The escalation of global
terrorism, crime, immorality
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and natural disasters,
seems to indicate our world
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is spiraling towards its
ultimate hour with destiny.
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Who, if anyone, will
survive Earth's final events?
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Discover what Bible prophecy
reveals about the rapture,
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the mark of the
beast, and Armageddon.
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Though shrouded in
mystery for centuries,
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the book of Revelation
can be understood today.
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Peer into the future,
and see what wonderful things
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God has planned for His people.
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And now, Pastor Brian
McMahon presents the powerful
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Bible seminar
"Revelation Speaks Hope".
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Our subject for this
evening is: [text on screen]
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The dictionary of Christianity
in America says that the US
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is currently the home of
more than 1500 different kinds
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of churches, denominations,
religious societies.
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There are literally thousands
of different kinds of churches.
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With all the different churches
in the land, and with each
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church door open, with
each church pastor saying
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"This is the way, come follow
us", certainly you can see
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why the average
person might be confused.
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In the book of Acts 2:47
we read these words, it says
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[text on screen]
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So people can see when a person
is baptized, the Lord wants
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to add you to the church, but
the question is: what church?
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With all these different array
of churches, with all these
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different kinds of structures,
different creeds, different
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teachings, different doctrines
per se, a person will wonder:
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how in the world can anyone
every figure out where to go
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and worship? What is
the most sought after
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secret in the
Bible? It is simply this:
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of all the different churches
in the land, what church would
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Jesus join if He was to
come to this city tonight?
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According to Time Magazine,
religions are absolutely
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exploding in this
country. One particular article
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said this: [text on screen]
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Those are some
interesting names, aren't they?
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Again, the average person
is very confused about where
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to go, and they give all
kinds of reasons as to why
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they go there. You
see the different names
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that are out there, you
see them in the phone book,
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and a person looks in
the phone book and they say:
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"My, it's an absolute
crazy variety of choices."
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Some people have told me
that they, when they want to go
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to church they open up the
phone book, close their eyes
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and put their finger down and
when they open up their eyes,
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whatever their finger's pointing
to, that's where they're
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going to go. Why
do we go to church
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in a particular place?
Look at 1 Timothy 3:15,
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it says this: [text on screen]
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We don't go there because of how
eloquent the pastor preaches,
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we go there because we
believe that the truth of God
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is found in the word of
God, and we have found a group
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of people, men, and
women and young people who are
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teaching according
to the word of God.
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Listen to me carefully,
those of you who are parents can
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especially relate to
what I'm about to share.
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If your child came home
from school one day and said
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"Mom, Dad, I sure
learned a lot in class today",
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and you say "Well, tell me
about it", and so your child
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says "Well, I learned
that 2+2 is 5, and I learned"
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"that the capital of France
is London, and the capital"
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"of England is Paris."
Wouldn't you kind of look
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side ways and say "Now
hang on a minute here,"
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"I don't think I want you
being taught those things."
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"I don't think I want
you learning falsehood."
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I think that you'd have a
very clear talk with that school
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and if they didn't straighten
out the situation, you would
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be gone from there and
your children would be gone
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from there. You
know that that is true,
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parents would not stand
for a moment for their children
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to be taught falsehood in
school, that's the secular
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sense, why is it that
people are so content to often
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being taught things that they
know are false in the spiritual
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sense, and it's in the spiritual
sense that we should be
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more concerned about because
that concerns our eternal life.
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So I hope we can easily
see that there are good reasons
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why we should be
carefully considering the church
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that we go to.
Sometimes people will say
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"Oh well, it doesn't
really matter, you can make"
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"the Bible say
anything you want it to say."
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Have you ever heard that one?
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You might have even said
it yourself, I don't know,
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it's a tempting thing to
do because a lot of people
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say that "Well, you can make
the Bible say anything you want"
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"to say", friends,
let me tell you something,
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the Bible scholar knows that
the Bible does not contradict
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itself, and it is not that the
Bible is confusing, it is only
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when people take things out
of context and twist the Bible
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that you can make it appear
to say contradictory things.
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No one is going to
appear in the judgment before
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the Most High God, and
when they're answering before,
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why they did things, say
to God "Well, you can make"
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"the Bible say
anything you want it to say."
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Well, Jesus has an
answer for that in John 8:32,
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and here it says in the
words of Jesus: [text on screen]
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So can you know the
truth according to the words
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of Jesus Christ? Yes you can.
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I don't want any "maybe"s
to hang my eternal life on,
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I don't any "I guess so"s,
I don't want any "perhaps"s,
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I want to know the truth
so the truth can set me free.
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Dear friends, error is
enslaving, and that's why
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we need to know truth so
the truth can set us free.
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Free from what?
Free from the deceptions
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and the sins that
come from the evil one.
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John 7:17 is our text
now, the Bible says this:
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"If any man" - that means "if
any person", [text on screen]
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Doctrine there means "teaching",
[continues to read text]
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Jesus is saying if any
person will do His will, that's
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the key point, this
is the crucial point.
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If a person is willing to do
the will of God, Jesus says you
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will know what teaching is
true, and of course, that means
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what teaching is not
true. Why? Because they have
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a teachable mind, but what
Jesus is saying is you will
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know the truth if you are
willing to practice the truth,
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and if you are willing to
practice the truth you are
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going to know what is
right and what is not right.
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In other words, the Christian
with an open heart says
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"God, I am willing to make the
necessary changes in my life."
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If we're not willing to make the
necessary changes, if we insist
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on having things the way
they always were, our minds
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will rationalize away the truth
and we'll walk away from it.
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Why? Well, because as they say,
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there are hooks to hang
your doubts on if you're looking
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for them. God has
given us all the truth
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that we need if we want to
believe, but if we don't want
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to believe, the Devil is always
there to supply the doubt.
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One of the biggest problems
that we have is that so many
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people do not love the
truth when God brings the truth.
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In 2 Thessalonians 2 the
Bible says that many people
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will be lost because they
did not receive the love of
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the truth that
they might be saved.
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Friends, it's important
that when God shows His truth
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we say "Lord, change my heart".
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One of the biggest problems
we have in the Christian world
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is what I call the "God
says, but I think" syndrome.
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You see, there are 2 groups
in the Bible, and the Bible
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describes them in many
ways: the saved and the lost,
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truth and error, broad road,
narrow road, and these kinds
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of ways, there's another
way that the Bible describes
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these 2 groups and
that is sheep and goats.
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Sheep are known for following
the master, aren't they?
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The master leads, the shepherd
leads and the sheep follow;
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Jesus is the Good Shepherd.
What are goats known for?
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Aren't goats
always known for butting?
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It's a rebellious kind
of symbol because they're
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always butting,
butting against the flow.
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When people say "I know
what the Bible say, but...",
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that's the "God says,
but I think" syndrome.
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"I know what the day of worship
in Scripture is, but I'm"
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"more comfortable
doing what I've been doing."
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"I know that alcohol is
destroying my relationship"
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"with God, but I
want to do it anyway."
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Now, there is an eternal
principle that I want to share
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with you, and that is
that: [text on screen]
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Someone will always say "Wait
a minute pastor, are you saying"
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"that you have to
find a particular church?"
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"Isn't God's church
some kind of invisible body?"
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Well friends, I'm going to
share with you what it says.
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Ephesians 4:4,5, here
Scripture says: [text on screen]
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"One Lord, 900
Faiths, and one baptism."
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- [Audience] One. - Oh,
I'm so glad you corrected
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me there. How many
faiths does it say?
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One faith, and that's Biblical
faith, that's why we want
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to make sure we
find out the right faith.
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In the Bible Paul makes
an analogy in 1 Corinthians,
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he says just as the human
body has a brain, and a mind,
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and gives signals to the
church, Jesus is the head,
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and all the other parts make up
the body, the various members,
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so we find that the human
body has the head and it has
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the various parts to it.
Now, friends I want to really
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help you to think, if
the brain gives mixed signals
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to the body, the
body's in trouble, isn't it?
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The brain can't the right leg
to go right and at the same time
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as telling the left leg
to go left, it can't do that.
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It's got to give simple,
consistent, clear messages
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or the body is not
going to function right.
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Now, is the Holy Spirit
going to say to this church
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over here: Listen, you go
to church on Sunday and you"
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"believe one thing on death,
and you believe the hell fire"
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"is for eternity, and you
believe one thing on the gifts"
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"of the Spirit", and then turn
around and say to this church
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over here "Now you believe
everyday is holy, and it"
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"doesn't matter what day you
go to church, and you believe"
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"another thing on the gifts
of the Spirit, and you believe"
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"another thing on end
time events, and you believe"
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"something else on the
Antichrist", and then turn
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to this church over here and say
"Now you go on the Bible day"
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"because that's right too,
and you believe in a certain"
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"thing on death...", is
God the author of confusion?
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[Audience] No.
Friends, you can't lay that
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at the feet of the Holy
Spirit. If God has a church
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how can we find it? I
want quick to say tonight
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that God has wonderful sincere
people in all different kinds
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of churches and backgrounds.
There are wonderful Methodist
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Christians, and
wonderful Baptist Christians,
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and wonderful Lutheran
Christians, and there are
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wonderful Presbyterian
Christians, but just because
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these churches have many sincere
people that worship God and
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serve Jesus Christ as best they
know, it doesn't mean that God
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approves of everything they
do, it doesn't mean that God
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approves of everything their
church teaches, it just means
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that these are truly God's sheep
and God honors what they do
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when they don't have any
knowledge other than that.
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But nevertheless, God has
always desired to bring people
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from a position of lack of
understanding, to a position
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of understanding. For example:
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in the New Testament we find the
story of Philip and the Eunuch,
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one of my favorite stories.
Here is a man, he has a deep
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desire in his heart for religion
and he's crossing back from
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Jerusalem to his home land,
he has a desire to worship God,
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but he lacks understanding.
Does God let him just go back
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to his home land without
any understanding and saying
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"Well, he's going
to make it anyway"? No.
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What does God do? He
takes the time to send Philip
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all the way out into the
dessert to reach that one man
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and teach him more about Jesus.
We have the story of Cornelius,
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here again, he's a gentile
man, but he has a sincere desire
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in his heart to serve, and
God, and I'm sure he loves God
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in his own way, does
God leave him like that?
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No, God sends Peter over to
his house that he can instruct
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him more faithfully
in the way of truth.
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So it is always God's desire
to take people who are sincere
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and who do love him, and
lead them to a visible group,
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in other words, take
them from the so called
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"invisible church" and lead them
to the visible church that can
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better lead them in
the way of salvation.
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This has always
been the way of God.
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We go back into the Old
Testament times, God has had
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people that are faithful to
Him and desire to serve Him,
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we go all the way
back to the days of Noah.
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Back in the days of Noah was
a man of faith, Noah was a man
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of obedience, Noah was a
man of allegiance to heaven.
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Turn with me to Genesis
26, we're going to do a little
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bit of a history lesson
here. Genesis 26:5, what made
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Abraham a special leader
for God? The answer comes
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in verse 5: [text on screen]
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God called Abraham and Abraham
was obedient, he was loyal,
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he was faithful, he was obedient
to what God asked him to do.
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Therefore, he became the
father of the nation of Israel.
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Okay, that was back
in the days of Abraham.
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Abraham, of course, was
the father of this nation,
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and Israel was the result
of it, but remember now, Israel
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started off wanting to serve
the Lord, let's go to the book
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of Deuteronomy. The
book of Deuteronomy 7:6.
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God called Abraham, but Abraham
was only 1 person, he certainly
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was 1 out of a lot of people
that did not want to serve God,
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but God desired more than could
serve him, so Deuteronomy 7:6,
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speaking of Israel it
says: [text on screen]
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Do you remember how I've been
saying to you all these nights
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that these 2 things go together,
love and obedience, and that
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we would see it a
number of times, and we have;
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we saw in the book of Exodus,
we've seen it in other books
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of the Bible that God says
"I keep covenant", that means
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"I am in a special relationship
with those that love Me enough"
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"to keep My commandments",
that's John 14:15.
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So here we see it again.
What made Israel God's people?
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It wasn't their size, He says
"You were the smallest group,"
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"but I chose you anyway because
I keep covenant with those"
00:15:26.45\00:15:29.70
"that want to
love Me and obey Me."
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So here you look at
what happened to Israel,
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now Israel, they had
their moments of obedience, but
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they drifted off, they started
to rebel, they started to break
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God's commandments, and
eventually things got to
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the point where He allowed them
to go into Babylonian captivity.
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But even though they were
there some 70 years, eventually
00:15:46.93\00:15:50.65
He drew back out a people that
did want to love and serve Him.
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Let's go look at the book of
Haggai 1:12: [text on screen]
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"remnant" - this is a
new word for us, we're going
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to see it again,
"...obeyed the voice of"
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"the Lord their
God" [text on screen]
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So here is that group
that has come out of Babylonian
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captivity, it's not the
larger group, the larger group
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stayed behind in Babylon,
but it is a group, nevertheless,
00:16:26.02\00:16:28.58
that feared the Lord, and it
says that they obeyed the voice
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of the Lord their God.
So again, we've got a group
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that wants to be loyal. We
have a group here that wants
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to be faithful, and God
coins a term for that group
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and that term is "remnant",
now keep that in mind as we
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go through the rest
of this study tonight.
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Now, you know the story,
Israel continued to drift
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away from God, things
got awfully dark, spiritually
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speaking, and finally God
sent Jesus into the world.
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In the days of Jesus, though the
vast majority did reject Him,
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still, did God have some that
could be influenced for right?
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Some that did want
to obey what was right?
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Let's go back into the
New Testament again, let's go
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to Romans this time,
Romans 11:4,5 says this:
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[text on screen]
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That's referring back to the
days of Elijah, then Paul says:
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[text on screen]
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There's a remnant, in other
words there still is a group,
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not the biggest group, not the
most popular group, but there is
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a group that will not
serve the idols of the pagans,
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they want to do what's
right. The word "remnant" is
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an interesting word, it comes
from our English word "remain",
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[text on screen]
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So what we're looking at here
is that down through the ages
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God has had a group of people,
the visible group may not
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be necessarily the
faithful group, it may not be
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necessarily the group that
God is the one that's leading,
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but God will have a people
throughout history that do
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desire to serve
Him. If God had a remnant
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in the Old Testament times,
if God had a remnant in the days
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of Abraham, if God had a remnant
in the days of Deuteronomy,
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if God had a remnant in
the days of Haggai, if God had
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a remnant in the days of
the apostle Paul, wouldn't God
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have a remnant down at the end
of time before Jesus returns?
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If you could think of 1 book
of the Bible that would describe
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that group, what book
of the Bible would that be?
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If you could just take a
guess that would describe God's
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last day people, it would
probably be the book of what?
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Revelation, that's
right. Let's turn there,
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Revelation 12:6, it
says: "And the woman fled into"
00:18:51.81\00:18:54.86
"the wilderness where she
has a place prepared of God,"
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"that they should feed her
there a thousand two hundred"
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"and three score days", now
in Bible prophecy 1 prophetic
00:19:02.68\00:19:05.32
day equals 1 literal year.
So we're looking at the woman
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fleeing for 1260 years, and
we recognize that is the time
00:19:09.31\00:19:13.38
of the Papal
reign from 538-1798.
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Now listen to me closely,
the church of God during
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the wilderness time was not the
highly visible church, it was
00:19:22.12\00:19:27.15
in obscurity, the church
was in hiding, faithful men
00:19:27.18\00:19:32.13
and faithful women wanted to
keep the lamp of truth burning
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and they had to go
underground to do that.
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In the 3rd and the 4th
centuries church and state
00:19:39.26\00:19:41.94
started to unite, and as church
and state started to unite
00:19:41.97\00:19:45.93
compromise came in, and the
real Christians, the ones that
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really wanted to follow God
had to cling tightly to what
00:19:50.21\00:19:54.29
they had been
taught in Scripture.
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In the book of Jude 3 we
read this: [text on screen]
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How did these
faithful Christians do that?
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They went into hiding by
fleeing up into remote villages,
00:20:16.14\00:20:19.77
some of you may have
actually gone on trips that show
00:20:19.80\00:20:21.82
these sorts of things, and
they fled up into the Italian
00:20:21.85\00:20:24.42
mountains, the French Alps,
and there they built little
00:20:24.45\00:20:27.98
communities, communities
of faithful men, and women,
00:20:28.01\00:20:31.30
and young people where
they could serve God according
00:20:31.33\00:20:33.67
to their own consciences.
This next slide, this next
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picture shows you, not a dining
room table where people sat
00:20:36.73\00:20:39.63
around and ate, but this
is what was called a Bible
00:20:39.66\00:20:42.14
copyist's table. On
tables like these, you can
00:20:42.17\00:20:45.45
actually go on tours and
go into these dwellings, these
00:20:45.48\00:20:48.40
ancient dwellings, and
here they wrote out Scripture,
00:20:48.43\00:20:51.58
they faithfully memorized
Scripture, they copied Scripture
00:20:51.61\00:20:55.17
by hand and memorized it until
they could repeat it from father
00:20:55.20\00:20:57.95
to son, and father to
son, down through time.
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This next one shows us an actual
Bible that was written out
00:21:00.26\00:21:04.52
by one of these faithful
believers so many years ago.
00:21:04.55\00:21:07.83
All the time that they were
doing this, they were persecuted
00:21:07.86\00:21:10.47
for their faith, they
had to stand true, the woman,
00:21:10.50\00:21:13.73
as Revelation says,
was in hiding, she was
00:21:13.76\00:21:17.46
in the wilderness, and we know
that wilderness period of time
00:21:17.49\00:21:20.92
was 538-1798, but eventually
that wilderness period was going
00:21:20.95\00:21:26.26
to end, how did it end?
We know that Napoleon sent
00:21:26.29\00:21:29.56
his general Berthier down into
the Vatican, and there the Pope
00:21:29.59\00:21:32.44
was taken captive, and the
wilderness period eventually
00:21:32.47\00:21:35.49
ended. Look with me
at Revelation 12:17.
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During the Old Testament
times, before we read this verse
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I want to tell you an
interesting thing that you may
00:21:45.98\00:21:49.68
or may not have seen
from Scripture, I don't know.
00:21:49.71\00:21:52.30
In the Old Testament
times queen Jezebel was a wicked
00:21:52.33\00:21:56.56
queen, she was ruling over
Israel, and God's professed
00:21:56.59\00:22:02.91
people were under
this kind of persecution.
00:22:02.94\00:22:07.93
Elijah, who was a
true worshipper of God,
00:22:07.96\00:22:11.92
fled into the wilderness
for 3 and a half literal years.
00:22:11.95\00:22:17.77
During the time that he
was in the wilderness there was
00:22:17.80\00:22:20.14
a great famine, there was a
great drought, and all the time
00:22:20.17\00:22:26.00
that this woman was
reigning, this was going on,
00:22:26.03\00:22:29.44
and the true man of God
was in hiding, or obscurity,
00:22:29.47\00:22:32.70
in the wilderness,
literal wilderness.
00:22:32.73\00:22:35.04
After 3 and a half
literal years Elijah came out of
00:22:35.07\00:22:38.82
the wilderness, he
took a bold stand for truth
00:22:38.85\00:22:42.74
and he had that great Mt. Carmel
experience of the true worship
00:22:42.77\00:22:46.60
versus false worship, and
when the showdown was over
00:22:46.63\00:22:49.35
and truth won, then
the rain was poured out.
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In the spiritual sense, remember
that all of these things
00:22:53.35\00:22:56.12
have dual applications.
In Revelation we're told
00:22:56.15\00:22:59.09
that there is going to
be a church persecuting,
00:22:59.12\00:23:01.96
and in Revelation it actually
calls the church Jezebel.
00:23:01.99\00:23:04.74
During that time, again,
God's faithful people are going
00:23:04.77\00:23:07.75
to flee into the wilderness,
not necessarily a literal
00:23:07.78\00:23:10.99
wilderness, although that
did take place, but it is for
00:23:11.02\00:23:14.35
a symbolic wilderness as well,
not for 3 and a half literal
00:23:14.38\00:23:17.68
years, but 3 and a half
symbolic years, 1260 days,
00:23:17.71\00:23:22.14
and we know a day for a
year in Bible prophecy, so we're
00:23:22.17\00:23:25.00
looking at 1260 years, during
that 1260 years they called
00:23:25.03\00:23:28.38
it the Dark Ages, it wasn't dark
because the sun didn't shine,
00:23:28.41\00:23:33.38
it was dark because
it was spiritually dark.
00:23:33.41\00:23:36.13
Just as Israel was spiritually
dark in the Old Testament
00:23:36.16\00:23:38.08
for 3 and a half years,
here you've got 1260 years
00:23:38.11\00:23:40.95
of spiritual darkness because
the Bible was not in the hands
00:23:40.98\00:23:44.15
of the common person.
During that time Jezebel
00:23:44.18\00:23:48.63
reigned over the
people. At the end of that time
00:23:48.66\00:23:53.90
we again are going to see a
revelation of the church coming
00:23:53.93\00:23:57.15
out of the wilderness,
just as Elijah came out of
00:23:57.18\00:23:59.23
the wilderness, a show
down between true and false
00:23:59.26\00:24:01.86
worship, and the Holy Spirit
is going to be poured out.
00:24:01.89\00:24:05.16
Fantastic parallels
here. Okay, Revelation 12:17,
00:24:05.19\00:24:11.76
it says: [text on screen]
00:24:11.79\00:24:14.24
Here's that word "remnant"
down at the end of time,
00:24:24.34\00:24:27.89
let's look at the word "remnant"
a little more carefully.
00:24:27.92\00:24:30.84
What exactly is this
remnant talking about?
00:24:30.87\00:24:33.07
Sometimes ladies have a little
more familiarity with that word
00:24:33.10\00:24:35.70
than men because they might
actually use it in this sense:
00:24:35.73\00:24:39.01
if a lady would like
to make herself a dress,
00:24:39.04\00:24:41.57
and rather than go to
JCPenny's or Wards or something,
00:24:41.60\00:24:44.31
they go down and actually
buy the cloth because they're
00:24:44.34\00:24:47.11
going to make the
dress, talented as they are,
00:24:47.14\00:24:49.74
so they buy this bolt
of cloth at the cloth shop,
00:24:49.77\00:24:55.30
and they take it home, and they
procrastinate, so they're going
00:24:55.33\00:24:58.57
to put it in the closet,
but when they bought cloth
00:24:58.60\00:25:01.80
here's what the cloth
looked like, it was purple cloth
00:25:01.83\00:25:06.05
with yellow flowers and pink
polka dots, beautiful stuff.
00:25:06.08\00:25:11.93
Now let me see if
you've been paying attention:
00:25:13.07\00:25:15.71
what colour was
the cloth? Purple.
00:25:15.74\00:25:18.18
What color were
the flowers? Yellow.
00:25:18.21\00:25:20.71
And what color were
the polka dots? Pink.
00:25:20.74\00:25:23.18
Okay, you've got it. So
she takes that beautiful
00:25:23.21\00:25:25.97
cloth home and she
puts it in the closet.
00:25:26.00\00:25:28.63
Then that rainy day
finally comes when she decides
00:25:28.66\00:25:31.19
she's going to make her dress,
she takes the bolt of cloth
00:25:31.22\00:25:33.96
out, she lays it out, puts
her pattern over on top of it
00:25:33.99\00:25:36.57
and she realizes "Oh
my, I did not buy enough."
00:25:36.60\00:25:39.25
So she says "I've got to go
back down to that cloth shop,"
00:25:39.28\00:25:41.95
"that exciting place", all the
men know what I'm talking about.
00:25:41.98\00:25:44.94
So she goes down to that
cloth shop, and there she asks
00:25:44.97\00:25:48.18
the clerk, she says "Can I
get some more of that cloth?"
00:25:48.21\00:25:52.06
And the clerk says "Oh, that was
a hot seller, we're all out,"
00:25:52.09\00:25:55.62
"but you might find some
over in the remnant bin.".
00:25:55.65\00:25:59.61
So she goes over the remnant
bin and she starts digging
00:25:59.64\00:26:01.92
around, and different bolts of
cloth are flying left and right,
00:26:01.95\00:26:05.65
and finally she sees what she's
looking for, she reaches her
00:26:05.68\00:26:08.36
hand down there and grabs it
out, she's found the remnant.
00:26:08.39\00:26:13.00
What color is the cloth? Purple.
00:26:13.03\00:26:15.54
And what color are
the flowers? Yellow.
00:26:15.57\00:26:18.30
And what color are the
polka dots? [Audience] Pink.
00:26:18.33\00:26:20.97
That's right. What
you're telling me is that
00:26:21.00\00:26:23.65
what's on the remnant part
is exactly like the original.
00:26:23.68\00:26:26.79
It's the small part, it
comes at the end of the bolt,
00:26:26.82\00:26:29.36
but it's just the
same kind of material.
00:26:29.39\00:26:31.89
So what the Bible is telling
us by saying that the dragon
00:26:31.92\00:26:34.50
was warring against the remnant,
he's saying that this group
00:26:34.53\00:26:38.67
at the end are going to
be clinging to the truths
00:26:38.70\00:26:40.87
of Jesus Christ; they're
not made-up man traditions,
00:26:40.90\00:26:45.84
they're not clinging to manmade
philosophies, they're clinging
00:26:45.87\00:26:49.96
to the truths that the church
has had in the original time,
00:26:49.99\00:26:54.95
it just comes at the end, that's
all, and they're not going to be
00:26:54.98\00:26:57.70
the biggest group either.
So the Bible describes God's
00:26:57.73\00:27:00.44
church rising at the
end of time as the remnant.
00:27:00.47\00:27:04.58
We're going to take a look
at the characteristics of God's
00:27:04.61\00:27:07.47
remnant church tonight,
this is going to be exciting.
00:27:07.50\00:27:10.26
As we do this we're going to
put them up here on the screen
00:27:10.29\00:27:13.02
so all of you can see that
it definitely does come right
00:27:13.05\00:27:15.85
from the Bible.
Revelation 12 describes
00:27:15.88\00:27:18.80
the rise of God's church,
Revelation 14 gives the message
00:27:18.83\00:27:22.72
of God's church, and
we're going to look at both.
00:27:22.75\00:27:25.40
So in the book of
Revelation we're going to see
00:27:25.43\00:27:28.28
the characteristics of
God's end time people, and we're
00:27:28.31\00:27:30.93
going to be objective about
it so then we can ask ourselves
00:27:30.96\00:27:33.61
the question: are these
people here on earth today?
00:27:33.64\00:27:36.46
So we're going to
look at Revelation 14.
00:27:36.49\00:27:42.64
Their first identifying
mark we already know:
00:27:46.29\00:27:50.09
God's remnant people are
going to rise up at the end
00:27:50.12\00:27:54.63
of the wilderness period, that
mean's they're going to rise up
00:27:54.66\00:27:58.27
after 1798, why?
Because the wilderness period
00:27:58.30\00:28:02.68
extended from the time
that the Papacy began to rule
00:28:02.71\00:28:05.74
in 538, and it ended with
the Papacy receiving the deadly
00:28:05.77\00:28:08.76
wound in 1798. So we
know that if the remnant
00:28:08.79\00:28:12.31
comes into prophetic view after
that, they're going to rise up
00:28:12.34\00:28:14.91
after 1798 because all that
time during the Papacy's reign
00:28:14.94\00:28:19.22
they were in the wilderness,
that means they weren't going
00:28:19.25\00:28:21.96
to be the visible
group. Now let's take a look
00:28:21.99\00:28:24.77
at Revelation 14:6, here it
says "And I saw another angel"
00:28:24.80\00:28:30.91
"fly in the midst of heaven",
allow me to pause there,
00:28:30.94\00:28:33.70
when God shows us an angel
flying in the midst of heaven,
00:28:33.73\00:28:36.89
it's showing us that
it's a very important message
00:28:36.92\00:28:40.30
that God wants us to listen
to. What else is it telling us?
00:28:40.33\00:28:44.73
[text on screen]
00:28:44.76\00:28:47.25
It's definitely a message that
the church preaches, Jesus said
00:28:51.22\00:28:54.28
"Go out into all nations
and preach the gospel", so this
00:28:54.31\00:28:57.35
is the church preaching here,
but it's pictured as angels
00:28:57.38\00:29:00.11
flying in the midst of heaven.
So here is what God's people
00:29:00.14\00:29:02.87
are supposed to preach,
they're going to proclaim what
00:29:02.90\00:29:05.68
Revelation 14 shows is 3
angelic messages, and we're
00:29:05.71\00:29:10.29
looking at the first
on here in verses 6 and 7.
00:29:10.32\00:29:13.61
So we know that God's
last day people are going to be
00:29:13.64\00:29:18.13
preaching the 3
angel's messages of Revelation,
00:29:18.16\00:29:22.13
which include, as it says
here, the everlasting gospel.
00:29:22.16\00:29:25.46
What exactly is
the everlasting gospel?
00:29:25.49\00:29:28.83
The everlasting gospel includes
victory in Jesus, does it not?
00:29:28.86\00:29:32.72
It's going to show us that
if we are burdened down with
00:29:32.75\00:29:36.05
the guilt of sin, if we
are going about feeling that
00:29:36.08\00:29:40.58
the Devil is oppressing us,
that the Devil is weighing us
00:29:40.61\00:29:43.56
down with our past, that
we can come and put our burden
00:29:43.59\00:29:47.42
right at the feet of
Jesus, and we can be set free.
00:29:47.45\00:29:51.98
Jesus did not just set us free
from the past, but Jesus sets
00:29:52.01\00:29:56.28
us free so we no longer
have to sin even in the future.
00:29:56.31\00:29:59.89
Jesus saves us not in our
sins, but Matthew 1:21 says
00:29:59.92\00:30:04.63
"from our sins". So
that is very important,
00:30:04.66\00:30:07.89
the true gospel is that
Jesus saves us from our sins.
00:30:07.92\00:30:11.77
That's a very important
difference than many other
00:30:11.80\00:30:14.53
things are being
taught as the gospel today.
00:30:14.56\00:30:17.09
So now let's go
to Revelation 14:12.
00:30:17.12\00:30:21.98
Here we see, it
says: [text on screen]
00:30:22.01\00:30:24.81
So God's remnant people
are going to be characterized
00:30:32.30\00:30:35.19
by the fact that they
love God with all their hearts,
00:30:35.22\00:30:38.03
they love Jesus as their
Lord and Saviour, and that love
00:30:38.06\00:30:40.97
is going to be manifested in
the keeping of His commandments.
00:30:41.00\00:30:44.46
Friends, obedience that stems
from love in the heart is not
00:30:44.49\00:30:48.49
legalism, it's loyalty.
00:30:48.52\00:30:51.48
Some of you missed a
good chance to say "amen",
00:30:52.84\00:30:56.28
some of you picked up
on it, I'm glad for that.
00:30:56.31\00:30:59.08
Revelation 14:7, it
says: [text on screen]
00:30:59.11\00:31:03.84
That's a call to
worship the Creator, isn't it?
00:31:11.07\00:31:13.84
We've covered that
on the previous night.
00:31:13.87\00:31:16.57
And what does God tell us He
did right in the very beginning
00:31:16.60\00:31:19.40
when He created?
00:31:19.43\00:31:21.70
We're told in
Genesis 2:3: [text on screen]
00:31:21.73\00:31:24.93
So right there in the very
beginning when God established
00:31:27.96\00:31:30.93
His creative authority in this
world, He says "I set aside"
00:31:30.96\00:31:33.41
"a day and blessed and
sanctified it as a remembrance"
00:31:33.44\00:31:36.31
"that I am the creator", and
Exodus 20:8-11 talks about that,
00:31:36.34\00:31:41.69
it says: [text on screen]
00:31:41.72\00:31:44.20
And it goes on to tell us
"because in 6 days the Lord"
00:31:49.04\00:31:51.21
"made heaven and earth, the
sea and all that in them is",
00:31:51.24\00:31:53.89
so what we're being told here
is that a call to worship God
00:31:53.92\00:31:58.14
as the Creator is a call
to remember God's Sabbath day.
00:31:58.17\00:32:03.37
If you take these 4 marks that
we've got on the screen, that
00:32:03.40\00:32:06.53
God's remnant is going to rise
after 1798, it's going to preach
00:32:06.56\00:32:09.33
the everlasting gospel, it's
going to preach loyalty to all
00:32:09.36\00:32:12.14
of God's commandments, because
that's what the Bible says,
00:32:12.17\00:32:16.44
and it's going to
keep God's 7th day Sabbath.
00:32:16.47\00:32:19.19
Friends, do you know just right
there you would eliminate 95%,
00:32:19.22\00:32:24.67
I dare say, almost 99%, of
the churches today from being
00:32:24.70\00:32:28.98
God's remnant because either
they've preached that God's law
00:32:29.01\00:32:32.85
was done away with, or they've
preached that it's nailed to
00:32:32.88\00:32:35.62
the cross, or they've preached
that it really doesn't matter
00:32:35.65\00:32:38.34
because we're under grace today,
and they've rejected this 4th
00:32:38.37\00:32:41.22
commandment as saying it's
legalism, or not important,
00:32:41.25\00:32:44.07
or some other excuse.
Friends, right there in these
00:32:44.10\00:32:46.89
first 4 marks, and we've got
more to come, you know that you
00:32:46.92\00:32:49.47
can eliminate almost 99%
of the churches today as being
00:32:49.50\00:32:52.55
described as God's
remnant, but we've got more.
00:32:52.58\00:32:55.83
It goes back to Revelation
14:7, it begins by saying
00:32:55.86\00:33:04.07
[text on screen]
00:33:04.10\00:33:08.57
So the remnant church in
Revelation is going to be
00:33:11.13\00:33:14.15
preaching that we are
living in God's judgment hour.
00:33:14.18\00:33:18.14
We took a whole night on
this over just about a week ago,
00:33:18.17\00:33:21.09
and we found that God's prophecy
of the 2300 day/year message in
00:33:21.12\00:33:29.11
Daniel 8:14 takes us all the way
down through time to 1844 when
00:33:29.14\00:33:35.05
we found that since the year
1844 we've been living in what
00:33:35.08\00:33:38.02
the Bible says is the hour of
God's judgment, we're living in
00:33:38.05\00:33:40.83
serious times,
aren't we? Absolutely.
00:33:40.86\00:33:43.89
So here's a call to get ready
for the coming of Jesus, living
00:33:43.92\00:33:46.93
in God's judgment hour, and
we have to have a church that
00:33:46.96\00:33:50.73
understands that, finds
out where we are in prophecy
00:33:50.76\00:33:53.72
and is preaching
that. We go back to verse 7,
00:33:53.75\00:33:56.66
there's a lot here, we can't
get it all in just 1 identifying
00:33:56.69\00:34:01.50
mark, we've got to go back,
it says: "Saying with a loud"
00:34:01.53\00:34:04.33
"voice, Fear God,
and give" what to him?
00:34:04.36\00:34:07.44
"Glory to him". God's
last day message is a call
00:34:07.47\00:34:11.54
to give glory to God.
We can give glory to God in
00:34:11.57\00:34:15.48
many ways, can't we? We
can give glory by what day
00:34:15.51\00:34:20.29
we worship Him on, we can
give glory to God by wanting
00:34:20.32\00:34:23.45
to obey all His commandments,
but there's another way we give
00:34:23.48\00:34:26.65
glory to God and we looked
at this on a previous night
00:34:26.68\00:34:29.61
in 1 Corinthians 6:19 Paul
said to the Corinthians church:
00:34:29.64\00:34:33.77
[text on screen]
00:34:33.80\00:34:36.33
So God's last day church
is going to be giving a clear
00:34:41.56\00:34:45.19
message about giving
glory to Him in how we treat
00:34:45.22\00:34:48.76
the body temple. In
other words, we're to
00:34:48.79\00:34:52.51
realize that our bodies are not
fun houses to do as we please,
00:34:52.54\00:34:56.76
that rather, we are to be
the dwelling place of a Holy God
00:34:56.79\00:35:01.52
who wants to take up residence
right there in our hearts
00:35:01.55\00:35:03.91
and minds. So God
calls us away from
00:35:03.94\00:35:06.81
the body destroying vices:
alcohol, tobacco, illicit drugs,
00:35:06.84\00:35:13.06
and impure foods, and
these things that are clogging
00:35:13.09\00:35:16.27
the mind, clogging the
brain from receiving messages
00:35:16.30\00:35:19.85
from the Holy Spirit,
we've gone through this.
00:35:19.88\00:35:22.77
So God's last day church is
not a church of low standards,
00:35:22.80\00:35:26.03
it's a church of high standards
because that's what Jesus had.
00:35:26.06\00:35:30.99
So we look, as we look around
us in this world, at an age
00:35:31.02\00:35:35.23
of accommodating religion?
Isn't it an age when it seems
00:35:35.26\00:35:38.69
like you can do anything
you want and still be called
00:35:38.72\00:35:41.27
a Christian in some places?
It doesn't really matter,
00:35:41.30\00:35:44.06
they say that all you do
is you just have to profess
00:35:44.09\00:35:47.05
the name of Jesus and they
say you're going to be saved
00:35:47.08\00:35:49.85
and then you go on and live as
you please, friends, that's not
00:35:49.88\00:35:52.57
the religion of Jesus,
that's not the faith of Jesus.
00:35:52.60\00:35:55.25
Let's go to Revelation 14:9-11.
It says: [text on screen]
00:35:55.28\00:36:04.66
So now we're seeing that
God's true church is going to be
00:36:18.22\00:36:21.20
preaching the mark of the beast
message, there are many churches
00:36:21.23\00:36:24.63
out there tonight that not only
aren't they teaching the mark
00:36:24.66\00:36:27.19
of the beast, but they couldn't
even tell you what the Biblical
00:36:27.22\00:36:29.80
beast is, and you can't preach
the mark of the beast unless you
00:36:29.83\00:36:32.67
know what the beast is, and yet
they would say "we don't know,"
00:36:32.70\00:36:35.73
"and we don't even think
it's possible to find it out."
00:36:35.76\00:36:38.64
Friends, God's last day
church is a call to worship
00:36:38.67\00:36:41.16
the Creator, and not worship
the beast, or take its mark,
00:36:41.19\00:36:44.67
or the image of the beast,
you can't say that your church
00:36:44.70\00:36:49.15
is the remnant church if
they can't preach this message,
00:36:49.18\00:36:52.51
and you can't preach
this message unless you know
00:36:52.54\00:36:55.12
this message.
Dear friends, listen,
00:36:55.15\00:36:57.29
God's church is a divine
movement of destiny that He
00:36:57.32\00:37:00.43
has raised up in the last
days to preach a straight, clear
00:37:00.46\00:37:06.48
message that prepares the
world for the coming of Jesus,
00:37:06.51\00:37:09.96
that's what it's for.
Let's go back Revelation 12
00:37:09.99\00:37:12.52
for a moment, we were there
earlier, we're going to come
00:37:12.55\00:37:15.32
back to chapter 14 too,
but in Revelation 12:17 I want
00:37:15.35\00:37:20.06
to read this verse,
it says: [text on screen]
00:37:20.09\00:37:23.36
Notice how these 2 things
are put together, we're going
00:37:31.74\00:37:34.69
to look at this
verse again tomorrow night,
00:37:34.72\00:37:37.30
but the commandments of
God are made central again.
00:37:37.33\00:37:40.71
There are many churches that
tell you that you don't need
00:37:40.74\00:37:43.54
to keep the commandments of
God, but my Bible and your Bible
00:37:43.57\00:37:46.15
say that we do, and then
in that next part it says:
00:37:46.18\00:37:48.87
"and they have the testimony
of Jesus Christ", that means
00:37:48.90\00:37:51.67
they're in possession of it,
they have it, well, what exactly
00:37:51.70\00:37:54.36
is it? Well, let's let
the Bible interpret it for us.
00:37:54.39\00:37:56.92
Turn with me to Revelation
19 and we'll get our answer.
00:37:56.95\00:38:00.09
Revelation 19:10. I'm
so glad that the Bible
00:38:00.12\00:38:08.33
can give us the interpretation,
we don't have to guess
00:38:08.36\00:38:11.36
at this, Revelation 19:10.
This is what Scripture says:
00:38:11.39\00:38:18.27
[text on screen]
00:38:18.30\00:38:20.30
That's right, so God
puts these 2 things together,
00:38:34.68\00:38:38.28
the testimony of Jesus
and the spirit of prophecy.
00:38:38.31\00:38:42.19
Just as God gave the
spirit of prophecy to prepare
00:38:42.22\00:38:45.44
the world for the coming of
the flood, and just as God gave
00:38:45.47\00:38:48.67
John the Baptist the spirit
of prophecy to prepare the world
00:38:48.70\00:38:51.18
for the first coming of
Jesus, so God is going to put
00:38:51.21\00:38:54.03
the spirit of prophecy in
the remnant church to prepare
00:38:54.06\00:38:56.71
the world for the
second coming of Jesus.
00:38:56.74\00:39:00.18
That's what the
Bible is giving it for.
00:39:00.21\00:39:02.90
So this last day church is going
to have this particular gift,
00:39:02.93\00:39:09.87
and we're going to take a look
more on this tomorrow night,
00:39:09.90\00:39:12.52
by the way, so we're not
going to take a long time
00:39:12.55\00:39:15.51
on it tonight. So
we've got these marks
00:39:15.54\00:39:18.24
up here, we've got 8 of
them, we've got more to go.
00:39:18.27\00:39:21.08
Let's to Ecclesiastes
9:5. What we're going to do
00:39:21.11\00:39:26.16
is continue pulling marks out
of Scripture, Ecclesiastes 9:5
00:39:26.19\00:39:32.51
says this: [text on screen]
00:39:32.54\00:39:35.71
We've covered this on a
whole night of the seminar,
00:39:42.49\00:39:45.54
that the dead know not anything,
now look at another one
00:39:45.57\00:39:48.39
if you would, in Psalm
115:17 it says: [text on screen]
00:39:48.42\00:39:52.42
Here's another one,
Psalm 6:5: [text on screen]
00:39:56.59\00:40:00.03
We've covered that in dead it's
like a rest, it's like a sleep
00:40:04.07\00:40:10.89
until Jesus comes and
knocks on the grave and wakes
00:40:10.92\00:40:14.28
us up. Speaking
of that, Jesus said
00:40:14.31\00:40:17.22
in John 5:28,29, he
said: [text on screen]
00:40:17.25\00:40:20.39
So turn with me
back to Revelation 14:13.
00:40:31.94\00:40:41.00
This is all part of
the same passage, it says:
00:40:41.03\00:40:44.53
"And I heard a voice
from heaven saying unto me,"
00:40:44.56\00:40:47.46
"Write, blessed are the
dead that in the Lord from "
00:40:47.49\00:40:50.42
"henceforth, Yea sayeth the
Spirit, that they may rest from"
00:40:50.45\00:40:53.63
"their labors and
their works do follow them".
00:40:53.66\00:40:56.39
Revelation's true message
carries on what we've been
00:40:56.42\00:40:59.33
learning about death, and
that is a rest until Jesus comes
00:40:59.36\00:41:03.53
and wakes us up
in the resurrection.
00:41:03.56\00:41:06.19
Friends, this is our safeguard
against spiritualism, did you
00:41:06.22\00:41:08.90
know that? You see,
spiritualism has a thousand
00:41:08.93\00:41:11.46
different forms that it
can take, and yet if you know
00:41:11.49\00:41:14.45
the truth about death, it
will save you from any one
00:41:14.48\00:41:17.60
of a thousand different forms,
and you will know that the dead
00:41:17.63\00:41:20.58
know not anything, so it's
part of God's last day truth,
00:41:20.61\00:41:24.41
and last day message that
teaches death being a rest,
00:41:24.44\00:41:27.34
or a sleep,
until the resurrection.
00:41:27.37\00:41:30.02
Let's go to another verse,
but before we do, I want to ask
00:41:30.05\00:41:33.43
you a question. One
of the most important
00:41:33.46\00:41:36.66
questions that I think we
could ever ask anyone in all
00:41:36.69\00:41:39.87
of their life, and that is:
are you a member of a church
00:41:39.90\00:41:45.40
that not only was raised up
after 1798, but is preaching
00:41:45.43\00:41:50.29
the everlasting gospel of
Jesus Christ, that is teaching
00:41:50.32\00:41:55.10
faithfulness to all of God's
commandments, that is teaching
00:41:55.13\00:41:58.47
the truth of the 4th commandment
as well, that is teaching
00:41:58.50\00:42:02.44
about we're living in the
fact of God's judgment hour,
00:42:02.47\00:42:06.05
that it's teaching that we're
to give glory to God through
00:42:06.08\00:42:08.57
a health message,
that it's teaching that
00:42:08.60\00:42:13.70
the Biblical beast of Daniel
7 and Revelation 13, and we've
00:42:13.73\00:42:17.66
covered what that is, that
it's teaching the truth about
00:42:17.69\00:42:20.33
the mark of the beast and the
image of the beast, that it's
00:42:20.36\00:42:23.23
teaching the truth about
the gift of prophecy, and is
00:42:23.26\00:42:27.16
teaching the truth about
death being a sleep until
00:42:27.19\00:42:29.62
the resurrection morning?
If not, then I want to ask you
00:42:29.65\00:42:34.22
the question tonight: why not?
00:42:34.25\00:42:37.29
Because this is what
Revelation is focusing on.
00:42:37.32\00:42:40.11
Remember, we don't find
truth by a church, but you find
00:42:40.14\00:42:44.00
the church by the
truth. Now let's go back
00:42:44.03\00:42:47.48
to Revelation, this
time we're going to look at
00:42:47.51\00:42:50.00
Revelation 14:14, when
you're looking for a church
00:42:50.03\00:42:53.27
you're asking yourself the
question: what does the church
00:42:53.30\00:42:56.51
believe? Does the church follow
00:42:56.54\00:42:59.60
its own agenda, or is
the church following heaven's
00:42:59.63\00:43:02.72
agenda, because
that's what we want.
00:43:02.75\00:43:05.72
Let's go look
now, Revelation 14:14,
00:43:05.75\00:43:08.19
this is what it
says: [text on screen]
00:43:08.22\00:43:11.08
This is talking about
Jesus coming again, do you know
00:43:17.31\00:43:20.63
that the whole focus of
this chapter, the whole focus
00:43:20.66\00:43:23.85
of the message that is being
given is to prepare the world
00:43:23.88\00:43:26.81
for this one event,
the second coming of Jesus,
00:43:26.84\00:43:29.64
and that's why it's so important
to know exactly how Jesus
00:43:29.67\00:43:32.35
is going to come, because
if we don't have the truth
00:43:32.38\00:43:35.18
about how Jesus is going
to come, it for sure is going
00:43:35.21\00:43:37.92
to mix us up on the other
end time events, and the Devil
00:43:37.95\00:43:40.77
would love that, so we
took a whole night to find out
00:43:40.80\00:43:43.32
how exactly Jesus is
going to come; remember, we know
00:43:43.35\00:43:46.07
[text on screen]
00:43:46.10\00:43:48.65
All of these things Scripture
tells us about the second
00:43:52.44\00:43:54.92
coming, so yes, God's last day
people are going to be teaching
00:43:54.95\00:44:00.19
the truth in the midst of
a world that is going a wrong
00:44:00.22\00:44:03.78
direction on this topic,
God's message is going to cut
00:44:03.81\00:44:06.91
through it all and show
people what the truth is
00:44:06.94\00:44:09.44
about Jesus second
coming. We have more though.
00:44:09.47\00:44:12.93
Turn with me back to
verse 8 of that chapter because
00:44:12.96\00:44:15.85
we missed that one, we're
going to go back and pick it up,
00:44:15.88\00:44:18.72
Revelation 14:8, here's
what it says: [text on screen]
00:44:18.75\00:44:22.64
This is most interesting
because it can't be talking
00:44:31.31\00:44:34.17
about literal Babylon,
literal Babylon fell many many
00:44:34.20\00:44:37.57
centuries ago, it's laying there
in heaps and ruins tonight,
00:44:37.60\00:44:41.73
so it's not talking there about
the literal Babylon in the Old
00:44:41.76\00:44:44.58
Testament, over there in
Iraq tonight, it's talking about
00:44:44.61\00:44:47.48
spiritual Babylon, let's
get an even deeper insight in
00:44:47.51\00:44:50.21
Revelation 18 if you
would just turn over there.
00:44:50.24\00:44:52.83
Revelation 18, we're
going to read from verse 1-4.
00:44:52.86\00:44:57.64
Revelation 18:1-4, it
says: [text on screen]
00:45:01.42\00:45:04.63
Friends, I want you to consider
this tonight, God's remnant
00:45:50.03\00:45:53.03
church does not exist simply
to put information into minds
00:45:53.06\00:45:57.21
of people, but it exists to
give a call to people to come
00:45:57.25\00:46:01.41
out of false worship
because God is saying
00:46:01.44\00:46:05.11
"come out of her, My
people", does God have people
00:46:05.14\00:46:09.08
in Babylon? Yes he
does, spiritual Babylon.
00:46:09.11\00:46:11.76
Does God want
them to stay there? No.
00:46:11.79\00:46:14.30
You see, I have people
come to me and they'll say this,
00:46:14.33\00:46:17.06
they'll say "Pastor
Brian, I know my church teaches"
00:46:17.09\00:46:19.81
"in error about the
second coming, I know my church"
00:46:19.84\00:46:22.41
"doesn't teach the truth about
death, I know my church doesn't"
00:46:22.44\00:46:25.02
"teaching the truth about
these other things we've been"
00:46:25.05\00:46:27.63
"covering, but I love those
people and I think that maybe"
00:46:27.66\00:46:30.34
"I should stay there
and try to help them out,"
00:46:30.37\00:46:32.98
"what should I do?
Should I come out?"
00:46:33.01\00:46:35.77
"Should I stay?" Dear
friends, I'm so thankful
00:46:35.80\00:46:38.38
that I don't have to answer
that because if I answered it
00:46:38.41\00:46:41.61
then people would think
that maybe I was prejudiced,
00:46:41.64\00:46:43.47
or I was biased in the matter
and I had an ulterior motive,
00:46:43.50\00:46:46.89
but friends, God
answers that question, He says:
00:46:46.92\00:46:50.11
"Babylon is fallen, is fallen",
the double emphasis means
00:46:50.14\00:46:55.01
it's beyond restoration,
it's not going to right itself,
00:46:55.04\00:46:59.74
it's a ship that is sinking and
it's not going to stay afloat
00:46:59.77\00:47:02.70
no matter what you do, so
God is saying: "Don't stay"
00:47:02.73\00:47:05.99
"in Babylon, Babylon is going
to receive the 7 last plagues"
00:47:06.02\00:47:10.17
"because it insists
on worshipping falsely."
00:47:10.20\00:47:12.36
God doesn't call institutions,
God calls people to come out,
00:47:12.39\00:47:17.24
and He says "Come out,
don't stay in Babylon", make
00:47:17.27\00:47:20.90
a decision in your
heart that you are going to be
00:47:20.93\00:47:23.41
an example for others to
follow because action speaks
00:47:23.44\00:47:26.41
louder than words, doesn't it?
You can stay there and you can
00:47:26.44\00:47:29.49
preach to them day and all year
long, but unless you come out
00:47:29.52\00:47:32.57
they'll say "If it's not enough
of a message to move you,"
00:47:32.60\00:47:35.45
"it's not going to move
me." Friends, I want to move
00:47:35.48\00:47:39.10
if God says move,
don't you? Absolutely.
00:47:39.13\00:47:42.60
People will say "I know my
church teaches error, but I'm"
00:47:42.63\00:47:45.35
"its choir teacher", "I
know my church teaches error,"
00:47:45.38\00:47:49.07
"but I'm an usher", or "I
know my church teaches error"
00:47:49.10\00:47:52.74
"and I'm..." some
other important position,
00:47:52.77\00:47:55.50
friends, the
Bible says "come out".
00:47:55.53\00:47:59.82
God is telling us He's
going to destroy Babylon.
00:47:59.85\00:48:03.32
I'm going to go back to
the question that we began with
00:48:03.35\00:48:06.34
tonight, and I'm going to
ask you ever so earnestly:
00:48:06.37\00:48:08.97
why do you go to the particular
church that you presently go to?
00:48:09.00\00:48:12.80
Is it because of tradition?
Is it because of habit?
00:48:12.83\00:48:16.39
Is it because of convenience?
Or is it because you are
00:48:16.42\00:48:18.99
profoundly convicted that your
church is teaching the kinds
00:48:19.02\00:48:22.02
of things that
Revelation is showing here?
00:48:22.05\00:48:25.50
People will ask me many, many
things, and one of the things
00:48:25.53\00:48:29.79
they ask me is: "Pastor,
what church do you go to?"
00:48:29.82\00:48:33.67
Well, I'm going to show you
one more thing before I answer
00:48:33.70\00:48:37.76
that question. In
Revelation 14:6 it says this:
00:48:37.79\00:48:44.36
[text on screen]
00:48:44.39\00:48:46.46
This goes along with what
Jesus said in Matthew 24:14.
00:48:55.32\00:48:59.51
Jesus said: [text on screen]
00:48:59.54\00:49:01.98
Does it say that
they're all going to believe?
00:49:07.19\00:49:09.21
No, it says they're
going to have a witness in all
00:49:09.24\00:49:12.20
these places; in other words,
it's going to be a worldwide
00:49:12.23\00:49:16.56
church with a worldwide message.
00:49:16.59\00:49:20.46
So the last points we're going
to put up here on the screen
00:49:20.49\00:49:23.43
is that they're going to call
people to come out of Babylon,
00:49:23.46\00:49:26.37
that's right from the book of
Revelation, and it's going to be
00:49:26.40\00:49:29.33
a worldwide church
with a worldwide message.
00:49:29.36\00:49:32.00
Now I'm going to put them all up
on the screen at the same time
00:49:32.03\00:49:34.88
so you can see them together.
That's one powerful message,
00:49:34.91\00:49:37.72
isn't it? Is it
right from the Bible,
00:49:37.75\00:49:40.38
if so, give me an
"amen". [Audience] Amen.
00:49:40.41\00:49:43.06
Did we make these things
up? You see, it's not subjective
00:49:43.09\00:49:46.00
to the speaker up here tonight,
it's objective, and it's what
00:49:46.03\00:49:48.71
the Bible says, it's what
Revelation says, isn't it?
00:49:48.74\00:49:51.18
It's God message,
what do you say out there?
00:49:51.21\00:49:53.84
It's what the end
time church is to preach.
00:49:53.87\00:49:58.66
You might be sitting there
tonight saying "Well pastor,"
00:49:58.69\00:50:02.13
"show me a
church that does that."
00:50:02.16\00:50:05.56
What church would
Jesus want to be in?
00:50:05.59\00:50:09.93
Do you know that the answer
to the question of "what church"
00:50:09.96\00:50:12.77
"Jesus would want to be
in?" is incredibly simple, Jesus
00:50:12.80\00:50:17.36
would preach the message that
He left for His church to preach
00:50:17.39\00:50:21.29
upon His ascent into heaven.
If Jesus was to come to this
00:50:21.32\00:50:26.17
city tonight, Jesus would
preach the very message that He
00:50:26.20\00:50:30.15
inspired His prophets
to write down in Scripture.
00:50:30.18\00:50:33.40
It's not a difficult
question at all really.
00:50:33.43\00:50:36.53
"Pastor Brian, what
church are you a member of?"
00:50:36.56\00:50:39.24
I'll tell you this, I
was brought up in lovely
00:50:39.27\00:50:41.84
Roman-Catholic home, and
I went to church every week
00:50:41.87\00:50:45.40
faithfully with my parents for
years, I memorized the various
00:50:45.43\00:50:49.18
creeds, I recited the various
memorized prayers, but what
00:50:49.21\00:50:53.97
I sensed in my heart was
that I needed something more
00:50:54.00\00:50:57.75
than simply claiming that
we can go back all the way back
00:50:57.78\00:51:00.25
to the apostle Peter
with apostolic succession,
00:51:00.28\00:51:03.07
something that isn't
true anyway; I needed to know
00:51:03.10\00:51:05.68
that I was faithfully
following the word of God.
00:51:05.71\00:51:11.25
Friends, I'm a Seventh Day
Adventist tonight not because I
00:51:11.28\00:51:14.19
was born into a Seventh Day
Adventist family, not because
00:51:14.22\00:51:17.84
my parents are Seventh Day
Adventists tonight, but because
00:51:17.87\00:51:20.84
of all the churches on the face
of the earth, there is only 1
00:51:20.87\00:51:25.38
church dear friends, only 1
church that was raised up after
00:51:25.41\00:51:31.26
1798, preaches the entire
everlasting gospel, preaches
00:51:31.29\00:51:35.44
loyalty to all of God's
commandments, is keeping
00:51:35.47\00:51:37.95
the 7th day Sabbath, is
preaching throughout the world
00:51:37.98\00:51:41.33
that the hour of His judgment
has come, that is teaching
00:51:41.36\00:51:43.96
glory to God through a worldwide
health message, that is
00:51:43.99\00:51:47.26
warning the world of the
beast and the mark of the beast,
00:51:47.29\00:51:50.18
has the gift of prophecy, which
I'll talk about more tomorrow
00:51:50.21\00:51:53.14
night, teaches the truth
about death being a sleep till
00:51:53.17\00:51:56.03
the resurrection day, teaching
the truth of the second coming
00:51:56.06\00:51:58.82
of Jesus, calling people to
come out of spiritual Babylon,
00:51:58.85\00:52:01.66
and it's a worldwide
church with a worldwide message.
00:52:01.69\00:52:04.47
Friends, there is only 1
church on the face of the earth
00:52:04.50\00:52:07.19
that is doing that.
Friends, immediately someone
00:52:07.22\00:52:11.16
will say "are you trying
to say that only Seventh Day"
00:52:11.19\00:52:13.95
"Adventists are
going to be in heaven?"
00:52:13.98\00:52:16.46
Friends, absolutely not!
I'm not saying that at all,
00:52:16.49\00:52:19.23
in fact, Seventh Day Adventists
are some of the most inclusive
00:52:19.26\00:52:22.06
of all people, in that we
believe that God will honor
00:52:22.09\00:52:24.60
the sincerity of someone
when they do something without
00:52:24.63\00:52:27.47
the understanding of truth, or
the opportunity to know truth,
00:52:27.50\00:52:30.28
there'll be many people
in heaven that haven't had
00:52:30.31\00:52:32.85
the opportunity to learn
these things, and God will honor
00:52:32.88\00:52:35.85
what they did with what they
knew, but I will tell you this:
00:52:35.88\00:52:40.60
if the Bible is the
roadmap to heaven...is the Bible
00:52:40.63\00:52:43.01
the roadmap to heaven? Amen!
00:52:43.04\00:52:45.60
...and if that roadmap to heaven
is pointing in one direction
00:52:45.63\00:52:49.08
and people are following a
church, or a theology that's
00:52:49.11\00:52:51.74
pointing in another direction,
they're greatly going to hinder
00:52:51.77\00:52:54.74
their chances of
arriving where they want to be.
00:52:54.77\00:52:57.39
One thing I've learned from
all my travels is how important
00:52:57.42\00:52:59.82
it is to read the roadmap
right. The reason that I am
00:52:59.85\00:53:04.35
holding this seminar right
here at this time, the reason
00:53:04.38\00:53:07.78
I travel 9 and a half months
out of the year, and I don't
00:53:07.81\00:53:10.54
like to travel, it gets a
little old after a while to be
00:53:10.57\00:53:14.44
honest with you, I like to be
home, I'm kind of one of those
00:53:14.47\00:53:18.24
home bodies, but I like to
be here with you, you know why?
00:53:18.27\00:53:23.34
Because I like to help people
to read the roadmap right,
00:53:23.37\00:53:27.47
and that's my reason to
be with you, I love you,
00:53:27.50\00:53:30.08
and I want to see you
in heaven by God's grace,
00:53:30.11\00:53:32.61
and I want to be
there too. [Audience] Amen.
00:53:32.64\00:53:35.34
You see, with over 900, or
people say a couple thousand,
00:53:35.37\00:53:40.24
different kinds of Christian
churches, do we have the ability
00:53:40.27\00:53:45.01
to research every
single one of them to try to
00:53:45.04\00:53:47.74
find out which one's right?
00:53:47.77\00:53:50.19
No, do we even have the desire
to research every one of those,
00:53:50.22\00:53:53.16
we don't have the time, we don't
have the ability, we don't have
00:53:53.19\00:53:56.15
the desire, so God gives
us a plain message and says:
00:53:56.18\00:53:59.10
"Come to My Word, read the
characteristics and find My"
00:53:59.13\00:54:02.60
"people from
those characteristics."
00:54:02.63\00:54:05.76
Friends, listen tonight, God
honors the sincerity of people
00:54:05.79\00:54:11.54
who do what they think is
right without the opportunity
00:54:11.57\00:54:13.81
to know truth, but God never
desires us to stay in error
00:54:13.84\00:54:18.46
simply because that's
where we were in the past.
00:54:18.49\00:54:21.87
God never desires us to keep
on doing wrong simply because
00:54:21.90\00:54:25.22
we have the
habit of doing wrong.
00:54:25.25\00:54:28.58
Sometimes people will say
"Well, I know a hypocrite in"
00:54:28.61\00:54:31.24
"that church", it may
be, we've all been hypocrites
00:54:31.27\00:54:34.93
at one time or
another, haven't we?
00:54:34.96\00:54:37.30
...if we're going to
be honest with ourselves.
00:54:37.33\00:54:39.99
If we waited for everyone
to be perfect, I wouldn't have
00:54:40.02\00:54:42.93
joined the apostles back
in the days of Jesus because
00:54:42.96\00:54:45.73
they weren't perfect, were
they? There were some hypocrites
00:54:45.76\00:54:48.52
there too. But
friends, God's church
00:54:48.55\00:54:51.25
is not God's church because
everyone is perfect, God's
00:54:51.28\00:54:54.13
church because everyone is
perfect, God's church is God's
00:54:54.16\00:54:56.78
church because it teaches the
message of heaven, and if we are
00:54:56.81\00:54:59.47
willing to submit and follow
that message, it'll prepare us
00:54:59.50\00:55:02.21
for Jesus coming. It
may not be the church
00:55:02.24\00:55:04.42
with the greatest edifices,
it may not be the church
00:55:04.45\00:55:06.94
with the grand cathedrals,
the crystal cathedrals,
00:55:06.97\00:55:10.75
it may be entirely
different, it may be a grass hut
00:55:10.78\00:55:15.14
in the middle of Africa, it may
be a church of people with no
00:55:15.17\00:55:19.74
building over there in
India, but God's church today is
00:55:19.77\00:55:25.25
everywhere around this
world. Let me share with you
00:55:25.28\00:55:27.84
what Jesus said again
in Matthew 24:14, He said:
00:55:27.87\00:55:32.44
[text on screen]
00:55:32.47\00:55:34.65
I'm going to share with
you this little pamphlet called
00:55:36.27\00:55:41.25
"Partners", we didn't originally
publish this, but we republished
00:55:41.28\00:55:45.36
to have enough to share with
people, and this actually was
00:55:45.39\00:55:47.76
published by the American
Bible Society and Church
00:55:47.79\00:55:50.74
Missions, and what they decided
to do, this particular Bible
00:55:50.77\00:55:53.30
society, they wanted to
know what church was preaching
00:55:53.33\00:55:56.84
their message in what
countries of the world.
00:55:56.87\00:55:59.15
So they listed the various
countries of the world on 3
00:55:59.18\00:56:02.19
pages, and there's a lot of
them here, and then they listed
00:56:02.22\00:56:05.16
the various gospel preaching
churches, or Protestant churches
00:56:05.19\00:56:08.63
here at the top, the ones
that they thought were Christian
00:56:08.66\00:56:11.82
churches basically.
Now for the sake of time,
00:56:11.85\00:56:15.48
I'm going to try to get right
to it, there's a lot of blank
00:56:15.51\00:56:22.06
space on here where that church
was preaching in that country,
00:56:22.09\00:56:25.06
they put a dot to show that
that was so, that that church
00:56:25.09\00:56:27.96
was active in that particular
country, most of it is blank
00:56:27.99\00:56:30.51
space because even though
churches might be popular here
00:56:30.54\00:56:33.17
in America, they might
not have a lot of members here
00:56:33.20\00:56:35.86
in America, but go outside
of the shores of this country
00:56:35.89\00:56:38.53
and many of those
churches are almost unknown,
00:56:38.56\00:56:40.36
they're interested only here.
00:56:40.39\00:56:42.63
But even though most of this
is blank spaced, in the second
00:56:42.66\00:56:48.31
column it says
"Adventists, Seventh Day".
00:56:48.34\00:56:52.87
Seventh Day Adventists, "Seventh
Day" meaning "loyal to Jesus",
00:56:52.90\00:56:56.68
"Adventists"
means "hope in Jesus".
00:56:56.71\00:56:59.26
Loyalty to Jesus, hope in Jesus,
and don't strain your eyes
00:56:59.29\00:57:04.44
because I'm going to give
every one of you one when you
00:57:04.47\00:57:07.11
leave here because you
couldn't see this anyway.
00:57:07.14\00:57:09.80
In the second column
where that church is preaching
00:57:09.83\00:57:12.48
in that country, you've
got dots all the way down,
00:57:12.51\00:57:15.72
and you go on the next column
and there's dots all the way
00:57:15.75\00:57:18.42
down, and you go into the
last column, and there's dots
00:57:18.45\00:57:22.32
all the way down.
There's just a couple spaces
00:57:22.35\00:57:25.07
when this was printed and
they've since been filled in.
00:57:25.10\00:57:27.43
Friends, that is not by
coincidence, that is by the sure
00:57:27.46\00:57:31.24
word of prophecy, are we living
in the end days, yes or no?
00:57:31.27\00:57:35.20
[Audience] Yes. Did
God say that message
00:57:35.23\00:57:37.92
will go into every nation,
kindred, and tongue and people
00:57:37.95\00:57:40.68
before Jesus
comes back, yes or no?
00:57:40.71\00:57:43.35
[Audience] Yes.
Should we then see it tonight
00:57:43.38\00:57:46.15
in all of these countries of the
world, should we see that gospel
00:57:46.18\00:57:49.15
preached according
to the sure word of God?
00:57:49.18\00:57:51.95
Friends, you've
seen it right here.
00:57:51.98\00:57:54.62
God raised up a people to
preach that message before Jesus
00:57:54.65\00:57:59.53
comes back to bring out the
true believers out of Babylon.
00:57:59.56\00:58:03.95