The last chapter of
the last book in the Bible,
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Revelation 22:11.
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Is a fascinating
verse, it says that,
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one day soon Jesus
is gonna finish His work
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in that sanctuary in heaven
that we have been looking at,
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is gonna stand up
and say this is it.
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"Let him who does
wrong continue to do wrong,
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let him who does
right continue to do right,
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let him who is holy
continue to be holy.
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Behold I am coming soon
and my reward is with me."
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Sometime and we
don't know how long
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but sometime before Jesus comes
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He will say the
righteous stay righteous,
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the holy stay holy,
the wicked stay wicked,
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I am coming soon.
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In other words
before Jesus comes
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the Three Angels' Messages
will sound to the whole world.
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Every living person
on earth is going to have
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the opportunity to
hear the truth about God.
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The Mark of the
Beast will be enforced.
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Everyone will
be forced to choose
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worship God the creator
or the beast the creature.
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Everyone will have been
called to come out of Babylon
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and worship the Creator.
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God will have done everything
that He could possibly do
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and that's when
He says it's over.
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The wicked stay wicked,
the righteous stay righteous.
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There will be no more
crossing over after that point
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that takes place
sometime before Jesus comes.
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Verse 16 "I,
Jesus, have sent my angel
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to give you this
testimony for the churches.
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I am coming soon."
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So Jesus is saying to the
church the time is coming.
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When I will say
the wicked stay wicked,
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the righteous stay righteous
and then I am going to come.
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You see, by the time
Jesus comes for His church
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there will be no more
opportunity to change over.
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No more
opportunity to get saved.
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Anyone that's going to
get saved better do it now
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because then it's
going to be too late.
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And just as the little aside
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don't let anyone
to try to tell you
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that it's all
happened in the past
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that Jesus has already come.
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Don't let anybody to
try to tell you that.
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Because if Jesus
already has already come
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then He is already
said the wicked stay wicked,
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the righteous stay righteous
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and no one can change over
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so you and I would have no hope.
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Don't let anyone tell
you that after Jesus comes
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for the church there
will be second chance
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because the wicked are
gonna have an opportunity
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to respond to a
144,000 Jewish evangelist
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that are left behind.
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Don't let anyone tell you
that because before Jesus comes
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for His church the
wicked stay wicked,
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the righteous stay
righteous and Jesus says
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I am coming soon there
will be no crossing over.
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If you're gonna get
right with God folks
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you need to do it now.
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So the question is,
what will you be doing
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when Jesus finally
says it's finished?
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The righteous stay
righteous, wicked stay wicked.
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There gonna stay wicked
that means they can't get saved.
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They gonna stay righteous
then they can't get lost.
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They're done, they're
sealed, they're finished.
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What are you gonna
be doing on that day?
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It could happen at
anytime, it could be any day,
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it can be doing what
are you gonna be doing.
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You want to know
because the Bible tells us.
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Turn to Luke turn to the
Gospel of Luke 17 chapter.
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In Luke 17:26.
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"Just as it was
in the days of Noah,
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so also will it be in
the days of the Son of Man.
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People were
eating, drinking, marrying,
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given in marriage up to
the day Noah entered the ark.
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And the flood came
and destroyed them all.
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It was the same
in the days of Lot.
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People were eating and drinking,
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buying and
selling, planting, building.
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But the day Lot left Sodom,
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fire and sulfur rained down from
heaven and destroyed them all.
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It will be just
like this on the day
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the Son of Man is revealed."
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So on that day
what is gonna be like?
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What are you gonna be doing?
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It will be just like
it was in the days on Noah
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like it was in the
days of in the days of Lot.
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Well, what were they doing then?
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They were
eating, drinking, buying,
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selling, planting,
building, marrying,
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giving in marriage what's
wrong with all those things?
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Nothing is wrong
with those things.
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You see that's the very point.
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On that day it will
be business as usual.
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The things you're
doing now are the things
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that you'll probably be
doing then business as usual.
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We're preachers of habit.
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We don't like to
change the things.
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You even sit in the
same seats every night.
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We like to do things
the same way all time.
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You know that,
that's the way we're.
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And to change
churches, to change believes,
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to switch from Sat,
Sunday to Sabbath it's not easy.
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We're creatures of habit
and when someone comes along
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and suggest the
better way we resist that.
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That's why he said it
will be business as usual.
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We're gonna be doing the
same things we do right now,
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just like it was
in the days of Noah.
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What was it like
in the days of Noah?
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Noah what a man.
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He had a Revelation
Now that's lasted 120 years
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and you're getting
tired after four weeks.
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One hundred and
twenty years Noah preached
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that God was gonna
destroy this world by flood.
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A 120 years. He believed it.
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He believe it so
much that he built an Ark.
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A big boat and God
provided away through that Ark
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for the people that
wanted to trust Him to be saved.
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And Noah preached his heart out.
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He was a righteous
man the Bible says.
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Yet after 120 years
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he stood in the
doorway to that Ark
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and he made his last alter call.
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Only seven people came and
there was His whole family.
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Just seven family members.
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I get discourage
sometimes and it doesn't seem
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as though the Holy
Spirit is working fast enough.
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And I want see more
people following the lamb.
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I get little
discouraged but Noah 120 years.
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Now I know that
His sermons had to been
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the most powerful
sermons any one never heard.
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It was listening to
him, had to make sense.
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I am sure that
there were a lot of people
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who heard Noah
preached and would go away
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saying I have never heard
the truth so clearly before.
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I have never heard
anything like this.
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And every single word
lined up with scripture
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and he compared
scripture with scripture
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and backed up everything
he said with the word of God.
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What power.
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I am sure a lot of people
that heard him walk the way
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thinking just that
but when they started
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talking to other
people about this
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they would hear things like this
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oh don't listen to that guy.
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Man, he's some
kind of a nutcase.
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They go talking to
that pastor's what about.
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Oh that little old church?
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Are you trying to
tell me you got to join
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that old boat church up on
the hill in order to get saved?
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The rain, flood there
had never been a drop of rain
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on the earth
before how is gonna get
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that much water
to flood the earth?
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And that will
allow other boats around
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we will just beg our own little
row boat here and would be okay.
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Noah even preach that the
animals were gonna come out
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and go up into the Ark and
God was gonna save some animals.
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How are you gonna do that, Noah?
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How are the animals
come up out of the woods?
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What are you gonna do
when you get all the lions
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and the tigers and
the sheep and the goat
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they gonna eat them
all up, maybe you too.
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And here Noah,
here's the butterfly
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in that go catch
some birds to put in
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that too you can have some fun.
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Oh, I am they had
fun with the old man
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telling everybody don't listen
him as a call, listen to me.
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As they went and
talk to that pastors
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I guarantee I wasn't
there but I know this
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because I have been
doing this long enough
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and I know they
heard something like this.
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Noah, he's the only guy.
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If he was right we
would all be preaching that.
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You mean to say that he's right
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and everybody else
is wrong come on now?
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Noah was the only
man on this planet
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that had it right
everybody else was wrong.
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And I want to tell you something
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it wasn't long until everybody
on earth became a believer.
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Some were inside the
Ark, some were outside the Ark
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but they all came of believer.
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Only difference is
that some were too late.
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And the time is coming
when everybody on this planet
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is once again
gonna be a believer.
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Then maybe there
were those who said
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well, I believe him but
I'm gonna wait until I see
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those animals
come then I will go.
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When the prophecy starts
being fulfilled I am gonna go.
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I hear that today too.
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Well, I am glad I
learn those things
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how all the churches
are gonna join together
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and how it's starting to happen,
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when I see that
happen when they get together
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I am gonna take my stand.
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It's going to be
business as usual
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just like it was as
usual in the days of Noah.
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Eight people in
that boat Noah's family.
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They saw, one day
they saw the animals
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coming out of the
woods and walking right up
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the gang plank into that boat
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and not one
person change their mind.
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They saw prophecy
fulfill, they saw a miracle
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with their own eyes,
no one change their mind.
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Why not, because
its business as usual
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just like it was
in the days of Noah.
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18 May, 1980 you
know what happened.
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Wasn't that far from
here, Mount St. Helens,
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it been spewing a little bit
of steam and ash and lava around
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and they were
saying she is gonna blow.
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And they started warning
people to leave the area.
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Lot of people
left but you saw him,
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I saw him every true
man I've been 50 years
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and I am not
leaving for anything.
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And he's still there on
the Spirit Lake right now.
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You see we don't want to change.
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We just like it where we're
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and its difficult when
people come along and say,
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hey, that mountain is gonna
blow you better go out of here.
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No, I am not moving.
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And when somebody comes along
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and, hey, this
world is about the blow.
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The churches are lining and
they're all being influenced
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to turn against God
and rebel against His law.
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You got to change,
man. You got to go.
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Oh, it's just too hard
for me, too hard for me.
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Business as usual it's the
way was in the days of Noah.
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Pompeii 79 AD same
thing volcano Mount Vesuvius
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starting to give
signs it was gonna blow
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and it blew and
people had time to leave.
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Some did but many,
many were left behind.
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My wife and I
had the opportunity
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to visit a museum in Dallas
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so it managed to get
some of the artifacts
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that have been
excavated from Pompeii.
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And so while they
were there we went down,
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drove down to Dallas
and went to the museum
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and it was unbelievable.
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The art objects the sculpture
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left nothing to
your imagination.
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It was easy to figure out
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why God let
Pompeii blow out like that.
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Almost like USA today.
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Somebody once said if
God doesn't hurry and come
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He's gonna have to apologize
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to Sodom and
Gomorrah and Pompeii.
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The exhibit they
caught my attention
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more than anything else
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and it still
indelible in my mind
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was the very last one
at the door on the way out.
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It was the large
too, large glass cases.
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You see when the
excavated Pompeii
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they discovered
some anti shell like hose
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where people had been
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and they were just
the hand full of dust
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down in the bottom of this hole.
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So they filled some of those
holes with plaster of Paris
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and after it got hard
they chipped away the stone
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and were left with the replica,
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a perfect replica
of that individual trap
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at that moment of their death.
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And the two that we
saw were a man and a woman.
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The first one was a woman
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they found her
laying around across
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the door step to her house.
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She had the
opportunity to escape
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but she went back into
her house to get something.
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That's what the sign
said above the exhibit.
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Because they found her
laying across her doorstep
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with a tiny pearl ear ring
clutch tightly in each fist.
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She had the opportunity to go
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but she went back to get
those the little ear rings.
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People will die for what they
had been living for all along.
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That's human nature, that's
why it's business as usual.
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And then the other one
was the man that they found
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he was trying to get away.
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He was running down the street,
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the center of town in Pompeii
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but he couldn't go fast enough
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because he was
carrying his big heavy chest
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full of gold and
silver and precious germs.
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It slowed him down
and it cost him his life.
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People will die for
they had been living
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for all along on that day
it will be business as usual
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just like in was
in the days of Noah.
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They saw a miracle but
nobody change their mind.
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Balaam a fascinating
story about a human nature
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in Numbers
Chapter 22, Numbers 22:3
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the Bible says,
"Moab was terrified
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because there
were so many people.
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Indeed, Moab was
filled with dread
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because of the Israelites."
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So the Israelites were
going to through the wilderness,
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through the desert
they were coming up on Moab.
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Moab heard all the stories
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about what they had
done to other countries
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and they were shaken in
their boots scared the death.
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So Balak in verse 5,
"Balak son of Zippor,
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who was king of
Moab at that time,
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sent messengers to
summon Balaam the son of Beor,"
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who was at prophet.
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So king Balak sent
messengers to go get Balaam
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who was a prophet.
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So they went to Balaam.
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Verse 6, and they gave
him the message from the king.
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"Now come and put a
curse on these people,
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because they are
too powerful for me.
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Perhaps then I will
be able to defeat them
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and drive them
out of the country."
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Now Balaam was a prophet.
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He had to know that it
certainly wasn't God's plan
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to curse His own people.
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He knew that but he was tempted
by a reward from the king...
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and so Balaam told them.
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He said in verse 8
"'Spend the night here,'
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Balaam said, 'I will
bring you back the answer
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the Lord gives me.'"
00:20:36.47\00:20:37.50
In other words He told
them, I'm gonna go pray
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you stay here
overnight that's all right.
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I'm gonna go pray,
I'm gonna seek God's will
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and the I will see
whatever God's says
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and that what I am gonna do.
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I want to seek God's
will, so he goes and he prays.
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And he said I know God's will.
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He's not gonna
curse His own people.
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As I'm gonna seek God's
will he prayed verse 12,
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"God said to Balaam,
'Do not go with them.
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You must not put a
curse on those people,
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because they are blessed.'"
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Now is there anything difficult
to understand about that?
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Is anything
confusing about that?
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God is always clear and simple.
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Balaam even understood it.
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See it's not complicate
when you look at God's will,
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it gets complicated
when you start looking around
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and listen to what
everybody else is saying.
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So what's the lesson?
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The lesson is,
quit listening around
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and keep your nose
in the word of God.
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Balaam don't go
with them God said.
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"Next morning" verse 13,
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"Balaam got up and
went to Balak's princes,
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he said 'Go back
to your own country,
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Lord has refused to
let me go with you.'"
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Now that I mean
that's Balaam understood
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what God was saying.
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He knew God's will.
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Verse 15 but
Balak the king of Moab.
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"Balak sent other
princes, more numerous
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and the first more
distinguished even.
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They came to
Balaam and they said"
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in verse 16 "this is
what Balak son of Zippor says,
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do not let anything
keep you from coming to me,
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because I will
reward you handsomely
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and I'll do whatever you say.
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Come and put a curse
on these people for me."
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Now I have to confess
that I never been tempted
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by a king offering
me anything I wanted.
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I've never been
tempted like that.
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Maybe we should be a
little understanding of Balaam
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but in verse 19 he said,
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"Well you stay here to
night like the others did
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and I will find out what
else the Lord will tell me."
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In other words I'm
gonna go pray about this
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want to see God's will.
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Was he really
seeking God's will?
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Why did he say I will find out
what else the Lord will tell me?
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Why is that what else?
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Because Lord had
already told him not to go.
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And so if he's wanting to
see what else God's gonna say
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that means he's hoping
that God will change His mind
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and let him go.
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He wasn't seeking God's will,
he was seeking his own will.
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He prayed, God, what
do you want me to do?
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Now here is the scary part.
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"That night the
Lord came to Balaam"
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verse 20 "and He
said go with them."
00:23:38.13\00:23:43.61
Go with them so
Balaam says oh yeah whoopee.
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I know God's will now.
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Oh it tells us,
"Balaam got up in the morning"
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verse 21 "he saddled his donkey
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and went with
the princes of Moab."
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Verse 22, "but God
was very angry at him."
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Wow, God said go
00:24:05.46\00:24:07.68
and then He gets angry
at Balaam for going, why?
00:24:07.71\00:24:15.37
God doesn't work by
force God works by love.
00:24:15.40\00:24:21.74
He's not gonna force any one,
00:24:23.69\00:24:25.94
He's not gonna
force you to follow Him,
00:24:25.97\00:24:29.01
He's not gonna
force you to worship Him.
00:24:29.04\00:24:31.56
Who were you to
love Him and trust Him?
00:24:34.41\00:24:40.50
Balaam was showing
he knew God's will.
00:24:40.53\00:24:44.25
God had made it crystal
clear but he was showing
00:24:44.28\00:24:48.16
that he trusted himself
more then he trusted God
00:24:48.19\00:24:51.78
and God isn't gonna force.
00:24:51.81\00:24:54.04
He's gonna say go your way.
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It breaks His heart but
He's not gonna make us obey.
00:24:57.64\00:25:03.67
He's not gonna make
you change your life.
00:25:03.70\00:25:06.67
He's not gonna make
you keep the Sabbath.
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It has to be your choice.
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Balaam made he wrong choice.
00:25:15.08\00:25:16.97
God wasn't happy but
He had to let him go.
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I want to tell you something.
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On the surface it looked
like Balaam was spiritual man.
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Mean he went to see
God's will, went to pray.
00:25:35.13\00:25:40.16
God, what do you want to me do?
00:25:40.19\00:25:42.56
But I am telling
you it is dangerous
00:25:45.92\00:25:51.43
to seek God's will when you
already know what God's will is.
00:25:51.46\00:25:56.13
Sometimes people
come in Revelation
00:26:00.58\00:26:02.17
then I say oh, I studied.
00:26:02.20\00:26:03.42
I have learnt
so many new things.
00:26:03.45\00:26:04.51
I should be
baptized the Bible way
00:26:04.54\00:26:06.20
and when I got sprinkled it
didn't really come for baptism
00:26:06.23\00:26:09.13
because I wasn't immersed.
00:26:09.16\00:26:10.61
I have learned about the Sabbath
and it's on the seventh day.
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Oh, this has been
a good experience.
00:26:14.54\00:26:16.35
Well, that's wonderful.
00:26:16.38\00:26:17.41
I am not interested in
just teaching you stuff.
00:26:17.44\00:26:21.21
I want you to
follow you the Lamb.
00:26:21.24\00:26:24.41
And sometimes I ask for what?
00:26:24.44\00:26:26.34
You know, what
you gonna do about it?
00:26:26.37\00:26:28.21
Well, I am gonna
pray about that, pastor.
00:26:31.51\00:26:35.29
I am gonna see the
what God wants me to do.
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See what God wants me to do.
00:26:38.70\00:26:41.35
400 times over 400
times in the Bible God says,
00:26:41.38\00:26:48.08
keep My commands, keep My laws.
00:26:48.11\00:26:50.72
Over 400 times
and we need to pray
00:26:50.75\00:26:53.45
and say God what
do you want me to do?
00:26:53.48\00:26:55.20
He's gonna tell you go your way.
00:26:59.70\00:27:02.23
Balaam did, went his
own way. God was angry.
00:27:06.13\00:27:12.63
Same as angel out
to oppose him verse 23,
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"The donkey saw the
angel standing in the road
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with a sword in his hand,
00:27:17.91\00:27:20.07
and so she turned off
the road into a field."
00:27:20.10\00:27:22.82
Balaam didn't even see it.
00:27:22.85\00:27:24.27
He was so possessed
with his own desires,
00:27:24.30\00:27:27.30
with his own evil desires.
00:27:27.33\00:27:29.20
He was so possessed
with what he wanted.
00:27:29.23\00:27:31.39
He was blind to the
intervention of God.
00:27:31.42\00:27:34.04
He didn't see it
the donkey saw it
00:27:34.07\00:27:35.85
and Balaam got
angry and beat his donkey.
00:27:35.88\00:27:38.01
Got her back on the road
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and then the angel
stood in a narrow path
00:27:43.90\00:27:45.48
between two vineyards,
with walls on both sides
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and the donkey saw
the angel of the Lord,
00:27:47.81\00:27:49.31
she pressed close to the wall,
00:27:49.34\00:27:50.93
smashing Balaam's
foot up against the wall."
00:27:50.96\00:27:53.74
Oh, Balaam got angry
again he beat that donkey again.
00:27:53.77\00:27:56.80
And then in verse 27,
00:28:00.51\00:28:02.02
the donkey saw
the angel of the Lord,
00:28:02.05\00:28:04.72
standing in a narrow
part where it was too tight
00:28:04.75\00:28:07.59
he couldn't get
around either side.
00:28:07.62\00:28:10.61
Poor donkey
didn't know what to do
00:28:10.64\00:28:11.98
she just laid down on the road.
00:28:12.01\00:28:16.24
Balaam got so angry he
was beside himself now.
00:28:16.27\00:28:20.13
He got his stick" the Bible says
00:28:20.16\00:28:23.32
"and he began to
beat her with his stick"
00:28:23.35\00:28:27.20
and then verse 28
00:28:27.23\00:28:29.33
"the Lord opened
the donkey's mouth,
00:28:29.36\00:28:32.85
and she said to Balaam,
00:28:32.88\00:28:34.77
'What have I done to
you these three times
00:28:34.80\00:28:36.40
to make you beat me these?'
00:28:36.43\00:28:37.71
haven't I always
been a good donkey?'"
00:28:37.74\00:28:39.24
Now you would think,
00:28:45.97\00:28:49.58
you would think
would Balaam would suspect
00:28:49.61\00:28:52.36
something
unusual happening here.
00:28:52.39\00:28:54.44
But the Bible says in verse 29
00:29:01.14\00:29:03.96
"Balaam answered the donkey,"
00:29:03.99\00:29:10.82
so possessed with
his own evil desires
00:29:10.85\00:29:14.99
that he turned around and
talk back to that dumb beast.
00:29:15.02\00:29:19.28
"You have made a fool of me!
00:29:23.35\00:29:24.48
He said why I had
a sword in my hand,
00:29:24.51\00:29:26.82
I will kill you by now."
00:29:26.85\00:29:30.04
Verse 31 "The Lord
opened Balaam's eyes,
00:29:30.07\00:29:32.35
and he saw the angel of
the Lord standing in the road
00:29:32.38\00:29:34.92
with his sword drawn.
00:29:34.95\00:29:36.64
So he bowed low and
fell to the ground facedown.
00:29:36.67\00:29:42.23
And the angel of
the Lord asked him,
00:29:42.26\00:29:43.99
'Why have you beaten
your donkey these three times?
00:29:44.02\00:29:47.23
I have come here to oppose you
00:29:47.26\00:29:51.03
but because your path is
a reckless one before me.'
00:29:51.06\00:29:56.68
Balaam said to the angel
of the Lord, 'I have sinned.'"
00:29:56.71\00:30:02.31
I have sinned.
00:30:02.34\00:30:04.43
"'I did not realize
00:30:04.46\00:30:05.71
you were standing in
the road to oppose me.
00:30:05.74\00:30:08.50
Now if you are
displeased, I will go back."
00:30:12.51\00:30:20.51
If you are displeased.
00:30:25.60\00:30:30.08
I stood in the
road with my sword drawn
00:30:30.11\00:30:33.15
I would have killed
you these three times
00:30:33.18\00:30:35.23
if your donkey had not seen me
00:30:35.26\00:30:36.93
and now if you're
wanting me to I will go back.
00:30:36.96\00:30:41.44
You would think that
Balaam would have got back
00:30:45.19\00:30:47.80
on that little
donkey turned her round
00:30:47.83\00:30:49.87
as fast her legs
would take him home.
00:30:49.90\00:30:53.96
But the Bible says,
"And the angel told him,
00:30:53.99\00:31:00.46
'Go with the
men, so Balaam went.'"
00:31:00.49\00:31:05.03
Unbelievable after
all of that Balaam went.
00:31:05.06\00:31:10.55
Unbelievable or is it?
00:31:13.86\00:31:19.95
On that day eating, drinking,
buying, selling, building,
00:31:19.98\00:31:22.63
planting,
marrying, giving in marriage
00:31:22.66\00:31:24.67
it will be business as usual.
00:31:24.70\00:31:28.58
Balaam didn't change.
00:31:28.61\00:31:30.95
Most of us don't change.
00:31:30.98\00:31:33.09
It's hard to change.
00:31:33.12\00:31:34.49
Balaam heard a miracle,
00:31:44.99\00:31:48.11
days of Noah they saw a
miracle none of them changed.
00:31:48.14\00:31:54.41
Last minute death
bed conversions rare.
00:31:59.83\00:32:07.33
They happen, praise the Lord.
00:32:07.36\00:32:08.91
Sometimes they happen but
it is dangerous to count on it.
00:32:08.94\00:32:15.24
It's dangerous
to plan on it. Why?
00:32:15.27\00:32:18.68
Because we're
creatures of habit,
00:32:18.71\00:32:20.61
its business as usual
00:32:20.64\00:32:22.03
and furthermore
can we say no to God
00:32:22.06\00:32:26.99
when He appeals to our hearts.
00:32:27.02\00:32:29.62
Can we say, no God, not yet.
00:32:29.65\00:32:32.16
No God, I am not ready yet.
00:32:32.19\00:32:34.66
No God, I got a few
more things I need to do.
00:32:34.69\00:32:37.50
No God, please later.
00:32:37.53\00:32:41.39
Paul made an impassion
appeal to King Agrippa.
00:32:41.42\00:32:45.63
Now is the time to accept Jesus
00:32:45.66\00:32:47.86
and King Agrippa said
in Acts 26:28 is it Paul.
00:32:47.89\00:32:51.53
You have almost persuaded me.
00:32:51.56\00:32:53.65
You came close.
00:32:53.68\00:32:54.79
Oh, I am right
there but we never read
00:32:54.82\00:32:56.83
where he was ever persuaded.
00:32:56.86\00:33:00.00
We can come close but
unless we take that next step
00:33:00.03\00:33:04.39
and change in our
lives and we never read
00:33:04.42\00:33:09.80
where he was persuaded.
00:33:09.83\00:33:12.06
Paul appeared
before the Governor Felix.
00:33:12.09\00:33:14.65
Made an
impassioned appeal, appealed
00:33:14.68\00:33:17.48
and Felix said make sense
it's not a good time right now.
00:33:17.51\00:33:25.05
Call me at a convenient season.
00:33:25.08\00:33:28.40
And we never read where that
convenient season ever came.
00:33:28.43\00:33:34.14
And lot of people
tell me I am close pastor,
00:33:34.17\00:33:38.01
but I got a few things I
need to get worked out first.
00:33:38.04\00:33:40.05
It's just not quite
the right time for me yet.
00:33:40.08\00:33:42.57
Folks, if we don't do
it now and the Bible says,
00:33:46.59\00:33:51.73
the likely heard of doing it
later is pretty, pretty slim.
00:33:51.76\00:33:57.87
We need to make our business
be God's business right now.
00:33:57.90\00:34:02.39
We can't keep saying
no to God, no to God.
00:34:02.42\00:34:05.17
No God, later.
00:34:05.20\00:34:06.81
After a while,
Lord, I got a few things
00:34:06.84\00:34:08.31
I need to worked out right
00:34:08.34\00:34:09.94
and then we decided
it's time say here I am God
00:34:09.97\00:34:12.91
because the Bible tells us
Jesus Him selves said John 6:44
00:34:12.94\00:34:17.41
"No one can come to
Me unless the Father
00:34:17.44\00:34:20.08
who sent Me draws him.
00:34:20.11\00:34:24.86
And I am gonna show
you in our next lesson
00:34:24.89\00:34:27.76
that the time is coming soon
00:34:27.79\00:34:29.35
when the Spirit will
stop drawing people to God.
00:34:29.38\00:34:36.73
We can't come to
Jesus when we decide
00:34:36.76\00:34:39.27
it's time to come.
00:34:39.30\00:34:40.90
We can't say well,
it's not right for me yet.
00:34:40.93\00:34:43.72
When the sprit
of God convicts us
00:34:43.75\00:34:45.74
we need to respond
then this is time when.
00:34:45.77\00:34:50.93
Its His time coming when
he's not gonna be tugging
00:34:50.96\00:34:52.18
at our hearts anymore.
00:34:52.21\00:34:53.79
It will be business as usual
00:34:56.83\00:34:57.91
just like it was
in the days of Lot.
00:34:57.94\00:35:00.41
What was it like
in the days of Lot?
00:35:00.44\00:35:02.90
Genesis the 18 chapter.
00:35:02.93\00:35:06.22
Abraham sitting under
a shade tree in a desert
00:35:06.25\00:35:08.91
when the Lord
appeared before him
00:35:08.94\00:35:11.90
and he said Abraham, verse 20,
00:35:11.93\00:35:16.19
"The outcry of Sodom and
Gomorrah is indeed great,
00:35:16.22\00:35:19.69
and their sin is so grievous.
00:35:19.72\00:35:21.68
I am gonna go down there,
00:35:21.71\00:35:23.04
and see if what
they have done is
00:35:23.07\00:35:24.41
as bad as the outcry that has
reached me, then I will know."
00:35:24.44\00:35:29.23
That's interesting isn't it?
00:35:29.26\00:35:31.83
did God have to go down
there to see how bad it was.
00:35:31.86\00:35:37.95
He knew how bad it was,
00:35:37.98\00:35:40.80
so why did he say to
Abraham I am gonna go down there
00:35:40.83\00:35:43.72
and see if it's bad what
it sounds like from up there.
00:35:43.75\00:35:47.09
Why did He say that?
00:35:47.12\00:35:49.41
Because there was someone
else who needed to be convinced
00:35:49.44\00:35:56.79
that God who was about
destroy Sodom and Gomorrah
00:35:56.82\00:36:00.40
was doing the right thing.
00:36:00.43\00:36:04.71
"And so Abraham
said to the Lord"
00:36:04.74\00:36:06.53
verse 23, "Will You sweep away
the righteous with the wicked?
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What if there are
fifty righteous people there?
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Far be it from
you," the end of verse 25.
00:36:14.67\00:36:17.73
"Far be it from you, Lord.
00:36:17.76\00:36:19.46
Will not the Judge of
all the earth do right?"
00:36:19.49\00:36:23.57
You need to stop for a second
00:36:23.60\00:36:24.96
and think about
what's going on here.
00:36:24.99\00:36:26.81
God has just
announced to Abraham
00:36:26.84\00:36:28.46
I am gonna go check
on Sodom and Gomorrah
00:36:28.49\00:36:30.77
and see if there is
as bad as it sounds like.
00:36:30.80\00:36:32.46
Sounds like a
judgment kind of time to me.
00:36:32.49\00:36:35.73
I am gonna down there
and see what they're doing
00:36:35.76\00:36:37.50
and wave it out to
see if they really deserve
00:36:37.53\00:36:39.71
to be destroyed or
not the judgment time.
00:36:39.74\00:36:43.88
And Abraham comes
along and he says,
00:36:43.91\00:36:46.14
"Lord, will you take the
righteous with the wicked?
00:36:46.17\00:36:49.87
What if they're fifty
righteous people there?
00:36:49.90\00:36:51.96
Are you gonna sweep it away?
00:36:51.99\00:36:53.44
Far be it from you.
00:36:53.47\00:36:54.55
Will not the Judge of
all the earth do right?"
00:36:54.58\00:36:56.35
Abraham was scared the death
00:36:56.38\00:36:58.15
that God was
about to do something
00:36:58.18\00:36:59.76
that would show
that he was unfair.
00:36:59.79\00:37:01.60
That's the whole
picture right there.
00:37:05.01\00:37:07.09
In this little
story the whole picture
00:37:07.12\00:37:09.26
of what we've been talking about
all along from Genesis 3:15
00:37:09.29\00:37:13.17
when God promised the
serpent He would send his seed
00:37:13.20\00:37:16.13
to crush the
serpent head all the way
00:37:16.16\00:37:18.37
through to Revelation
when we discover there
00:37:18.40\00:37:20.93
and the great judgment
day that God demonstrates
00:37:20.96\00:37:23.67
once in for all when
he saves the righteous
00:37:23.70\00:37:26.41
and destroys the wicked.
00:37:26.44\00:37:27.89
He's doing the right
thing Abraham gives as a peak
00:37:27.92\00:37:30.79
at that great
judgment there right now
00:37:30.82\00:37:32.95
back in the time
of Sodom and Gomorrah.
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Won't the judge of
all the earth do right?
00:37:36.28\00:37:39.24
God has to demonstrate
that when He finally wraps
00:37:39.27\00:37:44.00
this thing up
and brings it a close
00:37:44.03\00:37:46.36
He is doing the right thing.
00:37:46.39\00:37:48.47
He's not gonna sweep away
the righteous with the wicked.
00:37:48.50\00:37:52.12
What a story.
00:37:52.15\00:37:54.04
And so God says no.
00:37:57.68\00:37:59.75
If they are 50 I
want to destroy the city.
00:37:59.78\00:38:02.62
Abraham starts
to counting them up
00:38:02.65\00:38:04.07
and couldn't come up with 50.
00:38:04.10\00:38:06.22
Were there five less?
00:38:06.25\00:38:07.51
No, 45 I won't destroy.
00:38:07.54\00:38:10.18
Well, what if
there are 30 there,
00:38:10.21\00:38:11.86
35 not no, I won't.
00:38:11.89\00:38:13.18
Thirty, no. Twenty, no.
00:38:13.21\00:38:14.60
Ten, no. I won't.
00:38:14.63\00:38:17.57
Says, don't be angry at me.
00:38:17.60\00:38:19.72
God, don't be angry at me.
00:38:19.75\00:38:20.99
What if there are only 10?
00:38:21.02\00:38:24.50
I don't why he stop at 10.
00:38:24.53\00:38:27.97
Maybe he fell like he
pushed God too far already
00:38:28.00\00:38:31.60
or maybe thought
surely, surely there are 10.
00:38:31.63\00:38:37.50
But the truth is
there weren't even four,
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not even four.
00:38:41.34\00:38:43.01
Chapter 19:1 The
two angels arrived
00:38:47.23\00:38:49.36
and Sodom and Lot"
00:38:49.39\00:38:51.55
that's Abraham
nephew who had come down
00:38:51.58\00:38:53.88
with Abraham when
he went to the Lamb
00:38:53.91\00:38:56.60
and settled in Sodom.
00:38:56.63\00:38:58.31
"He was sitting in
the gateway of the city."
00:38:58.34\00:39:01.12
Now that's more
then just sitting
00:39:01.15\00:39:02.77
in the shade of the gate
00:39:02.80\00:39:03.83
where the little
thing over your head.
00:39:03.86\00:39:07.15
That's meant that he was
00:39:07.18\00:39:08.64
important person
in the community.
00:39:08.67\00:39:10.72
He sat on the city
council for example.
00:39:10.75\00:39:14.16
And so he's sitting there
he's in the gateway of the city
00:39:14.19\00:39:16.58
and these two
angels have coming in
00:39:16.61\00:39:18.26
and they see him and he says
00:39:18.29\00:39:20.87
"My Lords" they look like men.
00:39:20.90\00:39:22.79
He says, "My Lords,
00:39:22.82\00:39:23.85
'please turn aside
to your servant's house.
00:39:23.88\00:39:25.78
You come to my house,
00:39:25.81\00:39:26.84
You can wash your
feet and spend the night.'
00:39:26.87\00:39:28.62
No they said we
want to go to the square.
00:39:28.65\00:39:31.51
We want to see
what Sodom is like?"
00:39:31.54\00:39:33.43
And Lot says,
oh, you don't want do
00:39:33.46\00:39:35.70
that it's a wicked place.
00:39:35.73\00:39:37.30
You don't want to
be there in a square.
00:39:37.33\00:39:38.41
I have guess so--yeah
we want to go to the square
00:39:38.44\00:39:40.40
we want to see Sodom.
00:39:40.43\00:39:42.06
So Lot insisted
so strongly verse 3
00:39:42.09\00:39:45.00
that they did go with him
and they went to his house.
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And when they are sitting
around the supper table eating,
00:39:47.70\00:39:51.08
"All the men from the
city young and old it says
00:39:51.11\00:39:53.18
surrounded the house
and they called out the Lot.
00:39:53.21\00:39:55.91
Where are those men
who came to you to night?
00:39:55.94\00:39:58.91
Bring them out here to us
00:39:58.94\00:40:00.42
so that we can
have sex with them."
00:40:00.45\00:40:02.86
And that gives you a
little idea what Sodom was like.
00:40:02.89\00:40:07.09
"Lot went outside to meet them.
00:40:07.12\00:40:08.99
He says, no my friends.
00:40:09.02\00:40:10.18
Don't do this wicked thing."
00:40:10.21\00:40:11.59
Now these were his friends.
00:40:11.62\00:40:13.09
They don't do this wicked thing.
00:40:13.12\00:40:14.70
"Who do you think
you're get out of that way
00:40:14.73\00:40:16.67
we'll treat you worse
and then them we would them.
00:40:16.70\00:40:19.76
And the angels inside"
00:40:19.79\00:40:21.70
verse 10 "they
had to reach out there
00:40:21.73\00:40:23.61
and pulled Lot back into
the house and shut the door.
00:40:23.64\00:40:26.82
And then they struck the men
00:40:26.85\00:40:28.55
who were at the
door of the house,
00:40:28.58\00:40:29.68
young and old, with blindness."
00:40:29.71\00:40:31.40
Now you would think
after being struck blind
00:40:34.49\00:40:40.06
that they would suspect
something unusual going on here.
00:40:40.09\00:40:44.95
But the Bible says they didn't.
00:40:44.98\00:40:48.10
They wearied
themselves groping for the door.
00:40:48.13\00:40:53.32
So possessed with
their own evil desires
00:40:53.35\00:40:56.99
they will blind for the
divine intervention of God.
00:40:57.02\00:41:01.79
See that's human nature.
00:41:05.03\00:41:06.42
We can't even see
unless we submit to God,
00:41:09.38\00:41:15.52
we can't even see
that we're doing wrong.
00:41:15.55\00:41:19.05
You can read it the
Bible, you can understand it,
00:41:19.08\00:41:22.61
you can say it back and
memorize it and quote it
00:41:22.64\00:41:26.11
but unless we're
willing to submit to God
00:41:26.14\00:41:29.13
to change our lives
we will never see it.
00:41:29.16\00:41:32.05
Blind to the intervention of God
00:41:35.55\00:41:40.33
wearied themselves
broken for the door.
00:41:40.36\00:41:43.67
"And so then the
two men said to Lot,
00:41:43.70\00:41:46.85
'do you have anyone else here?
00:41:46.88\00:41:48.05
Sons, sons-in-law,
daughter, daughters-in-laws
00:41:48.08\00:41:50.79
anybody else in the
city that belongs to you.
00:41:50.82\00:41:52.65
Get them out of here
00:41:52.68\00:41:53.80
because we're
gonna destroy this place.
00:41:53.83\00:41:56.58
They outcry at
Lord against his people
00:41:56.61\00:41:58.10
so great he send
us to destroy it."
00:41:58.13\00:42:00.23
Verse 14 "So Lot
went out and spoke
00:42:00.26\00:42:02.68
to his sons his
daughters his sons,
00:42:02.71\00:42:05.92
he went to his
children to his family."
00:42:05.95\00:42:10.72
In the middle of the night, dad.
00:42:10.75\00:42:16.07
Wow! What time is it.
00:42:16.10\00:42:18.21
What were you
are doing here now.
00:42:18.24\00:42:22.04
God's gonna
destroy Sodom to night
00:42:22.07\00:42:24.66
we need to get out of here.
00:42:24.69\00:42:25.72
Pack up, get your
stuff, come on let's go.
00:42:25.75\00:42:28.79
He says they
thought he was joking,
00:42:28.82\00:42:32.08
they thought he was joking.
00:42:32.11\00:42:33.30
Dad you kept me serious.
00:42:33.33\00:42:37.30
God doesn't except us to get out
of here in the middle of night
00:42:37.33\00:42:39.71
and leave our houses and looters
00:42:39.74\00:42:41.09
will come to take
everything we have
00:42:41.12\00:42:42.51
and just leave like that.
00:42:42.54\00:42:44.55
Oh God isn't that way.
00:42:44.58\00:42:45.90
He is not that
rash and unreasonable.
00:42:45.93\00:42:50.01
Surely He would give us a
lot of time and lot of warning.
00:42:50.04\00:42:52.75
We need to think about it
a little bit, prepare for it.
00:42:52.78\00:42:55.56
Besides that dad you
were always telling us
00:42:55.59\00:42:57.95
the stories about
how you and Uncle Abraham
00:42:57.98\00:43:00.67
left to come down
here and how God led you
00:43:00.70\00:43:03.64
and He led you right here
to settle in these cities.
00:43:03.67\00:43:06.13
If God let us here then
why would He want to say uproot
00:43:06.16\00:43:09.25
and go somewhere else.
00:43:09.28\00:43:13.02
No dad, you just had a bad day.
00:43:13.05\00:43:15.87
I want you to go
home and take aspirin
00:43:15.90\00:43:17.90
or two you'll feel
better in the morning.
00:43:17.93\00:43:19.40
He goes to another daughter.
00:43:22.53\00:43:25.87
Wow, dad you got
to be kidding me.
00:43:25.90\00:43:28.85
You want me to get up
and get the kids and leave.
00:43:28.88\00:43:30.69
You know, my
husband is not one of us
00:43:30.72\00:43:32.34
he's a good man.
00:43:32.37\00:43:34.82
Does a lot of good things,
he works for the Red Cross
00:43:34.85\00:43:36.86
and he helps people but
he don't believe like we do.
00:43:36.89\00:43:42.58
I just need a little more time.
00:43:42.61\00:43:45.09
Besides that he also
has a little bit of temper.
00:43:45.12\00:43:47.37
Well, he tear this place a part
00:43:47.40\00:43:49.21
if I just packed up and
took the kids out like that.
00:43:49.24\00:43:54.13
And surely God wouldn't
want to leave him behind.
00:43:54.16\00:43:59.00
You see we can have
all kinds of reasons
00:43:59.03\00:44:01.42
to not do what God says
and they always make sense.
00:44:01.45\00:44:08.89
Poor Lot is not sure what to do
00:44:08.92\00:44:12.38
but he goes to the
next one, same thing.
00:44:12.41\00:44:16.00
Dad, got to be kidding me.
00:44:16.03\00:44:18.47
Look at all the
good people here.
00:44:18.50\00:44:19.83
You know, they don't
believe the way we do
00:44:19.86\00:44:21.44
but they're good people.
00:44:21.47\00:44:23.74
And they go to that temple
00:44:23.77\00:44:25.01
and they worship
that God's very week.
00:44:25.04\00:44:26.91
Not the God but
you know they doing.
00:44:26.94\00:44:29.82
Okay, he's not
gonna destroy him is He?
00:44:29.85\00:44:34.52
Maybe they keep the wrong day
00:44:34.55\00:44:35.84
they don't it like he says
00:44:35.87\00:44:37.29
but he's not gonna
destroy Him for that.
00:44:37.32\00:44:42.86
And besides that
dad, have we just brought
00:44:42.89\00:44:44.47
that big plot of land
on the west side of town.
00:44:44.50\00:44:46.40
We're gonna build
a big mall remember.
00:44:46.43\00:44:48.52
We'll make a lot of money
00:44:48.55\00:44:49.58
and we give more to
the church that way.
00:44:49.61\00:44:51.65
Surely God would want that.
00:44:51.68\00:44:56.01
Poor Lot he went home
that night the Bible said,
00:44:56.04\00:45:02.56
he hesitated, verse 16.
00:45:02.59\00:45:06.50
Sat down on his big easy
chair, his mind whirling.
00:45:06.53\00:45:11.53
Didn't know what he
was gonna do he hesitated
00:45:11.56\00:45:17.04
and I love this
part of the story.
00:45:17.07\00:45:19.71
"When he hesitated,
the men took his hand
00:45:19.74\00:45:22.58
and the hands of his
wife and of his two daughters
00:45:22.61\00:45:24.18
and led them
safely out of the city."
00:45:24.21\00:45:28.08
God uses people to save people
00:45:28.11\00:45:35.99
to come by the
hands it's time to go.
00:45:36.02\00:45:40.71
We need to get out of here.
00:45:40.74\00:45:42.14
Come on let's go.
00:45:42.17\00:45:46.42
Sometimes some of
you fell like preacher.
00:45:46.45\00:45:50.45
You coming along too
strong back off a little bit.
00:45:50.48\00:45:55.65
I can't help
it. God uses people.
00:45:55.68\00:46:01.59
I think He uses me, He uses you.
00:46:01.62\00:46:06.72
Don't be upset if
somebody comes to you and says,
00:46:06.75\00:46:09.23
you know, I know it's
hard to make a change.
00:46:09.26\00:46:13.84
I know that you
have lot of friends there
00:46:13.87\00:46:17.23
and it's difficult but God
is gonna destroy this place.
00:46:17.26\00:46:22.76
We need to get out of here.
00:46:22.79\00:46:26.30
Won't you come with us?
00:46:26.33\00:46:28.60
Don't resend that.
00:46:28.63\00:46:32.87
God uses people to reach people.
00:46:32.90\00:46:39.14
And so they took
them by the hands.
00:46:39.17\00:46:42.19
Lot and his wife
and his two daughters
00:46:42.22\00:46:48.13
and led him out to
the very edge of the city.
00:46:48.16\00:46:54.93
And said, flee for your lives.
00:46:54.96\00:46:59.26
Don't look back.
00:46:59.29\00:47:04.47
They took him just so far
00:47:04.50\00:47:06.69
but the next step was
up to Lot and his wife.
00:47:06.72\00:47:11.90
God can't force us
00:47:11.93\00:47:15.46
and I am sure that
was not easy for Lot
00:47:15.49\00:47:17.54
as he stood there on
the edge of the city.
00:47:17.57\00:47:21.53
All the years and
everything that he had worked
00:47:21.56\00:47:23.85
for and build up was behind him.
00:47:23.88\00:47:27.29
There was nothing
for him out there.
00:47:27.32\00:47:31.85
Don't even look back
just flee for your life.
00:47:31.88\00:47:37.24
Oh, it couldn't have been easy.
00:47:37.27\00:47:41.01
But he had a
daughter in each hand
00:47:41.04\00:47:43.47
and that first step
00:47:43.50\00:47:44.53
I am sure was a deliberate
difficult painful step
00:47:44.56\00:47:49.28
just like it is for some reason.
00:47:49.31\00:47:52.54
But the more he went the
more he realized the grace,
00:47:52.57\00:47:55.86
the love of God and those steps
00:47:55.89\00:47:58.62
got easier and
easier and easier.
00:47:58.65\00:48:02.22
He and his two
daughters fled for their lives.
00:48:02.25\00:48:06.15
There was somebody else
there that night Mrs. Lot
00:48:06.18\00:48:12.29
and she's standing
at the edge of the city
00:48:12.32\00:48:16.13
and she has to
make her own mind.
00:48:16.16\00:48:17.66
Husband can't save wives,
wives can't save husbands.
00:48:17.69\00:48:22.92
She had to decide for herself.
00:48:22.95\00:48:26.58
Her husband was going,
two daughters were going,
00:48:26.61\00:48:30.78
but everything she
had was back there.
00:48:30.81\00:48:35.35
Big brand new--
biggest house in Sodom,
00:48:35.38\00:48:38.52
brand new, Lot just built it.
00:48:38.55\00:48:40.93
Three brand new
camels parked in the garage.
00:48:40.96\00:48:46.27
Her daughter was
about to get married.
00:48:46.30\00:48:48.82
They had the biggest wedding
plan that Sodom had ever seen.
00:48:48.85\00:48:51.25
Rented the biggest hall in
town, it was gonna be something.
00:48:51.28\00:48:55.24
And the more she thought about
it this is just too hard for me.
00:48:55.27\00:49:00.92
I can't do it.
00:49:00.95\00:49:03.43
She was torn wanting
to go wanting to stay.
00:49:03.46\00:49:08.96
You ever felt torn like that.
00:49:08.99\00:49:11.79
Pulled in one direction
00:49:11.82\00:49:13.23
and then the other
some of you are right there.
00:49:13.26\00:49:16.27
You will be in
tugged to follow the Lamb
00:49:16.30\00:49:18.83
but then everybody will say,
00:49:18.86\00:49:20.18
no, you don't need to
do that and you are torn.
00:49:20.21\00:49:25.33
Finally she
realized I just can't do it.
00:49:25.36\00:49:27.72
I can't go on.
00:49:27.75\00:49:28.92
She turned to look back on
froze into a pillar of salt.
00:49:28.95\00:49:36.31
Lot's wife was
right there just one step
00:49:36.34\00:49:42.51
but it was
business as usual for her.
00:49:42.54\00:49:45.44
And now she's an
eternal remainder for everyone
00:49:45.47\00:49:48.32
who has come so close but they
couldn't take the next step.
00:49:48.35\00:49:52.94
Some of you are right there.
00:49:52.97\00:49:56.26
You have been studying
and you know what's right
00:49:56.29\00:49:59.94
because it all comes
00:49:59.97\00:50:01.00
for the straight
from the word of God.
00:50:01.03\00:50:03.23
But yet there is that attachment
to where we have been going
00:50:03.26\00:50:06.44
and what we did
before and feeling tugged
00:50:06.47\00:50:08.64
to the old church,
new church pulling.
00:50:08.67\00:50:10.96
The Lamb pulling one way
and everything inside of us
00:50:10.99\00:50:14.21
pulling the other way.
00:50:14.24\00:50:15.27
God knows it's like
that, He understands you,
00:50:15.30\00:50:17.82
He'll strengthen you,
but you got to ask Him.
00:50:17.85\00:50:22.41
You're so
close, don't look back.
00:50:22.44\00:50:27.23
Just look our head
and follow the Lamb.
00:50:27.26\00:50:31.76
Lord, we thank You.
00:50:31.79\00:50:34.75
We're living in a tough world,
00:50:34.78\00:50:37.70
we're living in a
world where sometimes
00:50:37.73\00:50:40.30
even the people
dearest to our hearts
00:50:40.33\00:50:42.04
are tugging at us
in the wrong direction
00:50:42.07\00:50:45.58
and is never easy
to follow the Lamb.
00:50:45.61\00:50:47.76
Oh, we can sit here in our
padded pews and say amen, amen.
00:50:47.79\00:50:51.99
But when we get
outside the walls
00:50:52.02\00:50:53.63
and start facing realities
of life it's never easy.
00:50:53.66\00:50:59.77
And some to night Lord,
00:50:59.80\00:51:00.97
are so close standing
right on the edge of that city.
00:51:01.00\00:51:06.68
I just pray that
You'll strive with our hearts.
00:51:06.71\00:51:09.53
Let them take that
step, let them move forward,
00:51:09.56\00:51:11.57
let them follow the Lamb.
00:51:11.60\00:51:14.56
While every head is bowed,
every eye closed in prayer
00:51:14.59\00:51:17.21
I just want to take it's
not gonna be long invitation
00:51:17.24\00:51:21.04
but just a few
minutes to give some of you
00:51:21.07\00:51:22.86
an opportunity to respond
00:51:22.89\00:51:24.38
because some of them
hesitating just like Lot
00:51:24.41\00:51:27.71
when he sat down in
that big easy chair.
00:51:27.74\00:51:30.49
I want to give
you an opportunity
00:51:30.52\00:51:31.77
to get out of that
chair and to stand up
00:51:31.80\00:51:33.55
and to take
your stand for Jesus.
00:51:33.58\00:51:35.98
Come down to the
front it's like standing
00:51:36.01\00:51:37.85
at the edge of the city.
00:51:37.88\00:51:39.95
Take that step, come down and
by coming down you're saying,
00:51:39.98\00:51:42.84
Lord, I'm following You.
00:51:42.87\00:51:44.20
I don't care what happens.
00:51:44.23\00:51:45.37
I don't care who's trying
to get me to do anything else.
00:51:45.40\00:51:48.23
Lord, I'm following You.
00:51:48.26\00:51:52.80
Maybe you've
never accepted Jesus
00:51:52.83\00:51:54.15
before I want you
to come right now.
00:51:54.18\00:51:56.70
Maybe you have,
you've went to the off
00:51:56.73\00:51:58.59
far from where
God want you to be,
00:51:58.62\00:52:00.24
you need to come back
right now today, right now.
00:52:00.27\00:52:04.51
Maybe you've been
a Christian all along
00:52:04.54\00:52:07.63
but you've
learned some new things,
00:52:07.66\00:52:10.28
you've learned some new things
and you need to take a stand,
00:52:10.31\00:52:15.33
could be lifestyle
issues, alcohol, tobacco,
00:52:15.36\00:52:17.61
drugs whatever,
could be a baptism,
00:52:17.64\00:52:21.96
to be baptized like Jesus was,
00:52:21.99\00:52:24.60
could be to keep
the God's day holy.
00:52:24.63\00:52:27.55
You got people tugging
in one direction saying
00:52:27.58\00:52:29.51
it's not
important and Jesus saying,
00:52:29.54\00:52:31.54
if you love Me,
keep My commands.
00:52:31.57\00:52:38.34
Could be to be part of a church,
00:52:38.37\00:52:40.95
it's not afraid to pick
up the Three Angels' Messages
00:52:40.98\00:52:43.47
and proclaim it
to the whole world.
00:52:43.50\00:52:47.32
Whatever God is saying to you,
want you just respond right now,
00:52:47.35\00:52:49.38
would you do that?
00:52:49.41\00:52:50.44
Just stand right now.
00:52:50.47\00:52:52.64
Hello. I'm Lynn Bryson,
00:52:52.67\00:52:54.41
pastor of the
Seventh-day Adventist Church
00:52:54.44\00:52:56.05
here in McMinnville, Oregon.
00:52:56.08\00:52:57.45
Well, we've been filming
this Revelation now series,
00:52:57.48\00:52:59.93
on this set that you can
watch it on your television.
00:52:59.96\00:53:03.27
You may have some
questions right now
00:53:03.30\00:53:05.57
and perhaps you would like
to receive Jesus in your heart
00:53:05.60\00:53:07.61
but you're not
quite sure how to do that.
00:53:07.64\00:53:09.75
If that's your desire,
00:53:09.78\00:53:11.16
then I invite you to bow
your head with me and pray
00:53:11.19\00:53:13.12
and repeat the words after me.
00:53:13.15\00:53:15.42
Dear Lord and Father.
00:53:15.45\00:53:18.19
Thank You, for
sending Jesus to be my Savior.
00:53:18.22\00:53:22.53
I want to invite Him
into my heart right now.
00:53:22.56\00:53:26.42
Please come in and
forgive me for my sins.
00:53:26.45\00:53:30.41
And thank You, for the
free gift of salvation.
00:53:30.44\00:53:34.75
I know that Jesus is preparing
a place for me in your house
00:53:34.78\00:53:39.87
and I'm eager to see you.
00:53:39.90\00:53:43.14
Thank you, for this
day in Jesus name, amen.
00:53:43.17\00:53:50.62
If you pray that prayer
with me then congratulations
00:53:50.65\00:53:53.59
because you have
received Jesus into your heart.
00:53:53.62\00:53:56.58
Now you will be
wondering right now
00:53:56.61\00:53:58.31
what I'm supposed to feel.
00:53:58.34\00:53:59.51
Perhaps you're feeling
the peace coming into you
00:53:59.54\00:54:01.31
that you've never felt
before, both are normal.
00:54:01.34\00:54:05.04
Don't rely on your
feeling so, believe God's word
00:54:05.07\00:54:08.77
and believe that
what He has said is true
00:54:08.80\00:54:10.78
that He loves you and
that He is forgiven you.
00:54:10.81\00:54:14.93
This is the perfect
time to find answers
00:54:14.96\00:54:17.45
to some of your questions
and if you do have questions,
00:54:17.48\00:54:20.45
I'd invite you to locate
00:54:20.48\00:54:21.58
a Seventh-day Adventist
Church in your local area.
00:54:21.61\00:54:25.06
Seventh-day Adventist Churches
are listed in the phonebooks
00:54:25.09\00:54:27.40
and you can find one by
going to the Yellow Pages
00:54:27.43\00:54:29.29
or the White Pages or
you can get on the internet,
00:54:29.32\00:54:32.36
and do a Google search for
Seventh-day Adventist Churches
00:54:32.39\00:54:35.60
or may want to just go ahead
00:54:35.63\00:54:37.06
and call the McMinnville
Church right here in Oregon.
00:54:37.09\00:54:39.96
If you're calling
from the United States,
00:54:39.99\00:54:41.27
our phone
number is 503-472-7841.
00:54:41.30\00:54:47.37
Or you can email us at
sdachurch@onlinemac.com
00:54:47.40\00:54:52.78
or go to our web page at
www.mcminnvilleadventist.org.
00:54:52.81\00:54:58.12
These are the most
exciting days to be alive in.
00:54:58.15\00:55:00.86
These are the days
that prophet saw in vision
00:55:00.89\00:55:03.22
and wish they
could've been alive for.
00:55:03.25\00:55:05.46
Jesus is about to come.
00:55:05.49\00:55:07.79
In the meantime, He can
give you a piece of heart
00:55:07.82\00:55:10.20
to give you trust
daily as you pray to Him
00:55:10.23\00:55:12.33
and come to Him
with your concerns.
00:55:12.36\00:55:14.74
In the meantime,
remember to always
00:55:14.77\00:55:16.89
to look to Him in
faith and follow the Lamb.
00:55:16.92\00:55:21.69
Lord, we send our
prayers up to You.
00:55:21.72\00:55:28.79
Praying for You to
touch the hearts of those
00:55:30.51\00:55:33.39
who have a decision to make.
00:55:33.42\00:55:36.95
Some told me and
yet they still hesitate.
00:55:36.98\00:55:42.26
So Lord, I just pray that
You'll strive with their hearts
00:55:42.29\00:55:47.09
and let there be no rest
00:55:47.12\00:55:50.41
as long as that door stands open
00:55:50.44\00:55:54.20
or let Him come
before the big door
00:55:54.23\00:55:57.92
the Arks swing to
shut for the last time.
00:55:57.95\00:56:00.41
I thank You, for each person
00:56:03.75\00:56:05.43
who's given their heart to you.
00:56:05.46\00:56:09.21
Up until now,
we've seen many Lord,
00:56:09.24\00:56:12.68
some for the first time
and some just re-dedicating
00:56:12.71\00:56:15.77
but we rejoice for each one
00:56:15.80\00:56:18.56
and I know how
heaven rejoices right now.
00:56:18.59\00:56:22.10
So Lord, we thank
You and praise You
00:56:22.13\00:56:25.42
for all that You've done
00:56:25.45\00:56:28.11
and help us to continue
to follow the Lamb. Amen.
00:56:28.14\00:56:33.70