Live from the
3ABN Worship Center.
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Welcome to the
Pillars of our Faith event.
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If I was more like You, I
would change the way I live.
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I'd be so slow to anger,
a little quicker to forgive.
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I'd never worry about tomorrow.
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I'd be more thankful for today.
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I'd find the joy
among the sorrow;
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and let it carry me away.
And if I was less like me,
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I'd find my
strength in loving You.
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I'd be as mighty as a river,
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and as gentle
as the morning dew.
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And I would walk into the fire,
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though my feet
were made of clay,
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I find the path of God's desire;
and let it carry me away.
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And in times of desperation,
when I'm weary and afraid,
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I would cling to my salvation;
and let it carry me away,
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let it carry me away. Amen.
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You may have noticed
that we've moved away
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from long and
flowery introductions
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during these meetings.
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For a number of reasons.
One, because it takes away
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from the time the speaker has.
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But perhaps more importantly
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we are not trying to
highlight the messenger.
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We are trying to
highlight the message,
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because it is about
the Pillars of our Faith.
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Our next speaker is one who
really needs no introduction.
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He is best known as
Speaker, Director for many years
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for the Breath of Life telecast.
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They are some 13
churches across North America
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that carry that
name that he himself
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was used by God to start.
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Elder C.D Brooks has
a long and impressive
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record of service
in the church of God,
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but more than that he
loves the Lord and has been used
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by the Lord, and
we are quite certain
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that God will use
him again this evening.
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The song that
Nathan is going to sing is,
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the language of
Canaan, a wonderful song
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the words of Ellen G. White.
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David, would you tell
us a little about that?
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The Bible says
that we haven't heard,
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we haven't seen, it
has even enter our hearts,
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things that God
has prepared for us.
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But, God showed Ellen vision,
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Ellen Gould before
she was married and became
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Mrs. White, a vision of
heaven she got to see it.
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And she was so
overwhelmed that she said,
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Oh that I could talk
in the language of Canaan,
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I could tell a little of
the glory of the better place.
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Nathan Young and then
Elder Charles D Brooks.
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Oh that I could talk
in the language of Canaan,
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I could tell a little of
the glory of the better place.
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Oh that I could talk
in the language of Canaan,
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I could tell a little of
the glory of a better world.
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Oh, yes.
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Where there is no night
And the Lamb is the light
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Where no tear drops fall
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Oh heaven it's
not like here at all
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Oh that I could talk
in the language of Canaan,
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I could tell a little of
the glory of a better world.
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Oh, yes.
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The wonderful things the
Lord showed me up heaven,
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I cannot describe. I
saw there tables of stone
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in which the names of
the multitude of the redeemed
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where engraved
in letters of gold.
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After we beheld the
glory of the temple,
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we went out, and Jesus
left us, and went into the city.
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Soon we heard His
lovely voice again, saying:
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"Come, My people, you have
come out of great tribulation,
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and done My
will; suffered for Me;
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come in to supper, for
I Myself will serve you."
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We shouted, "Alleluia! Glory!"
And entered into the city.
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And I saw a
table of pure silver;
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it was many miles in length,
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yet our eyes
could extend over it.
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I saw the fruit
of the tree of life,
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the manna,
almonds, figs, pomegranates,
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grapes, and many
other kinds of fruit.
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Then Jesus said, "You
must go back to earth again
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and relate to others
what I have revealed to you."
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Then an angel bore me
gently down to this dark world.
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Sometimes I think I
can stay here no longer,
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all things of
earth look so dreary.
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I feel very lonely here,
for I have seen a better land.
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Oh for wings like a dove
so that I could fly away.
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I'd sail across the river Jordan
to a better place, oh yes.
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Where there's sweet
repose And the living water flow
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And I'll thirst
no more O heaven,
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I long to reach
your shore, oh yes I do
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Oh that I could talk
in the language of Canaan
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I could tell a little of
the glory of a better world
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I could tell a
little of the glory
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of a better
world, oh better world.
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I surely feel that I need
a moment after that, amen.
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I'm so thankful for this
series that's being done,
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the Pillars of our
Faith. And I pray for the effect
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of changing us as a people
and then many others through us.
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Readings to you
again in the name of Jesus,
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it's good to be here
tonight. It has been established
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that sin began with a
bright and gifted angel,
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one who stood close to
the very throne of God.
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His name was Lucifer,
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a compound word
that means light bearer.
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And over the centuries he
became the purvey of darkness
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and death and destruction
and hatred and bitterness
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and hopelessness
and everything else
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that makes life
miserable down here.
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Lucifer designed a
cue, what he hoped to do
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was unseek God and become
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a leader of the
cosmic government.
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This was his
purpose, he accused God
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of being
arbitrary, of being selfish.
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He said that God
could not be loved
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as he claim to be and
at the same time be just.
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And if he were just
then he could not be loved.
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Lucifer attacked the law of God.
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He said it was
harsh and unreasonable.
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God requiring
obedience and the penalty
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for disobedience would be death.
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And oh, how he
made hay with that one.
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Remember Lucifer had
been a covering cherub,
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and one writer had
said he was so close
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to the very presence of God,
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he appeared to be
lighted with divinity.
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Here an angel with
great and marvelous privilege
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and potential
in a prefect place,
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a place of glory and peace.
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In a prophetic overview
John the revelator wrote,
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there was war in heaven.
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Michael fought
and the dragon fought
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and his angels
and prevailed not.
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Now I want to pause
while you say amen, amen.
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He fought but he lost,
I wanna come to that again
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before we are
finished here tonight.
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He fought and
prevail not, not only that
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but he was expelled from heaven.
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No more could he
have access to appear
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before the throne of God.
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He and his angels were
cast out into the earth.
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God had already
created the earth.
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You know, the
power of that story
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where there was nothing,
God said let there be something.
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There was light and all
the other things were created
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for the good of man,
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for his comfort,
for his sustenance.
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But God had also warned man
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about the fall of Lucifer
and what he might try to do.
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And man was aware that an
enemy was abroad in the land.
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Adam and Eve at
the time were perfect.
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We can use that
word rather easily,
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but need to think
about it they were prefect.
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But, Satan is called
the arch deceiver, premier,
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number one, there is
nobody like him in the universe.
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And so on an occasion
channeling himself through
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a serpent he encountered
Eve. Hath not God said
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that you shouldn't eat
of the trees of the garden.
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And Eve was quick to
come to God's defense,
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no he didn't say that.
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He said of all the trees
we may freely eat except one.
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Aha, said the
devil, that's the one,
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that's the one that
will make you like him,
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that's the one that will
give you the biggest thrills,
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that's the one that will
open your eyes and you will
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understand things that
only God can understand.
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But Eve said God has warned us,
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the day we eat
thereof we shall surely die,
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and Satan responded
ye shall not surely die,
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the first recorded
lie. Ye shall not surely.
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Actually, it's a
kind of double talk,
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you're gonna die but not surely.
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And most people on
earth today believe
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the dead folk are
dead, but not surely.
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That's why they
wouldn't walk through
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a graveyard at midnight.
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And some of the
laughter I hear is saying to me
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that some of you
wouldn't do it either.
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But, Bible says
Eve saw the fruit
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that it was pleasant
to the eye and to taste.
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Now if she tasted
it, she's gone too far.
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Now if you start
with pleasant to the eyes,
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it's important to
understand that all the trees
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in God's garden
were pleasant to the eye.
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No excuse for Eve
doing what she did,
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and she ate of it and
gave it to her husband
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and he ate of it, and
heaven was thrown into shock.
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Trauma reached the
very throne room of God.
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Sin had invaded
the Garden of Eden
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and had come into the
lives of the human family.
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And in the cool of the
evening along came God.
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You may do as you like,
you may disobey if you want to,
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but sooner or
later along comes God.
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And Adam and Eve
were hiding from Him,
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but God came seeking them.
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There was something
that needed to be done.
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You cannot take wrong and
make it right and vice versa,
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but God had another plan.
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First of all they were
driven from the garden,
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lest they partake
of the tree of life
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and become immortal sinners.
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I read this somewhere, I
couldn't find the reference,
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but it says God
and man belong together
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and the universe will
not know perfect bliss
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until God and man are reunited.
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Therefore I marvel
at the patience of God
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over these thousands of
years, but something else
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dreadful took place that day.
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Isaiah 59:2 your iniquities have
hidden the face of God from you,
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they have
separated you from God.
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We all know that man
in his present condition
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cannot look on the face
of God and live, cannot.
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Showing mercy God had to
withdraw from his creatures,
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but God appeared desperate
to communicate with man.
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No longer face to face
as He did with Adam and Eve,
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but he wants to
communicate with man.
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They are things
that man needs to know.
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Man needs to know in
his guilt and his shame
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that there is something in
God's plan called salvation.
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Man needs to know of
repentance and restoration.
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He needs to know
about immortality.
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He needs to know
about a coming Messiah,
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one who is as God becoming flesh
and going to a cross to die
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for what Adam and
Eve had just done.
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He needed to know all of that.
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To be honest with you He
needed to know John 3:16,
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For God so loved the world,
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that He gave His
only begotten Son.
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Because Christ was
given before the foundations
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of the earth were
laid. Adam needed to know.
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In the book of Amos
Chapter 3 and verse 7,
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we read that God would
do nothing without revealing
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His secrets to his
servants, the prophets.
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I picture it this
way in my imagination,
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there is golden lion
that runs from Adam and Eve
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in Eden all the way down
to the very end of the world,
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and God has placed true
prophets all along the way
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giving to human
beings the gift of prophecy.
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And one of the evidences
that it is coming straight
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from God, it always
agrees with the Bible,
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it always happens as God said
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and usually it
happens right on time.
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Here is a gift of love given
to an unlovely group of people.
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How long shall it be amongst us?
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The Bible says till we all
come into the unity of a faith.
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Now there is an
imagined problem here,
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God in communicating
can only use the truth.
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But, the devil can take
truth, mix it with error,
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create a concoction to
deceive. God cannot do that.
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Whatever He says
is always the truth.
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So as God placed
prophets along the way
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the devil caused false
prophets to proliferate.
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They are purposed to
thwart God's truth to alter it,
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to rest it, to confuse
it, to turn it against itself,
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to make right seem
wrong and wrong seem right,
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and out of this comes
a malaise of confusion.
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And the Bible says God is
not the author of confusion.
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In Ezekiel 22, you read of
some of these false prophets.
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The Bible says
they put no difference
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between the
Holy and the profane.
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Know any difference between
the clean and the unclean.
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False prophets
are always available.
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They love to dispute
truth, they love to argue,
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they love to get
angry over the word of God,
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they are desperate
people to embarrass heaven.
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But a true prophet
always agrees with the Bible,
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he has no problem.
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I remember the
first evangelist campaign
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I ever conducted
was in a small town,
00:24:38.79\00:24:42.21
and one day after
preaching a week or two.
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In those days we
had long meeting.
00:24:44.46\00:24:46.35
Someone came to me
and said you ought to know
00:24:46.36\00:24:49.82
that at such and such a place,
00:24:49.83\00:24:51.75
there is a learned
pastor and he spends his time
00:24:51.76\00:24:57.35
refuting what you're teaching.
00:24:57.36\00:24:59.20
I smiled at that,
he said wait a minute,
00:25:01.32\00:25:05.12
doesn't that
frighten you a little.
00:25:05.13\00:25:07.16
I said not really.
00:25:07.17\00:25:08.54
He said why
doesn't it frighten you?
00:25:08.55\00:25:11.21
I said because I
don't have to make mine up.
00:25:11.22\00:25:13.98
And if you tell
people what God said,
00:25:17.20\00:25:19.68
you are telling them
the truth, amen, amen.
00:25:19.69\00:25:23.94
So there was no
need to worry about
00:25:23.95\00:25:26.29
that sort of thing at all.
00:25:26.30\00:25:29.06
Now God in mercy could not
contend for the truth in person.
00:25:29.07\00:25:35.47
We've already established that.
00:25:35.48\00:25:37.52
His presence would destroy
those who wanted to hear.
00:25:37.53\00:25:42.22
So walk with me
down the centuries.
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We can't touch everybody,
but I like to began with Enoch.
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The Bible says he was a seventh
from Adam and he prophesied
00:25:48.85\00:25:52.56
concerning the second
coming of Christ way back there.
00:25:52.57\00:25:57.85
The message is
consistent, it doesn't change.
00:25:57.86\00:26:01.93
Then later on God sent Noah
00:26:01.94\00:26:06.27
and Noah had an
awesome prophecy,
00:26:06.28\00:26:08.73
a 120 years and
then will come a flood.
00:26:08.74\00:26:12.09
And the people crowded
around what's the flood?
00:26:12.10\00:26:15.84
Rain is gonna come down, and
drown all of the enemies of God.
00:26:15.85\00:26:21.52
What's rain? Now remember
it had never rained before.
00:26:21.53\00:26:27.77
And when the word got out
00:26:27.78\00:26:29.37
concerning the
prophecies of Noah,
00:26:29.38\00:26:32.70
the false
prophets had a field day.
00:26:32.71\00:26:35.64
I can imagine them
saying that them with old man
00:26:35.65\00:26:39.41
has sold all of his
holding which were considerable.
00:26:39.42\00:26:43.42
He sold his place and every dime
00:26:43.43\00:26:46.31
he got was put into wood
and tar for making an ark.
00:26:46.32\00:26:51.70
Can you imagine a great big
boat being built on dry land?
00:26:51.71\00:26:58.32
Not only that, but on a
hill to boot and they laughed
00:26:58.33\00:27:03.60
and they mocked
and they carried on.
00:27:03.61\00:27:07.50
But the Bible tells us
something about those days.
00:27:07.51\00:27:10.70
The morals of the
people were totally corrupt.
00:27:10.71\00:27:14.00
Every imagination was possessed,
00:27:14.01\00:27:16.68
corruption was
everywhere normalized,
00:27:17.53\00:27:20.89
truth was marginalized.
00:27:20.90\00:27:23.45
This is the way it was,
that was no way therefore
00:27:23.46\00:27:28.36
for them to understand
how disgusting sin is to God.
00:27:28.37\00:27:35.38
God came to the
point, He repented
00:27:35.39\00:27:37.83
He had made man
in the first place.
00:27:37.84\00:27:41.17
At the same time He told
His prophet to prepare an ark,
00:27:41.18\00:27:46.17
an ark of salvation.
Noah just kept on preaching.
00:27:46.18\00:27:52.63
When it was all over only
about eight people made it,
00:27:52.64\00:27:55.20
there were eight
as a matter of fact.
00:27:55.21\00:27:57.55
They were on the ark,
but actually there were more,
00:27:57.56\00:28:00.29
many of them had worked
on it chief amongst them
00:28:00.30\00:28:02.72
was Methuselah who died
just before the flood came,
00:28:02.73\00:28:08.51
but remember it had never rained
before and the intellectuals
00:28:08.52\00:28:14.22
amongst the people
laughed at the notion.
00:28:14.23\00:28:17.50
They spent time
reveling near the ark.
00:28:17.51\00:28:21.17
And one day they saw something
they had never seen before.
00:28:21.18\00:28:25.31
They saw animals
coming, and in orderly manner,
00:28:25.32\00:28:30.92
a parade right down main street
00:28:30.93\00:28:33.39
and they were
headed straight to the ark.
00:28:33.40\00:28:36.72
Now I have said this
before but it seems to me,
00:28:38.33\00:28:44.95
if I had been amongst the
unbelievers it seems to me.
00:28:44.96\00:28:50.04
Then if I saw two lions
walking behind seven sheep.
00:28:50.05\00:28:54.46
And two wolves
marching behind cattle.
00:29:01.94\00:29:07.06
It seems to me it would
have made an impression,
00:29:07.07\00:29:09.73
but you can go too far.
00:29:09.74\00:29:11.77
Ellen White says
through repeated transgression
00:29:11.78\00:29:15.05
you can come to the
place where you cannot see.
00:29:15.06\00:29:18.70
It's dangerous to keep
knocking what God has declared,
00:29:21.94\00:29:28.73
dangerous to come to the
place, all you know to do,
00:29:28.74\00:29:31.93
is fight against the Spirit
of Prophecy, it's dangerous.
00:29:31.94\00:29:36.71
You came to the
place where you cannot see.
00:29:36.72\00:29:41.98
And then after Noah was
shut up in that ark for awhile
00:29:41.99\00:29:46.98
and it seem nothing
was going to happen,
00:29:46.99\00:29:49.72
they resumed their
mocking and they're picnicking
00:29:49.73\00:29:53.39
near the ark to
laugh at the old man,
00:29:53.40\00:29:56.89
shut up in that thing
with only one window and no AC.
00:29:56.90\00:30:01.30
But one day they
looked and saw something else,
00:30:03.20\00:30:06.54
dark clouds began to march
00:30:06.55\00:30:09.89
across the
horizon and confederate.
00:30:09.90\00:30:13.60
Lighting flashed the
thread of God's vengeance,
00:30:13.61\00:30:16.45
they had never seen this either.
00:30:16.46\00:30:19.01
And all of a sudden
they heard it coming
00:30:19.02\00:30:22.23
from the
distance like dried peas
00:30:22.24\00:30:24.84
on a summer threshing floor,
the advancing columns of rain.
00:30:24.85\00:30:29.79
Then the spiritual
says didn't it rain,
00:30:29.80\00:30:33.95
rained all night long 40 days
00:30:33.96\00:30:38.01
without
stopping, didn't it rain.
00:30:38.02\00:30:44.20
Now let's look at another by the
name of Moses, a great prophet.
00:30:44.21\00:30:49.60
He and God were so
closely communed face to face,
00:30:49.61\00:30:53.31
meaning God was veiled,
00:30:53.32\00:30:54.95
but he was able to
talk to Moses one on one.
00:30:54.96\00:30:58.52
And Moses wanted a privilege,
00:30:58.53\00:31:00.79
he asked God to
allow him to see Him.
00:31:00.80\00:31:03.52
And God said, no if you
look at Me, you cannot live.
00:31:03.53\00:31:09.13
So I'm going to hide
you in the cleft of the rock
00:31:09.14\00:31:13.12
and pass by and you
will see the back of me.
00:31:13.13\00:31:17.07
The act to
glory one writer said.
00:31:19.26\00:31:23.06
After God is safely moved out
of range that was an effulgence
00:31:23.07\00:31:28.95
that remained and
that's what Moses saw.
00:31:28.96\00:31:33.30
But I want to tell
you that what he heard
00:31:33.31\00:31:35.69
was worth more than what he saw.
00:31:35.70\00:31:38.39
For he heard God
describe His own character.
00:31:38.40\00:31:42.69
I'm God, showing mercy,
I'm God, forgiving sins,
00:31:42.70\00:31:47.36
I'm God, who is compassionate
00:31:47.37\00:31:50.00
and yet I will
not clear the guilty.
00:31:50.01\00:31:53.53
And Moses wrote that down,
if he had only seen something,
00:31:56.28\00:32:00.50
it would have been for
him, but this is written down
00:32:00.51\00:32:03.60
for you and for me
like character of God.
00:32:03.61\00:32:10.03
Oh praise His name.
00:32:10.04\00:32:12.52
I love to hear
myself say God never lies.
00:32:12.53\00:32:17.66
So matter of fact the Bible says
it's impossible for God to lie.
00:32:17.67\00:32:22.61
The Bible says that the devil
is a liar, and the father of it.
00:32:22.62\00:32:27.80
And so we've got
that straight, haven't we?
00:32:27.81\00:32:31.55
But, I'm also convinced that
some people enjoy being lied to.
00:32:31.56\00:32:36.64
Otherwise how
could false prophets
00:32:39.31\00:32:42.29
prosper as they seem to do?
00:32:42.30\00:32:45.10
Some people enjoy being lied to.
00:32:47.57\00:32:50.06
Now I have a sympathetic
heart, you lose a loved one,
00:32:50.07\00:32:53.87
but you cannot comfort me if
I lose one by telling me a lie.
00:32:53.88\00:32:59.70
You cannot comfort me
by telling me my loved one
00:32:59.71\00:33:02.22
has shot right
straight of to heaven.
00:33:02.23\00:33:04.19
If that happened then
all of us will go out of here
00:33:04.20\00:33:07.75
and try to get killed tonight.
00:33:07.76\00:33:10.34
It would be a lot
better being in heaven
00:33:13.57\00:33:17.46
then even being here at 3ABN.
00:33:17.47\00:33:20.69
But ladies and gentlemen,
false prophets have proliferated
00:33:25.42\00:33:31.45
throughout the enter world
and they have a battery of lies.
00:33:31.46\00:33:40.15
And people eat it up and pay for
it out of their weekly checks.
00:33:40.16\00:33:47.73
One of the lies is that God is
to good to destroy this world.
00:33:47.74\00:33:52.58
My answer is,
He's too good not to.
00:33:52.59\00:33:55.56
Some things got to
put an end to this mess
00:33:55.57\00:33:58.18
and Jesus is going to make
00:33:58.19\00:33:59.82
that kind of
adjustment when He comes.
00:33:59.83\00:34:04.50
Another lie is that God
doesn't care how you worship?
00:34:04.51\00:34:09.94
What kind of
slip shot God is that?
00:34:09.95\00:34:14.20
And then there, He doesn't care
which day you worship Him on.
00:34:14.21\00:34:20.83
The law is done away with.
00:34:22.51\00:34:24.61
May I stop to
tell you true prophets
00:34:27.92\00:34:30.63
have never been very popular,
did you hear what I said?
00:34:30.64\00:34:36.54
And if you're
running a popularity contest
00:34:36.55\00:34:38.77
and you are the
entrant, you're in bad shape.
00:34:38.78\00:34:43.51
True prophets have
never been very popular.
00:34:46.77\00:34:50.72
False prophets
have the run of a palace
00:34:50.73\00:34:53.56
in the days of Ahab and Jezebel.
00:34:53.57\00:34:56.52
They loused
wearing semi royal robes,
00:34:56.53\00:35:01.92
they ate food paid
for by the taxpayers,
00:35:01.93\00:35:05.04
the false prophets.
00:35:06.51\00:35:08.51
But there was one true
prophet, was he at the palace?
00:35:08.52\00:35:12.26
No, he was out in the
wilderness running and hiding,
00:35:12.27\00:35:16.49
trying to stay alive,
that God had to send him
00:35:16.50\00:35:20.40
food to eat by ravens.
00:35:20.41\00:35:25.25
False prophets are popular,
00:35:25.26\00:35:28.93
true prophets
seemingly never are.
00:35:28.94\00:35:33.94
Then we speak of
the major prophets,
00:35:33.95\00:35:36.71
Isaiah, the gospel prophet,
Jeremiah, the weeping prophet,
00:35:36.72\00:35:42.37
weeping at the destruction
of his beloved temple
00:35:42.38\00:35:45.90
and a city of Jerusalem.
00:35:45.91\00:35:48.48
And after him there was Ezekiel
00:35:48.49\00:35:52.14
with his clarion
call to repentance.
00:35:52.15\00:35:55.02
He wanted people to
know that if you will
00:35:55.03\00:35:57.22
turn God will
forgive, but they ignored him.
00:35:57.23\00:36:02.49
Then there was
Daniel who was shown
00:36:02.50\00:36:05.13
the span of years all way
down to the end of the world,
00:36:05.14\00:36:10.29
but most importantly
to the coming of Messiah
00:36:10.30\00:36:15.24
and the offering of himself
in the midst of the weak.
00:36:15.25\00:36:20.68
Daniel actually told the people
when to expect the Lord to come.
00:36:22.85\00:36:30.66
Then they talk
about minor prophets,
00:36:30.67\00:36:33.38
these were regional prophets,
they had special messages
00:36:33.39\00:36:36.39
for special occasions
and special groups of people
00:36:36.40\00:36:40.30
from Hosea to Malachi.
00:36:40.31\00:36:42.64
There were
certain explosive truths
00:36:42.65\00:36:45.27
that God
revealed to his servants.
00:36:45.28\00:36:47.77
They were written
down to a blast sophistry,
00:36:47.78\00:36:52.45
falsehoods, false
Gods and false worship
00:36:52.46\00:36:58.30
and at the same time to
sustain God's true people.
00:36:58.31\00:37:04.20
This was what the prophets did.
00:37:04.21\00:37:07.37
Now no true prophet
it seems did any writings
00:37:07.38\00:37:14.19
between the 400 silent
years of the of two testaments,
00:37:14.20\00:37:18.41
Old and New.
00:37:18.42\00:37:20.41
All of that time
and no worthy prophet.
00:37:20.42\00:37:26.42
Chapter after
chapter in the Old Testament,
00:37:26.43\00:37:29.19
the Bible says Israel
did that which was evil
00:37:29.20\00:37:32.66
in the sight of the
Lord, what's wrong with us.
00:37:32.67\00:37:36.54
And so here
comes this long period
00:37:38.31\00:37:41.32
when God didn't honor
them with a true prophet.
00:37:41.33\00:37:45.46
When Jesus came later he
said you killed the prophets,
00:37:45.47\00:37:50.18
the true ones, you
hated them, you disliked them,
00:37:50.19\00:37:55.78
but during that 400 year period
tradition rose to the top.
00:37:55.79\00:38:01.18
For 400 years they were taught
00:38:01.19\00:38:03.56
by learned men in sassy doodle
robes and glittering jewels.
00:38:03.57\00:38:08.45
They made such an impression
that Israel was fractured
00:38:08.46\00:38:12.20
and split off in many
directions for all of that time.
00:38:12.21\00:38:19.85
And tradition was
exalted above truth.
00:38:19.86\00:38:25.26
Tradition became more
important than the truth of God.
00:38:25.27\00:38:32.39
And created even for those who
didn't wanna go along with it,
00:38:32.40\00:38:36.11
a burden of confusion with
man made extraneous nonsense.
00:38:36.12\00:38:43.43
Proclaim from desks like
this in synagogues everywhere,
00:38:43.44\00:38:49.64
nonsense, tradition.
00:38:49.65\00:38:53.45
God's plan and God's
will were set in character
00:38:53.46\00:39:00.19
and people thought
very little of God.
00:39:00.20\00:39:03.54
Men were dying,
facing eternity without hope
00:39:03.55\00:39:09.18
and listening to foolishness
00:39:09.19\00:39:12.32
where truth was
supposed to be proclaimed.
00:39:12.33\00:39:14.75
In the fullness of
time Jesus was born.
00:39:14.76\00:39:19.70
They were not ready to
receive him at all, why?
00:39:19.71\00:39:23.66
Because the
prophets had warned them,
00:39:23.67\00:39:27.30
the prophets had told them
00:39:27.31\00:39:29.52
that a virgin would
conceive and bare a son.
00:39:29.53\00:39:32.06
Michael even told them
the town he would be born in,
00:39:32.07\00:39:36.43
the little town of Bethlehem.
00:39:36.44\00:39:39.46
Now you know how we humans
think, I thought to myself.
00:39:39.47\00:39:43.59
If God is gonna stick
his neck out and name a town,
00:39:43.60\00:39:49.18
then it seems to
me that he would go
00:39:49.19\00:39:51.99
to that town to find the virgin.
00:39:52.00\00:39:55.44
Now I cannot believe they
were no virgins in Bethlehem.
00:39:55.45\00:39:59.30
I will tell you what,
there was a jealous king
00:40:01.15\00:40:05.78
who would order
little ones slain.
00:40:05.79\00:40:08.66
God knew what he was doing.
00:40:10.23\00:40:12.30
He kept Mary up
there in Nazareth.
00:40:12.31\00:40:14.33
Now I was over there and I said
00:40:14.34\00:40:15.85
how far is it
from here to Bethlehem.
00:40:15.86\00:40:18.67
And my interpreter said roughly
75 miles as the cool fly.
00:40:18.68\00:40:24.35
Okay, after six months
we were down there, no,
00:40:24.36\00:40:28.26
seventh month,
no, eighth month, no.
00:40:28.27\00:40:30.43
She was great with child
where her husband decided
00:40:30.44\00:40:34.15
under the instruction of
God they head down to Bethlehem.
00:40:34.16\00:40:38.26
Now what man in his
right mind would take his wife
00:40:38.27\00:40:41.01
expecting a baby at any
time, 75 miles on a donkey.
00:40:41.02\00:40:44.64
Well he had to travel
slowly, others passed him by.
00:40:44.65\00:40:48.02
When he got their,
there was no room in the end,
00:40:48.03\00:40:50.99
went away in a
manger, no crib for his bed,
00:40:51.00\00:40:54.72
the little Lord Jesus laid down
his sweet hand in Bethlehem,
00:40:54.73\00:40:59.62
would you say
amen out there. Amen.
00:40:59.63\00:41:01.77
It had to come to
pass or there would be,
00:41:01.78\00:41:06.01
there would be in
scripture a falsehood.
00:41:06.02\00:41:09.83
One day, a rough and ready
preacher emerged from the desert
00:41:09.84\00:41:13.72
where he had been
educated, his name was John.
00:41:13.73\00:41:18.62
When he had broken in
on the scene he attracted
00:41:18.63\00:41:22.35
great masses of people
including prophets and priests,
00:41:22.36\00:41:26.90
who came out to see the
spectacle, a true prophet.
00:41:26.91\00:41:33.17
A man who didn't
sound like the others,
00:41:33.18\00:41:37.03
a man who didn't
dress like the others,
00:41:37.04\00:41:40.84
a man who didn't
eat like the others.
00:41:40.85\00:41:44.76
Are you getting it?
00:41:44.77\00:41:47.49
And finally let me say
00:41:47.50\00:41:49.52
one who didn't
preach like all the others.
00:41:49.53\00:41:55.48
But, it was clear
to everybody who came
00:41:55.49\00:41:57.66
with an ear short
that the power of God
00:41:57.67\00:42:00.17
rested upon him to such
an extent that the people
00:42:00.18\00:42:03.50
crowed around after
service to ask questions.
00:42:03.51\00:42:06.81
Are you the Messiah? No.
00:42:06.82\00:42:08.77
Are you Elijah
risen from the dead? No.
00:42:08.78\00:42:11.13
Then who in the world are you?
00:42:11.14\00:42:13.03
I'm the voice of one
crying in the wilderness,
00:42:13.04\00:42:16.36
prepare ye the way of the Lord.
00:42:16.37\00:42:18.76
Not only that, but this humble
man said one comes after me,
00:42:18.77\00:42:23.08
whose shoes I'm
not worthy to unlatch.
00:42:23.09\00:42:28.20
And then one day as he
was surveying the crowd,
00:42:28.21\00:42:32.31
he saw someone coming.
00:42:32.32\00:42:35.32
Recognized him immediately
and he cried out behold.
00:42:35.33\00:42:39.37
You ever stop
with words like that,
00:42:39.38\00:42:41.10
what do you mean behold?
00:42:41.11\00:42:42.45
It means hey
look, everybody look,
00:42:42.46\00:42:46.13
behold here he
comes, that's right,
00:42:46.14\00:42:49.68
the Lamb of God
which taketh away
00:42:49.69\00:42:52.08
the sins of the world, amen.
00:42:52.09\00:42:55.95
That was John, and the Lord said
00:42:55.96\00:43:00.25
there was never a
greater prophet than John.
00:43:00.26\00:43:04.00
I wanted to throw
that in right there,
00:43:04.01\00:43:06.11
because some people think
that the only true prophets
00:43:06.12\00:43:09.19
are those who have books
of the Bible named after them.
00:43:09.20\00:43:13.17
There is no book
called John the Baptist.
00:43:13.18\00:43:16.64
And there are some
others I could name right now.
00:43:16.65\00:43:20.01
Oh my friends, we must accept
God's word from God's people.
00:43:20.02\00:43:28.29
No matter what happens
to us, John ended his career
00:43:28.30\00:43:32.56
with his head chopped
off and placed on a platter
00:43:32.57\00:43:36.78
and delivered to a
voluptuous adulteress.
00:43:36.79\00:43:39.65
But, Jesus said there was never
a greater prophet than this one.
00:43:41.48\00:43:46.98
Prophets had told about Christ,
about the place of his birth.
00:43:46.99\00:43:51.59
They also told about his arrest,
the torture he would endure,
00:43:51.60\00:43:56.33
the whipping that
would come from strong men
00:43:56.34\00:43:59.48
with their cats of nine tails
and even his crying I thirst.
00:43:59.49\00:44:05.70
Where that is
written the Bible says
00:44:05.71\00:44:07.38
that the scripture might
be fulfill, he cried I thirst.
00:44:07.39\00:44:12.78
And when they
offered him the wrong thing,
00:44:12.79\00:44:15.91
he simply turned
away dropped his head
00:44:15.92\00:44:19.47
in the hall of his
own shoulder and died.
00:44:19.48\00:44:23.93
Jesus the son of God,
the devil hastily called
00:44:23.94\00:44:27.86
a conference with his
demons and all those humans
00:44:27.87\00:44:31.08
who cooperate with him,
they got to do one thing.
00:44:31.09\00:44:33.95
They got to do one
thing, at all cost,
00:44:33.96\00:44:36.95
they've got to do one thing.
00:44:36.96\00:44:38.32
They got to keep Him in
the tomb at least four days.
00:44:38.33\00:44:43.73
Why four?
00:44:43.74\00:44:44.86
Because he has said after
the third I'm gonna arrive,
00:44:44.87\00:44:48.78
oh I love a God
you can count on.
00:44:48.79\00:44:51.99
Even the true God in
death could be counted on
00:44:52.00\00:44:57.23
for divinity never dies,
00:44:57.24\00:44:58.71
would you say
amen out there? Amen.
00:44:58.72\00:45:00.85
As a matter of fact Jesus said,
00:45:00.86\00:45:02.11
I laid on my
life and I take it up,
00:45:02.12\00:45:04.85
nobody takes it from me.
00:45:04.86\00:45:07.60
But all of them were conspiring
to keep Christ in the tomb,
00:45:07.61\00:45:12.90
but on Sunday morning
the earth quirked and shook,
00:45:12.91\00:45:16.87
what's going on? An
angel had touched down.
00:45:16.88\00:45:21.97
That angel
rolled the stone away,
00:45:21.98\00:45:24.68
and Jesus walked out of there.
00:45:26.26\00:45:30.12
The great king of the universe
00:45:30.13\00:45:32.50
had rested a hard fought
victory over death and hell.
00:45:32.51\00:45:38.23
I've been to both spots,
00:45:38.24\00:45:40.04
the traditional one over
which they built a church
00:45:40.05\00:45:43.34
and the one Elder HMS
Richards told me is the one.
00:45:43.35\00:45:47.63
I've been to both, we even
did television at that one.
00:45:47.64\00:45:51.38
And I remember the
first day I walked in
00:45:51.39\00:45:53.32
and I was so amazed to look
around at a roughly hewn tomb.
00:45:53.33\00:45:59.27
And the man in charge said,
00:45:59.28\00:46:00.71
if you've come here
seeking Jesus, He is not here.
00:46:00.72\00:46:06.59
He has risen, I turn and
nearly jumped up in the air
00:46:06.60\00:46:10.61
I said man
that's what I believe,
00:46:10.62\00:46:13.63
that's what I
believe with all my heart.
00:46:13.64\00:46:17.04
Christ spent 40 days
with his beloved church,
00:46:17.05\00:46:20.03
told them to wait
on the Holy Spirit,
00:46:20.04\00:46:21.77
then go out to preach
the gospel in all the world.
00:46:21.78\00:46:25.80
And the message
that is preached in truth
00:46:25.81\00:46:29.02
to the worldly
wicked is boring..
00:46:29.03\00:46:32.52
That message to the
immoral is threatening.
00:46:32.53\00:46:36.46
That message to the
power hungry is irrelevant.
00:46:36.47\00:46:41.32
That message to
revelers is foolishness,
00:46:41.33\00:46:46.28
but let me tell you to
honest soul seeking a savior,
00:46:46.29\00:46:51.03
it is hope to those
who are insatiably thirsty.
00:46:51.04\00:46:57.43
It is the water
of light to those
00:46:57.44\00:46:59.74
who are starving
for spiritual bread,
00:46:59.75\00:47:02.66
it is the bread of life
00:47:02.67\00:47:05.32
to lost men
everywhere, it is salvation.
00:47:05.33\00:47:10.18
And to those who
are abound in sin
00:47:10.19\00:47:13.99
and can't see him
to ever break loose.
00:47:14.00\00:47:17.87
The message that God
delivers through His prophets
00:47:17.88\00:47:22.22
is a message of
freedom, that's right.
00:47:22.23\00:47:25.39
God can set you free.
00:47:25.40\00:47:28.22
Now he told His disciples,
00:47:28.23\00:47:29.61
I'm gonna go away
and I will come again.
00:47:29.62\00:47:31.38
Ellen White says they
wanted him to come quickly.
00:47:31.39\00:47:35.37
They really did, and by the way,
00:47:35.38\00:47:37.48
people still say my
Lord delayeth his coming.
00:47:37.49\00:47:41.72
And one day I
wanted to deal with that
00:47:41.73\00:47:43.28
and I read from
the Lord servant.
00:47:43.29\00:47:45.24
She said that never was a time,
00:47:45.25\00:47:48.62
that that message should
not have presented with urgency.
00:47:48.63\00:47:53.96
So we are correct in
making the message urgent.
00:47:53.97\00:47:59.07
The business of when
he will come is upto Him,
00:47:59.08\00:48:02.61
but Paul wrote a letter to
the church at Thessalonica.
00:48:02.62\00:48:06.01
And He said let
no man deceive you,
00:48:06.02\00:48:07.65
that day will not come except
that come a falling away first
00:48:07.66\00:48:11.26
and that man of sin be revealed,
the son of perdition who apposed
00:48:11.27\00:48:15.61
and exalted themselves
above all that is called God.
00:48:15.62\00:48:18.84
So that he has God
sited in the temple of God
00:48:18.85\00:48:21.76
showing himself that He is God.
00:48:21.77\00:48:24.30
And when Paul wrote
those words to the church,
00:48:24.31\00:48:28.53
whether he
intended to do so or not.
00:48:28.54\00:48:31.89
He was predicting the
dark ages a 1260 year period,
00:48:31.90\00:48:39.75
when mean would feud the
true prophets all together.
00:48:39.76\00:48:45.36
A time when tradition would
come in, and replace truth,
00:48:45.37\00:48:50.49
a time when
rank and raw paganism
00:48:50.50\00:48:54.15
would be baptized in the church.
00:48:54.16\00:48:58.19
A time when the saints of God
00:48:58.20\00:49:00.41
would yield their lives
as martyrs for the truth,
00:49:00.42\00:49:06.30
by the
millions, by the millions.
00:49:06.31\00:49:12.40
And so, John wrote, try the
spirits whether they be of God.
00:49:12.41\00:49:19.70
Why should we do that?
00:49:19.71\00:49:21.36
Because many false prophets
are going out into the world.
00:49:21.37\00:49:25.87
But that came after the
dark ages a reformation,
00:49:27.55\00:49:30.90
light was coming again,
00:49:30.91\00:49:33.12
Martin Luther
was called to Worms.
00:49:33.13\00:49:36.68
He thought to debate
what his thesis was all about.
00:49:36.69\00:49:40.61
But, instead he was
brought down before rulers
00:49:40.62\00:49:43.55
and urged and
commanded to recant.
00:49:43.56\00:49:47.23
Luther asked for
time, went into a room,
00:49:47.24\00:49:50.42
this bright man
went into a room,
00:49:50.43\00:49:52.63
I read all by
himself and prayed to God.
00:49:52.64\00:49:56.42
He said I'm but a child,
00:49:56.43\00:49:58.14
not knowing how to
go out and come in.
00:49:58.15\00:50:00.34
Before John Act he
was a consummate terror,
00:50:00.35\00:50:03.24
but before God I'm just a child.
00:50:03.25\00:50:05.85
When he came back out
00:50:05.86\00:50:07.39
and Charles Firth
asked him if he would recant,
00:50:07.40\00:50:09.67
he said it is dangerous
to go against conscience,
00:50:09.68\00:50:12.71
I cannot, I will not recant.
00:50:12.72\00:50:16.07
Lord, have mercy
on me, here I stand.
00:50:16.08\00:50:19.64
He went home without attendance,
00:50:21.20\00:50:23.55
but Duke Frederick
of Saxony kidnapped him,
00:50:23.56\00:50:26.79
took him to one of his palaces
00:50:26.80\00:50:29.05
and when Luther
understood that he was free,
00:50:29.06\00:50:32.19
he not only wrote a
mighty fortuities of God,
00:50:32.20\00:50:35.71
but he began to
write the word of God
00:50:35.72\00:50:38.38
from the Latin to the German.
00:50:38.39\00:50:40.07
And when he got it
ready, another German
00:50:40.08\00:50:42.62
by the name of Gutenberg
had a printing press ready
00:50:42.63\00:50:46.03
and the word is now
being scatted everywhere.
00:50:46.04\00:50:49.15
The lights have come on again
00:50:49.16\00:50:51.87
after the dark ages
all over the world, amen.
00:50:51.88\00:50:55.62
There are things
that I wanted to tell you
00:50:55.63\00:50:57.93
and I'm abound by
the tyranny of the clock.
00:50:57.94\00:51:02.90
But peoples minds were darkened,
00:51:02.91\00:51:05.51
they were folk who
killed in the name of God.
00:51:07.01\00:51:09.47
They thought they
were doing God's service.
00:51:09.48\00:51:12.54
They were people who had
no understanding of truth
00:51:12.55\00:51:16.10
and what true
prophets had already said.
00:51:16.11\00:51:19.78
But then almost
immediately God pointed these
00:51:19.79\00:51:23.65
who now have light, to the
Three Angels Messages, amen.
00:51:23.66\00:51:27.28
The first one of them
was that you must fear God
00:51:27.29\00:51:30.84
and give glory to Him
00:51:30.85\00:51:31.86
for the obvious judgment
is come and worship Him.
00:51:31.87\00:51:34.79
What do you mean worship Him?
00:51:34.80\00:51:35.87
You have been worshiping a man
00:51:35.88\00:51:37.15
sitting on a throne
calling himself God,
00:51:37.16\00:51:39.97
but now that you are free
00:51:39.98\00:51:41.45
and the word has
returned worship Him, amen.
00:51:41.46\00:51:45.12
Well who is him?
00:51:45.13\00:51:47.29
He that made the
heavens, the earth,
00:51:47.30\00:51:49.42
the sea and the
fountains of water.
00:51:49.43\00:51:51.85
And the protestant reformation
came to a screeching halt
00:51:53.13\00:51:56.12
and they began to divide
themselves according to creeds.
00:51:56.13\00:52:00.72
So the second
angel went and said
00:52:00.73\00:52:04.82
Babylon is fallen, is fallen.
00:52:04.83\00:52:08.22
You wonder why it is said
twice, I read one suggestion,
00:52:08.23\00:52:11.94
it referred not only to the
beast, but the false prophets,
00:52:11.95\00:52:15.47
not only to them but to
Protestants who did not protest.
00:52:15.48\00:52:21.25
And finally, out of
that God saw a group
00:52:21.26\00:52:25.62
which he calls the remnant,
00:52:25.63\00:52:28.14
the dragon was
wroth with a woman
00:52:28.15\00:52:30.61
and went to make
war with the remnant.
00:52:30.62\00:52:32.28
The remnant means those
who remain, the last ones.
00:52:32.29\00:52:36.32
The devil has declared
war on these, the remnant.
00:52:36.33\00:52:41.18
That was a great
disappointment in 1844,
00:52:42.80\00:52:45.03
don't have time to
develop it, but you know it.
00:52:45.04\00:52:47.39
But, that wasn't
the first nor the last.
00:52:47.40\00:52:50.91
The greatest
disappointment of all
00:52:50.92\00:52:52.70
was when the Lord
was hanged on a cross.
00:52:52.71\00:52:56.06
And church thinking
he was the deliverer,
00:52:56.07\00:52:59.66
beheld the God
dying on the cross,
00:52:59.67\00:53:04.00
that was a
greater disappointment,
00:53:04.01\00:53:06.52
but now here comes one.
00:53:06.53\00:53:08.62
I understand there were up to
00:53:08.63\00:53:10.51
500,000 believers in
the Advent of Christ,
00:53:10.52\00:53:14.66
not Seventh-day Adventist
Advent of Christ 500,000.
00:53:14.67\00:53:19.45
After October 22,
1844 they were quickly
00:53:19.46\00:53:23.56
scaled down to about 5000
00:53:23.57\00:53:27.13
and in various
little knots they met
00:53:27.14\00:53:29.99
and they prayed
sometimes all night long
00:53:30.00\00:53:33.11
and finally they express to God
00:53:33.12\00:53:35.79
their everlasting confidence
in Him, you are the truth.
00:53:35.80\00:53:40.65
We made a mistake not you,
00:53:40.66\00:53:42.13
and all we want you to is
reveal to us what we should do
00:53:42.14\00:53:47.04
and we are
willing to do it anything
00:53:47.05\00:53:50.18
and I could imagine
God saying, anything?
00:53:50.19\00:53:53.10
Yes, Lord
anything, will you keep
00:53:53.11\00:53:55.70
My commandments instead of man.
00:53:55.71\00:53:57.42
Yes, Lord.
00:53:57.43\00:53:59.07
If I show you further truth
will you do that? Yes, Lord.
00:53:59.08\00:54:03.96
I believe they were willing
to do anything, anything.
00:54:03.97\00:54:11.05
Now there is something
00:54:11.06\00:54:12.03
I hope you've caught
that maybe you haven't.
00:54:12.04\00:54:15.39
During all this
period true prophets
00:54:15.40\00:54:19.12
showed up to help
God's true believers.
00:54:19.13\00:54:24.02
And where people are committed
to full obedience to God,
00:54:24.03\00:54:27.73
He sends a prophet and
so as they prayed for light,
00:54:27.74\00:54:34.07
God called a young woman,
her name was Ellen Harmon,
00:54:34.08\00:54:40.87
she was reluctant to do
this and I don't blame her,
00:54:40.88\00:54:44.07
because she understood
somewhat what it meant.
00:54:44.08\00:54:47.65
She never called
herself a prophet,
00:54:47.66\00:54:49.50
she called herself a
messenger of the Lord.
00:54:49.51\00:54:52.31
She had been tested by doctors
00:54:52.32\00:54:54.25
like Daniel
sometimes without air,
00:54:54.26\00:54:57.12
without breath
coming from her body,
00:54:57.13\00:55:00.77
God chose her and God used her.
00:55:00.78\00:55:05.69
And as soon as this happened
along came the counterfeits
00:55:05.70\00:55:09.50
and I will not take
time to go into all of that.
00:55:09.51\00:55:12.62
But, people were coming claiming
to be true prophets of God.
00:55:12.63\00:55:17.47
But the one God had chosen
00:55:17.48\00:55:18.74
he knew and he
give special wisdom to,
00:55:18.75\00:55:21.90
and that one became
co-founder of this church.
00:55:21.91\00:55:25.38
And that one guided this church
00:55:25.39\00:55:28.57
into its health program,
hospitals around the world.
00:55:28.58\00:55:32.27
It's educational program,
00:55:32.28\00:55:33.60
a chain of universities,
colleges, academies
00:55:33.61\00:55:36.80
and great schools
around the face of the earth.
00:55:36.81\00:55:40.26
Family life, God made
it clear that pornography,
00:55:40.27\00:55:44.84
even masturbation is out
of harmony with his will.
00:55:44.85\00:55:48.81
He told her and she told
the church, publishing houses,
00:55:48.82\00:55:53.15
temperance work
everywhere her writings edify,
00:55:53.16\00:55:57.58
keep the church on
focus, on point God chose well,
00:55:57.59\00:56:05.55
when he chose this
woman to be his servant.
00:56:05.56\00:56:10.22
And God said I will never
leave you nor forsake you, amen.
00:56:10.23\00:56:14.01
When our church at
my home made a decision
00:56:14.02\00:56:19.17
that they would save my
mother from Sabbath keeping.
00:56:19.18\00:56:24.04
A committee was
chosen they came,
00:56:24.05\00:56:26.69
and mother wouldn't argue,
00:56:26.70\00:56:28.99
but she'd ask questions
and confounded the committee.
00:56:29.00\00:56:33.08
And when they went back,
00:56:33.09\00:56:35.55
the head deacon turned
and handed her a package.
00:56:35.56\00:56:38.75
He said I think you like this
and when he handed it to her,
00:56:38.76\00:56:42.77
she give me scissors,
I cut it open and inside
00:56:42.78\00:56:45.86
was the Great
Controversy by Ellen White.
00:56:45.87\00:56:47.83
We had never heard of
Seventh-day Adventist.
00:56:47.84\00:56:51.38
We had no books, we
had no teachers, nothing
00:56:51.39\00:56:54.82
and the Methodist deacon brought
us the Great Controversy.
00:56:54.83\00:56:58.19
Now, I want to
read the last paragraph
00:56:58.20\00:57:01.44
and it is one of most comforting
things I have ever read.
00:57:01.45\00:57:05.64
It says the Great
Controversy is ended, amen.
00:57:05.65\00:57:10.76
Sin and sinners are no more.
The entire universe is clean.
00:57:10.77\00:57:17.43
One pulse of
harmony and gladness
00:57:17.44\00:57:20.26
beats through the vast creation.
00:57:20.27\00:57:22.69
From Him who created all,
00:57:22.70\00:57:24.56
flow life and
light and gladness,
00:57:24.57\00:57:26.34
throughout the
realms of illimitable space.
00:57:26.35\00:57:29.42
From the minutest
atom to the greatest world,
00:57:29.43\00:57:31.93
all things,
animate and inanimate,
00:57:31.94\00:57:33.93
in their unshadowed
beauty and perfect joy,
00:57:33.94\00:57:36.73
declare that God is love.
00:57:36.74\00:57:39.48