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3ABN On the Road, Australia.
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I've titled this
talk, "The Sand Eaters"
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now, I wonder, can
anybody guess what that's about?
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The sand eaters...
think about it a minute.
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No takers, huh, how
about the children of Israel
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led out of Egypt,
you remember that story,
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God brings them out of Egypt,
they're baptized in the Red Sea
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and so there's an
interesting analogy
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led out of sin... justification,
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they're baptized, and
then, now it's time for... what?
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what's the second
half? Sanctification...
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You can't have
justification alone,
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you've got to have them both,
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justification
and sanctification.
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Now, it's God's turn to
lead them through the wilderness
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through the trials, the
tribulations, the problems,
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to build their
character, to point them to God,
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to enable Him to say,
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"Look at me, I can take
care of all of your situations"
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But, unfortunately, you
know, they got to one area
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and said, "There's no water"
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and they got to another
area and said, "There's no food"
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and then there
was no water again
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and then it was on
and on and on and on...
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and God finally said,
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"These ten times, basically,
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you've griped
and complained to me"
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God was keeping
track, these ten times...
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and you can go
through and you can map out...
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and find those ten times
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when the children
of Israel complained,
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but then they get up to the
borders of the "Promise Land"
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and that's found
in Numbers chapter 13,
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if you turn there with me,
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and it's just about time
for me to stop today, I think,
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that... 48 hours
of being up is...
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I almost forgot
where Numbers was...
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but Numbers
chapter 13 and chapter 14,
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the children of Israel
are there at the borders
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of the promised land,
now it's a land God said
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is flowing with milk and
honey, so they send in spies,
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spies go in, check out the land
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40 days... they come back
and I kind of envision as the
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as a couple of them are
coming up over the rise,
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the kids say, "Look, look Mama,
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look, look what they've
got, look what they've got,"
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and here two guys have
got a big pole between them
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and one cluster of
grapes, one cluster of grapes...
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you ever thought about
that, how big were these grapes?
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I mean, these are monstrous,
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that's kind of like...
maybe in heaven we'll say,
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"Hey, come on over to my
house, we'll split a grape"
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you know, huge... huge...
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everything God had said
about the land was true,
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it was truly a land
flowing with milk and honey.
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But then, oh,
oh, here's a problem,
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verse 28 of chapter 13,
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these words should
never be in the Bible,
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spoken by humans, nevertheless,
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"The people be strong
that dwell in the land,
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and the cities are
walled, and very great:
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moreover, we saw the
children of Anak there"
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and they go on and on
and on down to verse 31
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"we be not able to
go against the people;
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for they're stronger than we. "
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verse 33, "And
we saw the giants,
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the sons of Anak,
which come of the giants:
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we were in our own
sight as grasshoppers... "
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Oh, man! how sad...
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"we were in our own
sight as grasshoppers"
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you see, they
had an "eye problem"
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they were looking at themselves
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when they should have
been looking at their God,
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they should have been
looking at the bigness of God
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how big God was, and
they complained so badly...
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saying, "we wish we
could go back to bondage"
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we want to go back to sin,
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we don't want to be out
here under your protection God,
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you can't protect us
because these guys are giants
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apparently, they were huge,
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apparently...
found a bedstead of one
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over 13 feet long was the bed,
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that's a pretty good-size
guy you know, yeah, 13 feet...
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he was as big as your
ceiling, almost, you know,
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but there's a narrative...
turn forward with me
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God finally says,
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actually let me just
finish up that one thought,
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God finally says, "Go ahead,
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wander around the
desert for the next forty years
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eat sand, right, if
that's what you want,
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go ahead, eat sand,
your wish is fine. "
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And then we find
over in Joshua chapter 2,
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the children of Israel
again... the next generation,
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they get up to the borders
of the Promise Land again
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and this time they send in spies
and they go to Rahab's house
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Rahab the prostitute,
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I never could figure out
why they picked a prostitute
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except that... well, she's there
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when all the men are
going in and out all the time
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a couple more guys
aren't going to matter, right?
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So they're undetectable,
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now these two guys
are ready to go to bed
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they're on the
top of the building,
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and Rahab comes up and
says, "Wait, wait, wait, wait,
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wait a minute...
before you go to sleep,
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let me share
something with you,"
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and look what she shares
in chapter 2 and verse 9,
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and she said unto the men,
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"I know that the Lord
hath given you the land"
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who is this woman?
A pagan prostitute.
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"I know that the Lord
has given you the land,
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your terror is fallen on us
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and all the inhabitants of the
land faint, because of you. "
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Down to verse 11,
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"and as soon as we had heard
these things... " what things?
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the waters of the
Red Sea drying up,
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the kings being
killed, when did that happen?
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Forty years earlier, right?
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"When we heard these
things, our hearts did melt"
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now the Hebrew there
for melt is liquefied,
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liquefied... these giants...
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because of what they saw of
God, their hearts were liquid.
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How many of you...
a 13-foot tall giant,
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how many of you
think he could fight
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with a heart of
liquid? Impossible right,
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everybody agrees to
that? it's impossible,
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no matter how big the guy
is if he's got a liquid heart
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he can't fight,
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God had already gone into
the land and taken care of it,
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if you don't
believe me, go back here
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just a verse or so
here to chapter 1 verse 3,
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chapter 1 of Joshua verse 3,
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"Everywhere the soul of
your feet shall tread... "
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English Majors...
what tense is that?
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future tense, right?
everywhere you're going to walk
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future... in the future...
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and then God says,
"I have given you... "
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what tense is
that? Past tense...
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look everybody... I've
already been in the land,
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I've already
scared them half to death,
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I've melted their
hearts... you got the land.
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All you have to do
is go in and possess it.
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That's it, in another place,
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and please forgive me
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today I forgot exactly
where it is, in my thinking...
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but God sits on the
circle of the earth,
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and everybody to him
are like grasshoppers.
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So, if everybody on planet earth
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is like grasshoppers to God,
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where does that
put all the giants?
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I would submit to you
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that if you are on
the shoulders of God,
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there are no giants in the land
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whatever supposed
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"giant situation"
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is occurring in your
life... God is bigger,
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whatever is
happening in your life,
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whatever is
scaring you to death,
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turn your focus and your
eyes upon the bigness of God.
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You don't have
to be a sand eater
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but it seems like we
have been stuck in this rut
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over and over and over,
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it seems like it's
a perpetual scenario
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of God's people ad
nauseam there is no doubt,
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we know, around
1844, in that timeframe,
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God was ready to come,
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He was looking for His people
to go into the Canaan land,
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and then, in 1901,
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He was ready to
pour out the latter rain
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looking for His people
to go into the Canaan land,
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and here we
are, 104 years later,
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and we are still here,
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now, oh some that don't
totally believe the Bible,
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they go, "Oh, oh, you
can't base anything on that,
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you can't believe that,
God comes in His own time
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and His own time may be
far into the future... "
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well, it seems like I
remember, God also predicts...
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those who say that
about the end days,
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but you know around 1844,
the Lord had a special Movement
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in Daniel, you find
that special Movement,
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the time of the end,
the Day of Atonement,
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the day of judgment,
but God's people got hung up
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in the same way,
as a matter of fact,
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since you're not
in the United States,
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but I have a kind of a
favor, I don't watch a lot
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but a favorite football team,
that's the San Francisco 49ers
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Amen...
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You're not just
saying "Amen" Brother,
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but the San Francisco
49ers... why, okay, you know,
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how did they get their name?
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From the Gold Rush...
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From the Gold
Rush, the 49er Gold Rush,
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and everybody
was rushing for Gold
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and I would submit to
you, that's what happened
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to the Seventh-day
Adventists in that area,
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they began going
after their own gold,
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going after the Gold
Rush too, I don't think...
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I don't think it's happenstance
in the book of Revelation,
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the final church...
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the final one of earth's history
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happens to be Laodicea and
the counsel to Laodicea is...
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God says, "Buy of me,
gold tried in the fire"
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buy of God's gold,
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don't look for
the gold in the world,
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don't look for the gold
here, buy of God's gold,
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but boy! the church just
had problem after problem
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and was just so hung up with
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going after wealth
and everything else,
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and you know
that... this young Movement,
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the Seventh-day
Adventist Church...
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it was
experiencing growing pains
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we were
discovering the situation
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on the state of the
dead, and by the way,
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I've just got to
share with you quickly,
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I shared with you
in another meeting
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about the lady that
was raised from the dead,
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unfortunately, when we got home,
all of a sudden I said, "Ah!"
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you know we're flying so
fast, we're filming so much,
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and I thought, "I
never interviewed that woman
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and asked her what it
was like to be dead...
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coming back from the dead,"
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now, we know as good
Seventh-day Adventists
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and from the Bible, she wouldn't
have had anything to say
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but it would have been fun to
have it on camera, wouldn't it?
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Sometimes you just don't
think quite quick enough,
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but the church... the
church was struggling with
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some of these things
and God was leading them,
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it had growing
pains, you think about this,
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around that time in
1881, around that timeframe,
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Wyatt Earp earth had the
gun fight at the "O.K. Corral,"
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some of these
different things were going on
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it's interesting, sometimes,
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when you begin
putting all this together,
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what was happening in
the history of the world,
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leading up to 1888,
we hear a lot about 1888,
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well, 1888 was the time period
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that was in
tremendous flux in the church
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we had Jones and Waggoner
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and they came up
with the message of
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"righteousness by faith"
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the very message I
shared with you this morning...
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on that very
message, but that target of
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justification and sanctification
and the church leadership
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they were arguing
back and forth about it,
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some of the members said,
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"We just got to have
justification, that's it"
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and other's said, "No,
no, it's the whole package,
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justification...
sanctification... "
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and G. I. Butler... Butler
was coming up in the church
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as the General
Conference President...
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well, he was a strong guy
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and you had Uriah Smith,
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Uriah Smith was
writing on Revelation
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and he was writing
for the Review and Herald,
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and then Jones and
Waggoner, of all things...
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they come up and say,
"Oh the law in Galatians
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is different... it's different,"
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and they were now controlling
the Signs of the Times magazine
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which was in California,
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and you got Uriah
Smith out in the East Coast,
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and so they lobbed
salvos at one another
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these theological salvos,
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from both sides,
across the Country,
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and Ellen White
writes to them, and says,
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"Quit it, stop airing
our laundry before the public
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this is not what God wants,
God wants us to save souls
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not all this
in-fighting," it got so bad,
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in one of the
Ministerial Meetings,
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they were also talking about
the Huns and the Alemannias
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they'd say...
they'd meet him in the hall
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and say, "Are you a
Hun or an Alamannia?"
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The ministers were
focusing on all this stuff,
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back and forth
and back and forth,
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you've got J. Harvey
Kellogg of Kellogg's Cornflakes,
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Kellogg... man! he
had a huge institution
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growing bigger and bigger,
00:14:00.34\00:14:01.67
Ellen White said, "You
shouldn't grow it bigger,
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you should split it
up" he didn't want to
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he wanted to get
control of the church,
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he had more health workers
00:14:07.41\00:14:08.94
than the entire
denomination had pastors,
00:14:08.98\00:14:10.98
and he figured he
could gain control,
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so you had a situation where
the three most powerful people
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in the church, you've got the
General Conference President,
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and J. Harvey
Kellogg, and Ellen White.
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And what did they
do about this time,
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they sent Ellen White to
the other side of the planet,
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right here, "Get
rid of the prophet,
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we don't want her
anymore, get rid of the prophet
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so we can hassle and we
can argue and we can fight... "
00:14:32.67\00:14:35.14
well, it's interesting
that Ellen White said
00:14:35.20\00:14:43.21
that God did not
want her to come here,
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but, think about this,
if you had been Ellen White,
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you're the
prophet for planet earth,
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and the church
sent you someplace else,
00:14:53.46\00:14:55.69
and you know God
doesn't want you to go
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but God will go ahead and
let you wander in the desert,
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what would you say?
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I think I'd be tempted to say,
00:15:02.93\00:15:06.50
"Don't you know who I
am? I'm God's prophet,
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I'm the voice of God
here on planet earth,"
00:15:09.40\00:15:12.17
but she didn't say that, why?
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If we would humble ourselves,
be kind and courteous,
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tenderhearted, pitiful,
there'd be 100 conversions
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to the truth where
now there is... but one,
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and she packed up her luggage
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and she got on that
six-month voyage to come here,
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and while she was here,
she wrote Desire of Ages
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and Steps to Christ and
Christ's Object Lessons,
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so many wonderful books,
00:15:36.13\00:15:37.47
God did bless
her in a mighty way,
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and then she heads home
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just before the 1901
General Conference Session,
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and at that session
still... before that session
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everybody is
fighting back and forth,
00:15:50.25\00:15:52.75
G. I. Butler had
taken upon himself
00:15:52.78\00:15:55.18
to be the guardian of truth,
and he is traveling everywhere
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he's bad-mouthing
Jones and Waggoner,
00:16:00.12\00:16:02.22
and Uriah Smith
has joined with him,
00:16:02.26\00:16:04.36
and they're having
this huge fight everywhere,
00:16:04.39\00:16:07.86
it's just continuum, and
things aren't much better
00:16:07.93\00:16:11.70
here for Australia,
because Ellen White had Prescott
00:16:11.73\00:16:15.47
and Prescott was making mighty,
00:16:15.50\00:16:18.14
mighty waves
here in this country,
00:16:18.21\00:16:20.78
spiritual waves that
people were loving Prescott,
00:16:20.81\00:16:23.45
and Ellen White writes to the...
00:16:23.48\00:16:25.61
oh and A. G.
Daniells, of course,
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was here as the
President at that time,
00:16:27.35\00:16:29.18
he was loving what
Prescott was doing too,
00:16:29.25\00:16:31.02
they wrote to the
General Conference and said,
00:16:31.05\00:16:32.92
"We would love if you
would allow Prescott to be here
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and preach more meetings,
00:16:36.02\00:16:37.36
we don't think there's any
reason for Camp Meetings here,
00:16:37.43\00:16:39.63
if he can't preach
at these Camp Meetings
00:16:39.66\00:16:41.76
and be the one to
raise up the work here,"
00:16:41.80\00:16:43.83
the Brethren wrote
back and said, "No, no... "
00:16:43.93\00:16:48.67
flat no... wow!
00:16:48.70\00:16:52.24
what do you do in
these kinds of situations
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well, she went back,
00:16:56.58\00:17:00.48
she continued to talk
and labor with the Brethren
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before the meetings and then
00:17:03.45\00:17:04.79
in the 1901
General Conference Session,
00:17:04.82\00:17:06.99
there was
about... a total of 200
00:17:07.02\00:17:09.62
and I think it was 68
people that were there,
00:17:09.66\00:17:12.09
they came to that
meeting and all of this turmoil,
00:17:12.13\00:17:17.47
all of this
stuff... backbiting...
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and everything else was
going on... at that time,
00:17:20.97\00:17:24.31
and I'm going to share
a video with you today,
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I had a wonderful
privilege of being a part of it,
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I'm on the General Conference
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Revival and
Reformation Committee,
00:17:32.01\00:17:33.72
it's been a wonderful thing
00:17:33.75\00:17:35.75
we've been going...
about five years now,
00:17:35.78\00:17:37.72
Elder Wilson
appointed the committee
00:17:37.75\00:17:39.59
right after he was
elected the first time,
00:17:39.62\00:17:41.29
and it's been... I
think... a tremendous blessing
00:17:41.32\00:17:43.29
for a lot of
people in the church,
00:17:43.36\00:17:45.86
and we said,
"We want to get away
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and have a weekend
retreat, just to pray and study
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and see what God's will
is... " well, we did that,
00:17:51.17\00:17:53.90
we went up to...
kind of Delaware there
00:17:53.94\00:17:56.10
and had a little
hotel and a very quiet area,
00:17:56.14\00:18:00.04
and we invited Ron Clouzet
to come up on Sabbath morning
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to preach for us,
the rest of the time
00:18:05.91\00:18:07.25
it was kind of more unstructured
just pray and study together,
00:18:07.28\00:18:09.98
and Ron spent Friday with us,
00:18:10.02\00:18:12.99
and at the end
of Friday, he said,
00:18:13.02\00:18:14.89
"Man, I threw away my sermon
00:18:14.92\00:18:17.06
I know this isn't what
God wants me to preach"
00:18:17.09\00:18:19.53
so he spent almost
all night, I think,
00:18:19.56\00:18:21.56
on Friday night, working on it,
00:18:21.60\00:18:23.00
Sabbath morning he
began delivering that message,
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and as he delivered
it, he mentioned 1901,
00:18:25.00\00:18:27.80
I turned over to
Jeanine, my wife, and said,
00:18:27.84\00:18:30.11
he's going to talk
about "What might have been"
00:18:30.14\00:18:32.31
well, he touched on it
briefly but then he continued on
00:18:32.34\00:18:35.61
but I couldn't
get it out of my mind,
00:18:35.64\00:18:37.25
and at lunch,
00:18:37.28\00:18:39.58
I'm sitting with
the GC Communications
00:18:39.61\00:18:41.88
and I said, "Williams, we
need to do a video on this"
00:18:41.92\00:18:45.02
"Yeah," he
said, "write a script"
00:18:45.05\00:18:46.45
"well," I said, "I
don't want to write a script
00:18:46.49\00:18:48.86
unless Elder
Wilson likes the idea,
00:18:48.89\00:18:50.46
I don't want to waste the time"
00:18:50.53\00:18:51.86
but, Elder Wilson was
walking past the table
00:18:51.89\00:18:53.50
at that moment, we
jumped up and we said,
00:18:53.53\00:18:55.33
"What do you think, what
do you think about this?"
00:18:55.36\00:18:56.73
"Okay," he said,
"write a script, do it,"
00:18:56.77\00:18:58.40
so Saturday night, I went home,
00:18:58.43\00:19:00.40
worked for a couple of hours,
00:19:00.47\00:19:02.24
started writing
on Sunday morning,
00:19:02.27\00:19:03.94
about 3:30 in the morning,
wrote till 2 in the afternoon,
00:19:03.97\00:19:05.94
and I sent it to Elder Wilson
and he wrote back and he said,
00:19:05.97\00:19:07.98
"Do it... get together
with GC Communication... "
00:19:08.01\00:19:10.38
I got together with
Communications on Monday,
00:19:10.41\00:19:12.48
they said, "We
don't have time for that"
00:19:12.51\00:19:14.18
I said, "No
problem, we can do it. "
00:19:14.25\00:19:15.88
The real short of all that is
00:19:15.92\00:19:18.99
by Thursday I was
flying to California
00:19:19.02\00:19:20.99
when I landed, I had
a fully approved budget
00:19:21.02\00:19:23.59
and a green light from the
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General Conference
Headquarters to get it done.
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Well, I don't know if
you know much about this
00:19:27.40\00:19:29.70
but the church
does not work that fast,
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it was totally a "God
thing" and we saw miracles
00:19:31.43\00:19:37.01
as God led in the
filming of this...
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of this... in many ways
00:19:39.54\00:19:41.91
even... I'll tell
you... one fellow,
00:19:41.94\00:19:43.65
a doctor... a friend of
mine that was playing one part,
00:19:43.68\00:19:46.48
he was sitting next to an extra
from this church that we used,
00:19:46.55\00:19:49.45
he is sitting there and
they get to talking a little bit
00:19:49.48\00:19:53.76
and it was the doctor's brother
00:19:53.79\00:19:55.69
who had run this guy
out of the church years ago,
00:19:55.72\00:19:57.89
he had been so
mean and nasty to him,
00:19:57.93\00:19:59.46
he had run him out of the
church and the doctor said,
00:19:59.49\00:20:02.70
"Well, when I
apologize to you" he said,
00:20:02.73\00:20:05.80
"I'll be
apologizing for my brother too"
00:20:05.83\00:20:08.74
and so, there were
real things happening
00:20:08.80\00:20:11.64
while we were filming
this, and many of them said,
00:20:11.67\00:20:13.98
we were in tears
as we were filming,
00:20:14.04\00:20:16.08
as different
parts... and many people...
00:20:16.11\00:20:18.81
you could feel the Holy Spirit
moving in such a mighty way
00:20:18.85\00:20:21.82
so, I want to share
this video with you now,
00:20:21.85\00:20:25.65
it's about 20 minutes
that we're going to share
00:20:25.69\00:20:29.42
and then I want to talk
with you just a little bit...
00:20:29.46\00:20:30.96
right afterwards, so...
00:20:30.99\00:20:32.33
we can bring the
house lights down
00:20:32.36\00:20:34.03
and we'll share
that video with you now.
00:20:34.10\00:20:38.27
Music playing...
00:20:38.33\00:20:44.74
Ellen White is
writing on paper...
00:20:44.77\00:20:50.95
Ellen White writing some more...
00:20:51.01\00:20:57.25
Knock on the door...
00:20:57.32\00:21:03.02
Brother Irwin walking in...
00:21:03.06\00:21:08.20
Oh, Brother
Irwin, you look troubled,
00:21:08.23\00:21:11.70
what could be
weighing on your heart?
00:21:11.77\00:21:15.00
I am troubled, Brother Daniells,
00:21:15.04\00:21:22.08
the 34th session of
the General Conference
00:21:22.11\00:21:24.65
begins tomorrow
morning in Battle Creek,
00:21:24.68\00:21:27.18
it's 1901, Jesus
still has not come,
00:21:27.22\00:21:31.39
I've been researching
00:21:31.42\00:21:36.93
some of the
counsels from Sister White...
00:21:36.99\00:21:39.53
I could really be blessed
if you'd share that with me.
00:21:39.56\00:21:43.30
It's very hard to believe,
00:21:43.33\00:21:45.23
"For forty years, the unbelief,
murmuring and rebellion
00:21:45.27\00:21:51.87
shut out ancient Israel
from the land of Canaan.
00:21:51.94\00:21:56.04
In neither case were the
promises of God at fault,
00:21:56.08\00:22:00.62
it is the unbelief, the
worldliness, unconsecration
00:22:00.65\00:22:04.55
and strife among the
Lord's professed people,
00:22:04.59\00:22:08.02
that have kept us in
this world of sin and sorrow
00:22:08.06\00:22:11.29
for so many years. "
00:22:11.33\00:22:12.66
Well, the servant of
the Lord is straightforward
00:22:12.69\00:22:16.33
concerning God's people,
00:22:16.36\00:22:17.90
unbelief, worldliness,
unconsecration and strife...
00:22:17.97\00:22:24.37
this delay is our
fault, well, my fault.
00:22:24.41\00:22:30.05
It is... let me share
something I found that she wrote
00:22:30.11\00:22:36.08
just 36 months ago,
00:22:36.12\00:22:38.32
this one's really
kind of shocking...
00:22:38.35\00:22:41.29
especially to me since
it's during my term in office,
00:22:41.32\00:22:45.23
"Had the church of
Christ done her appointed work
00:22:45.26\00:22:49.13
as the Lord ordained,
00:22:49.16\00:22:51.00
the whole world
would have been warned,
00:22:51.03\00:22:55.34
the Lord Jesus
would have come to earth
00:22:55.37\00:22:59.64
in power and great glory,"
00:22:59.67\00:23:01.88
she wrote that 36 months
ago during my term as President.
00:23:01.91\00:23:06.08
It is our fault.
00:23:06.11\00:23:09.72
We have let God
down, my brother,
00:23:09.75\00:23:14.06
we as Leaders,
have let God down.
00:23:14.09\00:23:18.33
We must humble ourselves,
00:23:18.36\00:23:21.46
we must become living examples
of what a leader could be
00:23:21.50\00:23:26.63
when Jesus is in His heart,
00:23:26.70\00:23:28.14
I don't even know
how to pray it anymore,
00:23:28.17\00:23:33.04
how can we beg God to shake away
00:23:33.07\00:23:39.25
this Laodicean slumber?
00:23:39.28\00:23:42.12
Oh, I could not agree more
00:23:42.15\00:23:45.09
I have been experiencing
00:23:45.15\00:23:48.02
the same burden of
heart, as I perceive... you are,
00:23:48.06\00:23:52.26
let's seek God's
help right now...
00:23:52.29\00:23:56.40
Together?
Together... oh my Brother!
00:23:56.43\00:24:00.54
Lord of glory, you
have been ready to come
00:24:00.57\00:24:07.08
for a very long time,
00:24:07.11\00:24:08.91
and yet you have
been waiting for us,
00:24:08.94\00:24:13.55
please forgive us
and help us as Leaders
00:24:13.62\00:24:18.15
to surrender all
of self to you...
00:24:18.19\00:24:22.09
Yes Lord...
00:24:22.12\00:24:23.46
you know this
sin lies at our door,
00:24:23.53\00:24:25.29
change us, help
us... die the death of self
00:24:25.33\00:24:30.27
and live in you,
00:24:30.33\00:24:32.17
please take our
lives today, amen.
00:24:32.20\00:24:38.37
Two Leaders
walking up the stairs...
00:24:38.41\00:24:44.48
Brother Butler,
00:24:44.51\00:24:45.85
I feel that the Lord is going
something wonderful among us,
00:24:45.88\00:24:49.48
I'm looking
forward to this session
00:24:49.52\00:24:51.79
for months now, He has
been speaking to my heart
00:24:51.82\00:24:55.02
through my private
sessions of study and prayer.
00:24:55.06\00:24:58.06
I couldn't agree with
you more Brother Haskell,
00:24:58.09\00:25:01.10
I sense His leading in my life
00:25:01.13\00:25:03.37
He's been revealing to me that
although I believed I was humble
00:25:03.40\00:25:09.37
that's not the case,
00:25:09.40\00:25:10.74
I have been very arrogant,
00:25:10.81\00:25:13.38
He's leading me to die
a a greater death to self
00:25:13.41\00:25:16.28
than ever before,
00:25:16.31\00:25:17.68
I cannot explain it but I know
00:25:17.71\00:25:20.22
that I must change dramatically.
00:25:20.25\00:25:22.68
Audience singing...
00:25:22.72\00:25:28.29
Worthy the lamb
for He was slain.
00:25:28.32\00:25:37.90
Leader walking
up to the pulpit...
00:25:37.93\00:25:47.14
sitting down...
00:25:47.18\00:25:51.31
Please join with me as I
read a portion of Psalm 106
00:25:51.35\00:25:55.52
"We have sinned
with our fathers,
00:25:55.55\00:26:01.29
we have committed iniquity,
00:26:01.32\00:26:03.66
we have done wickedly.
00:26:03.69\00:26:05.73
Our fathers understood
not thy wonders in Egypt;
00:26:05.76\00:26:09.53
they remembered not the
multitude of thy mercies;
00:26:09.56\00:26:13.34
but provoked him at the sea,
00:26:13.37\00:26:16.27
even at the Red sea.
00:26:16.30\00:26:18.74
Nevertheless he saved
them for his name's sake,
00:26:18.77\00:26:23.21
that he might make his
mighty power to be known.
00:26:23.24\00:26:27.62
They soon forgot his works;
they waited not for his counsel:
00:26:27.65\00:26:34.06
But murmured in their tents,
00:26:34.09\00:26:37.13
and hearkened not
unto the voice of the Lord.
00:26:37.16\00:26:41.30
Save us, O Lord our God,
00:26:41.33\00:26:47.50
and gather us
from among the heathen,
00:26:47.54\00:26:50.67
to give thanks
unto thy holy name,
00:26:50.71\00:26:53.78
and to triumph in thy praise.
00:26:53.84\00:26:57.05
Blessed be the
Lord God of Israel
00:26:57.11\00:27:00.28
from everlasting to everlasting:
00:27:00.35\00:27:04.12
and let all the
people say, Amen.
00:27:04.15\00:27:07.89
Praise ye the Lord. "
00:27:07.92\00:27:14.86
Leader sitting down...
00:27:14.93\00:27:19.90
Fellow believers,
00:27:19.97\00:27:24.91
please join me as
we kneel for prayer.
00:27:24.94\00:27:27.51
Audience kneeling...
00:27:27.58\00:27:35.58
kneeling...
00:27:35.65\00:27:40.26
Lord, how
desperately we need you,
00:27:40.29\00:27:43.66
we cannot continue as we have
00:27:43.73\00:27:46.03
we must learn
humility before you,
00:27:46.06\00:27:49.60
teach us humility, I pray,
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help us die to self
and surrender all to thee
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let us be led as
little children by thy hand,
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walk among us in these meetings,
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help us put away
all strife among us.
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O holy Father, we
pray for a manifestation
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of thy power, we ask
thee to forgive our sins
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our neglect to follow as
we should have... in the past
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Lord, help us to follow
in thine opening providence,
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and understand the
mind of thy Spirit,
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In Jesus' name... come quickly
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Amen...
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Audience sitting...
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The time has
come for the opening
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of the General Conference...
the 34th Session of this Body.
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I believe... this Conference
will be the most important
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ever held by the
Seventh-day Adventist people.
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Amen...
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In light of the
Scripture reading,
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I believe that it is
essential for each of us
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to call on God for forgiveness
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and to seek for
the powerful presence
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of the indwelling
Holy Spirit in our lives,
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please, today, seek
God with all your being,
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confess sins one to another,
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and may we...
during this Conference,
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discover oneness of heart
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may this Conference be a time
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when we can truly
be woven together...
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in His grace...
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Walking back to chair...
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The light given me is that
this people should stand higher
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than any other people
on the face of the earth,
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we should be a loyal people...
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a people who will
rightly represent the truth
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the sanctifying
power of the truth,
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revealed in our lives
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will distinguish
us from the world.
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We should stand in moral dignity
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having such a close
connection to heaven
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that the Lord God of Israel
can give us a place in the earth
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year after year... the same
acknowledgement has been made,
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but the principles
which exalt a people
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have not be woven into the work
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God has given us clear
light as to what we should do
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and what we should not do
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but we have
departed from that light,
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and it is a marvel to me
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that we stand in as much
prosperity as we do today
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it is because of the
great mercy of our God
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not because of our
righteousness but that His name
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should not be
dishonored in the world.
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The Word of God
should be our guide,
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have you given heed to the Word?
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My writings should in no
way take the place of the Bible,
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they are to bring you
to that neglected Word,
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that you may eat
the words of Christ
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that you might feed upon them
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that by living
faith you may be built up
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upon that which you feed,
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if you live in
obedience to Christ's Word,
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you are eating the
leaves of the tree of life
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that are for the
healing of the nations.
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Let us, right
here, at this meeting
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see that the converting
power of God is essential
00:32:40.66\00:32:45.83
if we take hold of the Master,
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take hold of all the
power He has given us,
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the salvation of
God will be revealed.
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Amen...
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In the past, in the past...
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I have not been in
union with some of you,
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and today I see
myself more and more
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as God must see
me, for in His Word...
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let's read together,
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"Because thou sayest I am
rich and increased with goods,
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and have need of nothing... "
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Oh my! in my self-sufficiency
I have been just like that
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"and knowest not that
thou art wretched and miserable
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and poor and
blind and naked... "
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and I see that
this is my condition...
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not someone else's but mine...
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"my eyes... " my
eyes are being opened
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my spirit has been harsh,
00:34:07.71\00:34:11.65
it has been unjust
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and I had thought
myself righteous... and yet...
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today my heart is breaking
00:34:20.19\00:34:22.62
for I sense that
I'm desperately in need
00:34:22.66\00:34:26.06
of the counsel of the
one who has searched me
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listen... "I
counsel thee to buy of me
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gold tried in the fire,
that thou mayest be rich;
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and white raiment,
that thou mayest be clothed,
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and that the shame of
thy nakedness do not appear;
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and anoint thine
eyes with eye salve,
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that thou mayest see. "
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My Brother, please forgive me
00:34:52.72\00:35:02.00
I have made of
your life a living hell!
00:35:02.03\00:35:07.04
Leader getting up...
00:35:07.07\00:35:14.41
I have been arrogant,
it is my fault as well
00:35:14.44\00:35:19.38
please forgive me...
00:35:19.41\00:35:21.35
Hugging...
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Brothers and Sisters,
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we have received a
great light from the Lord,
00:35:33.26\00:35:38.07
it is time we believe
and walk in that light...
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Amen...
00:35:42.97\00:35:44.31
We have something to do,
we must repent of our sins
00:35:44.34\00:35:52.18
and humble our
hearts before God,
00:35:52.21\00:35:56.15
I have found it
difficult, as a Leader,
00:35:56.18\00:36:01.39
to detach from the
clutches of the world
00:36:01.42\00:36:06.49
and to get rid of self...
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there are so many eyes upon me
00:36:14.47\00:36:17.21
I know I must...
please forgive my angry words
00:36:17.24\00:36:25.18
and my actions against you.
00:36:25.21\00:36:27.68
I do forgive you,
but it is not just you
00:36:27.72\00:36:34.99
it has been me, my self-seeking,
00:36:35.02\00:36:40.70
I tried to
influence others against you
00:36:40.73\00:36:45.00
can you ever forgive me?
00:36:45.07\00:36:47.94
We are brothers
united in Christ,
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the answer is "Yes," yes...
00:36:52.24\00:36:56.71
Amen...
00:36:56.75\00:37:03.22
music...
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I must ask forgiveness
of you, I am so very sorry,
00:37:09.66\00:37:14.63
you are my brother,
00:37:14.66\00:37:16.80
but I have not loved you
as my own flesh and blood,
00:37:16.87\00:37:20.14
I must ask God to
give me the love for you
00:37:20.24\00:37:23.71
that I profess for Christ.
00:37:23.74\00:37:25.71
Amen...
00:37:25.74\00:37:30.48
And I... I must fall in
line with God's will and calling
00:37:30.55\00:37:36.28
forgive me my brother,
00:37:36.35\00:37:38.95
for talking behind
you in Committee...
00:37:39.02\00:37:42.29
and behind your back
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I cannot love
Christ if I don't love you
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I'm so sorry my
brother, I'm so sorry...
00:37:49.73\00:37:55.04
Amen...
00:37:55.07\00:37:57.41
Blest be the tie that binds
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our hearts in Christian love;
00:38:03.38\00:38:10.35
the fellowship of kindred minds
00:38:10.42\00:38:17.36
is like to that above.
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Music...
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Ellen, Ellen...
00:38:34.28\00:38:39.95
Where am I?
00:38:40.02\00:38:45.59
You are in a vision,
00:38:45.62\00:38:48.46
the Lord wanted to show
you what might have been
00:38:48.49\00:38:52.23
what might have happened at
the General Conference Session,
00:38:52.26\00:38:57.67
What I saw... wasn't real?
00:38:57.70\00:39:02.77
I'm afraid not...
00:39:02.80\00:39:04.71
The Father was ready to pour
out His Spirit upon the assembly
00:39:04.74\00:39:09.71
and finish the work in
this world and cut it short
00:39:09.74\00:39:13.21
in righteousness,
00:39:13.25\00:39:14.58
but the delegates
would not humble themselves
00:39:14.62\00:39:17.85
had they... in humility of soul
00:39:17.92\00:39:21.72
led out in the work of
confessing and consecration
00:39:21.76\00:39:25.29
giving evidence that
they had received the
00:39:25.33\00:39:27.93
counsels and
warnings sent by the Lord
00:39:27.96\00:39:30.57
to correct their mistakes,
00:39:30.60\00:39:31.93
there would have been
one of the greatest revivals
00:39:31.97\00:39:35.87
that there has been
since the day of Pentecost.
00:39:35.90\00:39:39.27
It never happened...
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Ellen is crying...
00:39:48.82\00:39:57.66
Ellen White was heartbroken
because I revealed to her
00:39:57.69\00:40:00.83
that within the past history
00:40:00.90\00:40:02.23
of the
Seventh-day Adventist Church
00:40:02.26\00:40:04.23
God was ready to return to earth
00:40:04.27\00:40:06.17
and take His children home,
00:40:06.20\00:40:07.67
ending this long
night of strife and sadness,
00:40:07.70\00:40:10.97
but like Israel of old,
you refuse to enter Canaan,
00:40:11.01\00:40:15.81
you would not follow
after God and trust in Him,
00:40:15.84\00:40:20.58
you became a rebellious people
00:40:20.62\00:40:23.59
the Lord's messenger has been
witness to the glory of heaven
00:40:23.65\00:40:27.72
and has experienced the
joy of walking with Jesus,
00:40:27.76\00:40:30.89
this is why her
heart was broken.
00:40:30.93\00:40:34.03
Ellen crying...
00:40:34.10\00:40:43.34
What are the reasons?
00:40:43.37\00:40:45.67
You know, Ellen White
said, "I've seen a better world
00:40:45.71\00:40:52.58
and it has spoiled
this one for me... "
00:40:52.61\00:40:54.78
where are we looking
00:40:54.82\00:40:57.32
where are our
eyes, are we happy?
00:40:57.42\00:41:00.79
Still eating sand in the desert?
00:41:00.86\00:41:04.13
Isn't it time to go home?
00:41:04.16\00:41:06.83
I'd like to invite everyone,
if you could... to kneel...
00:41:06.90\00:41:10.93
and when we kneel,
00:41:10.97\00:41:12.50
I'd just like to ask
a few people to pray.
00:41:12.53\00:41:15.20
And then, when
everybody is done I'll close,
00:41:15.24\00:41:17.91
let's kneel.
00:41:17.97\00:41:22.11
Father, we're tired Lord,
00:41:22.14\00:41:30.89
and we've acted just
like your children before,
00:41:30.95\00:41:35.92
we've been happy
to just wander around,
00:41:35.96\00:41:42.80
we pray today Father, please,
00:41:42.83\00:41:45.07
make us willing
to be made willing
00:41:45.10\00:41:46.97
take our hearts, Lord,
for we cannot give them,
00:41:47.00\00:41:51.17
may this church here
be a light on the hill,
00:41:51.21\00:41:57.81
Lord, may it spur
revival in all of Australia
00:41:57.85\00:42:02.45
because you're shining
through each and every person
00:42:02.48\00:42:06.42
because each and everyone here
has made a commitment to you
00:42:06.45\00:42:09.72
above all else, please change us
00:42:09.76\00:42:15.43
we want to go home with
you, please come quickly
00:42:15.46\00:42:19.47
in Jesus' name. Amen.
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