That mean you have the book
in this house right now? Yes.
00:42:32.52\00:42:35.64
So the father
went into the closet,
00:42:35.67\00:42:38.25
found the book and
immediately destroyed it.
00:42:38.28\00:42:42.82
That was the end
of the nightmares,
00:42:42.85\00:42:44.22
ladies and gentlemen.
00:42:44.25\00:42:45.62
Father realized there was
a Trojan horse in the house,
00:42:45.65\00:42:48.18
he did something
about it, amen. Amen.
00:42:48.21\00:42:51.09
And because of that there
was a restoration in the house.
00:42:51.12\00:42:54.80
I remember when I
went to South America,
00:42:54.83\00:42:56.42
the first time I went to
do an evangelistic campaign.
00:42:56.45\00:42:58.47
We went to visit a
family with a pastor.
00:42:58.50\00:43:00.50
And the pastor is down
there visiting machines, amen.
00:43:00.53\00:43:03.97
They start like 5 in the
morning and finish up midnight.
00:43:04.00\00:43:06.27
Wow, it's incredible. Every time
I go down there, I'm amazed.
00:43:06.30\00:43:09.65
We're visiting a
family and the pastor,
00:43:09.68\00:43:11.35
after the visit he tells
me that this family is related
00:43:11.38\00:43:13.56
to another family that underwent
a very tragic experience.
00:43:13.59\00:43:18.24
This family,
father, elder in the church,
00:43:18.27\00:43:20.63
mother, deaconess,
heavily involved in the church.
00:43:20.66\00:43:22.70
This--they had one child.
00:43:22.73\00:43:24.42
And the child at one
particular point in his life
00:43:24.45\00:43:28.47
probably 7, 8, 9 years
old got a hold of a game,
00:43:28.50\00:43:34.79
got a hold of a board game.
00:43:34.82\00:43:37.63
You may have heard of it.
00:43:37.66\00:43:39.03
It's called the VG board.
00:43:39.06\00:43:41.99
Parents totally oblivious with.
00:43:42.02\00:43:44.43
The son started
messing around with it,
00:43:44.46\00:43:45.83
started playing with it.
00:43:45.86\00:43:48.54
And all of the sudden,
00:43:48.57\00:43:49.94
the board started
giving the son messages,
00:43:49.97\00:43:53.19
telling him to
do certain things.
00:43:53.22\00:43:55.50
One of the things
that the board told him
00:43:55.53\00:43:56.90
to do was to hang himself.
00:43:56.93\00:43:59.92
And one particular evening
00:43:59.95\00:44:02.73
the mother was
finishing supper preparations
00:44:02.76\00:44:06.00
and she called out the
name of the son. No answer.
00:44:06.03\00:44:09.80
She called out the
name of the son. No answer.
00:44:09.83\00:44:12.83
So she finally worked
her way into the room.
00:44:12.86\00:44:15.06
She walked into the room
and she didn't see anything.
00:44:15.09\00:44:18.13
She said, "Well, where is he?"
00:44:18.16\00:44:19.53
She went to the
bathroom. Nothing.
00:44:19.56\00:44:20.93
She went back into
the room just to make sure
00:44:20.96\00:44:22.33
that she wasn't confused.
00:44:22.36\00:44:24.22
And she looked
around and she noticed that
00:44:24.25\00:44:25.82
the closet door
was a little bit open
00:44:25.85\00:44:27.53
but not completely.
00:44:27.56\00:44:28.98
She finally opens the closet
00:44:29.01\00:44:30.43
and what she sees is she
sees her 7, 8, 9 year old son
00:44:30.46\00:44:36.05
hanging on a belt in the closet.
00:44:36.08\00:44:41.10
The mother like any
normal person of course,
00:44:41.13\00:44:44.01
would literally
loose their mind, panic,
00:44:44.04\00:44:46.56
she panic, she yelled.
00:44:46.59\00:44:47.98
She immediately went
to the legs of the son
00:44:48.01\00:44:50.90
and she pulled him up to undo
the pressure, undid the belt.
00:44:50.93\00:44:55.16
Finally she called her husband,
00:44:55.19\00:44:56.56
she called the
pastors, she called everybody
00:44:56.59\00:44:58.57
and they finally were
able to get him breathing.
00:44:58.60\00:45:02.35
They took him to the
hospital. They waited.
00:45:02.38\00:45:05.34
The doctors came
out and they said,
00:45:05.37\00:45:07.32
"We have good
news and very bad news.
00:45:07.35\00:45:09.50
The good news is that
your son is gonna survive,
00:45:09.53\00:45:12.14
he's gonna be all right.
00:45:12.17\00:45:13.57
The bad news is that
your son spends so much time
00:45:13.60\00:45:16.40
hanging that it kept oxygen
from going into his brain.
00:45:16.43\00:45:21.30
Your son will never be the same.
00:45:21.33\00:45:23.37
Your son is going to
be basically handicapped.
00:45:23.40\00:45:27.75
And the son, he's
probably in his 20s right now
00:45:27.78\00:45:30.56
has never been the same.
00:45:30.59\00:45:32.52
Tied to a wheelchair.
00:45:32.55\00:45:34.71
Father elder,
mother deaconess, why?
00:45:34.74\00:45:37.58
Because the devil introduced
a Trojan horse into the home,
00:45:37.61\00:45:40.70
yeah, it was
unobserved by the parents.
00:45:40.73\00:45:45.56
It got somehow access
00:45:45.59\00:45:46.96
into a very integral
part of the child's life
00:45:46.99\00:45:50.97
and it has
impacted the child forever.
00:45:51.00\00:45:55.44
What are the Trojan
horses that God is telling you
00:45:55.47\00:45:58.66
to located and to destroy?
00:45:58.69\00:46:02.71
What are the Trojan horses that
you have in your home today?
00:46:02.74\00:46:06.19
I remember before
I became a Christian,
00:46:06.22\00:46:07.59
me and my brother
Jeffery would listen,
00:46:07.62\00:46:09.10
oh, at night, we
couldn't sleep at night.
00:46:09.13\00:46:11.39
We would toss and
turn, so what did we do.
00:46:11.42\00:46:13.83
Instead of putting
John Lomacang, amen.
00:46:13.86\00:46:18.81
We will put other stuff and
I won't even name the content.
00:46:18.84\00:46:23.31
All throughout the night, we
put the music on repeat, yeah,
00:46:23.34\00:46:25.95
and then we would
wakeup angry at each other.
00:46:25.98\00:46:28.41
Is there a reason why?
00:46:28.44\00:46:29.81
Well, of course, 'cause you're
feeding junk into your brain
00:46:29.84\00:46:32.14
all throughout the night
00:46:32.17\00:46:33.54
and you're awaking
up basically a monster,
00:46:33.57\00:46:36.03
a Trojan horse in my experience.
00:46:36.06\00:46:39.19
You know, even
in our recreation,
00:46:39.22\00:46:41.26
even in our entertainments,
00:46:41.29\00:46:43.51
if we would do a careful
analysis of our DVD collections,
00:46:43.54\00:46:47.94
what would be the content,
00:46:47.97\00:46:49.72
what would be the philosophies
00:46:49.75\00:46:51.12
that our DVDs are
portraying or communicating?
00:46:51.15\00:46:53.48
Did you know that
DVDs are philosophies?
00:46:53.51\00:46:54.88
Did you know that?
Every film is a philosophy.
00:46:54.91\00:46:57.84
And I'm not here to
say every film is bad,
00:46:57.87\00:46:59.77
I'm not here to, you
know, be a TV police officer,
00:46:59.80\00:47:02.97
that's not my purpose.
00:47:03.00\00:47:04.57
I'm simply here to address
a very, very important factor
00:47:04.60\00:47:08.88
that we have maybe lot sight of
00:47:08.91\00:47:11.01
and that is an
assessments of what contents
00:47:11.04\00:47:15.10
do we posses in
our homes that maybe
00:47:15.13\00:47:17.35
or completely out of line with
the message of Christ. Amen.
00:47:17.38\00:47:24.31
And our young
people video games.
00:47:24.34\00:47:25.81
Now they don't watch
movies, they play video games,
00:47:25.84\00:47:27.34
'cause you could
be part of the movie.
00:47:27.37\00:47:29.72
When you play video games,
you're in the movie, right.
00:47:29.75\00:47:32.13
Have you notice
that in our generation,
00:47:32.16\00:47:33.76
our young people
can't even really have
00:47:33.79\00:47:35.18
a decent
conversation with each other.
00:47:35.21\00:47:37.74
The reason why is
because they're so immerse
00:47:37.77\00:47:40.69
into fantasies, so
immerse into video games
00:47:40.72\00:47:43.29
that they're basically,
the video game continues
00:47:43.32\00:47:45.82
even when they
turned the video game off.
00:47:45.85\00:47:48.05
They're still
living in a fantasy world
00:47:48.08\00:47:49.71
and it's so difficult to have
00:47:49.74\00:47:51.11
a meaningful
intelligent conversation
00:47:51.14\00:47:53.75
with our young
people today. Simply why?
00:47:53.78\00:47:55.84
Because they have
overindulged themselves
00:47:55.87\00:48:00.84
in unrealistic things, yeah,
00:48:00.87\00:48:03.60
and it has literally
swamped and it has taken out
00:48:03.63\00:48:07.92
all the spirituality that
should be in there instead.
00:48:07.95\00:48:10.63
Games like Resident
Evil, which is a bestseller.
00:48:10.66\00:48:13.78
Games like Doom,
where it's basically
00:48:13.81\00:48:15.96
you're
literally carrying weapons
00:48:15.99\00:48:17.53
and you're shooting people.
00:48:17.57\00:48:18.94
And then we wonder
why our high school kids
00:48:18.97\00:48:21.13
go to school with real guns.
00:48:21.16\00:48:23.54
And actually play out that
which they're playing at home.
00:48:23.57\00:48:27.24
Again, a Trojan
horse that we actually buy,
00:48:27.27\00:48:31.86
we don't even--it's not
something that it comes to us,
00:48:31.89\00:48:35.06
it's actually
something that we go to it
00:48:35.09\00:48:37.42
and at times
we're willing to pay.
00:48:37.45\00:48:38.88
All I'm saying is that we need
00:48:38.91\00:48:40.28
to really be
careful at the things.
00:48:40.31\00:48:41.68
And it's not--
sometimes it's not even things,
00:48:41.71\00:48:43.15
sometimes its attitudes.
00:48:43.18\00:48:45.32
What Trojan horse attitudes
are you brining into your home?
00:48:45.35\00:48:47.37
Maybe it's just a bad
attitude. Maybe it's gossip.
00:48:47.40\00:48:50.80
Maybe after church,
you're coming to your homes
00:48:50.83\00:48:52.38
and you're talking about
everybody else's problems
00:48:52.41\00:48:54.87
at home in the
presence of your children.
00:48:54.90\00:48:58.01
And you're basically
training your children
00:48:58.04\00:49:00.26
to basically
gossip and perpetuate
00:49:00.29\00:49:03.30
everybody else's bad laundry.
00:49:03.33\00:49:05.86
All of these things, my friends,
00:49:05.89\00:49:07.59
just perpetuates
the fundamental problems
00:49:07.62\00:49:09.99
that we have at church,
00:49:10.02\00:49:11.39
not only at church,
but even in our society.
00:49:11.42\00:49:13.95
I believe that if we
have a revival in the home,
00:49:13.98\00:49:15.50
not only will it
revive our churches,
00:49:15.53\00:49:17.74
it will literally revive
our entire communities. Amen.
00:49:17.77\00:49:21.69
The home is the
epicenter of culture.
00:49:21.72\00:49:24.45
And if we can save our homes,
00:49:24.48\00:49:26.26
I believe we can save
our neighborhoods as well.
00:49:26.29\00:49:30.76
Is the dragon
knocking on your door?
00:49:30.79\00:49:34.03
Is he ringing your doorbell?
00:49:34.06\00:49:35.95
We'll have good news,
'cause in Revelation 3,
00:49:35.98\00:49:37.58
there's somebody else that's
also knocking on your door.
00:49:37.61\00:49:41.03
There's two
people that are trying
00:49:41.06\00:49:42.47
to get into your home, amen.
00:49:42.50\00:49:44.53
And they're playing
for keeps. Revelation 3.
00:49:44.56\00:49:50.13
And as you go in Revelation
3, another story has reminded.
00:49:50.16\00:49:55.03
I remember when I was
working as a Bible worker
00:49:55.06\00:49:56.57
in Brooklyn in New York City.
00:49:56.60\00:49:58.32
Anybody from New York City here?
00:49:58.35\00:50:01.19
We have one person
from New York City,
00:50:01.22\00:50:02.67
well, actually few.
00:50:02.70\00:50:04.07
I remember I was in Brooklyn
00:50:04.10\00:50:05.47
and there is a
particular area in Brooklyn
00:50:05.50\00:50:07.16
where it feels like
you're not in the United States.
00:50:07.19\00:50:10.51
You know what I'm talking about?
00:50:10.54\00:50:12.21
Because you smell
pasta and you see people
00:50:12.24\00:50:16.20
on the corner of the
street talking like this.
00:50:16.23\00:50:18.92
You know what I'm talking about?
00:50:18.95\00:50:20.32
Is the Italian area that's
where I actually was working,
00:50:20.35\00:50:22.48
you know, I was
working in that area,
00:50:22.51\00:50:23.88
along with the Russian
Orthodox Jewish neighbor.
00:50:23.91\00:50:26.21
New York City is
a fascinating place
00:50:26.24\00:50:27.61
if you've ever been there.
00:50:27.64\00:50:30.25
So I was working
in the Brooklyn area
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and going knocking on doors
and I met a particular lady
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who was Italian
like fresh from Italy.
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And she invited me in
and she showed me about
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and she talked to
me about her religion,
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you know, she's
Roman Catholic etcetera.
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Very, very wonderful
lady, very, very Christian lady.
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And she told me
about a particular issue
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that she had in her home
where she would hear voices.
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And when she told
me this I kind of just
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took a little quick
glance at where the door was
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and I continued talking to her.
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Okay, it's about 3 feet
away, okay, this is good.
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And she was telling me that,
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you know, it was coming from
particular area in her home.
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And she's like, "Do
you want to see this place
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where it's coming from?"
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And in my heart, I
was thinking, "No."
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But what I said was, "Yes."
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And I just don't
know, why am I saying, yes?
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So she grabs me by the
hand. She says, "Come."
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And she takes me
downstairs to the basement.
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And I'm thinking,
"Lord save me. Save me Lord."
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Little lady, this tall.
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And we go down there
there's a lot of things
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that are still
in boxes etcetera.
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And she says, "It's
coming from over here."
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So I went over there
and there was like statue.
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I said, "This is yours?"
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"No, it was here
when I moved in."
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And it look pretty weird,
it look like a cross between,
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how can I describe it.
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It's kind of like a cross
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between a
porcupine and like a samurai.
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Yeah, I know, it's
like how do you fit
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those two pictures together?
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It's like a little
statue, porcupine with spikes
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and like a samurai.
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And she says, "It was
here when I got here."
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And I said, "Well, you probably
should get rid of this thing,
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'cause first of all, it
doesn't look very friendly."
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Spikes, you know.
So she gets rid of it.
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And I come back
three days later.
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And I said, "So
how the voice is?"
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And she says, "I don't hear
anymore voices, they're gone."
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And I said, "Praise the God."
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Because again the devil has a
Trojan horse in her home, amen.
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What is the Trojan horse
in your home? Revelation 3:20.
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The Bible tells us,
if there is somebody else
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knocking on your door.
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Revelation 3:20 "Behold, I
stand at the door and knock.
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If anyone hears My
voice and opens the door,
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I will" do what?
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"Come in to him and dine
with him, and he with Me."
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Ladies and gentlemen,
in the Book of Revelation,
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we're told that
there's two door knocks.
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The dragon is trying
to knock on your door
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and as soon as
you open the door,
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he's gonna throw a few
Trojan horses inside your home.
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So that when the sun goes down,
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his soldiers are gonna
come out of the Trojan horses
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and basically
attack you spiritually.
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There is somebody
else knocking on your door.
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His name is Jesus.
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And Jesus wants to
become, not a weekend visitor.
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He wants to become an
integral part of your family.
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He wants to participate
in all of your family time.
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He wants to participate
in your family recreation.
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He wants to be the
part of the conversation
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at the dinner table.
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If Jesus is inside your home,
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when the dragon
knocks on your door,
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you politely ask
Jesus to answer the door.
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When the dragon
sees Jesus, he'll say,
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"Ooh, sorry. I think I
got the wrong house number."
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Ladies and gentlemen,
the reason why our homes
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are the way they are is because
the devil has easy access
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into our homes, why?
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Because Christ is not a
part of our lives in our homes,
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He simply a part of our
lives on the weekends at church.
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And that's where
we don't have power.
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That's where we
don't have humph.
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That's where we
don't have revival.
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The final showdown
and the great controversy
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between good and evil will
not take place in the pews.
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It will not take
place in the pulpit.
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And believe it or not, it's not
going to place in the potluck,
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even though
sometimes you wonder, right.
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But it's gonna to take
place inside your home.
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The test of discipleship is not,
how well you look at church.
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If that was the case, a lot
of us will be in trouble, amen.
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Or the test of
discipleship is not,
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how you conduct yourself
on Sabbath in the foyer.
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The test of discipleship
will be how you talk to people
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when you're in
your pajamas. Amen.
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When you're in
your house slippers,
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when your guard is down,
when nobody else is looking,
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when you're in the
company of your family,
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how do you conduct yourself?
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I believe that's the fundamental
issue in the last days.
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And the reason why Pentecost
was such a powerful thing
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in Acts 2 is
because the Bible says
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that the church would
spend time every single day
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going from house to
house, visiting each other,
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breaking of bread and
fellowship and in prayer.
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But that isn't--that's something
that is no longer seen anymore.
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And the reason why we
see our churches suffering
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is simply because there's
a lack of home spirituality.
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And then when you go
through a panorama of scripture
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in our Part 2 message,
we're gonna uncover even more.
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We're gonna go
through the Old Testament
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and see practical
examples of people,
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who've actually
prepared their homes,
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literally speaking
in the midst of crisis,
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in the midst of calamity,
in the midst of catastrophe,
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in the midst of destruction.
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And you know that the Bible's
history will repeat itself.
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And the million dollar
question, ladies and gentlemen
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is how is your
home going to answer
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to the attacks that it
receives from the outside?
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Today as you take a careful
consideration of your home,
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of your family, where are
you in your spiritual walk?
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Where is Jesus in your home?
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Is Jesus just
somebody that is on a portrait
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in the wall of your
kitchen that you look and tell,
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"Oh, that's such
a beautiful picture
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and that's pretty much it?"
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Or is Jesus an
active member of you family.
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One of the
things that I encourage
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anyone who is
serious about reviving
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the spirituality in the home
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and spending family
time together in prayer.
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Spend 10 to 15
minutes in prayer--
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my worship leader Vergil Bellow.
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He's our worship
leader at church.
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And he put together a manual
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and he said, "Pastor,
I feel very convicted.
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I don't spend
enough time in the Bible
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at my home, as I should."
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He is a youth
sabbatical teacher.
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He put a manual
together and he says,
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"I want to give
this to all the fathers
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so that they
could take initiative."
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The manual has scripture,
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has songs and
has prayer requests.
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How many of you today
recognize this need to prepare
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your home for the final crisis.
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And we'd like to say,
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"Jesus, I want to
open my door to you." Amen.
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Let's pray together.
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