In Mathew 12 chapter there
is almost unbelievable story
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about the unbelief of
the scribes and Pharisees
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the religious
leaders of the day.
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In Matthew 12:22,
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"They brought him
a demon-possessed man
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who was blind and mute,
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but Jesus healed him,
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so that he could
both talk and see."
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Now I have often thought
when ever I read this verse
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what would it have
been like to be there
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and to watch Jesus open
the eyes of the blind man?
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So the very first thing
he saw in his entire life
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was the face of the Savior.
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Wouldn't you
loved to have been there
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to see that happen? Amen.
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You would think the people were
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just be rejoicing
and shouting hallelujah.
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Praise the Lord.
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Worship the Messiah, He is here.
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But they didn't.
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Verse 23 says "All the people
were astonished and they said,
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is he the Son of David?"
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Is he the messiah?
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Instead of
rejoicing in what God had done
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they went running to the pastors
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and they said what about that.
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You tell us, is he the Messiah?
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Verse 24, "When the
Pharisees heard this, they said,
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No that's only by Beelzebul,
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the prince of demons,
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that this fellow
drives out demons."
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He is not the
Messiah he a demon.
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He is not the
Messiah, he is a devil.
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Reminds me of the old saying,
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if you can't fault the message
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then shoot the messenger.
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That's nothing new.
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That's what they did back then.
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They couldn't
fault anything Jesus said
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or anything that He did
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and so what alter they gonna do?
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They didn't want to believe Him
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so they have to
shoot the messenger.
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Oh, no He is not the
Messiah, He is the devil.
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The devil uses that
same tactic all the time.
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Even now today some of you
have been warned, you told me.
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Some of you have been warned
not to go to Revelation Now
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that's a cult over there.
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If you can't fault the
message then call him a name.
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Shoot the messenger.
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Oh, don't go listen
oh, Colon, he is a cult,
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He is a demon, He will
lead you to pathways of hell
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without one single
text to back it up.
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The devils always work that way.
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So if anybody tells you,
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oh, don't go there
it's a cult just rejoice
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and know you are in good company
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because that's
what they did to Jesus.
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So Jesus said in Verse 31,
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"I tell you
every sin and blasphemy
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will be forgiven men,
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but blasphemy against the Spirit
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that will not be forgiven."
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There is a sin that
God is not gonna forgive.
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What is it?
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Blasphemy
against the Holy Spirit.
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He will forgive every other sin
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but He won't forgive
blasphemy against the Spirit.
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Well, what's that?
We have just seen it.
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Jesus performed the miracle.
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He opened the
eyes of that blind man,
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He opened his mouth of the dumb
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so that he could talk.
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And they all said, no, that
was not God that was the devil.
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It wasn't the Holy
Spirit it was the devil.
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So to attribute the obvious
work of the Holy Spirit of God
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and say that, that
was not the Holy Spirit
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that was the devil is
blasphemy the Holy Spirit
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and it's a sin
that can't be forgiven.
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A lot of people say
boy, am I glad to hear that.
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I will make sure
I'll never do that.
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Well, fine I hope you don't.
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But there are two problems.
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First of all it doesn't take
the unpardonable sin to be lost.
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People are gonna be lost
for plain old unpardoned sin.
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You don't have to blasphemy
the Holy Spirit to be lost.
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You don't have to
commit the unpardonable sin.
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That's the first problem.
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Second problem is
that those Pharisees
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those religious leaders,
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those popular
pastors and teachers
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at first they never dreamed
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that they would ever
commit the unpardonable sin.
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They never thought for a moment
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that they would ever say
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the work of the Holy
Spirit was just the devil.
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Well, then how
did they get there?
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How did they arrive at the place
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where they were willing to say
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that was not the Holy Spirit
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that was the devil
knowing it was Spirit all along?
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How did they get there?
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That's what we
want to talk about.
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That's the unpardonable sin.
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That's the
mysterious way of sin.
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How did they get there?
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Jesus shows us in Verse 30
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just before he
made that statement
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"He who is not
with Me is against Me,
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and he who does not
gather with Me scatters."
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So Jesus is stripping away
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any possibility of
being neutral about God.
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You can't be neutral about God.
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It was the attempt to be neutral
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that paved the way
to the unpardonable sin.
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He who is not
with Me is against Me,
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he that doesn't
gather with Me scatters.
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So I tell you every sin
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and blasphemy
will be forgiven men
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but blasphemy against the
Spirit will not be forgiven."
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They were trying to be neutral
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and it was the
attempt to be neutral
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that paved the
way unpardonable sin.
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You can't be neutral about God.
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You can be neutral
about a lot of things.
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Its fun around election times
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when there comes around
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and watching all the
politician trying to neutral.
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They go to one group
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and what do you
think about this?
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You know, and they know
what their group wants to hear
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and so they try to be neutral.
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Then they go to another group
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and they might say just
the opposite to that group.
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You can be neutral
about our politics,
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you can be neutral
about a lot of things
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but you can't be
neutral about God.
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You cannot come to the Bible
discover the truth in God's word
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and then walk away
the same person you were
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when you first came.
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Either we are with
Him or against Him?
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You can't be neutral.
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Either you are
gathering with Him
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or you are scattering
that's what Jesus himself said,
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there is no straddling offence
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and any one who
try's to straddle the fence
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is soon or later
gonna have to make an excuse
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to explain why they haven't
made a decision to follow God.
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And that excuse makes
them the enemy to God.
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That's how the
mysterious way of sin works.
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You can't straddle defense.
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If the truth is the truth
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then either you are
with it or against it.
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Either we are gathering
with Him or scattering.
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As I study
through this in the Bible
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I discovered there
are five basic excuses
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that Jesus heard when
He was here on this earth.
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And I found out after--
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it didn't take me 35
years of doing this to find out
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learn pretty quickly.
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Same devil it
worked in time of Jesus
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is still at work right now
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because I hear those same
five excuses even yet today.
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In fact one time we
were on the east coast
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and got down
towards the end of it.
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In fact we are
just about this night,
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it was this night I
was visiting a fellow
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before the meeting at his home
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and he hadn't even
accepted Jesus as a Savior.
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I said, hey, you have been
coming to these meetings now
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for four weeks nearly and
you haven't accepted Jesus
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what's standing in your way?
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And he went down the list
one, two, three, four, five
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all five of them
he gave me excuse.
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Later on that night
he came to the meeting
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it happened to be this topic.
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Wow, he got mad at me
and afterwards he said,
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you told them
everything I said to you today.
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I said, let me
see your printout.
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So he hands me his printout
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and then I said look,
they are all right here.
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I didn't print
this up between the time
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I left your house
and got here tonight.
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The same devil that
was at work in Jesus day
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is the devil it works right now
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except this couple of thousands
years better at it now.
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So would you like to know
what those five excuses are?
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Unanswered questions prevent
people from following the Lamb.
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That was one excuse.
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Unanswered ques--
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I don't understand
everything about the Bible.
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I hear that all the time.
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Oh, there is just so much I
have learned of Revelation Now
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I don't understand at all.
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As soon as I
understand everything
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that I have been studying here
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then I will be
ready to follow Jesus.
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Folks, there are
something's in the Bible
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you are not gonna understand
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until we are at the other side,
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until we are on the other side
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you are not gonna understand it.
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We are trying to
understand an infinite God
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with a peanut brain and
it just doesn't wrap around.
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An infinite God there
are something's in the bible
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I don't understand I have been
studying this for a long time.
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There are things in
here I don't understand.
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When I get to heaven
I got a little note book
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I hope the Lord
lets me take with me.
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Because I want to--
visit with some people.
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Paul, I want to
sit down with Paul
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and I am gonna say Paul,
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you see that verse
why did you write that?
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You know how much
trouble you cause me?
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Sure there are things in here
that are hard to understand.
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Peter didn't even
understand at all.
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He admitted that.
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He said Paul wrote stuff that
are hard for us to understand.
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So if its hard for
Peter don't be surprised
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if there are things
that we can't understand,
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that we can't answer.
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But I can tell you
this I may not be answer--
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able to answer every question
about every thing in the Bible
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but God has made it
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plain enough for me to know
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that I can trust Him
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and that if I can't
answer every question,
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the once I can answer
enough to give me confidence
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that I can trust Him
with the ones I can't. Amen.
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There are enough
answers in this book
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so that no one has any excuse
to not accept Jesus Christ.
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We don't want
to be like the fool
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caught on top of
14 storied building
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that's on fire and
the stairways are burning
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and the elevator are burning,
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there is no way
to him to get down
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and he hollows out the
window help me, help me.
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And he looks down
and there are the firemen
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and they got this big
net down there spread out
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and they said jump,
jump and we will catch you.
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And he says, well, wait a minute
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I got questions first.
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And they said, well, don't worry
about the questions jump in
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and we will catch and
answer your questions after.
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Well, I don't know about that.
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How this fire gets
started in the first place?
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How do I know the
net is strong enough?
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How do I know you won't drop it
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and let me go down and die?
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Sure there are
questions, unanswered questions.
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The Bible shows us here in
John Chapter 9 in John 9:28
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"They hurled insults at
him and at disciples they said
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'You are this fellow's disciple!
We are disciples of Moses!
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Now we know that
God spoke to Moses,
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but this fellow
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we don't even know
where he comes from.'"
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Who's his father
anyway? Unanswered questions.
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That's one of the
excuses Jesus heard.
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We got to understand at all,
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we have to know all
about the incarnation
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how could He be the Son of God,
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we have to
understand all of that.
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You will never fully understand
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how God could become men
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but there is enough
in here for me to know
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I can trust Him.
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And then in
Chapter-- in chapter 7:41
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"Some we
saying, who is this man?
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Surely he is a prophet.
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Others said, 'no
He is the Christ.'
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Still others said, 'How can
the Christ come from Galilee?'"
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Verse 42 "'Does
not the Scripture say
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that the Christ will come
from David's family Bethlehem,
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the town where David lived?'"
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Thus verse 43 "The people
were divided because of Jesus."
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I hear that sometimes too.
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Oh, Colon, He is
divisive. I will go that church.
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They divide Christianity,
they divide Christianity
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over those who
want to keep Sunday
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and those who keep the Sabbath.
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They divide us. No they don't.
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Truth always
divides, truth always divides
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because those who
don't want to accept truth
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are going to reject it and
hate the ones who teach it.
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Truth always divides.
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But it's not the
truth so much that divides
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it's those who don't
want to accept the truth
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and reject the truth.
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They don't want to
bring it into their hearts,
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they don't want to make change
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and so they attack the truth.
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Yeah that's a demon or a
devil with out one Bible verse.
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If they do give you a
Bible verse they just take it
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and twist it so
much out of context
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that anybody can see
that is not making sense.
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That's the
mysterious way of sin.
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And then the second excuse.
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Probably the
one I hear the most.
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Usually sounds like that--
oh, here it is in the Bible.
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Let me read that first.
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In verse 32 John 7,
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"Pharisees heard the crowd
whispering things about Jesus.
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And so the chief
priests and the Pharisees sent
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temple guards to
go and arrest him."
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Go get Him, arrest Him
and bring Him back here.
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So the guards went and
they went to arrest Jesus
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and when they
came back, no Jesus.
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Why didn't you bring them here?
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Verse 46, I love this answer.
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"Because no one ever
spoke the way this man does."
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Won't you like that?
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They went to arrest Jesus
didn't come back with Him.
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Where is He? Why
didn't you bring Him back?
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Well, man nobody
ever spoke like He did.
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I never heard the
word of God so clearly.
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I've never seen the
Bible so clearly He explained
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and it makes so
much sense to me.
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No one spoke like He does.
Their hearts burned inside.
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Now watch what the
religious leaders said.
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These were the most
powerful preachers in the land
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and here is what
they said verse 47.
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"You mean He has
deceived you also?
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The Pharisees retorted.
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'Have any of the rulers
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or of the Pharisees
believed in him? No!
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Just this mob they
know nothing about the law--
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the Bible there
is a curse on them.'"
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Let me tell you what
it sounds like today.
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If those Adventists
were teaching the truth
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if, Saturday is
really the Sabbath day
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and not Sunday why
doesn't everybody else see it?
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Why is it they are the
only church that teaches,
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are you trying to say
everybody else is wrong?
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You see and then they
try to make it look like
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the one teaching the
truth is the one at fault
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the saying that
everybody else is wrong.
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If any of the
Pharisees believed it? No.
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Truth is not popular
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and that's one of
the big excuses I hear.
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Well, I don't understand
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how can Saturday be the Sabbath?
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Look at all the other
churches go on Sunday.
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The question isn't what
all the other churches do,
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the question is
what did God say.
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You know, I want
to tell you something.
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Anybody who ask the question
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why does
everybody else do Sunday
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when the Bible says Saturday,
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anybody that asks that question
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is beginning to understand
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the power of the antichrist.
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Because the whole world
is going to worship the beast
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except of the few
who's a name are written
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in the Book of Life
belonging to the Lamb.
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Jesus himself
said, broad is the way,
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that leads to destruction,
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and many are going to go there
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but straight and narrow the way,
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that leads to life,
only a few are gonna find it.
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That tells me that if
everybody believes one thing
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then watch out
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because it's
probably not correct.
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Only a few are gonna
embrace the truth about Jesus.
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He said that himself.
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So don't go looking for
the most popular teaching
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look for the
most biblical teaching
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and then you'll know
00:19:35.90\00:19:37.00
that you are
standing on solid ground.
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The truth has
never been popular.
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It wasn't even
popular in the Garden of Eden.
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There was a woman
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and there was a
snake and the man.
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And the snake said, you
think you are gonna die.
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You are not gonna die
eat it. And so they ate it.
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All three of
them believed the lie,
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the truth wasn't
even popular then.
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We learn last time
the truth wasn't popular
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in the days of Noah.
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Only one man on the entire
planet earth got it right.
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One preacher,
everybody else was wrong.
00:20:14.81\00:20:22.53
Truth isn't popular, never
was popular, never will be.
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Elijah one man of
God on Mount Carmel,
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850 false prophets, the
king and all the other people
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and that one man of God
dressed in his funny looking
00:20:38.93\00:20:41.43
camel haired robe was the
only one that got it right.
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Look around taking the
surveys to find the truth,
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you'll find the truth by
standing in the word of God.
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Keep your nose
in this book, folks.
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Follow the Lamb. Amen.
00:20:55.80\00:20:58.62
And that's the only
way to find the truth.
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Don't follow me,
don't follow my church,
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follow Jesus Christ.
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A man was walking to
the city of Jerusalem
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one day 2,000 years ago,
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and he sees this
man hanging on a cross
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between two other
men and he looks up there
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and the one in the
middle had a sin on his cross
00:21:31.29\00:21:33.69
and it said this
is Jesus of Nazareth
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the king of the Jews.
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And he asked the Roman soldiers
00:21:37.55\00:21:39.15
standing at the
foot of the cross,
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is that true? Is
that really the Messiah?
00:21:42.02\00:21:44.56
Is that Jesus
the king of the Jews
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and Roman solider laughs
and says does he look like it.
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Look at Him.
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But he is not convinced
so he goes into the city
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and he looks for the
biggest temple he can find
00:21:56.82\00:22:00.16
and there the high priest
00:22:00.19\00:22:01.64
is getting ready to
offer the Lamb for a sacrifice
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while the Lamb of God
is hanging on the cross.
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And he says,
excuse me a minute, sir.
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Can I ask you something?
Certainly, what is it?
00:22:10.39\00:22:13.20
That man out there on
the cross is He the Messiah?
00:22:13.23\00:22:16.38
It says He is.
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Is He really the Son of
God, is He Jesus the Son of God?
00:22:17.47\00:22:20.97
And the priest
smiles and says no.
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He is not the Son of God.
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And while our
friend is walking across
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the courtyard of
the city he sees--
00:22:29.95\00:22:33.89
someone sees him and says you,
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I saw you
talking to him out there.
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I saw you, you are
one of His disciples.
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And Peter says, I
never knew that cursive man.
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How do you find
truth by asking people,
00:22:51.77\00:22:55.23
by taking a survey, by
believing what God said?
00:22:55.26\00:22:59.58
Third excuse, cost too much.
00:23:03.50\00:23:10.45
Rich young man came
up to Jesus one time,
00:23:10.48\00:23:12.67
what should I do to be saved?
00:23:12.70\00:23:13.80
Oh, keep the commandments.
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Oh, I have done that
ever since I was a little boy.
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No problem.
00:23:17.50\00:23:18.82
But Jesus said,
you lack one thing.
00:23:18.85\00:23:22.56
Sell everything that you
own and give it to the poor.
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Take up your
cross and follow Me.
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And the rich young man
turned his back and walked away
00:23:31.56\00:23:36.13
because it cost too much
he thought to follow Jesus.
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He priced his earthly
possessions more than God.
00:23:42.86\00:23:50.53
Sometimes people
00:23:50.56\00:23:52.50
with that same
excuse today cost too much,
00:23:52.53\00:23:56.43
can't afford to
pay tithe or offerings.
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Folks, it doesn't cost too much.
00:24:01.82\00:24:04.75
God gives us everything we have,
00:24:04.78\00:24:06.30
He just wants a tenth back.
00:24:06.33\00:24:11.01
God is a God who will
be taking couple of fish
00:24:11.04\00:24:13.03
and five loaves of
bread and feed a multitude.
00:24:13.06\00:24:15.25
He can take your
90 percent mixture
00:24:15.28\00:24:16.83
and make sure
that you are gonna be
00:24:16.86\00:24:17.90
able to survive with it.
00:24:17.93\00:24:20.53
In fact He can make
sure you do more with the 90
00:24:20.56\00:24:22.81
then you could if you
kept it all to yourself.
00:24:22.84\00:24:24.72
You can't afford
not to follow God.
00:24:24.75\00:24:27.93
Some people say, oh pastor,
00:24:27.96\00:24:29.00
I - I can't I can't do
that, I can't follow Jesus
00:24:29.03\00:24:32.86
because I have
to work on Saturday
00:24:32.89\00:24:34.81
and I have to feed my family.
00:24:34.84\00:24:36.18
God knows that. He knows that.
00:24:36.21\00:24:41.44
Jesus said, Seek ye
first the kingdom of God,
00:24:41.47\00:24:46.30
and His righteousness,
00:24:46.33\00:24:47.73
and He will
supply what you need."
00:24:47.76\00:24:49.84
He knows, you need cloths,
00:24:49.87\00:24:50.94
look at the birds
how pretty they are.
00:24:50.97\00:24:52.91
The grass, and it's--
He knows you need all this.
00:24:52.94\00:24:55.46
He knows you need a room.
00:24:55.49\00:24:56.67
Seek ye first his kingdom.
00:24:56.70\00:24:58.78
He is going to take
care of what you need
00:24:58.81\00:25:00.61
and He will never let you down.
00:25:00.64\00:25:02.24
Now it doesn't mean
that you are gonna get
00:25:02.27\00:25:03.90
whatever you want.
00:25:03.93\00:25:06.66
He says, I will give
you whatever you need
00:25:06.69\00:25:11.62
to keep Him first.
00:25:11.65\00:25:13.89
And you can claim that promise
00:25:13.92\00:25:15.90
and I have seen it
happened over and over again.
00:25:15.93\00:25:19.22
I remember we were in Kentucky
00:25:19.25\00:25:21.92
and doing a Revelation Now.
00:25:21.95\00:25:23.73
A young man
came to the meetings,
00:25:23.76\00:25:25.30
it was back in the 70s
00:25:25.33\00:25:26.99
and he was a real genuine hippy.
00:25:27.02\00:25:31.50
Didn't have any money,
00:25:31.53\00:25:32.56
he had long hair
00:25:32.59\00:25:34.78
and he had a necklace
on with the big peace sign.
00:25:34.81\00:25:38.72
Walked around peace,
peace-- I mean real hippy.
00:25:38.75\00:25:41.46
He had been
hitchhiking across the country.
00:25:41.49\00:25:44.05
Didn't have any money stop there
00:25:44.08\00:25:46.22
just about the time we
were doing Revelation Now
00:25:46.25\00:25:48.24
because he need to get a
little job to get some money
00:25:48.27\00:25:50.11
so he go on a little bit.
00:25:50.14\00:25:52.65
Came to Revelation Now
00:25:52.68\00:25:54.67
and heard about Jesus,
he gave his heart to Jesus,
00:25:54.70\00:26:00.49
came to Jesus
hippy. It's the best kind.
00:26:00.52\00:26:06.10
Then he learned
about the Sabbath
00:26:06.13\00:26:09.72
and he made a decision to
start keeping the Sabbath.
00:26:09.75\00:26:14.07
He had been there for a while,
00:26:14.10\00:26:16.62
he was such a hard worker
that they kept promoting him.
00:26:16.65\00:26:19.53
At first he was
just unloading trucks
00:26:19.56\00:26:21.34
by the time we got there
00:26:21.37\00:26:22.76
he had worked up
to be the manager
00:26:22.79\00:26:25.06
of the electronics department,
00:26:25.09\00:26:26.94
radios, TV's,
stereos all that stuff.
00:26:26.97\00:26:32.32
And he said, I want
to keep the Sabbath.
00:26:32.35\00:26:33.93
But, well,
that's our biggest day
00:26:33.96\00:26:36.10
and I am the department manger
00:26:36.13\00:26:37.33
we all have to be
there on Saturday.
00:26:37.36\00:26:41.37
He says, what can I do?
00:26:41.40\00:26:43.63
I said, well, its
easy just follow the Lamb.
00:26:43.66\00:26:48.07
Do what Jesus wants you to do.
00:26:48.10\00:26:50.75
What does He want you to do?
00:26:50.78\00:26:51.81
He wants me to keep the Sabbath.
00:26:51.84\00:26:52.94
I said, well, do
that. He says okay.
00:26:52.97\00:26:56.65
So I gave him some tips on
how to talk to his supervisor.
00:26:56.68\00:27:00.81
And he went in to
talk to his supervisor
00:27:00.84\00:27:04.06
and the supervisor
gave him Sabbath's off.
00:27:04.09\00:27:10.09
Came to the meeting that
night just happy as he could be.
00:27:10.12\00:27:12.55
Hey, pastor, pastor,
it worked, it worked.
00:27:12.58\00:27:14.15
The Lord did it for me.
00:27:14.18\00:27:15.21
I don't have to
work on Saturdays.
00:27:15.24\00:27:16.44
All I need to do now is to go in
and work late on Friday nights
00:27:16.47\00:27:19.47
and I don't have to go
in on Saturdays anymore.
00:27:19.50\00:27:24.52
I almost through up.
00:27:24.55\00:27:27.90
I forgot to tell him about that.
00:27:27.93\00:27:31.46
I didn't have the heart
00:27:31.49\00:27:33.64
but it was the
truth I had to tell him.
00:27:33.67\00:27:36.68
And I said, well, you
know I forgot something.
00:27:36.71\00:27:39.41
I explained it to him
and his face just dropped.
00:27:39.44\00:27:43.04
I can't go back in there again.
00:27:43.07\00:27:44.89
Oh yeah, yeah God did it once
00:27:44.92\00:27:46.45
He can do it again, come on now.
00:27:46.48\00:27:47.91
Boy, every thing
inside in me was just turning.
00:27:47.94\00:27:51.17
He said okay, I am gonna do it.
00:27:51.20\00:27:52.35
He goes in, come
backs the next night.
00:27:52.38\00:27:53.83
I did it, I did it.
00:27:53.86\00:27:54.89
Now all I need to do is go
in Saturday night after sun down
00:27:54.92\00:27:57.57
and work late at night
00:27:57.60\00:27:58.63
and I don't have to
work on Sabbaths anymore.
00:27:58.66\00:28:00.26
Praise the Lord.
00:28:00.29\00:28:01.32
You can't afford
not to follow God.
00:28:01.35\00:28:03.29
Take your
stand, He can help you,
00:28:03.32\00:28:05.45
He will provide
what you need. Amen.
00:28:05.48\00:28:08.02
It's not a good excuse.
00:28:08.05\00:28:11.09
I am not going
to promise you that
00:28:11.12\00:28:13.07
if you keep the Sabbath
00:28:13.10\00:28:14.54
you will never lose your job
00:28:14.57\00:28:15.68
and you always get a better one.
00:28:15.71\00:28:16.74
I am not going
to promise you that
00:28:16.77\00:28:18.14
because time is
coming when we are gonna die.
00:28:18.17\00:28:20.55
We need to be willing to
die because of our faith in God.
00:28:20.58\00:28:24.68
But I can promise you
God will take care of you.
00:28:24.71\00:28:29.10
That's what He promised us.
00:28:29.13\00:28:33.23
And then there is another excuse
00:28:33.26\00:28:34.33
this is the toughest of all.
00:28:34.36\00:28:36.38
The devil doesn't
play by the rules.
00:28:36.41\00:28:39.33
He is not afraid to
kick when you are down.
00:28:39.36\00:28:42.04
Matthew 10:34,
00:28:42.07\00:28:44.30
one of the hardest
things that I think Jesus said.
00:28:44.33\00:28:46.37
It took me a long time
00:28:46.40\00:28:47.94
even begin to try
to understand this one.
00:28:47.97\00:28:50.48
He said "Do not suppose
00:28:50.51\00:28:51.79
that I have come to
bring peace to the earth.
00:28:51.82\00:28:55.00
I have not come to bring peace,
00:28:55.03\00:28:57.12
but a sword.
00:28:57.15\00:28:59.20
I have come to turn 'a
man against his father,
00:28:59.23\00:29:01.00
a daughter against her mother,
00:29:01.03\00:29:02.06
daughter-in-law
against her mother-in-law,
00:29:02.09\00:29:03.33
a man's enemies
will be the members
00:29:03.36\00:29:04.62
of his own household.
00:29:04.65\00:29:06.12
Anyone who loves
his father or mother
00:29:06.15\00:29:07.64
more than me is
not worthy of me,
00:29:07.67\00:29:09.93
anyone who loves
his son or daughter
00:29:09.96\00:29:11.28
more than me is
not worthy of me,
00:29:11.31\00:29:12.97
and anyone who
does not take his cross
00:29:13.00\00:29:14.47
and follow me is
not worthy of me.'"
00:29:14.50\00:29:16.08
Wow, how could
Jesus ever say that?
00:29:16.11\00:29:19.08
I didn't come to
bring peace, but a sword.
00:29:19.11\00:29:21.07
He is the prince of peace.
00:29:21.10\00:29:23.66
What did He mean?
00:29:23.69\00:29:24.72
I didn't come to
bring peace, but a sword?
00:29:24.75\00:29:26.91
I came to turn a
man against his father,
00:29:26.94\00:29:29.21
and a father against his?
00:29:29.24\00:29:30.28
What did Jesus
mean by all of this?
00:29:30.31\00:29:34.03
Well, I thought about it
00:29:34.06\00:29:35.11
and prayed about
that for a long time.
00:29:35.14\00:29:36.49
Said, Lord, please
help me to understand this.
00:29:36.52\00:29:40.16
And finally came to a conclusion
00:29:40.19\00:29:41.77
that true love is a
triangular relationship.
00:29:41.80\00:29:46.84
That's what I told my
wife when we got married.
00:29:46.87\00:29:49.28
I said, you need
to know something.
00:29:49.31\00:29:51.22
You are number two in
my life, is that okay?
00:29:51.25\00:29:54.53
She said, that's okay as
long as God is number one.
00:29:54.56\00:29:58.67
Because you see when we put
00:29:58.70\00:29:59.73
God number one
that's best for us.
00:29:59.76\00:30:01.39
He is at the top of the triangle
00:30:01.42\00:30:02.79
we are at the
bottom of each corner.
00:30:02.82\00:30:04.62
The closer you get to God,
00:30:04.65\00:30:05.82
the closer you get to
each other. Amen. Amen.
00:30:05.85\00:30:10.13
It's a triangular relationship
00:30:10.16\00:30:12.75
and that's what
this is all about.
00:30:12.78\00:30:16.30
You see the
moment you accept Jesus
00:30:16.33\00:30:18.47
as your Savior at that moment
00:30:18.50\00:30:20.54
you have peace with
God and you know that.
00:30:20.57\00:30:25.76
A lot of you experience
that. You have peace with God.
00:30:25.79\00:30:28.69
Some of you the first time
in the last couple of weeks
00:30:28.72\00:30:32.76
but that very same incident
00:30:32.79\00:30:34.49
you become an
enemy to the world.
00:30:34.52\00:30:38.08
There is no such
thing as peace with God
00:30:38.11\00:30:40.28
and peace at the world.
00:30:40.31\00:30:41.62
The world hates God and
if you are right with God
00:30:41.65\00:30:45.03
you become an
enemy to the world.
00:30:45.06\00:30:46.48
Then they're gonna hate you.
00:30:46.51\00:30:49.60
He didn't come to
make peace with the world
00:30:49.63\00:30:52.32
He came to make peace
00:30:52.35\00:30:53.72
with those who have fed
up to hear with the world
00:30:53.75\00:30:56.03
and want something better.
00:30:56.06\00:31:02.86
You see when a man
00:31:02.89\00:31:05.18
puts his wife desires over God
00:31:05.21\00:31:10.18
then he is really saying
00:31:10.21\00:31:16.05
that you are more
important to me than God is.
00:31:16.08\00:31:20.55
And folks-- I mean
if we are really honest
00:31:20.58\00:31:23.52
the thing we want
more than any thing else is
00:31:23.55\00:31:25.11
her husbands and
wives and families to be
00:31:25.14\00:31:27.13
together in Jesus
Christ. Amen. Amen.
00:31:27.16\00:31:30.11
We want all be together.
00:31:30.14\00:31:36.37
But if we say,
well, if you don't want me
00:31:36.40\00:31:37.94
to get baptized I won't.
00:31:37.97\00:31:39.28
I love you so much, honey.
00:31:39.31\00:31:40.51
Oh, dear I just won't do it.
00:31:40.54\00:31:41.93
Then you're saying
God is more important
00:31:41.96\00:31:44.62
and you are tying God's hands.
00:31:44.65\00:31:45.87
He can't use you to win
00:31:45.90\00:31:46.96
the ones you want
more than anything else.
00:31:46.99\00:31:51.41
It's only when we
take our stand for God
00:31:51.44\00:31:55.19
and put him first
then He can use you
00:31:55.22\00:31:57.13
to reach the ones
you love the most.
00:31:57.16\00:32:00.50
Now I am not saying it
will always work that way,
00:32:00.53\00:32:03.14
but at least you
are giving God a chance.
00:32:03.17\00:32:07.67
We were in Lowell, Kentucky.
00:32:07.70\00:32:09.34
Big Revelation Now meeting,
00:32:09.37\00:32:11.63
a big
auditorium, Downtown, Lowell
00:32:11.66\00:32:14.95
and there is a young
couple coming the first night,
00:32:14.98\00:32:18.20
couple of nights
sitting right in the front row
00:32:18.23\00:32:20.56
and then the third night
00:32:20.59\00:32:21.71
I noticed that he
wasn't there anymore,
00:32:21.74\00:32:24.01
she was all by
herself. So afterwards--
00:32:24.04\00:32:26.24
I've got acquainted
with them a little bit.
00:32:26.27\00:32:27.79
And afterwards I
went down I said,
00:32:27.82\00:32:29.26
hey, where is George?
00:32:29.29\00:32:31.10
Oh, he is not
gonna come anymore.
00:32:31.13\00:32:33.12
Oh, why not.
00:32:33.15\00:32:34.98
Well, he is just says he
is not really that interested.
00:32:35.01\00:32:38.78
But you are
going to keep coming.
00:32:38.81\00:32:39.88
Oh, yeah, I am gonna
come every night, and she did.
00:32:39.91\00:32:42.78
She came every
night all by herself--
00:32:42.81\00:32:44.84
she and a friend,
but not with George.
00:32:44.87\00:32:48.93
Well, after we got
down towards the end
00:32:48.96\00:32:51.49
the Spirit convicted her heart
00:32:51.52\00:32:53.48
and she came down
forward in an alter call
00:32:53.51\00:32:56.29
and said pastor I
want to get baptized.
00:32:56.32\00:32:58.91
I want to follow the Lamb.
00:32:58.94\00:33:01.23
I want to get baptized.
00:33:01.26\00:33:04.53
So she went home and told George
00:33:04.56\00:33:06.32
you need to come to the meeting
00:33:06.35\00:33:07.38
and like few more nights
00:33:07.41\00:33:08.51
because I am gonna get baptized
00:33:08.54\00:33:09.69
and I want you to see me.
00:33:09.72\00:33:10.75
He says, you are
going to get baptized?
00:33:10.78\00:33:11.94
She says yeah, I
am gonna get baptized.
00:33:11.97\00:33:13.88
I am gonna follow the Lamb
00:33:13.91\00:33:15.26
and he said, over my dead body.
00:33:15.29\00:33:19.88
No wife of mine is gonna be
00:33:19.91\00:33:21.76
some goody, goody Christian.
00:33:21.79\00:33:24.00
I don't need that around here.
00:33:24.03\00:33:26.37
You want to get baptized
00:33:26.40\00:33:27.44
then you go find
some other place to live.
00:33:27.47\00:33:31.70
What would you do?
00:33:31.73\00:33:33.17
Now I know what
you think you would do.
00:33:33.20\00:33:36.64
But when you come right
down to the reality of it,
00:33:36.67\00:33:40.73
it's not that easy.
00:33:40.76\00:33:43.14
And she had a
huge decision to make.
00:33:43.17\00:33:47.45
She came back to the
meeting and she said pastor,
00:33:47.48\00:33:51.93
George said I
can't get baptized.
00:33:51.96\00:33:56.89
And I said, what you gonna do.
00:33:56.92\00:34:02.73
She said, I don't know.
00:34:02.76\00:34:04.61
I don't know what to
do. Pastor what should I do?
00:34:04.64\00:34:09.26
I said well, what
does Jesus want you to do?
00:34:09.29\00:34:14.32
Jesus wants me to get baptized.
00:34:14.35\00:34:18.86
I said, won't you
just follow the Lamb
00:34:18.89\00:34:23.45
leave it up to Him.
00:34:23.48\00:34:25.61
You trust Him? She said I do.
00:34:25.64\00:34:30.79
So I want to be
baptized tomorrow night.
00:34:30.82\00:34:35.31
So tomorrow night comes
her friend went to pick her up
00:34:35.34\00:34:40.77
and George got so mad he
locked her up in the bedroom.
00:34:40.80\00:34:44.50
She couldn't get out.
00:34:44.53\00:34:46.71
Her friend is out
there honking the horn.
00:34:46.74\00:34:49.14
So she opens the
window and hollers out there,
00:34:49.17\00:34:53.93
George locked me in the bedroom
00:34:53.96\00:34:55.61
I can't get out.
00:34:55.64\00:34:57.51
Well, He is so embraced
00:34:57.54\00:34:59.09
and angry at her
that he opens the door,
00:34:59.12\00:35:02.01
he says go ahead, go ahead
00:35:02.04\00:35:03.55
and go, do what
ever you want to do
00:35:03.58\00:35:04.89
but if you get baptized
don't comeback and I mean it.
00:35:04.92\00:35:10.95
What would you
do if that was you?
00:35:10.98\00:35:14.30
She came to the
meeting that night
00:35:14.33\00:35:15.95
and she had a little plastic
bag with her cloths in it
00:35:15.98\00:35:21.17
and she was baptized.
00:35:21.20\00:35:24.38
You know, I want
to tell you something
00:35:24.41\00:35:26.33
brought tears to my eyes
00:35:26.36\00:35:27.52
when she came up
out of that water,
00:35:27.55\00:35:30.87
with the most
peaceful expression on her face
00:35:30.90\00:35:34.32
knowing what she faced ahead
00:35:34.35\00:35:38.69
as the peace that
passes understanding
00:35:38.72\00:35:41.59
the Bible talks about
00:35:41.62\00:35:43.80
the world can't understand that.
00:35:43.83\00:35:45.61
She went home
00:35:50.65\00:35:53.88
and the next
night Gorge was sitting
00:35:53.91\00:35:56.61
in the front row
right next to her.
00:35:56.64\00:36:01.41
Seek ye first My
kingdom and My righteousness.
00:36:01.44\00:36:07.11
I am not gonna promise you
00:36:07.14\00:36:08.26
if you take your
stand that those who oppose
00:36:08.29\00:36:10.74
you are gonna all of a
sudden change their minds.
00:36:10.77\00:36:12.61
It doesn't happen.
00:36:12.64\00:36:13.67
Everybody has to
make their own choice.
00:36:13.70\00:36:15.69
But what I am
telling you is that
00:36:15.72\00:36:17.30
when you stand for God
you are doing the one thing
00:36:17.33\00:36:20.67
that enables God to use
you to reach out to the once
00:36:20.70\00:36:23.67
that you love the most
00:36:23.70\00:36:24.86
and you are giving
them the best opportunity.
00:36:24.89\00:36:28.89
Family, oh what an
excuse. What an excuse.
00:36:28.92\00:36:34.86
And then the last one,
00:36:34.89\00:36:39.49
James wrote "He
who knows what is right
00:36:39.52\00:36:44.28
and does it not
for him it is sin".
00:36:44.31\00:36:51.01
Lot of times people ask me
00:36:51.04\00:36:52.07
what about my
grandma and grandpa.
00:36:52.10\00:36:53.31
They never heard about all this,
00:36:53.34\00:36:54.43
but they were
such good Christians.
00:36:54.46\00:36:56.58
He who knows what is right
00:36:56.61\00:36:58.58
and does it not
for him it is sin.
00:36:58.61\00:37:01.34
God doesn't hold us accountable
00:37:01.37\00:37:03.06
for what we don't know
00:37:03.09\00:37:04.62
but He is certainly
holds us accountable
00:37:04.65\00:37:06.40
for what we know.
00:37:06.43\00:37:09.04
Now notice, he who
knows what is right
00:37:09.07\00:37:11.53
and does it not.
00:37:11.56\00:37:13.22
It doesn't say he
who feels that it's right
00:37:13.25\00:37:17.07
and does it not
00:37:17.10\00:37:21.29
but he who knows the truth.
00:37:21.32\00:37:25.83
And I hear it so many times
00:37:25.86\00:37:28.05
people tell me
what do you thing,
00:37:28.08\00:37:30.69
for what you have
been learning here.
00:37:30.72\00:37:31.75
Oh, pastor I have never
learned so much in my life
00:37:31.78\00:37:35.08
as I have in the last four weeks
00:37:35.11\00:37:36.63
what we have been
studying together.
00:37:36.66\00:37:37.89
Sabbath too? Oh, yeah.
00:37:37.92\00:37:39.23
I understand that.
00:37:39.26\00:37:40.56
That was so clear
to me I never see.
00:37:40.59\00:37:42.18
You thought about keeping it?
00:37:42.21\00:37:43.26
Yeah, well I'm
praying on that one, pastor,
00:37:43.29\00:37:46.80
and when the Spirit moves me
00:37:46.83\00:37:49.02
and I feel
convicted I am gonna do it.
00:37:49.05\00:37:52.34
Now, some of you have said that.
00:37:52.37\00:37:53.60
I am not picking on you.
00:37:53.63\00:37:54.70
I have been
preaching this for 35 years,
00:37:54.73\00:37:56.40
saying the same thing.
00:37:56.43\00:38:00.37
There is nothing in the verse.
00:38:00.40\00:38:01.53
It says wait till you feel moved
00:38:01.56\00:38:02.97
by the Spirit to do right.
00:38:03.00\00:38:07.34
Jesus didn't feel right
when He hung on the cross
00:38:07.37\00:38:14.35
and said my God why
have you forsaken Me.
00:38:14.38\00:38:21.67
Feelings are tricky,
feelings make us want to put off
00:38:21.70\00:38:26.84
and delay acting and
what we know is right
00:38:26.87\00:38:31.77
and that's a
dangerous thing to do.
00:38:31.80\00:38:35.17
It's dangerous
because made us in such way
00:38:35.20\00:38:41.77
that we can tune out
things that bother us
00:38:41.80\00:38:47.53
and get on with life.
00:38:47.56\00:38:52.04
You get a new job.
00:38:52.07\00:38:57.99
Requires to get
up an hour earlier
00:38:58.02\00:38:59.54
in the morning to
get to work on time.
00:38:59.57\00:39:03.22
So you set your
alarm an hour earlier.
00:39:03.25\00:39:06.71
The morning alarm goes off
00:39:06.74\00:39:08.44
and you are not ready
to get out of bed yet.
00:39:08.47\00:39:12.26
And so you reach over there
00:39:12.29\00:39:14.49
trying to find
that snooze button.
00:39:14.52\00:39:17.64
Oh man, its too early I
just need five more minutes.
00:39:17.67\00:39:21.22
You know, the
five minutes of sleep
00:39:21.25\00:39:22.85
you get after you
turned that snooze button
00:39:22.88\00:39:25.53
that's the best
all night isn't it.
00:39:25.56\00:39:30.86
And so you hit the snooze
button five minutes that's all
00:39:30.89\00:39:35.84
and then you get up
00:39:35.87\00:39:36.90
and then the next
morning the alarm goes off,
00:39:36.93\00:39:39.55
snooze button again.
00:39:39.58\00:39:40.76
Oh man, I am not ready.
00:39:40.79\00:39:42.83
Well, this goes on
about three or four times
00:39:42.86\00:39:44.83
and then one morning you wake up
00:39:44.86\00:39:47.75
and angle of the sun is a
lot higher than it has been.
00:39:47.78\00:39:51.16
And you are hearing sounds
that you weren't hearing before.
00:39:51.19\00:39:54.63
And you are saying pastor,
00:39:54.66\00:39:55.95
sounds like you are
talking from experience.
00:39:55.98\00:39:58.79
I am afraid I am.
00:39:58.82\00:40:01.15
I missed a flight when
I was in the Air Force.
00:40:01.18\00:40:03.49
I missed one of
missions I slept through it.
00:40:03.52\00:40:06.61
So I know what its like
to sleep through the clock.
00:40:06.64\00:40:12.33
So you look at that
clock and you pick it up
00:40:12.36\00:40:14.09
and you are
already late for work.
00:40:14.12\00:40:16.75
You shake it.
Why didn't you ring?
00:40:16.78\00:40:22.33
When you look at it
you realize it did ring.
00:40:22.36\00:40:25.36
It rang all the way
down you dint even hear it.
00:40:25.39\00:40:29.48
So you rush out of
bed, you dress real quick,
00:40:29.51\00:40:32.45
rush down to work
00:40:32.48\00:40:33.51
and then that
day on the way home
00:40:33.54\00:40:36.15
you stop at hardware store
00:40:36.18\00:40:38.01
and he buy one of
these old fashioned
00:40:38.04\00:40:39.85
double clanging alarm clocks.
00:40:39.88\00:40:41.79
You know, double bell on top.
00:40:41.82\00:40:45.10
May be a washtub then
invert put it on top of that,
00:40:45.13\00:40:48.05
just to make sure
00:40:48.08\00:40:50.95
and the morning
that thing goes off,
00:40:50.98\00:40:53.12
you know what happened.
00:40:53.15\00:40:55.16
Well, getting a
little ahead of myself
00:40:55.19\00:40:56.70
because you see God made us
00:40:56.73\00:41:01.19
so that we can tune out
00:41:01.22\00:41:02.58
those distracting alarm clocks
00:41:02.61\00:41:06.81
and anything that distracts us.
00:41:06.84\00:41:09.84
I remember when I
was single pastor,
00:41:09.87\00:41:15.47
been a bachelor for 32 years
00:41:15.50\00:41:19.37
and I took pretty
good care of myself
00:41:19.40\00:41:21.93
so I could go to
the store every weekend
00:41:21.96\00:41:24.00
buying my weekly
bag of beans and rice.
00:41:24.03\00:41:26.04
That was the only
thing I knew how to make.
00:41:26.07\00:41:30.26
And then I see the Mothers Day
00:41:30.29\00:41:31.45
with the cards all
full of stuff flowing over
00:41:31.48\00:41:34.07
and kids tugging it their skirts
00:41:34.10\00:41:35.75
and jeans and
knocking things off the shells
00:41:35.78\00:41:39.22
and thinking how do
they keep their sanity.
00:41:39.25\00:41:41.82
Got married had to now I know.
00:41:41.85\00:41:45.37
God made us so that we can
tune out distracting thing.
00:41:45.40\00:41:49.72
I was studying a
Bible with a lady one time.
00:41:49.75\00:41:52.23
A little boy about that big,
00:41:52.26\00:41:54.05
I don't know if
you ever visited people
00:41:54.08\00:41:55.46
that have little
boys about that big
00:41:55.49\00:41:56.79
but I promise
you every time you go
00:41:56.82\00:41:59.08
they are going to go get
every toy out of their toy box
00:41:59.11\00:42:01.16
one at a time and bring them
out there to you to play with.
00:42:01.19\00:42:04.16
So I am sitting there
trying to study the Bible
00:42:04.19\00:42:06.25
and here he comes
with a police car,
00:42:06.28\00:42:08.11
woo woo, woo, woo.
00:42:08.14\00:42:09.74
And then he comes with a train
00:42:09.77\00:42:11.05
you know, choo, choo, choo
00:42:11.08\00:42:12.11
up my leg down the other leg
00:42:12.14\00:42:13.94
airplane dive bombing
00:42:13.97\00:42:18.18
about to tear my Bible apart.
00:42:18.21\00:42:21.39
And she says, oh don't
pay any attention to him,
00:42:21.42\00:42:23.50
I don't even hear
him. And she didn't.
00:42:23.53\00:42:30.10
You see God made us
00:42:30.13\00:42:31.48
so we can tune out
distracting things.
00:42:31.51\00:42:36.07
I remember the first week
00:42:36.10\00:42:38.12
I was on alert to sign
to the 62 Bomb Squadron
00:42:38.15\00:42:42.72
in Barksdale Air Force
Base, Louisiana, B-52 Crew
00:42:42.75\00:42:46.76
and we have to live
in a little building
00:42:46.79\00:42:48.76
right outside on
the end of runway
00:42:48.79\00:42:50.75
just beside all the
bombers loaded with--
00:42:50.78\00:42:54.26
with fuel and nuclear
weapons ready to go to war.
00:42:54.29\00:42:56.64
This is way back
in the cold war times,
00:42:56.67\00:42:58.79
and we had to live right there,
00:42:58.82\00:43:00.91
sleep there waiting
for that alarm to blow off
00:43:00.94\00:43:04.32
and send us off the war.
00:43:04.35\00:43:07.24
All day long, the first
day we are in target studies,
00:43:07.27\00:43:09.78
simulator practice,
going over the mission
00:43:09.81\00:43:11.88
over and over and over again.
00:43:11.91\00:43:13.75
I was so tired.
00:43:13.78\00:43:15.55
Got home, not home got to my bed
00:43:15.58\00:43:17.90
that night seeing out there.
00:43:17.93\00:43:18.96
I don't know if
you ever tried to sleep
00:43:18.99\00:43:20.07
on the end of the run way
00:43:20.10\00:43:21.13
with eight
engines of the B-52 jet
00:43:21.16\00:43:23.77
roaring over
your head all night.
00:43:23.80\00:43:26.21
It was just about to go off
00:43:26.24\00:43:28.05
and roar there
goes the first jet,
00:43:28.08\00:43:31.36
oh shook me up out of my--
00:43:31.39\00:43:33.28
what's that and then I
am back to sleep again.
00:43:33.31\00:43:36.42
Roar there goes
another one all night long.
00:43:36.45\00:43:40.59
And I am thinking
a whole week of this?
00:43:40.62\00:43:44.35
I am not gonna be
fit to fly a mission
00:43:44.38\00:43:46.29
if we have to go to war.
00:43:46.32\00:43:49.34
But you know,
after a few days went by
00:43:49.37\00:43:51.29
I was able to get a
little bit of sleep every night
00:43:51.32\00:43:54.82
and by the end of the week
00:43:54.85\00:43:56.56
I could sleep through the night
00:43:56.59\00:43:58.78
with out
hearing one jet take off
00:43:58.81\00:44:02.34
because God made us
to be able to tune out
00:44:02.37\00:44:04.98
things that distract us.
00:44:05.01\00:44:06.87
The Bible tells us that.
00:44:06.90\00:44:09.91
First Timothy, in 1 Timothy 4:2,
00:44:09.94\00:44:14.12
he speaks of those who
are hypocritical liars.
00:44:14.15\00:44:17.97
"Consciences have been
seared as with a hot iron."
00:44:18.00\00:44:22.86
Our consciences can
be seared the Bible says.
00:44:22.89\00:44:25.93
So it doesn't
work on us anymore.
00:44:25.96\00:44:29.21
You see, He made us
so we can tune out things
00:44:29.24\00:44:31.50
that bother us not
only in the physical world
00:44:31.53\00:44:33.68
but in spiritual
world too. You know that.
00:44:33.71\00:44:36.00
You know that when you discover
00:44:36.03\00:44:37.68
something is
true and you reject it
00:44:37.71\00:44:41.26
and you live the wrong way
00:44:41.29\00:44:43.11
and you do the wrong things
00:44:43.14\00:44:44.34
your conscience
bothers you. Doesn't it?
00:44:44.37\00:44:46.39
We have all experienced that.
00:44:46.42\00:44:48.34
But what happens if you ignore
00:44:48.37\00:44:49.79
your conscience
and you do it again.
00:44:49.82\00:44:51.76
It makes it easier
the next time, right.
00:44:51.79\00:44:54.57
And if you do it again and
it makes it easier the next time
00:44:54.60\00:44:57.48
until pretty soon
you can do these things
00:44:57.51\00:45:00.14
and your conscience
won't even bother you at all.
00:45:00.17\00:45:05.63
I know that's
true. I have been there.
00:45:05.66\00:45:09.30
You see God made us that way.
00:45:09.33\00:45:11.37
He made us, so we can
tune out spiritual things.
00:45:11.40\00:45:14.29
He made us so that
we can live our lives
00:45:14.32\00:45:17.07
in rebellion against God.
00:45:17.10\00:45:19.37
You see, if it had
been any differently
00:45:19.40\00:45:23.00
God would be acting
by force instead of love.
00:45:23.03\00:45:28.13
He made us so that
we can reject His truth
00:45:28.16\00:45:33.43
and live with that choice.
00:45:33.46\00:45:34.89
Suppose He made us so that
00:45:34.92\00:45:36.27
our conscience
bothered us when we sin,
00:45:36.30\00:45:38.93
and then the next time we
do that it bothers you worse
00:45:38.96\00:45:42.62
and then the next time
even worse and worse and worse.
00:45:42.65\00:45:47.80
Pretty soon you
will get to the place
00:45:47.83\00:45:49.21
to where either
you better obey God
00:45:49.24\00:45:51.42
or you go insane and
there would be no choice.
00:45:51.45\00:45:56.57
So He made us so
that we can tune out
00:45:56.60\00:46:00.29
even spiritually things that
bother us and get on with life.
00:46:00.32\00:46:03.14
It's not a real peace,
00:46:03.17\00:46:04.68
its white flag
surround kind of peace.
00:46:04.71\00:46:08.11
Real peace only comes
00:46:08.14\00:46:09.20
when we surrender
to God not to sin.
00:46:09.23\00:46:13.45
But we can get on
with life that way.
00:46:13.48\00:46:15.70
Some people say when you do that
00:46:15.73\00:46:17.18
you have committed
the unpardonable sin.
00:46:17.21\00:46:19.17
If you sin and your
conscience bothers you
00:46:19.20\00:46:21.36
and you keep sinning and
doesn't bother you anymore
00:46:21.39\00:46:23.05
you committed
the unpardonable sin
00:46:23.08\00:46:24.49
that's not true.
00:46:24.52\00:46:25.65
The unpardonable sin
00:46:25.68\00:46:27.13
is blasphemy
against the Holy Spirit.
00:46:27.16\00:46:29.75
It's close to being
the unpardonable sin.
00:46:29.78\00:46:32.37
It's the next step
to the unpardonable sin.
00:46:32.40\00:46:34.66
I have been there
I have sat in church
00:46:34.69\00:46:37.37
just because
whenever I went home I went
00:46:37.40\00:46:39.52
because my mom wanted me
to go, and I'd go with her
00:46:39.55\00:46:42.58
and I would hear a sermon
00:46:42.61\00:46:43.64
and every body
sitting there wiping in tears.
00:46:43.67\00:46:45.52
And I look at my mother
00:46:45.55\00:46:46.90
and she is there with
tears streaming down her cheek
00:46:46.93\00:46:49.80
and I know that
those tears are for me.
00:46:49.83\00:46:52.09
I know that and
yet I am sitting there
00:46:52.12\00:46:54.22
laughing at her on the inside
00:46:54.25\00:46:55.95
how can anybody so foolish
to believe this nonsense.
00:46:55.98\00:47:00.20
It never touched me one bit.
00:47:00.23\00:47:03.35
I have been there
00:47:03.38\00:47:05.18
but thank God that's
not the unpardonable sin.
00:47:05.21\00:47:10.80
On the way home you do stop
00:47:10.83\00:47:12.26
and you buy a old
fashioned alarm clock
00:47:12.29\00:47:15.83
with that double clanging bell.
00:47:15.86\00:47:19.70
In the morning when that
goes off your heart is raising
00:47:19.73\00:47:23.70
and when it
settles down little bit
00:47:23.73\00:47:24.82
you will get out
of bed and get dressed
00:47:24.85\00:47:25.95
and you are off to work.
00:47:25.98\00:47:28.34
And few mornings after
that you don't need that
00:47:28.37\00:47:30.22
old hardware stored
double clanging bell anymore,
00:47:30.25\00:47:35.03
the clock radio works fine.
00:47:35.06\00:47:37.85
If you keep responding to that
00:47:37.88\00:47:39.13
did you know
that you can wake up
00:47:39.16\00:47:40.41
before the music even comes on?
00:47:40.44\00:47:42.72
See, I've had
those experiences too.
00:47:42.75\00:47:45.04
We can become resensitized
00:47:45.07\00:47:46.97
if we don't fell
the Spirit any more
00:47:47.00\00:47:48.67
it's a dangerous thing.
00:47:48.70\00:47:49.93
You are right next to
committing the unpardonable sin
00:47:49.96\00:47:52.96
but we can become resensitized
00:47:52.99\00:47:55.97
because if we just respond
to the little bit of light
00:47:56.00\00:47:58.90
that we have then the Bible says
00:47:58.93\00:48:00.61
that light shines brighter
00:48:00.64\00:48:02.18
and brighter and
brighter and brighter.
00:48:02.21\00:48:04.62
And some of you may be worried.
00:48:04.65\00:48:05.89
I had people
tell me I think I did
00:48:05.92\00:48:07.40
the unpardonable sin, pastor.
00:48:07.43\00:48:09.13
You wouldn't be
worrying about it if you did.
00:48:09.16\00:48:12.60
You wouldn't be here if you did.
00:48:12.63\00:48:15.06
But I don't feel anything, I
don't want to respond to any--
00:48:15.09\00:48:18.13
I don't feel like
respond to anything.
00:48:18.16\00:48:20.05
It doesn't matter if you are
concerned about it just respond
00:48:20.08\00:48:24.13
and that little lights
going to shine brighter.
00:48:24.16\00:48:27.06
And if you
respond to the new light
00:48:27.09\00:48:28.57
it gets brighter and
brighter and brighter
00:48:28.60\00:48:30.73
until that perfect day.
00:48:30.76\00:48:32.54
The Bible says we
can become resensitized.
00:48:32.57\00:48:38.11
But there is another
way that people try to delay
00:48:38.14\00:48:41.72
and put off following
Jesus and it's to rationalize.
00:48:41.75\00:48:49.44
Rationalizing is just making
an excuses for what you did,
00:48:49.47\00:48:51.68
explaining it away
trying to find the loop hole.
00:48:51.71\00:48:55.90
Remember the first time I
went to prison as a visitor,
00:48:55.93\00:49:00.52
Nebraska State Penitentiary.
00:49:04.82\00:49:07.70
Our flag football
team was gonna go play
00:49:07.73\00:49:11.84
the flag football team on
the inside wall of the prison.
00:49:11.87\00:49:18.46
We didn't know what that was.
00:49:18.49\00:49:19.70
We just knew that's
where the worst guys were.
00:49:19.73\00:49:22.62
And we had pictures in
our minds of the meanest,
00:49:22.65\00:49:26.44
wildest looking men
00:49:26.47\00:49:28.13
so guilt ridden
00:49:28.16\00:49:30.66
that they were just wanting
to devour us and tear us apart.
00:49:30.69\00:49:35.74
We were little
nervous about this.
00:49:35.77\00:49:39.36
But you know
when we got in there
00:49:39.39\00:49:41.68
I didn't see one
guilty looking man,
00:49:41.71\00:49:45.54
not one because
of rationalizing.
00:49:45.57\00:49:51.91
I didn't really murder the guy.
00:49:51.94\00:49:54.97
He would have had a heart attack
00:49:55.00\00:49:56.03
the next day any way or
it was just self defense.
00:49:56.06\00:50:01.03
I didn't do anything that
anyone of you wouldn't had done,
00:50:01.06\00:50:03.31
if you had been in
a situation I was in.
00:50:03.34\00:50:05.39
That's rationalizing
00:50:05.42\00:50:07.90
and the reason
rationalizing is so dangerous
00:50:07.93\00:50:11.84
is because the Bible says
00:50:11.87\00:50:13.87
that we can
come to believe a lie
00:50:13.90\00:50:18.37
just as sincerely
00:50:18.40\00:50:20.71
as people believe the truth.
00:50:20.74\00:50:27.05
That's scary.
00:50:27.08\00:50:29.09
In fact Paul wrote to
the church at Thessalonica,
00:50:29.12\00:50:33.59
"The coming of the lawless
one" that's the antichrist
00:50:33.62\00:50:37.31
"will be in accordance
with the work of Satan
00:50:37.34\00:50:39.83
displayed in all kinds
of counterfeit miracles,
00:50:39.86\00:50:42.00
signs and wonders,
in every sort of evil
00:50:42.03\00:50:44.14
that deceives
those who are perishing.
00:50:44.17\00:50:46.43
They perish because they
refused to love the truth
00:50:46.46\00:50:49.43
and to be saved.
00:50:49.46\00:50:50.55
And for this reason God
sends them a powerful delusion
00:50:50.58\00:50:54.04
so that they
will believe the lie."
00:50:54.07\00:50:57.46
I hope you caught
that? God sends the delusion.
00:50:57.49\00:51:03.36
God sends the antichrist
00:51:03.39\00:51:07.82
so that those who
reject Him can believe the lie.
00:51:07.85\00:51:14.57
And they perish not because
they didn't believe the truth
00:51:14.60\00:51:18.35
but that they
didn't love the truth.
00:51:18.38\00:51:21.25
You can believe the
truth without loving the truth.
00:51:21.28\00:51:23.89
The devil believes it.
00:51:23.92\00:51:24.95
He knows Jesus died on
the cross he was there,
00:51:24.98\00:51:27.56
but he doesn't love it.
00:51:27.59\00:51:28.76
They perish because
they don't love the truth.
00:51:28.79\00:51:31.09
Loving the truth is
understanding the truth
00:51:31.12\00:51:33.32
and bring it into your heart.
00:51:33.35\00:51:35.11
Loving the truth is not saying
00:51:35.14\00:51:36.57
well, I am gonna think about it,
00:51:36.60\00:51:38.36
I am going to pray on it,
00:51:38.39\00:51:39.62
I am gonna see
what leads me to do.
00:51:39.65\00:51:41.50
God leads us through
this not through this. Amen.
00:51:41.53\00:51:47.17
It's dangerous to
delay and put it off.
00:51:47.20\00:51:49.94
I have people
doing this all the time.
00:51:49.97\00:51:51.58
Pastor, I am gonna get
my little red notebook.
00:51:51.61\00:51:53.43
I am gonna go through
every one of those lessons
00:51:53.46\00:51:54.78
in Revelation Now as all with.
00:51:54.81\00:51:56.25
When I finish every
one of these lessons,
00:51:56.28\00:51:57.61
with that every
text than I am gonna be
00:51:57.64\00:51:58.86
ready to get
baptize and follow the Lamb.
00:51:58.89\00:52:02.59
Thirty five years
we have been doing this
00:52:02.62\00:52:03.86
I am still waiting
for the first person
00:52:03.89\00:52:05.44
to tell me they did it.
00:52:05.47\00:52:08.46
If we don't
respond when Jesus calls us
00:52:08.49\00:52:10.67
how can we think we
are going to respond after?
00:52:10.70\00:52:14.40
Because the longer we
wait the harder it gets.
00:52:14.43\00:52:17.57
Today is the day now.
00:52:17.60\00:52:22.13
A young boy was
born into a poor family
00:52:22.16\00:52:25.58
lived in a Swiss Alps.
00:52:25.61\00:52:27.51
They didn't even
have enough money
00:52:27.54\00:52:28.69
to keep food on the table,
00:52:28.72\00:52:30.41
so this young fellow's job
was to go out into the woods
00:52:30.44\00:52:33.71
and to spot big eagle nests.
00:52:33.74\00:52:37.29
And he knew how to tell
when the time was just right,
00:52:37.32\00:52:39.81
he could climb that tree
00:52:39.84\00:52:41.33
and take the eggs
out of the eagle's nest
00:52:41.36\00:52:43.84
and he would use those eggs
00:52:43.87\00:52:45.57
to contribute to
help feed the family.
00:52:45.60\00:52:48.31
There is one particular time,
00:52:48.34\00:52:49.59
he found an eagle's
nest high upon a ledge
00:52:49.62\00:52:55.21
and he kept
watching it and watching it
00:52:55.24\00:52:56.88
and finally decided
this is the right time
00:52:56.91\00:52:59.85
I am going to climb
way up there and get it.
00:52:59.88\00:53:01.86
No problem he has done
this kind of things all along
00:53:01.89\00:53:03.90
so he goes up to the wall
00:53:03.93\00:53:07.04
and its just a
sheer straight up wall
00:53:07.07\00:53:08.67
there is no way he
is going to climb that.
00:53:08.70\00:53:11.05
Ah, no problem
00:53:11.08\00:53:12.22
he knew those mountains
like the back of his hands
00:53:12.25\00:53:14.00
so I will go around the backside
00:53:14.03\00:53:15.77
and then I will
go up over the top
00:53:15.80\00:53:17.32
and come down and
I can get the eggs.
00:53:17.35\00:53:19.56
Well he went to the backside
00:53:19.59\00:53:21.39
but he
discovered that that ledge
00:53:21.42\00:53:23.41
was down beneath and below.
00:53:23.44\00:53:25.25
It was an actual over hang
00:53:25.28\00:53:27.39
and there was no
way he could climb down
00:53:27.42\00:53:29.04
that way to get the eggs.
00:53:29.07\00:53:31.46
Still no problem
because he had a rope with him.
00:53:31.49\00:53:34.02
So all he needed to do is
just tie this rope with tree.
00:53:34.05\00:53:36.43
So he tied his rope to a tree
00:53:36.46\00:53:39.16
and then he put
few knots in the end
00:53:39.19\00:53:41.66
let it down over the side of
the cliff and then it start--
00:53:41.69\00:53:45.30
was there he would
lower himself down on the rope
00:53:45.33\00:53:47.57
until his feet would
level with that ledge
00:53:47.60\00:53:49.55
then he could swing
and swing wide enough
00:53:49.58\00:53:52.49
that he could
just jump off the ledge
00:53:52.52\00:53:54.15
and grab those eggs and
then climb back up the rope.
00:53:54.18\00:53:58.48
So he did that.
00:53:58.51\00:54:00.13
He climbed down on the rope
00:54:00.16\00:54:01.40
he hadn't knots there to
keep his hands from slipping.
00:54:01.43\00:54:03.68
There he is hanging
hundreds of feet up in the air.
00:54:03.71\00:54:06.38
He is not afraid he had
done that many, many times.
00:54:06.41\00:54:08.53
So he starts to swing
wider and wider and wider
00:54:08.56\00:54:12.57
until finally all he did
was just step off on that ledge
00:54:12.60\00:54:16.25
when he bent down
to pick up those eggs
00:54:16.28\00:54:18.39
he frozen a moment of panic
00:54:18.42\00:54:20.74
because he realize he
had led go with the rope.
00:54:20.77\00:54:25.72
And watched its swinging away,
00:54:25.75\00:54:27.90
you know when times like that
00:54:27.93\00:54:29.95
thoughts go
through our mind rapidly
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and he thought
about a lot of things.
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He said oh, I am going
to climb up but he couldn't
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because that was
just an over hang
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no way to climb up.
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I will climb down too
straight, couldn't go down.
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I'll call for help.
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He knew he was so far away
nobody would ever hear him.
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He also knew that in a
few days he gets so weak
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it could be easy
pray for that mother eagle
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and she would
tear him to shreds.
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And he realize the only hope
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he had was that
rope and he knew that
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the first time
that rope came back
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it would be as close
as it would ever get.
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If he waited for the second time
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it would be a
little further out there
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and another
time even further out
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and if he waited too long,
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that rope would be hanging
motionless far out of his reach.
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The rope was coming
he had to make a decision
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and he needed to
decided right then.
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So the young fellow stood
on the edge of that cliff,
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toes hanging over the end
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the rope is moving towards him
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he bends his
knees, flexes his muscles
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and adjust the
split second instant
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when that rope held still
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before it began to
go back the other way
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with all of the strength
and energy he could muster
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he leaped out into space
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grab the rope and
climbed to safety.
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To some of you that
rope is still swinging
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and it will be never be any
closer than it is right now.
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The longer we wait
to follow the Lamb.
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The more difficult it's gonna be
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until it's far out of our reach.
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Today is the day
if you hear His voice
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don't harden your heart
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respond to Him, follow the Lamb.
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