Hello and welcome
to Pillars of Faith.
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I'm C A Murray
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and I rejoice in the opportunity
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to welcome you to
this fourth sitting
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as we have been listening
to the powerful messages
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as preached by
Pastor Kenny Shelton,
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he of Behold
the Lamb Ministries.
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And we're so thankful
that God has enabled him
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to come to be with
us to preach the Word.
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The first message was
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"Holiness is
not just a feeling,"
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"Filled with the
Spirit" was the second message,
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"Shake off the dust"
was the third message
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and this message is entitled
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"God will visit
this planet again."
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And as we muse on those words,
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it is so
wonderful to know the truth
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that God will indeed
visit this planet yet again.
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This time for a
very specific purpose
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that Pastor Kenny will
tell us about this day.
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We asked you to pray
for him as he preaches
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and listen to him as he preaches
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so that the Word of God
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will sink itself
deep into your heart
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and you will be
emboldened and strengthened
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to take one more
step along that road
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that leads to glory.
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We are thankful for the
Word for it gives us strength,
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it gives us
courage and encouragement.
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And I'm sure as we listen
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to "God will visit
this planet again,"
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we will be refreshed and renewed
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and given an
understanding once again
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that soon and very soon
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we are in for a
very special visit
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by a very special visitor
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and I do mean
"Visitor" with a capital V,
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one who's
coming not only to stay
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but to take us home with Him.
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So we're looking
forward to the Word of God
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as preached by
Pastor Kenny Shelton
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this very day.
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Going to ask you now to
join me in a word of prayer
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and then we will
hear from the man of God
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in this "Pillars
of faith" series.
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A Word for today
in today's world.
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Shall we pray?
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Father God, we ask
you now to attend us.
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Be the honored guest
and may what has been said
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about your Word be true again
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and that is that it will
not go out and return void
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but that it will do the
work unto which it is sent
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and accomplish the
means intended for it.
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Bless us now,
Father, as we sit and listen
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and in a very special way
bless Pastor Kenny Shelton
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as he lifts up
your Word and your name
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and tells us of those things
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which are soon to
come upon this earth.
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Fill us with your
spirit, be our honored guest,
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accept us, we do pray this
day and we thank you Father
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for your promise to hear
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and to answer
the prayer of faith,
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in Jesus name, Amen and amen.
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And now Pastor Kenny Shelton.
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Thank you,
Pastor, I appreciate it.
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Thank you.
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Praise the Lord.
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We're once again
glad you could join us
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for Pillars of faith.
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I think it's a grand beautiful
opportunity to be able to,
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in this hour in which we live
to lift our voices for Jesus.
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I do believe we
live in that hour.
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I'm thankful for the
prayer that was prayed.
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I'm thankful for each of you
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who're praying around the world
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that this message can
find a lodging in many hearts
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and many lives to be prepared
for the coming of Jesus.
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Just before we have a prayer,
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you notice what was
said that, that God's...
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He's gonna visit, right?
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Gonna visit this planet again,
what does that really mean?
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That was not really a
sermon on the second coming.
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But to be encouraged
why He's coming back?
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He's coming
back to take us home.
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But before He comes
back to take us home,
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there's a lot of preparation.
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I know the world
doesn't teach that,
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most churches don't teach it
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but, you know, I
find in the Word of God,
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God teaches it, to be
prepared for His coming,
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in such an hour as you think,
now the Son of Man cometh.
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We don't wanna be fooled.
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Once again I'm going
to kneel and have a prayer
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and I invite
you to pray with me.
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It's not because that
the prayer before was not,
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I would call it a
good, blessed prayer.
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It's because I feel
and need in my own heart,
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in my own soul to ask
God's blessing once again.
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I need His spirit.
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I pray that you feel
you need His spirit too.
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So let's pray
about that right now,
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as He sends it upon us.
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Shall we?
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Once again, Heavenly Father,
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we thank you for
this privilege of prayer,
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that something about prayer
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I know by faith it
moves the arm of God.
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I promise as I've heard
in that previous prayer that,
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you know, we realize
that you're coming soon,
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that we'd need to be ready,
we need to be living by faith
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and your Word
would not return void.
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So I pray that your
Holy Spirit now will consume
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each and every one of us.
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There may be those
who need to be tuning in
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and be watching and listening
but something is come up,
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there are somebody's, say
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well, we need you here,
we need you do this or that
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but I pray that the Holy Spirit
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would just
compel each one to stop
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and take a few moments.
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Spend in the Word.
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Open their
hearts. Open their minds.
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Let all preconceived
ideas, thoughts, teachings,
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just lay them down
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and let God speak
through the Holy Spirit.
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Thank you for hearing.
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Thank you for
answering prayer. Praise you.
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Anoint my mind and my heart
that I may speak those words
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that'll be pleasing in thy sight
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that heaven can
pronounce that it's good.
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And I realize of myself
I have nothing which good,
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which to give but through
the power of thy Holy Spirit,
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conviction will come
and preparation will be made
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and I thank you in Jesus name.
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Amen.
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Always feel good
after prayer. How about you?
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Feel good because in faith
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believing that God will
honor the prayer of faith
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and so I honestly believe that.
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I'm thankful again, the
promise that Jesus said,
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"I'm going to come again."
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And everything that's going
on in the world today tells me
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that He's coming.
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Signs are every where.
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It's clear,
let's make this point,
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it's clear that the judgments
of God are falling in the land.
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We're falling all over the place
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and there must be
a reason for that,
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what is God
trying get our attention,
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is He getting
our attention or...
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What's going on with
things that are happening?
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God's warning this world.
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He's warning us
through these judgments
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that are happening.
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He says, "I'm going to
visit the planet again."
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Floods and fire
and pestilence or say,
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earthquakes and
war and blood shed,
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unhappiness on every
hand, labor, battles, unrest,
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nation ready to
rise against nations.
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What the Bible says,
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it tells us
that Jesus is coming.
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Surely those who are
just, open their eyes,
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read the Word of God,
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just look around of what's
happening in the world today
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said, this is not like it
used to be five years ago,
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10, 20, 30,
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things are
changing tremendously.
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We've never seen things
happen like this before.
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The world is at unrest.
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Men are warring
against each other.
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Things are happening
that tell us something big
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is on the horizon.
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I can't help but
think about Jesus
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when the
destruction of Jerusalem
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was just very near,
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talks about He over
looked Jerusalem and He wept.
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As a young person even now
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that touches my heart.
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He looked over that city
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which He came to
give the message,
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to bring them to Him,
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to get away from all
the traditions of men
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and all of the thinking
of men and all of the wrong
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and untruth to
bring light to them
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and they
rejected and there said,
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Jesus weeping.
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The King of the
universe weeping.
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Soon I came to my own,
my own receiveth me not
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and I can say this,
my brothers and sisters,
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plan on that today.
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If you are really a child of God
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and you're doing what
God would have to you to do,
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most likely you're going
to be rejected by the majority
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and by your
family and your friends,
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they'll think you're not bold,
they'll think you're strange.
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Just expect it that
by the Grace of God,
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you shake the dust that
we talked about last time
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and we move on.
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There's a lot to be accomplished
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before Jesus come.
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He's going to use
you. He wants to use me.
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But I think about in
weeping over Jerusalem,
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in Luke 19:44, a little
statement Jesus makes here,
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He says, "Because thou knowest
not the time of visited."
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Because you didn't know,
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because you never
bothered to study,
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you never bother to
find out what was going on.
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He said that
word, their visitation.
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Listen carefully
church, it means inspection.
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You could have
known when I'm coming,
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careful to inspect.
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Remember you're
reading the Bible many times
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that the angels
came down to look,
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to see what was going on,
they visit before destruction.
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Came Jesus said,
"You should've known,
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you should've known the time."
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But you didn't.
Is it that way today?
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I believe that it is.
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We need to
remember these judgments
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are a wake-up call.
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I'll make a
little statement here,
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it may challenge some of you
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and I hope that you've
been studying for yourself.
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That these judgments we say
are a wake-up call for those,
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listen carefully,
who have no opportunity
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to have learned what truth is.
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Interesting, did you get that?
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They've had no opportunity
to learn what truth is.
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God is merciful.
We're all in agreement.
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I'm sure church with
that, God is merciful.
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He's long suffering
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and He's
reaching out one more time
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to warn the world,
the people of this world
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that He's coming back.
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But notice while
He's reaching out,
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church, one more time
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to get those who've
not had the opportunities
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and privileges that
you had and I've had.
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The door of probation closes
for those who would not enter.
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Probation closes,
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seems scripture
indicates for one group
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before it closes for another
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because you've
had ample opportunity
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and privileges.
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You don't want
that door to close.
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You want to make sure
that you're right with God.
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It's very evident, at
least to me in my study
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that probation closes
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for those who have an
opportunity to come in,
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to go in before
others whom have not heard.
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Did that make sense?
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They've heard, you've heard
it through angel's message.
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You've been studying
righteousness by faith.
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You've been studying
this most precious message.
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Part of that
third angel's message,
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is it not?
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That if we had
accepted it, many years ago,
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He would've already come.
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That's a shocker to many.
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We cannot reject the
truths that God has for us.
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And still be His
people. Righteous by faith.
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The Glory of
God. Precious message.
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It's sounding again,
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God's gonna give
another opportunity.
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But I will say you
this, many, many people
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who believe and say, "I
believe in present truth."
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You know if anyone that talks
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about present truth a lot,
I do, I do, I believe in it.
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There's a message,
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God has specific
message for every generation.
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You've heard this
many times. It's true.
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For the time in
which we all live,
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God has a special message
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always that is testing
to the people of the world
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to test to see if they
really love Him or not.
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Remember the ten virgins,
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everybody said they're ready,
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everybody's ready to
go but what happened?
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Five of them
didn't have the oil.
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Did they have the Holy Spirit?
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They were just in
looks. Their profession.
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Many, who'd say, oh,
present truth I believe in,
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they're gonna fail
because they do not understand
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about the early
rain and the latter rain
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and what it is to accomplish.
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The latter rain, what is
it going to accomplish for us?
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And since they
don't understand it,
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notice it, they fail to prepare.
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If we don't
understand the purpose,
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we will fail in preparing
for the coming of Jesus.
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In our previous lesson,
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we learned or talked may
be just a little bit on it,
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lot of more information,
couldn't give everything
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but I know you've been
studying and we need to study.
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We learned that the
work of the Holy Spirit
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is represented by what?
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The early rain
and the latter rain.
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Praise God.
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It's vital I
believe to all Christians.
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This subject is
vital to all Christian,
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we say individual,
it's vital to the church.
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Church is not above and beyond.
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We need this
outpouring of the Spirit of God.
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Quickly let's just
dissect just a little bit
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for those who do
not, let's have patience,
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shall we church?
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You say, "Well,
we heard that before.
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We heard it before."
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There's many
millions who have not.
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They do not understand it.
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And you say you've heard
of it, do you understand it?
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If you understand it,
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are you living it
by the grace of God.
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Then, oh, you've doneth
not, you've just been listening.
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Has it changed you?
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If it doesn't change
you, you haven't heard it.
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The early rain fell
on the early Christians
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or that we call
New Testament church
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on the day of Pentecost.
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Praise God.
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Man, what a time to be alive?
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Wouldn't that be
awesome to be there
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and to participate in that?
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Oh, yes, oh, I want to
be, I want to be there.
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I want to see what...
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Oh, you can't be and
even in greater abundance
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here in these last days,
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God says He's going
to pour out that Spirit.
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But that early rain,
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it continued to
fall even after Pentecost
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if you understand this subject.
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It's falling all through
the history of this world
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and it falls
until probation closes,
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isn't that interesting?
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And then the latter
falls at the end of time.
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We're at the
time of the harvest.
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Wow!
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So the latter rain,
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now what does it
do with the church?
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See the Holy Spirit,
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I believe now is being poured
out on the remnant church.
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The remnant church,
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God's pouring something
special upon this church
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and it's going to
be in great abundance
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but it is at the
close of His work.
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I believe that we're nearing,
toward the close of this work
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and that God
wants to pour it out.
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It's vital that it's poured out.
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It's vital that I
understand it by faith
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and I receive it by faith.
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It would change me and
make me a candidate for heaven.
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People say,
"Well, we're not sure
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when it's going
to be poured out."
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At the close of the work,
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the Holy Spirit
latter rain is going to go
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and I believe it's going
to be, oh listen carefully,
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some of you won't get this,
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it's going to be after
the National Sunday law.
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Interesting thought,
can't go into all that right now
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but just good food for thought.
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Then how does the early
rain affect individuals.
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Remember, the early
rain was given in moderation
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and then what?
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Conversion.
People gave their life.
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It would lead
them to, notice this,
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it would lead them
to overcome confess,
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forsake, and to gain
victory over all sin.
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Wow!
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That's pretty
heavy duty, isn't it?
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They were, we are
to reflect Jesus fully.
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Don't be alarmed.
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Remember, if you're
alarmed, you get all upset,
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say I don't want to hear.
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It's because you're
looking once again in the mirror
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at yourself and
you see a defeated foe.
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And you're by yourself
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but with Christ
certainly it's possible.
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No one will argue I
don't think the fact
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that we are to represent,
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we are to reflect
Jesus to the world.
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You can't
represent Jesus to the world
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if He's not in your
heart, in your soul.
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If you're not
speaking, and acting,
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and doing what
Jesus would do and act,
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and says, He's not living there.
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Wow!
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Early rain
given, we reflect Jesus.
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And it continues throughout
the Christian experience.
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Praise God for that
rain, that early rain.
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It's quite an experience
and then later comes what,
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they're into this world
that the later rain and it,
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that rain is given to
mature us, to finish us,
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that we may grow up in
the full statue of Jesus.
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That latter rain on individual,
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that's talking about
pouring out the Holy Spirit
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in abundance.
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Never seen anything
like it what God wants to do
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and will do to His church,
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but we have to
be ready for that.
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He just can't poured
out on just somebody said,
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"I'd like to have it."
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There are conditions to be met.
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And we've said
often to every program
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that He cannot pour
out that latter rain
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until every sin is
confessed and forsaken.
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When His character is
fully reproduced in us,
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He will come.
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Think about if we have
sin that we've not confessed
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and He puts his robe
of righteousness over us,
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then that sin
stays there, doesn't it?
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Wow!
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So he can't do
that and without that,
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oh, without that
robe of righteousness,
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oh, that robe of righteousness
is my ticket to heaven.
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I can't get in the gate without
the robe of righteousness on.
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But He can't give it to you.
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He can't put it
on you as it were
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while there's still sin.
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That's why He said He's faithful
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and just to forgive us.
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That's why He's our high priest.
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The Bible said, if we sin we...
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Ooh, we have an
advocate with the Father.
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I can't tell you
how it thrills my heart.
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It just thrills my heart
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if any man sin we've an
advocate with the Father
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but there coming a time
when there will be a people
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and the devil's got to
counterfeit certainly for this.
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That God's people will
live in the side of Holy God
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without a mediator.
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Hope we have time to
talk some more about that.
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There won't be a
mediator. Jesus is my mediator.
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He's interceding
between me and God.
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Hallelujah.
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The latter
rain, great abundance.
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I believe again
following National Sunday law.
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In powers God's people
to give the final loud cry.
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We talked about loud cry.
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I'm talking about
the final loud cry
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to reach full
maturity, victory over sin,
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then ready for harvest.
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Oh, I want to be
ready for that harvest.
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Question when, you know,
we're talking about victory,
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full victory, when is
it to be accomplished?
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When is it to be done?
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There's all kind of debate
and I wish there was no debate.
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I pray for the
power of the Holy Spirit
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for all of us.
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You know what,
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where I need to
change, I want to change.
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I'm never going to make it
to heaven believing in a lie,
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only the truth.
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John 17:17, you know it,
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"Sanctify them through
thy, truth thy word is truth."
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Be prepared for heaven
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is by knowing what
truth changes an individual.
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A lie doesn't change it
turns to the image of the devil,
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not Christ.
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So we have to want to
know and love what truth is,
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but when is this work
going to be accomplished in me?
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How could it's going to be done?
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People say, "I've heard
this all over the world.
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Well, when He comes,
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there He's going
to change us, really?
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My Bible tells me
in Book of Revelation,
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He says when He comes,
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He brings his reward with him
00:20:23.99\00:20:26.25
to give every man
according as his work shall be.
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That kind of puts a
little bit of a hole in that,
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doesn't it?
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They only thing that
we change Paul talks about
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in 1 Corinthians 15
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is this vile body
is going to be changed
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into a glorious body like Jesus,
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says nothing
about the character.
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Why am I here? Why are you here?
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Is it not to ask God to help us
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to have the
right kind of character
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that's all we
can take to heaven,
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remember, nothing else.
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You can't take anything
with you, just your character.
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Who you are?
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So what's really going to change
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'cause many are banking on this.
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Oh, I lack all of these
things but when He comes,
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He'll make up all the different.
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We realize as humanity
and divinity working together
00:21:06.13\00:21:09.76
but notice when we,
when we've done all to stand.
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When we've done all to stand.
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When I'm living up to every ray
by the grace and power of God,
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not legalistic at all I do
00:21:25.71\00:21:27.58
because I love
Him with all my heart.
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Look what He's done for me.
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And I love Him
with my whole heart,
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my soul, my mind,
that's what He says to do.
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Then you see, He
makes up the difference.
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But I had to be living up
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to every ray of
light that I have.
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Then He counts that
perfection, does he not?
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People say, "What
you're talking about perfection
00:21:55.28\00:21:56.61
of character and
being like Jesus, you know,
00:21:56.64\00:21:58.68
when He comes
and that's the way.
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You realize we're going to
be growing on into perfection
00:22:01.92\00:22:04.42
through all eternity.
00:22:04.45\00:22:06.79
Being
perfection, being like Jesus
00:22:06.82\00:22:08.39
is a growth for us.
00:22:08.42\00:22:10.46
And it continue to
grows throughout all eternity.
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But notice what this statement,
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I don't want to confuse
you but notice this statement.
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When Jesus, 2T 355,
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notice this, when He comes,
00:22:22.07\00:22:26.41
oh, He's coming back
to visit this planet.
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He's coming back
to visit this planet.
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Hallelujah.
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I want to be ready, makes
my feet tap just a little bit.
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If you don't want to
do, don't worry about it.
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When He comes back,
when Jesus comes, notice,
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He's not to
cleanse us of our sins.
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When He comes back, what?
00:22:42.26\00:22:43.96
He's not going to cleanse
us of our sins or to remove,
00:22:43.99\00:22:48.86
notice the
defects of our character.
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What does that mean?
00:22:51.30\00:22:52.63
When he comes and we can't what?
00:22:52.67\00:22:54.00
We can't have
any sin in our life
00:22:54.04\00:22:55.37
and we can't any
defects of character.
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I think I understand more
and more enough that we should.
00:22:58.74\00:23:00.98
But I understand more and more
00:23:01.01\00:23:02.34
why some people
want to throw out
00:23:02.38\00:23:03.98
may be the spirit of prophecy.
00:23:04.01\00:23:06.98
The Bible says exactly
what I'm talking about,
00:23:07.02\00:23:08.72
I'm not saying anything
new the Spirit of Prophecy,
00:23:08.75\00:23:10.52
the Bible doesn't say.
00:23:10.55\00:23:12.15
Passage after passage,
00:23:12.19\00:23:13.52
dozens and dozens of scripture
tells us the same thing.
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I'm just trying to
make it clear for you
00:23:16.73\00:23:18.06
and clear for me
that we understand.
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When He comes, He's not
going to cleanse us of any sin,
00:23:20.00\00:23:23.20
probation will have closed.
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Either it's righteous
to be righteous still,
00:23:26.27\00:23:27.77
either be
filthy be filthy still,
00:23:27.80\00:23:29.30
He's not going to remove us
the defects of our characters.
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Notice or cure us from
any infirmities of our,
00:23:33.17\00:23:37.01
oh-oh, of our
tempers and dispositions.
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Amen. Don't hang
on that bad temper.
00:23:41.42\00:23:43.08
Lord have
mercy, I pray for mine,
00:23:43.12\00:23:44.45
oh, Lord of my patience.
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Okay, rest of you saying,
man, I don't have that problem.
00:23:49.52\00:23:51.73
But I tell you've got something.
00:23:51.76\00:23:53.09
You probably have
a problem somewhere,
00:23:53.13\00:23:54.90
just list it out before Him.
00:23:54.93\00:23:56.70
Ask God, He will help you.
00:23:56.73\00:23:59.00
He's not going to
cure us of those infirmity,
00:23:59.03\00:24:01.10
our evil tempers
and our disposition.
00:24:01.14\00:24:03.61
Notice, if
wrought for us at all,
00:24:03.64\00:24:09.38
if wrought for
00:24:09.41\00:24:10.98
or if we gain this
victory through the power
00:24:11.01\00:24:13.72
and the blood of Jesus Christ,
00:24:13.75\00:24:15.52
the early rain
and the latter rain,
00:24:15.55\00:24:17.65
outpouring of the
spirit of the living God,
00:24:17.69\00:24:20.12
if it's to be accomplished,
00:24:20.16\00:24:21.96
notice it will be
accomplished before that time,
00:24:21.99\00:24:25.33
before Jesus comes.
00:24:25.36\00:24:27.96
No work will
then be done for them
00:24:28.00\00:24:30.93
to remove their defects
00:24:30.97\00:24:32.93
or to give them holy characters.
00:24:32.97\00:24:35.67
This is all done
in the hour of what?
00:24:35.70\00:24:38.34
Come on church,
hour of probation.
00:24:38.37\00:24:40.94
Wow!
00:24:40.98\00:24:43.75
It is now that the work
is to be accomplished for us.
00:24:43.78\00:24:49.88
In my poor little
mind I could just sit down
00:24:49.92\00:24:53.15
and say amen, I've got it.
00:24:53.19\00:24:55.96
Certainly we need help
and continue on striving
00:24:55.99\00:24:58.53
but I'm thinking
right here that's so simple,
00:24:58.56\00:25:00.20
that's so
plain, that's so clear,
00:25:00.23\00:25:01.83
especially for
Bible believing people,
00:25:01.86\00:25:03.57
especially for
God's last day church,
00:25:03.60\00:25:05.13
especially for those who
says we're remnant church,
00:25:05.17\00:25:06.87
especially those who
claim Revelation 12:17
00:25:06.90\00:25:09.17
a dragon was
wroth with the woman,
00:25:09.20\00:25:10.54
and went to make war
with the remnant of her seed
00:25:10.57\00:25:12.24
who keep the commandments of God
00:25:12.27\00:25:13.84
and the testimony of Jesus.
00:25:13.88\00:25:17.05
That's simple,
there's no debate.
00:25:17.08\00:25:19.78
It's now that this
work is to be accomplished
00:25:19.81\00:25:22.68
so I'm here, I'm born
in this world on probation.
00:25:22.72\00:25:28.19
I've often said if you
happen to get in trouble
00:25:28.22\00:25:30.96
with police,
00:25:30.99\00:25:35.43
and you might be blessed enough
just they give you probation.
00:25:35.46\00:25:40.47
You want to make sure
during that time of probation
00:25:40.50\00:25:44.57
will you say
something like this,
00:25:44.61\00:25:45.94
we keep our nose clean.
00:25:45.97\00:25:47.98
During that hour of probation,
00:25:48.01\00:25:49.38
we don't even
want a parking ticket.
00:25:49.41\00:25:53.11
We don't even want
Him to look at us twice.
00:25:53.15\00:25:58.05
Because we
realize that probation
00:25:58.09\00:26:00.89
then everything will be
cleared after that's over.
00:26:00.92\00:26:03.09
We are on probation to see
00:26:03.12\00:26:05.66
where heaven's going
to be our home or not,
00:26:05.69\00:26:08.20
it depends on our
faithfulness to Jesus Christ.
00:26:08.23\00:26:11.63
Letting him work.
00:26:11.67\00:26:15.04
Say, "Well, I've been
preparing a little bit."
00:26:15.07\00:26:18.11
I love the book
The Great Controversy.
00:26:18.14\00:26:19.64
Oh, I do.
00:26:19.67\00:26:21.01
I'm glad you're
putting forth an effort.
00:26:21.04\00:26:24.15
These lessons that we're doing
00:26:24.18\00:26:25.51
and just going over
some of these things
00:26:25.55\00:26:27.62
may be old hat for many
00:26:27.65\00:26:28.98
but oh, friend, are
we really applying them?
00:26:29.02\00:26:31.22
Do we really believe it?
00:26:31.25\00:26:34.16
Or do we just
think you know what,
00:26:34.19\00:26:35.92
heaven not going to be
heaven unless I'm there.
00:26:35.96\00:26:37.56
So I'm sure he's
going to take me.
00:26:37.59\00:26:38.93
God sure is going to take
me regardless, no He won't.
00:26:38.96\00:26:41.66
He love you through all eternity
00:26:41.70\00:26:43.10
but unless we by
His grace, His strength,
00:26:43.13\00:26:46.50
by the life of Jesus,
00:26:46.53\00:26:47.90
meet His requirement,
heaven won't be our home.
00:26:47.94\00:26:51.07
Let's just get
down to it, shall we?
00:26:51.11\00:26:53.34
Great Controversy
620 makes a statement,
00:26:53.38\00:26:55.44
please listen, those
who delay preparation,
00:26:55.48\00:26:59.45
you know what,
many, many in the world,
00:26:59.48\00:27:04.42
many who should know better,
00:27:04.45\00:27:06.96
you're delaying that
preparation right now.
00:27:06.99\00:27:09.99
You're thinking, "I kind of know
00:27:10.03\00:27:11.56
what's going on in the world,
00:27:11.59\00:27:13.13
I've read the Bible,
read Spirit of Prophecy,
00:27:13.16\00:27:15.10
I know the back of the book
00:27:15.13\00:27:16.77
and I know when I
should shift gears."
00:27:16.80\00:27:18.57
I've often said that.
You won't do it. You won't.
00:27:18.60\00:27:23.87
When it's time, well, I
think it's time right now,
00:27:23.91\00:27:25.54
I'm going to
shift gears, you won't
00:27:25.57\00:27:26.91
because the time
will be a terrible time.
00:27:26.94\00:27:29.48
Now it's an easy
time may I say really
00:27:29.51\00:27:31.38
to give your life to
Jesus to live for Him.
00:27:31.41\00:27:33.52
The time has come. It's
not going to be so easy.
00:27:33.55\00:27:37.82
That's what the Bible says.
00:27:37.85\00:27:39.65
Not build, buy or
sale say you have the mark
00:27:39.69\00:27:41.49
unless you follow
like the rest of the world.
00:27:41.52\00:27:43.49
God says it's going
to be a different people.
00:27:43.53\00:27:45.79
There going to be holy people.
They're going to be like me.
00:27:45.83\00:27:50.10
Because I in
them, and them in me.
00:27:50.13\00:27:54.90
Great Controversy
620, those who are delaying
00:27:54.94\00:27:57.67
a preparation for the day of God
00:27:57.71\00:28:00.18
cannot obtain it
in the time of trouble
00:28:00.21\00:28:04.41
or any subsequent time.
00:28:04.45\00:28:08.28
I wish I didn't have to
read this last line, but I will.
00:28:08.32\00:28:15.19
The cause of all
such is hopeless.
00:28:15.22\00:28:20.60
I have family and friends,
people who I care about...
00:28:24.57\00:28:28.20
and it seems
they're not putting Christ
00:28:32.47\00:28:35.64
may be in the position
where He needs to be put.
00:28:35.68\00:28:40.02
I'm recognizing, I
know I'm striving daily
00:28:40.05\00:28:41.68
by the grace of God but
they're willfully ignoring
00:28:41.72\00:28:44.45
what they
understand in all its truth.
00:28:44.49\00:28:48.12
And many say one of these days
00:28:48.16\00:28:49.72
after I retire
I'll accept the message,
00:28:49.76\00:28:51.93
after I, this
happens and that happens
00:28:51.96\00:28:54.40
and I will but if we're
delaying that preparation,
00:28:54.43\00:28:57.70
you see during this
hour of probationary time
00:28:57.73\00:29:00.94
is when we're being
tested and tried to see
00:29:00.97\00:29:03.14
what kind of
material that we are.
00:29:03.17\00:29:06.17
Do we really mean what we say?
00:29:06.21\00:29:07.61
Do we really believe it?
00:29:07.64\00:29:09.01
Are we living it
by the grace of God?
00:29:09.04\00:29:11.38
Are we gaining
victories day by day?
00:29:11.41\00:29:13.31
Isn't it
interesting you see some people,
00:29:13.35\00:29:15.48
they seem to be strong
in the Lord all the time.
00:29:15.52\00:29:18.12
And you'll say, "Oh, I wish,
00:29:18.15\00:29:19.52
oh, I wish I was
strong like that person."
00:29:19.55\00:29:23.26
Surely all of us have
certainly in the past,
00:29:23.29\00:29:24.99
you realize, you look
at that as a Christian,
00:29:25.03\00:29:27.70
Bible believer.
00:29:27.73\00:29:29.16
They're getting
stronger everyday
00:29:29.20\00:29:30.53
because they're tested and tried
00:29:30.57\00:29:31.90
and they're coming
forth more than conquers
00:29:31.93\00:29:33.64
through Jesus Christ.
00:29:33.67\00:29:35.00
And they're gaining strength
and more power every day.
00:29:35.04\00:29:38.74
And then others are being
defeated day-in and day-out,
00:29:38.77\00:29:42.08
they're growing weak.
00:29:42.11\00:29:45.05
But if we are delaying,
00:29:45.08\00:29:46.41
this is the time that we
need to gain that relationship
00:29:46.45\00:29:49.15
and that
strength that we're told
00:29:49.18\00:29:51.05
that the experience
that we need with Jesus
00:29:51.09\00:29:53.19
very few have it
00:29:53.22\00:29:56.66
that will see them
through the time of trouble.
00:29:56.69\00:30:00.60
If we are refusing
to get on the ball,
00:30:00.63\00:30:04.53
if we are refusing to do
what God has ask us to do,
00:30:04.57\00:30:07.57
the cause of such is hopeless.
00:30:07.60\00:30:11.17
There's no hope.
00:30:11.21\00:30:14.81
Such sad words makes me stop
00:30:14.84\00:30:19.15
and try to think, oh, Lord.
00:30:19.18\00:30:22.12
We must seek the
importance of preparation
00:30:22.15\00:30:27.29
to receive more than just,
00:30:27.32\00:30:28.89
you know, more
than just praying,
00:30:28.92\00:30:31.29
I'm going to pray
for the early rain,
00:30:31.33\00:30:34.00
I'm going to pray
for the latter rain,
00:30:34.03\00:30:35.63
it's more than just
hoping for, hope it happens.
00:30:35.66\00:30:38.77
I've heard somebody say,
00:30:38.80\00:30:40.37
"I hope I'm
standing close to someone
00:30:40.40\00:30:41.80
that the latter rain falls on,
00:30:41.84\00:30:43.30
maybe I'll get a
little bit of it."
00:30:43.34\00:30:44.67
No, you won't.
00:30:44.71\00:30:48.34
You say, I know people saying,
"Oh, you're just too ugly,
00:30:48.38\00:30:50.41
oh, it's too much, oh, it's you.
00:30:50.45\00:30:52.65
You will not.
00:30:52.68\00:30:55.98
You can't
receive that some, God,
00:30:56.02\00:30:57.69
the Holy Spirit
gives to somebody else.
00:30:57.72\00:30:59.62
It doesn't just
flow over on you.
00:30:59.65\00:31:01.66
You had to do more than hope.
00:31:01.69\00:31:03.02
You've to be more
than praying for it.
00:31:03.06\00:31:05.36
Just believing
it's going to happen,
00:31:05.39\00:31:07.03
there are conditions.
00:31:07.06\00:31:09.30
So how we're going
to deal with these,
00:31:09.33\00:31:11.80
once again how
we're going to deal
00:31:11.83\00:31:13.17
with this passage of scripture?
00:31:13.20\00:31:14.54
This is, you can say,
"Kenny, that's your dilemma."
00:31:14.57\00:31:16.91
I have a dilemma because
I've read scripture here.
00:31:16.94\00:31:19.07
And here what many of
the leading people say
00:31:19.11\00:31:20.71
and lot of people
have respect for, love for,
00:31:20.74\00:31:22.34
and they say blah, blah, blah.
00:31:22.38\00:31:23.71
Hey, what does the Bible say?
00:31:23.75\00:31:25.08
Colossians 4:12,
the Bible says that,
00:31:29.15\00:31:31.05
"Ye may stand, what?
00:31:31.09\00:31:32.42
Good, perfect and complete
in all the will of God."
00:31:32.45\00:31:36.02
Didn't say little bit
here, little bit there,
00:31:36.06\00:31:37.43
we'll make up and
just stand complete in him.
00:31:37.46\00:31:40.50
2 Timothy 3:17, the Bible says
00:31:40.53\00:31:44.23
that the Man of
God may be perfect
00:31:44.27\00:31:46.84
and I know that's mature,
I know that's growing up.
00:31:46.87\00:31:48.87
But I know there's a
difference in maturity
00:31:48.90\00:31:50.71
and I know there's a difference
00:31:50.74\00:31:52.54
in getting
complete victory over sin.
00:31:52.57\00:31:54.94
The Bible is clear.
00:31:54.98\00:31:56.54
Hebrews 6:1, it says,
"Let us go on to perfection."
00:31:56.58\00:31:59.71
What do I do with this?
00:31:59.75\00:32:01.75
You say, "Well, you're
reading some New Testament."
00:32:01.78\00:32:03.28
Yes, how about
the Old Testament?
00:32:03.32\00:32:06.39
Moses in Bible even
Moses, "Oh, yeah, we believe.
00:32:06.42\00:32:09.39
We like to read about Mo."
00:32:09.42\00:32:10.76
You know, Moses
wrote in Deuteronomy 18:13,
00:32:10.79\00:32:15.10
Moses said, "Thou
shall be perfect,"
00:32:15.13\00:32:18.70
big words.
00:32:18.73\00:32:21.64
Why?
00:32:21.67\00:32:23.00
Wow!
00:32:23.04\00:32:24.61
Did he, did he not have audience
00:32:24.64\00:32:26.88
with the King of the universe?
00:32:26.91\00:32:30.68
He understood a
little bit about perfection
00:32:30.71\00:32:32.78
and what it's going to
take to repopulate heaven.
00:32:32.81\00:32:37.62
Those precious,
guardian angels of ours
00:32:37.65\00:32:40.76
and all the angels of glory,
they want you to be there.
00:32:40.79\00:32:43.99
They want me to be
there, but boy, I'm telling you,
00:32:44.03\00:32:46.46
if I were, be
careful of this, Kenny,
00:32:46.49\00:32:48.70
if I were up there,
and I'm looking down
00:32:48.73\00:32:51.97
and I'm seeing,
00:32:52.00\00:32:54.94
okay, I don't use anybody,
I see myself and must say,
00:32:54.97\00:32:58.84
oh, Lord makes sure
he's ready to come up here
00:32:58.87\00:33:00.94
'cause we don't, we
don't need that mess up here.
00:33:00.98\00:33:05.68
Just like you in a sense
want to preserve your peace
00:33:05.71\00:33:08.98
and your
happiness here in your home,
00:33:09.02\00:33:10.79
and your family,
you want to protect it.
00:33:10.82\00:33:15.32
God said, "I'm
going to protect heaven,
00:33:15.36\00:33:16.69
sin will not rise up
again the second time."
00:33:16.73\00:33:20.50
These are awesome thoughts.
00:33:20.53\00:33:23.23
Moses said, "Be perfect."
00:33:23.26\00:33:24.83
God said in Genesis
17:1, "Be thou perfect."
00:33:24.87\00:33:31.57
Jesus commanded, you
remember in Matthew 5:48
00:33:31.61\00:33:34.94
that we'll spend a
little time talking about.
00:33:34.98\00:33:37.95
I think it's lesson number two.
00:33:37.98\00:33:39.98
Be there for perfect
00:33:40.02\00:33:41.35
as a Father which art in heaven.
00:33:41.38\00:33:42.72
You remember that?
00:33:42.75\00:33:44.09
Paul wrote, Colossians 1:28
that we may present, notice,
00:33:44.12\00:33:48.89
every man
perfect in Jesus Christ.
00:33:48.92\00:33:52.86
Wow!
00:33:52.89\00:33:54.53
Romans 6:6, what does that mean?
00:33:54.56\00:33:58.30
We should not serve
sin. We should not serve sin.
00:33:58.33\00:34:02.87
We shouldn't be
in slavery to sin.
00:34:02.90\00:34:04.97
It should not have a grip on us.
00:34:05.01\00:34:06.81
We need to be free
over and over free from sin.
00:34:06.84\00:34:10.55
That doesn't mean
attach to it occasionally,
00:34:10.58\00:34:12.08
once in a while, free.
00:34:12.11\00:34:16.08
In fact Romans 6:12 goes
on, it makes it heavy, says,
00:34:16.12\00:34:18.45
"Let not sin therefore
reign in your mortal bodies."
00:34:18.49\00:34:22.76
Don't let sin
reign, sit up, live there,
00:34:22.79\00:34:27.86
in that your mortal body.
00:34:27.90\00:34:30.90
To couple of verses down
Romans 6:14, the Bible said,
00:34:30.93\00:34:34.00
"For sin shall not
have dominion over you."
00:34:34.04\00:34:37.97
What?
00:34:38.01\00:34:39.34
For sin shall not
have dominion over you.
00:34:39.37\00:34:41.64
If Jesus is living in the heart,
00:34:41.68\00:34:43.58
the Holy Spirit is
invited to come in.
00:34:43.61\00:34:46.25
You convey your will to Him.
00:34:46.28\00:34:49.08
You give yourself to
Him, body, soul, and mind,
00:34:49.12\00:34:51.02
everything to Jesus
Christ and tell him,
00:34:51.05\00:34:52.79
you're not capable.
00:34:52.82\00:34:56.02
I've told him sometime,
00:34:56.06\00:34:57.39
"Oh Lord,
please take everything,
00:34:57.43\00:34:58.76
take me because if I don't,
00:34:58.79\00:35:00.13
the devil's
going to work me over.
00:35:00.16\00:35:02.63
And he will work
you over on your own.
00:35:02.66\00:35:04.83
You're not big enough
but through Christ certainly.
00:35:04.87\00:35:09.00
He will help us.
00:35:09.04\00:35:12.34
James 1:4 that you
may be perfect and entire,
00:35:12.37\00:35:15.18
wanting nothing,
perfect perfection.
00:35:15.21\00:35:18.31
All that we've been
studying this is going over,
00:35:18.35\00:35:20.38
just scratching a little
bit the surface of dozens
00:35:20.42\00:35:22.58
and dozens of notes
and pages I've written down
00:35:22.62\00:35:24.89
and talked about though
how interesting this is.
00:35:24.92\00:35:27.82
At every time we talk
about maturing, and perfecting,
00:35:27.86\00:35:31.09
and perfection,
00:35:31.13\00:35:32.46
we're talking about
living a life without sinning.
00:35:32.49\00:35:36.03
That means we're up
to every bit of light
00:35:36.06\00:35:38.00
that you have.
00:35:38.03\00:35:39.47
Probably safe to
say, "Oh, God help us.
00:35:39.50\00:35:41.40
I'm not setting up
some kind of a judge,
00:35:41.44\00:35:43.24
but I'm just wandering today,
00:35:43.27\00:35:44.71
should we not
challenge our self.
00:35:44.74\00:35:48.94
Ask that question
between you and God.
00:35:48.98\00:35:51.75
Am I living up to
every ray of light
00:35:51.78\00:35:54.65
that I know is truth?
00:35:54.68\00:35:56.38
If not we're
failing. We're backsliding.
00:35:56.42\00:36:00.96
I'm telling, by grace
of God I understand that.
00:36:00.99\00:36:03.32
Can't do it on your own.
00:36:03.36\00:36:05.83
But most
generally we'll find out,
00:36:05.86\00:36:07.40
well, I know this but I,
well, I know I shouldn't.
00:36:07.43\00:36:13.70
We're not living up
to every ray of light.
00:36:13.74\00:36:15.47
To live up to
every ray of light,
00:36:15.50\00:36:17.74
even if you just came
under, coming in to the faith.
00:36:17.77\00:36:20.78
Listen, the Bible says this,
00:36:20.81\00:36:22.14
"First the blade then the
ear and then the full corn."
00:36:22.18\00:36:27.55
What stage is perfection in?
00:36:27.58\00:36:30.65
Oh, it's simple but
that, first the blade
00:36:30.69\00:36:33.36
as soon as it
pops out of the soil,
00:36:33.39\00:36:36.12
it's perfect where?
00:36:36.16\00:36:37.66
Good, in that stage.
00:36:37.69\00:36:39.49
First the blade then the
ear is perfect in that stage,
00:36:39.53\00:36:42.63
it can be and then
the full corn, perfection.
00:36:42.66\00:36:46.37
But in every stage of my walk,
00:36:46.40\00:36:48.64
we talk about climbing a ladder,
00:36:48.67\00:36:50.77
in my, I can be
right with heaven.
00:36:50.81\00:36:54.08
I can be right with God
because of Jesus Christ.
00:36:54.11\00:36:56.88
That's so beautiful.
00:36:56.91\00:36:58.98
Righteousness by
faith, I believe it.
00:36:59.01\00:37:01.18
I can be right, it
doesn't mean you know everything
00:37:01.22\00:37:04.55
and you got
everything under control.
00:37:04.59\00:37:05.92
But listen, you're
living up to every ray of light
00:37:05.95\00:37:08.16
you know that God
does require that.
00:37:08.19\00:37:11.13
Live without sinning.
00:37:11.16\00:37:12.99
This statement is heavy duty
00:37:13.03\00:37:14.36
but why don't we
just considered anyway.
00:37:14.40\00:37:16.53
Sometime I get it
digging a hole and I just,
00:37:16.56\00:37:18.43
I get deeper and
deeper, some people say
00:37:18.47\00:37:20.64
but I'm going to keep on digging
00:37:20.67\00:37:22.00
'cause I think it's right,
00:37:22.04\00:37:23.37
I think we need at least
think about or pray about it.
00:37:23.41\00:37:26.17
I love the book,
00:37:26.21\00:37:27.58
one of the best
books ever written
00:37:27.61\00:37:28.98
on life of Christ,
outside the Word of God,
00:37:29.01\00:37:31.35
Desire of Ages.
00:37:31.38\00:37:33.31
Life of Christ, page 311,
notice what it says, it says,
00:37:33.35\00:37:38.35
"The tempters agency is not
to be accounted as an excuse.
00:37:38.39\00:37:44.09
I've heard people
say, "Well, I did it
00:37:44.13\00:37:46.09
because I know I
shouldn't have done it
00:37:46.13\00:37:48.16
but, I know, oh,
I didn't mean to do,
00:37:48.20\00:37:51.40
I will but then
they deserve it."
00:37:51.43\00:37:54.10
The tempters agency
is not to be accounted
00:37:54.14\00:37:56.57
as an excuse for one wrong act.
00:37:56.60\00:38:01.98
You had to think
about it or maybe you chose
00:38:02.01\00:38:04.41
or maybe that was you hadn't
gain that and you just did,
00:38:04.45\00:38:06.82
and you know it was
wrong but you did it anyway.
00:38:06.85\00:38:12.12
I don't...
00:38:12.15\00:38:13.62
hope I can say
this in a right way.
00:38:13.66\00:38:14.99
I don't want the
devil to be happy.
00:38:15.02\00:38:19.79
Did what?
00:38:19.83\00:38:21.20
I don't want the
devil to be happy.
00:38:21.23\00:38:23.43
You know when he's happy?
00:38:23.47\00:38:25.53
When he's got you
around the nap of the neck.
00:38:25.57\00:38:28.27
That's when he's happy.
00:38:28.30\00:38:29.64
This article goes on to said,
notice this, Satan is jubilant.
00:38:29.67\00:38:33.34
I'm not sure if I
understand all that is or not
00:38:33.38\00:38:35.08
but that may be
jumping him down screaming,
00:38:35.11\00:38:36.75
yelling and say,
"Oh, I've got him now."
00:38:36.78\00:38:39.65
Boy.
00:38:39.68\00:38:41.65
Just wants to be somebody
00:38:41.68\00:38:43.02
representing the
character of Jesus Christ,
00:38:43.05\00:38:44.82
he's supposed to be
somebody part of family of God.
00:38:44.85\00:38:46.69
Look, what a mess.
00:38:46.72\00:38:48.39
They're no better than we are.
00:38:48.42\00:38:49.99
He's jubilant when he hears
00:38:50.03\00:38:52.19
the professed
followers of Christ
00:38:52.23\00:38:54.63
making excuses for
their deformity of character.
00:38:54.66\00:38:57.67
How many times that
may be we've done that?
00:38:57.70\00:39:01.10
Lord, forgive us.
00:39:01.14\00:39:03.74
He loves it, he gets excited.
00:39:03.77\00:39:06.91
The devil, all his evil
angels of hell get jubilant.
00:39:06.94\00:39:11.11
They start laughing
and say, oh, this why?
00:39:11.15\00:39:12.78
Because we're making excuses
for our deformative character.
00:39:12.81\00:39:18.25
I was born in this
way, well, get the victory.
00:39:18.29\00:39:23.76
I was born on the
wrong side of tracks.
00:39:23.79\00:39:25.29
Well move on the other side.
00:39:25.33\00:39:27.66
This happened to me
while I was growing up.
00:39:27.70\00:39:30.17
Old things have passed away,
behold old things become new,
00:39:30.20\00:39:32.53
church, I'm talking to you.
00:39:32.57\00:39:34.44
I'm talking to myself.
00:39:34.47\00:39:37.07
Yeah, but I did that,
had this done, and this done,
00:39:37.11\00:39:39.04
and this done, and this done.
00:39:39.07\00:39:40.41
Remember old things passed away,
00:39:40.44\00:39:41.98
behold old things
become new in Jesus Christ.
00:39:42.01\00:39:44.85
He can create a
new, a clean heart,
00:39:44.88\00:39:46.68
renew a right spirit within you.
00:39:46.72\00:39:49.02
The mind can change.
00:39:49.05\00:39:50.39
Praise God,
isn't that wonderful?
00:39:50.42\00:39:53.32
Isn't that wonderful?
00:39:53.36\00:39:54.69
My mind can change all
these things that happened,
00:39:54.72\00:39:58.23
the love of Christ in me.
00:39:58.26\00:39:59.59
I can have, find
forgiveness in my own life.
00:39:59.63\00:40:01.86
I can find
forgiveness for others
00:40:01.90\00:40:03.57
and I can move on
by the grace of God.
00:40:03.60\00:40:07.34
To me that's so
exciting. I cannot.
00:40:07.37\00:40:10.34
If we made excuses
00:40:10.37\00:40:14.34
for the defects
of our character,
00:40:14.38\00:40:16.08
we need to say,
"God, please forgive me."
00:40:16.11\00:40:19.41
Article goes on...
00:40:19.45\00:40:21.35
Oh, boy, there's a
reason for all of this.
00:40:21.38\00:40:24.55
There's a reason for
this, remember he's jubilant,
00:40:24.59\00:40:27.16
he's happy, he
dancing around, carrying on,
00:40:27.19\00:40:33.40
look at the people of God.
00:40:33.43\00:40:35.40
Let me tell you.
00:40:35.43\00:40:37.17
The devil knows better than you.
00:40:37.20\00:40:39.40
Know better than I do.
00:40:39.43\00:40:41.07
The power of God
almighty and what God can do.
00:40:41.10\00:40:44.11
God talks to the enemy,
00:40:44.14\00:40:45.84
He tells the enemy just
like he did in the garden.
00:40:45.87\00:40:48.78
Be careful, let me paraphrase.
00:40:48.81\00:40:50.15
Get up in that
tree and don't move.
00:40:50.18\00:40:51.71
You can go there and
you can't go any further.
00:40:54.72\00:40:58.12
You can do this to Brother Kenny
00:40:58.15\00:40:59.62
but that's all you
can do and don't go a bit.
00:40:59.65\00:41:02.69
Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
00:41:02.72\00:41:04.83
Because he's a defeated foe.
00:41:04.86\00:41:07.20
Don't think I'm
making sport of this
00:41:07.23\00:41:08.56
but remember we
serve a God that's God.
00:41:08.60\00:41:12.00
The enemy is defeated.
00:41:12.03\00:41:13.90
And he can only do and
go where God allows him.
00:41:13.94\00:41:18.41
That's why He says,
00:41:18.44\00:41:19.77
"I'll not put more on
you than you're able to bear
00:41:19.81\00:41:21.74
without
providing a way of escape."
00:41:21.78\00:41:23.45
Oh, that's
helped me so many times.
00:41:23.48\00:41:26.88
Pray that's helped you.
00:41:26.92\00:41:29.28
Notice this, we're talking about
00:41:29.32\00:41:32.72
when we make
excuses as a Christian
00:41:32.75\00:41:34.69
because we did the wrong thing.
00:41:34.72\00:41:37.16
I wouldn't have done it
but he got right in my face.
00:41:37.19\00:41:40.63
Man, have I heard
that, talking to people,
00:41:40.66\00:41:44.93
marriage counsel,
whatever it might be,
00:41:44.97\00:41:47.04
"Oh, I didn't want to do
it but he had challenged me,
00:41:47.07\00:41:48.87
I know it wasn't right."
00:41:48.90\00:41:50.61
What if you
know it wasn't right?
00:41:50.64\00:41:53.58
I'll say everybody
hasn't done, I'm just...
00:41:53.61\00:41:55.51
We don't want
do the right thing.
00:41:55.54\00:41:57.48
Here's why,
00:41:57.51\00:41:59.35
it is these
excuses that leads to sin.
00:41:59.38\00:42:05.62
These excuses lead to sin.
00:42:05.65\00:42:08.59
And notice the next
statement is big and powerful,
00:42:08.62\00:42:11.23
there is no excuse for sinning.
00:42:11.26\00:42:16.80
Wow!
00:42:16.83\00:42:19.23
I've made plenty in my time
00:42:19.27\00:42:24.84
that I know that I shouldn't do,
00:42:24.87\00:42:26.21
and I'm not going to
do it by the grace of God.
00:42:26.24\00:42:28.24
It is what it is.
There is no, what?
00:42:28.28\00:42:33.38
Excuse for sinning, why?
00:42:33.42\00:42:35.65
Because...
00:42:35.68\00:42:37.05
Oh, glory, have mercy on us.
00:42:37.09\00:42:39.55
Because all of heaven...
00:42:39.59\00:42:43.99
all of heaven will be emptied,
00:42:44.03\00:42:47.76
if that's what
it takes to keep me
00:42:47.80\00:42:50.37
from doing the wrong thing.
00:42:50.40\00:42:51.80
Wow!
00:42:51.83\00:42:54.77
Did you know you
were that important?
00:42:54.80\00:42:57.57
It blows my mind.
00:42:57.61\00:43:00.78
Before God would
see one of his children
00:43:00.81\00:43:03.55
do the wrong thing,
if we plead and ask,
00:43:03.58\00:43:07.48
he will empty all of heaven.
00:43:07.52\00:43:10.35
I like this
song heaven came down
00:43:10.39\00:43:11.99
and glory filled my soul.
00:43:12.02\00:43:15.42
When at the cross,
the savior made be whole.
00:43:15.46\00:43:20.66
There's no excuse because
all of heaven is on your side,
00:43:20.70\00:43:24.70
child of God.
00:43:24.73\00:43:26.07
And then it goes on and gets
a little more specific here,
00:43:30.17\00:43:32.87
it says, there's no excuse
for sinning a holy temper,
00:43:32.91\00:43:37.65
notice a holy
temper, a Christ like life
00:43:37.68\00:43:42.25
is accessible
to every repenting,
00:43:42.28\00:43:46.39
believing child of God.
00:43:46.42\00:43:48.96
Wow!
00:43:48.99\00:43:50.83
The Son of Man, Oh,
listen, the Son of Man,
00:43:50.86\00:43:53.93
Jesus Christ was
perfect in His life.
00:43:53.96\00:43:56.87
So His followers are to
be perfect in their life.
00:43:56.90\00:44:01.90
He was the blameless Son of God.
00:44:01.94\00:44:05.11
He was God in the flesh.
00:44:05.14\00:44:08.01
His...
00:44:08.04\00:44:09.48
His character is to be ours.
00:44:09.51\00:44:12.58
In a time we
stop making excuses,
00:44:12.61\00:44:15.85
stop saying what
the preacher teaches
00:44:15.88\00:44:17.22
or somebody else
preaches and teaches
00:44:17.25\00:44:18.75
and somebody else believe.
00:44:18.79\00:44:20.12
What does the Word of God say?
00:44:20.16\00:44:24.43
What does the
passage of scripture say?
00:44:24.46\00:44:25.89
I want you to see
this because if we miss it,
00:44:25.93\00:44:28.56
if we think that
it's not available to us,
00:44:28.60\00:44:30.53
that is just a...
00:44:30.57\00:44:32.77
something that can never happen,
00:44:32.80\00:44:34.24
you will never try,
00:44:34.27\00:44:35.60
you will never
put forth an effort,
00:44:35.64\00:44:36.97
you will never pray,
00:44:37.01\00:44:38.34
you will never work
toward this by the grace of God.
00:44:38.37\00:44:40.31
And we know it's
all about heaven.
00:44:40.34\00:44:43.51
All I can do, I'm a lost
cause. You're a lost cause.
00:44:43.55\00:44:49.98
All I can do in
the plan of salvation
00:44:50.02\00:44:53.89
is to submit myself to Jesus.
00:44:53.92\00:44:58.06
It says work out your own merit.
00:44:58.09\00:45:00.46
Salvation with
fear and trembling,
00:45:00.50\00:45:01.83
you say, not it's
got to do with works.
00:45:01.86\00:45:03.50
No, but you will
have, we understand that.
00:45:03.53\00:45:07.27
My part in the plan of salvation
00:45:07.30\00:45:09.20
is giving myself to Jesus.
00:45:09.24\00:45:12.61
That's all.
00:45:12.64\00:45:13.98
Just giving myself to
Him fully and completely
00:45:14.01\00:45:17.21
and He says, "I'm
going to work this out.
00:45:17.25\00:45:20.75
You must bear my
character," Jesus says.
00:45:20.78\00:45:25.45
When you know
the portals of glory
00:45:25.49\00:45:27.42
as it where Christ must be
seen no longer I but Christ.
00:45:27.46\00:45:30.73
Wow!
00:45:34.90\00:45:36.23
So I'm just seeing
more and more His character
00:45:36.26\00:45:39.77
is to be ours.
00:45:39.80\00:45:42.60
I'll put that on my note
00:45:42.64\00:45:43.97
and I put three
check marks after
00:45:44.01\00:45:45.64
and I say, "Oh,
exclamation mark,
00:45:45.67\00:45:49.68
oh, Lord, help me."
00:45:49.71\00:45:54.45
But I see more and more
00:45:54.48\00:45:55.82
when I think about
the plan of redemption.
00:45:55.85\00:45:59.95
I think in lesson
two I've mentioned this
00:45:59.99\00:46:02.22
and I'm going to mention again
00:46:02.26\00:46:03.59
because I have to
consider in the whole,
00:46:03.63\00:46:05.46
the plan of redemption we
must consider complete recovery
00:46:05.49\00:46:10.50
from what?
00:46:10.53\00:46:11.87
From the power
of the enemy or sin.
00:46:11.90\00:46:14.27
That's what this whole
controversy is all about.
00:46:14.30\00:46:18.94
There will be a
people, say with me, church,
00:46:18.97\00:46:22.51
there will be a people
00:46:22.54\00:46:25.65
that will vindicate
the character of God.
00:46:25.68\00:46:30.49
For the enemy started
the lie in heaven says,
00:46:30.52\00:46:32.85
"It's not possible to be
obedient to live without sin."
00:46:32.89\00:46:37.89
Jesus came down
and proved him wrong.
00:46:37.93\00:46:39.49
Praise God.
00:46:39.53\00:46:41.86
And He said, "And furthermore
there will be a people
00:46:41.90\00:46:43.87
in the last days that will
live that victorious life."
00:46:43.90\00:46:49.94
That will live in
the side of a holy God
00:46:49.97\00:46:51.77
without a mediator.
00:46:51.81\00:46:53.38
Wow! Without sin.
00:46:53.41\00:46:55.64
So when I look at salvation,
00:46:55.68\00:46:57.05
I see complete
recovery from the enemy's power.
00:46:57.08\00:47:01.02
Complete means entire,
00:47:01.05\00:47:03.22
complete means
it comes to an end.
00:47:03.25\00:47:05.92
Complete means it's
finished. It's done with.
00:47:05.95\00:47:09.29
There's no parts that's lacking.
00:47:09.32\00:47:12.39
I have to consider
that, please remember.
00:47:12.43\00:47:14.80
Book Testimonies
to Ministers 506,
00:47:14.83\00:47:18.13
it says the latter rain,
00:47:18.17\00:47:19.50
notice it falls near
the close of the season.
00:47:19.53\00:47:22.47
So we're getting
this in our head,
00:47:22.50\00:47:23.84
it falls nears the
close of the season.
00:47:23.87\00:47:25.91
It ripens the grain and
prepares for the sickle.
00:47:25.94\00:47:31.48
This is what we need.
00:47:31.51\00:47:33.52
This is what we
should be praying for.
00:47:33.55\00:47:35.38
But remember
praying for the latter rain,
00:47:35.42\00:47:36.95
sin has to go.
00:47:36.99\00:47:38.32
The latter rain can't fall.
00:47:38.35\00:47:39.69
Without the latter rain
00:47:39.72\00:47:41.06
we can't go through
the time of trouble.
00:47:41.09\00:47:42.42
Without the latter
rain, equipping God's people
00:47:42.46\00:47:43.79
loud cry can't be heard.
00:47:43.83\00:47:45.16
We won't be sealed.
We won't make it heaven.
00:47:45.19\00:47:46.53
Oh, come on church, listen...
00:47:46.56\00:47:48.00
You think when we
reach the state of...
00:47:53.84\00:47:55.70
some people
will say sinlessness,
00:47:55.74\00:47:57.07
that's going to be it.
00:47:57.11\00:47:58.44
No.
00:47:58.47\00:47:59.81
Book Education 106,
notice this, it says,
00:47:59.84\00:48:02.31
even though a
person, come on now,
00:48:02.34\00:48:04.21
even though a person reaches
the state of sinlessness,
00:48:04.25\00:48:07.98
there is still a work
of growth and development.
00:48:08.02\00:48:12.49
It continues
under the latter rain
00:48:12.52\00:48:15.19
and after probation closes.
00:48:15.22\00:48:19.76
And individual, notice this,
00:48:19.79\00:48:21.46
as individuals by the
work done for God's people.
00:48:21.50\00:48:25.17
This is what God's going to
do individually for the people.
00:48:25.20\00:48:28.47
So that they can
help them to live,
00:48:28.50\00:48:30.67
equip them to live during
the time of Jacob's trouble.
00:48:30.71\00:48:34.08
Wow!
00:48:34.11\00:48:37.31
There was still growth.
00:48:37.35\00:48:39.58
I mean think of Jesus,
it's that He continued,
00:48:39.61\00:48:43.18
He was perfect
all throughout right,
00:48:43.22\00:48:45.29
but He said He
continued to live and grow.
00:48:45.32\00:48:49.29
Wow!
00:48:49.32\00:48:52.29
Isn't that wonderful to
know by the grace of God,
00:48:52.33\00:48:54.20
we're going to
continue to grow in the grace
00:48:54.23\00:48:56.06
and knowledge of
Lord Jesus Christ
00:48:56.10\00:48:57.83
in plan of salvation?
00:48:57.87\00:49:00.44
But let me just emphasize.
00:49:00.47\00:49:02.70
In our last
several minutes here,
00:49:02.74\00:49:04.47
emphasize the fact
that unless that early rain,
00:49:04.51\00:49:07.64
unless you invite him in,
confess and forsake the sin,
00:49:07.68\00:49:11.51
bring Him in,
conviction of the spirit.
00:49:11.55\00:49:13.18
I want Jesus to live
and reign in my heart.
00:49:13.21\00:49:16.15
That early rain comes
and unless it's done its job,
00:49:16.18\00:49:19.52
unless you make that
choice and that decision,
00:49:19.55\00:49:21.86
the latter rain
cannot bring that,
00:49:21.89\00:49:23.99
bring that seed to perfection.
00:49:24.03\00:49:27.26
As we quoted while ago,
00:49:27.30\00:49:28.63
we talked about it in Mark 4:28,
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"First the blade, then
the ear, then the full corn."
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Our characters
must reach full maturity
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before probation closes.
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It must.
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There will be, we've
read, we understand it.
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There will be no
character changes
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when Christ comes.
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Five Testimonies
466, notice this,
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in case we're
still doubting Thomas,
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you're probably
the remnant church,
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you need to get with the program
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and I do too.
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466 says, "The coming of Christ
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does not change our characters."
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It only fixes them
forever beyond all change.
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Did you get it?
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The coming of
Christ does not change.
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Is there something we
want to debate about that?
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I don't think so.
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The coming of Christ
does not change our character.
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It only fixes them
forever beyond all change.
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That's why over and over we say,
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"What do you
take to heaven, kids?
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What do you take to heaven?"
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We can only take our characters.
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Oh, character then have to
be perfected character in it,
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during the hours of
probation, not when Jesus comes.
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We must guard
this thought pattern
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because the
devil's going to use,
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try to use our
minds, if we give it to him,
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if we open up a door,
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he's going to try
to take your mind.
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But remember this,
the devil cannot touch,
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the devil cannot come in,
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the devil cannot have your mind,
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he cannot read the mind
unless you give it to him.
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Give him a door of opportunity,
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he will certainly come
in and he will take control.
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That's what we read before
in 2 Corinthians 10:5, it said,
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"We're to bring into
captivity every thought."
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Every thought to
the obedience of Christ,
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then to help us to
really gather the...
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in my mind the
magnitude of this a little book
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called Medical
Ministry page 114,
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Satan acts through
the mind possessed by him.
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What does he want to do?
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He wants to possess your mind.
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How does he do it?
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We know today we talked
about another lesson we have,
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through intemperance,
through things that we eat,
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things we do,
what's drugged, alcohol,
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all these things that
affect our thinking and our mind
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and drugs we take in.
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We're drug infested country.
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But we look down and
knows if everybody else,
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you know whether
they're taking this and this.
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Everything has its
effect. We need to be careful.
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You know, when Jesus
start dying on the cross
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and they offer
him a little some,
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little vinegar and some,
kind of help with the pain.
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He was afraid that it
would affect His thought.
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He didn't want to take anything
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that would affect the
clear communication with heaven.
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I don't need it. God help me.
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Again Desire of Ages 310 says,
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"He Jesus declares
that by the, listen,
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by the evil
thoughts or lustful look
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the law of God is transgressed."
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So see the devil
wants to take your eyes,
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he wants to take your ears.
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Well, I didn't do it.
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I just thought
it, that's still sin.
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Isn't that interesting?
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Because it exists
first, sin exists first where?
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Come on church,
in the mind, good.
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It exist in the mind and
then if there's an opportunity,
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we even judge to
that point to say,
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if you had opportunity,
you would've done this
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'cause God knows.
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Jesus said there's a
man think it in his heart.
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He said in Matthew, what is it?
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Five, 15:18, "If a man,
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whosoever look up
on woman to lust."
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Didn't have to do
anything just look eyes of lust,
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that's sin.
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The heart and the
mind can't be right.
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We had to pray God,
take my eyes, take my ears,
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take my brain, take everything,
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take my whole
body, soul, and mind,
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'cause if I don't
I get carried away,
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we're doing the wrong things,
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but with You
there it will be okay.
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Proverbs 23:7, "For
as he thinketh, remember,
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for as he thinketh
in his heart, so is he."
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You look around,
judge everybody, oh, well,
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they did this, they got
caught, they did this and that.
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As a man thinketh
in his heart, so is he.
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Desire of Ages 161, quickly,
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"The temple of
the heart is defiled,
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the temple of the heart is
defiled by sensual passions
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and unholy thoughts."
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Notice since
your passions lustful.
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And in the
original language it says,
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dealing with the body.
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Sensual, the other
word translated voluptuous.
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Wow, thoughts.
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The Bible says in
1 Corinthians 3:17,
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"If any man
defiled the temple of God,
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and him shall God destroy."
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For the temple of God is,
come on church, it's holy,
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which temple ye are.
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You defile it.
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The word means if you
ruin it, if your corrupt it,
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if you wither
it away as it were.
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You are the temple,
if you destroy willfully,
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you knowingly, we
will be destroyed.
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That's what the Bible said.
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Satan will control the thoughts.
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Just couple of minutes
left, stay with me church.
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How Satan controls the
thoughts 4 Testimonies 560 says,
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"But when they,
us, we allow the mind
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to be diverted from
God, then Satan comes in
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and controls the thoughts
and perverts the judgment."
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How is it that
the devil can come in,
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when the mind is diverted,
when we become side tracked,
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when we turn aside from God,
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when we take our
eyes off of Christ,
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when we stop
listening to the unction
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and the pleadings of
the Holy Spirit of God,
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then Satan comes in.
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He just doesn't come
in, he comes in to control.
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He comes in to take over.
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He comes in to ruin you.
He is going to be jubilant.
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He gets you to fall, they
laugh and they carry on and say,
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"We've got them now."
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Praise God for
the cross of Calvary.
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My Bible says as
we close, 1 John 3:3,
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"At every man that had
this hope, I have the hope,
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Jesus is going to come again."
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He's going to
return to this planet.
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Every man that
had this hope, notice,
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purified himself
even as he Christ is pure.
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Does that mean
that we can remove it?
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Absolutely not.
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But we can commit
our self in to the care
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and keeping of someone
who really cares for us.
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My friend,
heaven won't be the same
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if you're not there.
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If there's one
place that's missing,
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Christ will
always remember that,
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He'll know that.
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He's going to
prepare a place for you,
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he's going to come and
receive you in his self.
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He said where I'm
there you may be also.
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Oh, won't you make
that decision today.
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Most of church members
you had this preconceived idea
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about all the stuff here,
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we just do it and all
will be taken care of,
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just simply turn your
life over to Him everyday,
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trust Him.
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Trust His word.
See what takes place.
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I'm going to
kneel and have prayer
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for the decisions
that are made right now
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and decisions
that I need to make
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in my own personal life.
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And I ask you to pray
for me as I pray for you.
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Shall we pray?
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Loving Father in heaven,
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again we thank
you for your word.
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We thank you, it's powerful,
it's clear, it's strong.
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Your Holy Spirit accompanies it.
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And we thank you
for the decisions
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that have been made right now,
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the people that are
listening to your word,
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your Holy Spirit
convicts and converts.
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We thank you for
that in Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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Again we're very
grateful and thankful,
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you've joined us
here for the Pillars.
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Again I love
when you say Pillars
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because I know
it's a foundation.
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It has to be strong
based upon Jesus Christ.
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I know He's coming soon.
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He's going to
visit this planet soon.
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We need to be
ready. God bless you.
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We love you.
We'll see you next time.
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