Previously on Law
of Love & Liberty:
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It was a conviction 12 years
ago; it's a conviction today.
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I remember the Sabbath Day every
Sabbath and I keep it holy.
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All right! God made it holy.
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He didn't ask me to make
it... He asked me to keep it
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and to maintain it...
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so I keep what He
made. Praise His name!
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Lead me, Lord... I'll follow
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anywhere You open up the door.
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Let Your Word speak to me;
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show me what I've
never seen before.
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God's plan can never
be altered or cancelled
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based on life's circumstances.
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So one evening I was...
As a Sunday-keeping person
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I was sitting on
the edge of my bed
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and I was floating
through the channels
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and I saw John
Lomacang preaching.
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And I asked my wife if she
had seen this person before,
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what channel this
was, and she said:
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"Um... I think that's
an Adventist channel. "
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And I just kind of
kept my mouth quiet
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because I wasn't about
to go to church on Saturday.
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I started watching 3ABN,
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found a program one...
in April with Danny Shelton
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and Pastor Stephen Bohr.
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Was talking about the Sabbath.
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And I just... I sat up
in the chair. It was about
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9:30 in the
evening, it was 3ABN Live.
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And I said: "I got it! "
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"I've got the Sabbath.
I totally understand it.
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It makes perfect sense to me. "
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And I've been arguing the Sab-
bath for 10 years with my wife.
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Hello and welcome
to Spring Camp Meeting.
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And it has been a
tremendous blessing. Amen?
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Amen. About twenty-one
hours of live programming.
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And we praise the Lord
for the blessing in music.
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Amen? Amen!
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And then the wonderful
messages from God's Word.
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So far since we began
we've had James Rafferty,
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John Bradshaw, David Shin,
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Shelley Quinn, Ty Gibson,
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Wintley Phipps, Ryan Day,
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Kenny Shelton, C.A. Murray,
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Danny Shelton, Kameron DeVasher,
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Jill Morikone, Pastor
John Lomacang as well.
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And during this hour we
have Pastor Jay Gallimore
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that will be with us.
Pastor Jay Gallimore has been
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president of the Michigan
Conference... now retired.
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Has served as secretary
and ministerial director
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for the Michigan Conference,
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director of the Northwest
Ministries Training Center
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for the North
Pacific Union Conference.
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Also served as
associate ministerial director
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in the
Kansas/Nebraska Conference,
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a pastor in Kansas,
Nebraska, and Carolina.
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And most of all he has
been a servant of the Lord.
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Amen! The message he
will be presenting is
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The Patience of the Saints...
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a message that we
need to hear. Amen? Amen!
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We are going to pray in
a moment, but before this
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I would like to tell you
that once again we are...
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we have Reggie and Ladye
Love Smith that are with us.
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And a wonderful
song called Above All.
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I ask them to come forward as
we prepare ourselves for prayer.
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And this time I think I
would like to ask you to
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please stand with us
so we can pray together
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so that we can
approach God's throne of grace.
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I will leave you afterwards with
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Reggie and Ladye Love Smith,
and the next voice you will hear
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after theirs will be
Pastor Jay Gallimore.
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Let's pray together.
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Our loving heavenly Father,
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we want to thank you, Lord,
for the blessing of being here
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in Your presence.
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We want to thank you, Lord,
that the messages we have heard
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have brought us closer to You.
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We pray, Lord, that
You will use Your servant,
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Pastor Jay Gallimore.
Bless him with the Holy Spirit.
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Lift him above the
thoughts of common man
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and use him to bring a
word from Your throne of grace.
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Lord, you know the needs
of each and every person here
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and those that are
listening anywhere in the world.
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We pray that through
Pr. Gallimore You will speak
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to their hearts and
draw them close to Jesus.
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We pray, Lord, for
a blessing upon all
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and we ask that in all
things Your name will be honored
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and glorified. In
Jesus' name, Amen.
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You may be seated. I leave you
with Reggie & Ladye Love Smith.
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Above all powers,
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above all kings,
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above all wonders
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and all created things,
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Above all wisdom
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and all the ways of man...
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You were here
before the world began.
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Above all kingdoms,
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above all thrones.
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Above all wonders
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the world has ever known.
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Above all wealth
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and treasures of the earth...
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there's no way to measure
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what You're worth.
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Crucified,
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laid behind a stone.
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You lived to die
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rejected and alone.
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Like a rose
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trampled on the ground
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You took the fall
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and thought of me
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above all.
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Above all kingdoms,
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above all thrones.
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Above all wonders
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this world has ever known.
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Above all wealth
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and treasures of the earth...
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there's no way to measure
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what You're worth.
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Crucified,
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laid behind a stone.
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You lived to die
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rejected and alone.
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Like a rose
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trampled on the ground
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You took the fall
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and thought of me
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above all.
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Crucified,
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laid behind a stone.
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You lived to die
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rejected and alone.
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Like a rose
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trampled on the ground
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You took the fall
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and thought of me
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above all...
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Like the rose
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that's been
trampled on the ground
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Lord, You took the fall...
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You took the fall
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and thought of me
- and thought of us -
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above
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all.
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Ooo-ooo.
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Amen!
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Thank you so much.
That was wonderful!
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Above all. Goes through all.
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And what mighty
patience... endurance... He has.
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Here... here
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is the patience of the saints.
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We're going to trace a
little bit of that patience,
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but before I do
tell you a quick story.
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It's a legend about Abraham.
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I don't think it's true, but it
kind of gets the point across.
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It's a Jewish legend.
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And they said that
Abraham saw a stranger -
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tired, worn
traveler - and he ran out
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in Abraham fashion
said: "You've gotta come in. "
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Washes his feet; goes to
get him something to drink.
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Brings him something to eat.
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He's an old man and he's tired.
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He starts to eat very gingerly
- not gingerly but hungrily -
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and Abraham noticed he
didn't say the blessing.
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He said: "You
didn't say the blessing. "
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"No, " he said... kept
putting that food in his mouth.
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"I don't believe.
" "What do you mean?
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You don't believe
in the God of heaven?
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You don't... " "No, " he said.
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"I don't believe. The
only thing I believe in
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is fire. "
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Made Abraham
upset... he lost his patience.
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He ran over and he
grabbed him by the shoulders
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and he took him out
into the cold night and said:
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"Get on your way. "
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Sometime during the
night the Lord showed up,
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as He often does to Abraham.
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And He says:
"Abraham. " "Yes, Lord. "
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He says: "I've endured
this man for eighty years
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and you couldn't
endure him for one night? "
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Here is the
patience of the saints.
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I'd like to have Jesus come
yesterday, wouldn't you? Amen!
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I'd like to have
Him come tomorrow.
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I look at this world...
it's full of sin and sorrow
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and heartache... difficulty.
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Trouble on every hand
and it's only getting worse
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and we all know that.
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And I believe when we
understand this whole thing
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Jesus is coming quickly. I
want you to understand that
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I believe in the
soon coming of Jesus.
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But in the meantime, the saints
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must have patience.
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"Here is the
patience of the saints. "
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If you have your
Bibles, in Revelation 14
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right in the middle
of it we'll read that.
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"Here is... " I
like that word here.
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Here! We'll talk about that
because it's a word that says
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"I was looking for this.
" It's like when you found
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something really special
and you say: "Here... over here!
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I've found it! "
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"Here is the
patience of the saints. "
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Verse 12:
"Here... " Says it twice.
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"are they that keep the
commandments of God and have
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the faith of Jesus. "
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Martin Luther
said once that anyone
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who knows the Ten Commandments
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PERFECTLY knows
the entire Scripture.
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Think about that for a moment.
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At the end of the day
it all boils down to that.
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The saints... they have
an attitude of patience.
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A patient endurance...
patient persistence...
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patient determination.
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Patient in pain;
patient in trial.
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Patient in longsuffering.
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Patient in faithfulness;
patient in obedience.
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Patient in unselfish love.
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They are durable and unmovable
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and they are unafraid to die.
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That's why they're called holy.
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That's why
they're called saints.
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I want to capture for
just a few minutes here
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the picture - the
setting - in which John says
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"Here is the
patience of the saints. "
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These things you know well,
but I'm going to just kind of
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capture them just a little bit.
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The great
controversy started in heaven.
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And that great controversy
between Christ and Satan
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is about selfishness
versus unselfish love.
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And Satan made a mess in
heaven. We don't know how long
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that war went on. The
book of Revelation chapter 12
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says simply: "There
was war in heaven. "
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We know from some
wonderful insights,
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though, that God
bore long with Lucifer.
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Think about the
angels and how many of them
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patiently endured the slander.
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How they patiently stayed at
trying to win their fellow...
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I think they're going to
be... I can't guarantee this
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but I think because
as free moral agents
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and people sometimes get on the
fence and they go back and forth
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and finally they
make a decision...
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I think we will
meet angels in heaven
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who said: "I almost went
down that road with Lucifer.
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BUT... there were patient angels
who loved me and helped me,
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called me, and I chose
not to go down that road. "
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So even in heaven I
think there are faithful angels
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who endured and
remained faithful.
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Satan then comes to
this earth and he makes war.
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He makes war on
earth, but he has a problem:
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he runs into
saints with patience.
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Trouble for Satan 'cause he
wants a quick and dirty war.
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He wants to hit
fast and win quick
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but he just
can't shake these folk.
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And you can find them.
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You can find them
from Adam to the flood.
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Can you think of some of the
patient? Enoch comes to mind.
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When you get to Noah, Noah finds
grace in the eyes of the Lord.
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How would you like to have
been on that boat with Noah?
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Don't you think that
took some patient endurance?
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If you've ever done a
little study about the flood,
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this was something
beyond our comprehension.
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We're talking about a huge
tidal wave that swept around
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the world, that laid huge
deposits all over the world.
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And you're in that little...
It's a big boat, but in that
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storm it's a little boat.
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It's a little boat.
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You just think about trying
to take care of everything
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and being tossed back and forth!
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Do you think they were
glad when they finally got
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in that little circle of
mountains somewhere around
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Mt. Ararat there and
things kind of calmed down?
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Patient endurance.
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And then from Noah to
Abraham we have the story
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of Seth and others. And
then from Abraham to the Exodus
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you have Moses... patient Moses.
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Only one flaw
in all those years.
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You know, Moses really didn't
want to go on that journey.
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He tried to get out
of it. Do you remember?
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He said: "Lord,
send somebody else. "
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Moses was a very brilliant
man. He was real smart.
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He could add and subtract
and he knew this was going to be
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some kind of a journey.
But God said: "No, Moses.
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I think I need you. "
00:18:14.79\00:18:16.12
"I think I need you. "
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And then from the
Exodus to the Messiah
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think of all the prophets.
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Faithful people like Isaiah
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who lived a long, wonderful life
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and ended up, we
think, being sawed in two
00:18:28.00\00:18:31.24
by Manasseh... unfaithful king.
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HERE is the
patience of the saints.
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And then the Lamb of God.
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There's never been
anyone as patient as Jesus.
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I mean, they threw everything...
They were on His trail
00:18:50.43\00:18:52.79
constantly... the
Pharisees, the Sadducees
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all going after Him.
00:18:55.00\00:18:56.56
He hardly had a moment's rest.
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Constantly intense around Him
plus He was trying to disciple
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His disciples. Some of
them were slow like us.
00:19:05.21\00:19:09.58
Some of them were
treacherous... at least one.
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Patient endurance.
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Think about the time when they
took Jesus to the crucifixion.
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Every time I go
through this it's just hard.
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I don't know how
He could stand it.
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Nailing those nails in His
hand He doesn't utter a word
00:19:34.24\00:19:38.24
of complaint. Just cold
sweat breaks out on His brow.
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Here is the
patience of THE SAINT.
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And that's why the saints
ever since have had the ability
00:19:52.82\00:19:56.32
to be patient because
they've got a great, patient
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leader. So here you
have the great Messiah
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and then His followers. And do
you think they're going to need
00:20:05.27\00:20:08.54
patience? Old pagan Rome
started its terror campaign.
00:20:08.74\00:20:13.71
The old Coliseum there
in Rome still stands today
00:20:13.91\00:20:17.75
because people don't want it
to be torn down because so many
00:20:18.15\00:20:21.58
early Christians
gave their lives there.
00:20:21.78\00:20:24.72
Do you think they
wanted to see Jesus come too?
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The patience of the saints.
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Then Nero... he
started a horrible persecution.
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Then there were others
that followed him. Diocletian.
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Diocletian we think
persecution was so terrible
00:20:43.17\00:20:45.74
that he found all the
pastors, all the ministers.
00:20:45.94\00:20:49.38
He found those libraries.
00:20:49.58\00:20:51.01
We still wish we
had those libraries!
00:20:51.21\00:20:53.42
Burned those probably the
autographed, the originals.
00:20:54.58\00:20:58.29
Burned by
Diocletian in his persecution.
00:20:59.52\00:21:04.86
Finally one of them
said: "Well, we can't kill them
00:21:06.03\00:21:08.66
so I'll tell you what we'll
do: we'll just maim them. "
00:21:09.86\00:21:12.33
They had a gathering of
the bishops and pastors...
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some of them without their arms.
00:21:17.27\00:21:19.07
Some of them without their ears.
00:21:19.64\00:21:21.41
Without their
nose... without their legs.
00:21:21.81\00:21:24.91
Do something.
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But they were always running
into the devil thru his agents
00:21:28.85\00:21:32.69
and allies or
always running into
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the patience of
the saints. Amen!
00:21:35.86\00:21:40.50
That didn't work so the
great red dragon changes colors.
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From red to spotted leopard.
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And we go from pagan Rome,
and pagan Rome takes over the
00:21:52.04\00:21:55.34
church from the inside.
Paganism takes over the church.
00:21:55.54\00:21:58.75
We see the most terrible
persecution for 1,260 years.
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Like a wolf in sheep's
clothing the Medieval church
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persecutes the faithful
under the leopard beast.
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But it, too, loses.
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Some estimates
say 55 million people.
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You want to know how bad it was?
00:22:21.77\00:22:23.10
Read the history of the
Waldenses and the Albigenses.
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Ask them how tough it was
00:22:27.44\00:22:30.25
to lose their families,
00:22:30.65\00:22:33.01
their homes, their property.
00:22:33.21\00:22:36.08
For the Waldensians, there
was just a little handful left.
00:22:36.28\00:22:40.16
By the way, Pope
Francis went back
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some months ago.
Apologized, he said, to the
00:22:44.99\00:22:50.20
Waldenses. I read the apology.
00:22:50.40\00:22:52.90
It didn't seem quite as sincere
given what they went through.
00:22:53.10\00:22:56.07
I say that with kindness.
00:22:56.27\00:22:58.37
They said:
"Would you forgive us? "
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They said: "Well we can't say
that 'cause we're not the ones
00:23:02.18\00:23:04.11
you persecuted. "
00:23:04.31\00:23:05.65
"We're not the
ones you destroyed. "
00:23:08.28\00:23:10.19
But that, too, moves us because
then comes the Protestant
00:23:14.79\00:23:17.56
Reformation, and the
book of Revelation shows
00:23:17.76\00:23:20.46
the leopard beast is
replaced by a new beast
00:23:20.66\00:23:25.00
and it's a lamb-like beast.
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Isn't that wonderful?
00:23:27.80\00:23:29.27
It's a lamb-like beast.
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And for once the world has,
as a result of the Protestant
00:23:31.37\00:23:34.64
Reformation, and I say
it kindly, I say it with joy
00:23:34.84\00:23:37.65
in my heart, but that
Protestant Reformation
00:23:37.85\00:23:40.02
produced the
United States of America
00:23:40.22\00:23:43.02
and its wonderful Constitution.
00:23:43.22\00:23:45.12
Its Bill of Rights that's been
exported all over everywhere.
00:23:45.32\00:23:48.46
The ability to take the
Bible and translate it into
00:23:49.52\00:23:52.19
hundreds and
hundreds of languages.
00:23:52.39\00:23:54.00
Missionary societies
that went all over the world.
00:23:54.20\00:23:56.93
And it used its
blood and treasure
00:23:59.50\00:24:03.04
to destroy and put
down unprecedented brutality
00:24:04.01\00:24:08.51
of the Nazis and the Communists.
00:24:08.71\00:24:10.78
But you know it wasn't just the
papacy that persecuted people.
00:24:20.36\00:24:23.66
There's some early
hints of what's coming because
00:24:24.89\00:24:27.46
that lamb-like
beast is going to change.
00:24:27.66\00:24:29.90
Have you ever heard of John
Welch who was the son-in-law
00:24:32.33\00:24:35.20
of John Knox?
00:24:35.40\00:24:38.07
He was a great man of prayer.
00:24:39.11\00:24:40.64
Sometimes they say he
spent 7 or 8 hours praying.
00:24:41.61\00:24:45.55
He would keep a
Scottish plaid with him
00:24:45.75\00:24:48.62
and he would lie down on the
stone cold floor in the middle
00:24:48.82\00:24:51.69
of the night and
he would cover himself
00:24:51.89\00:24:53.22
and his wife would find
him. He married the daughter of
00:24:53.29\00:24:56.16
John Knox... the third daughter.
00:24:56.36\00:24:58.99
She'd find him there
and she would get on to him.
00:24:59.39\00:25:01.60
Said: "Look, you're
going to ruin your health. "
00:25:01.80\00:25:03.77
He said: "Woman,
you don't understand. "
00:25:03.97\00:25:06.67
Talking about Ayr,
Scotland. He says: "I have
00:25:06.87\00:25:10.57
3,000 souls and I don't
know how it is with them. "
00:25:10.77\00:25:16.18
When he went to
that town it was a mess.
00:25:16.58\00:25:19.25
It was like the Wild West.
00:25:19.45\00:25:21.35
People would have
duels out in the street.
00:25:21.75\00:25:23.39
He had a little table and
every time somebody would say:
00:25:23.59\00:25:24.99
"Oh, they're getting ready
to fight again" he would run out
00:25:25.19\00:25:26.55
in the middle
of that dirt street
00:25:26.76\00:25:28.72
and put his table down
there. And he'd call one there
00:25:28.92\00:25:31.49
and he'd call the other one here
00:25:31.69\00:25:33.03
and then he'd
have some food brought
00:25:33.19\00:25:34.63
and he would talk to them...
and finally he brought peace
00:25:34.83\00:25:37.27
to that place
and they loved him.
00:25:37.47\00:25:39.23
But the king of England,
James VI, didn't love him
00:25:39.43\00:25:43.04
because he wanted everybody
that preached to be under
00:25:43.84\00:25:46.94
the control of the
church of England Protestant.
00:25:47.14\00:25:50.35
They arrested him;
gave him a farce of a trial.
00:25:51.58\00:25:54.02
Put him 10 months in
one of the worst dungeons.
00:25:54.52\00:25:57.55
People say it makes the dungeon
that the apostle Paul was in
00:25:57.75\00:26:01.79
look like a comfort zone.
00:26:01.99\00:26:04.19
The floor is slanted.
00:26:05.63\00:26:07.13
Out of the stones
there are sharp...
00:26:07.33\00:26:09.26
You can only get into it
through a hole in the floor.
00:26:09.46\00:26:12.33
You can't sit
down; you can't stand up.
00:26:12.73\00:26:15.40
You can't get any rest, and
they put him in that miserable
00:26:15.60\00:26:18.14
place for 10 months.
00:26:18.34\00:26:19.84
Finally banished him.
00:26:20.88\00:26:23.04
And his wife went and
begged them to let him come back
00:26:24.75\00:26:29.08
'cause his health was so
bad. And finally the king
00:26:29.28\00:26:31.29
said: "Whose daughter are you? "
00:26:31.49\00:26:33.05
She says: "I'm the
daughter of John Knox. "
00:26:33.25\00:26:35.09
He says: "Oh, no!
00:26:35.29\00:26:37.13
Knox and Welch... that's
a pact made by the devil. "
00:26:37.33\00:26:41.80
She says: "Well
we didn't ask him. "
00:26:42.00\00:26:43.87
He says: "Well, I'll let
him come back on one condition
00:26:49.44\00:26:52.14
and that is that he
comes under our control
00:26:52.34\00:26:54.54
and he doesn't preach. "
She said: "Never happen. "
00:26:54.74\00:26:57.45
She said: "I'd rather have...
" She lifted up her apron.
00:26:57.85\00:26:59.78
"I'd rather have his head
here than to see him do that. "
00:26:59.98\00:27:05.19
Here is the
patience of the saints.
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Listen... the saints
are going to need patience.
00:27:14.43\00:27:17.17
We're going to
need for what's coming.
00:27:17.67\00:27:19.40
This lamb-like beast not
only speaks like a dragon
00:27:19.60\00:27:22.47
but he makes a new
creature: an image to the beast.
00:27:22.67\00:27:25.24
And he forces
the world to accept
00:27:25.64\00:27:29.54
its mark contrary
to the seal of God.
00:27:29.94\00:27:33.31
And my brothers and sisters,
this is the final crisis
00:27:33.52\00:27:35.72
and it is creeping up on
us faster than we understand.
00:27:35.92\00:27:40.69
I used to think that this...
00:27:41.09\00:27:42.76
and I preached it and
I still stand by it...
00:27:42.96\00:27:44.66
that persecution's going to
come from the religious right.
00:27:44.86\00:27:47.10
I believe that. But
today I believe that
00:27:47.30\00:27:48.90
it's also going to
come from the secular left.
00:27:49.10\00:27:52.37
It's going to be like the
Pharisees and the Sadducees.
00:27:55.50\00:27:57.64
They HATED each
other but they got together
00:27:57.84\00:28:00.08
when it came time
to take care of Jesus.
00:28:00.28\00:28:02.11
And let me tell you:
if you stand for Jesus
00:28:02.51\00:28:04.31
in the end of time
they're going to hate Jesus
00:28:04.51\00:28:05.85
just as much as they
hated Him in those days
00:28:05.91\00:28:07.48
except it's going to be
in the person of His people
00:28:07.68\00:28:10.12
and we're going to need
the patience of the saints.
00:28:11.02\00:28:15.56
We're going to be looked
at as those that are against
00:28:17.23\00:28:19.26
the common good. Have
you ever heard of that?
00:28:19.46\00:28:21.50
I don't want to
get into climate change
00:28:23.50\00:28:25.53
and the politics of it.
00:28:26.37\00:28:27.70
As Seventh-day Adventists
we know that great terrible
00:28:27.80\00:28:30.74
disasters are going
to happen in nature.
00:28:30.94\00:28:32.47
We know that... we
know that's coming.
00:28:32.67\00:28:34.11
Doesn't matter how it comes.
00:28:34.51\00:28:36.85
But they're going to
look for somebody to blame.
00:28:37.05\00:28:39.81
Just like Nero
blamed the Christians.
00:28:40.02\00:28:42.35
Said they were cannibals;
that they had love feasts.
00:28:42.55\00:28:46.42
And you can imagine
what they said about that.
00:28:46.82\00:28:48.62
The picture goes on and on.
00:28:50.39\00:28:52.26
Slander!
00:28:52.46\00:28:54.20
Three mighty angels, however,
are commissioned to warn
00:28:59.70\00:29:02.40
the world. The first warns
that the hour of God's judgment
00:29:02.60\00:29:05.37
is at hand. The second
one says this new image,
00:29:05.57\00:29:08.74
this new false
prophet, this Babylon
00:29:08.94\00:29:11.51
is not who she claims to be.
00:29:11.91\00:29:14.62
She's no longer
lamb-like but she's dragon-like.
00:29:15.72\00:29:19.09
And the third one warns
against the overwhelming
00:29:20.06\00:29:22.46
deception. And it
will be a deception
00:29:22.66\00:29:24.79
of the mark of the beast.
And then he ends his warning
00:29:24.99\00:29:28.43
with this
contrast: "There are those
00:29:28.63\00:29:32.57
but here... here...
00:29:32.77\00:29:36.00
is the patience of the saints. "
00:29:37.47\00:29:41.14
Here is that same
patience that you saw in Noah,
00:29:41.54\00:29:45.41
that you saw in Abraham,
00:29:45.61\00:29:46.95
that you saw in the prophets,
00:29:46.98\00:29:48.32
that you saw in Jesus,
00:29:48.48\00:29:50.02
that you saw in
the early Christians,
00:29:50.22\00:29:51.85
that you saw in the
martyrs of the Dark Ages.
00:29:52.05\00:29:55.59
Ignatius Loyola's statue
still stands in the vicinity
00:29:56.12\00:30:01.60
of the Vatican. God
said that that power
00:30:01.80\00:30:04.97
would have power over
the saints for 1,260 years.
00:30:05.17\00:30:08.70
That statue is there.
He's holding the constitution
00:30:08.90\00:30:13.17
of the Jesuits
00:30:13.38\00:30:15.14
while underneath his feet
he is stamping out the life
00:30:15.91\00:30:19.61
of a Protestant
holding the Bible.
00:30:19.81\00:30:22.58
Don't think that
hatred has gone away.
00:30:25.82\00:30:29.79
Why? Why such rage
00:30:33.16\00:30:36.16
against those who keep
the commandments of God?
00:30:36.36\00:30:38.50
Why? If you have your
Bibles and you turn to Psalm 19
00:30:40.00\00:30:44.34
it says: "The heavens declare
00:30:44.54\00:30:46.94
the... " What?
Glory! "the glory of God
00:30:47.14\00:30:50.01
and the firmament or the
universe shows His handiwork. "
00:30:50.75\00:30:54.48
When I think of that...
Have you ever seen ladies
00:30:54.68\00:30:56.69
who do this minutia embroi-
dering? It's really something.
00:30:56.89\00:31:00.46
It's amazing stuff.
00:31:00.66\00:31:01.99
The handiwork of God is
done all through the universe.
00:31:02.96\00:31:06.96
The Hubble telescope, of course,
has opened up the heavens
00:31:07.16\00:31:08.93
for all of us. People are
awestruck at the magnificence
00:31:09.13\00:31:12.30
of the universe.
00:31:12.50\00:31:14.27
But I want to say this:
that God runs His universe
00:31:14.47\00:31:17.57
by law. In fact,
He's made this universe
00:31:17.77\00:31:23.04
and He's instituted these laws
00:31:23.24\00:31:25.25
that make it
possible for life to exist.
00:31:25.65\00:31:27.82
Let me tell you
how critical this is.
00:31:28.22\00:31:29.88
They discovered 200
what they call constants.
00:31:30.09\00:31:32.65
These are things
that do not vary.
00:31:32.85\00:31:34.46
It's like 2 + 2
always equals what?
00:31:34.66\00:31:36.49
Four. Yeah, that's right.
00:31:36.69\00:31:38.03
These are 200 variables.
00:31:38.06\00:31:39.86
It want to point out a
couple, three of them tonight
00:31:40.06\00:31:41.86
just really quick.
One of them is gravity.
00:31:42.06\00:31:45.10
Do you know how
precise gravity is?
00:31:45.67\00:31:48.27
Take a ruler and stretch
that ruler across the 14 billion
00:31:48.47\00:31:53.17
light years of the universe.
00:31:53.38\00:31:55.28
It's a number
bigger than I can handle
00:31:57.21\00:31:58.71
but I can handle an inch
00:31:59.21\00:32:01.02
and make it... give
you all the inch increments
00:32:01.22\00:32:04.15
all along there.
00:32:04.35\00:32:05.69
Go find a spot on
that big big yardstick
00:32:05.72\00:32:08.59
that stretches
across the universe
00:32:08.79\00:32:10.29
with who knows how
many "zillions" of inches.
00:32:10.49\00:32:14.16
Find the place
where gravity is at
00:32:14.36\00:32:17.17
and if you move it an inch
00:32:20.84\00:32:23.34
we cease to exist.
00:32:23.84\00:32:26.78
That's how
precise the universe is.
00:32:28.31\00:32:30.85
Take expansion of the universe.
00:32:36.58\00:32:38.95
If you move it just in one
part, the other one was one part
00:32:39.35\00:32:42.29
in 10 to the 60th power,
00:32:42.49\00:32:44.13
expansion of the universe,
if you move it within one part
00:32:44.53\00:32:47.16
10 to the 120th power, these
are numbers I can't comprehend.
00:32:47.36\00:32:50.30
Just one part from that
the universe will flame out
00:32:50.70\00:32:54.37
or collapse.
00:32:54.57\00:32:56.71
The whole
universe is finely tuned
00:32:57.47\00:33:00.78
so that life can exist.
00:33:01.81\00:33:03.35
God runs His universe by law.
00:33:03.85\00:33:06.38
I used to say to myself:
00:33:07.22\00:33:11.65
"This Psalm is kind of interest-
ing because it starts off
00:33:12.52\00:33:15.26
with this wonderful
picture of the universe
00:33:15.46\00:33:18.63
and then all of a sudden
it changes the subject. "
00:33:18.83\00:33:20.96
Verse 7: "The law of
the Lord is perfect. "
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"The heavens declare the
glory of God! " Wonderful!
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"The sun is like a man coming
out of the bridegroom chamber
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and he's going to preach to the
whole world in every language. "
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By the way, the sun
preaches. The stars preach.
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In the end of the day
nobody's going to have an excuse
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for rejecting God because
all of the handiwork is there.
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It's all there.
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And I said: "Why? Why
does this Psalm change? "
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And then finally it hit me:
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just as God has
finely tuned the universe
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so that life can exist
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so He's given us
the Ten Commandments
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so that life can exist.
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I love the theme here
on God's Ten Commandments:
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the law of liberty and love.
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And it really really is.
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So the whole
universe is preaching.
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Let's look at
verse 7 of chapter 19
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of the book of Psalms.
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And listen to
how this starts out.
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It says: "The law of
the Lord is... " What?
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Perfect. "perfect. " Perfect!
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It's a good thing. By the
way, you can't fix perfect.
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Can't fix it... unfixable.
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"The testimony
of the Lord is sure
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making wise the simple.
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The statutes of
the Lord are right
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rejoicing the heart.
The commandments of the Lord
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are pure,
enlightening the eye. "
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Let's take a look at
those words for a moment.
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Perfect means blameless.
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Cannot improve it.
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Sure means it's
faithful and dependable
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and will not let you down.
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Right. It means
it's straight and level
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and appropriate.
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Pure means it's beloved,
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clean and sincere.
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True and righteous
means that it's stable.
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It's justifiable, defensible,
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and that's another
way of saying testable.
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You can test it.
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By the way, the Ten
Command- ments can be tested.
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Can you test the first
four of the 10 Commandments?
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You have all kinds
of evidence around you.
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Israel didn't actually
see God but they saw the smoke
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and the fire and they
saw the Ten Commandments.
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But I have people every
once in a while that will say
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or you read of them
saying: "Oh, you know
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who is this God?
This invisible God? "
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No, no, no, no...
we have a visible God
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and He's the Lord Jesus
Christ because the apostle said
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"We have seen Him,
God, in the flesh. "
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Amen! "He's the
manifestation of God! "
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You can also test... you can
also test the last part of it.
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You can test the evidence.
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I think the greatest evidence
of those last six commandments
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is Jesus Himself.
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He lived a perfect...
Isn't that good news for you?
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Amen! The good news
is that I get Jesus,
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and if I have Him
then I get His perfect life
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and that's a wonderful thing.
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But the Ten Commandments
also do something else.
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They're like a Bill
of Rights. They guarantee
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us certain rights. Let
me tell you what they do.
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The Ten Commandments guarantee
that you and I have the right
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to live. Amen!
"Thou shalt not kill. "
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"Thou shalt not murder"
guarantees the right to live.
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It also guarantees you the
right to marry and have a family
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and not to have it messed with.
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And it guarantees that
you have a right to property.
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And it also guarantees
that you have the right
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to know the truth.
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So the Ten Commandments
create a free society.
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It's the law of liberty
and it creates a free society.
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But not only does it
create a free society
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but there's something
else that goes along with any
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free society and
that is obligations.
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So the Ten Commandments
says you have obligations.
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One of those obligations
is to your Creator/Redeemer.
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I mean, He's... If your heart is
beating it's because He makes it
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beat. Amen. If you
breathe, it's because
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He gives you air to breathe.
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Everything you see:
every atom in the universe,
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every electron is made possible
by His continued upholding
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power. "In Him we live and move
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and have our being. " Amen!
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So we have an obligation... we
have an obligation to parents.
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We have an obligation to
family, to wife and children.
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Yes, God's law is love
because it reflects God
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and the Bible says
that "God IS love. "
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Unselfish love, by the way.
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But there's a
problem and the problem is
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that of ourselves
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we cannot keep
God's commandments.
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Not because He
created us that way
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but because of
what sin has done to us.
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So we're going
to need a solution.
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The truth is that as long as you
keep God's law you're going to
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have freedom.
Isn't that good news?
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As long as you keep God's
law you're going to have life.
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That's the reason why it
couldn't keep Jesus in the grave
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is because Jesus
was a good and godly Man
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and you can't keep a
perfect Man in the grave.
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Had to resurrect Him.
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So if you keep God's Ten Com-
mandments you're going to live.
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The problem is
we've all broken them.
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We've got a big problem.
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Romans chapter 7. You know...
you know Romans chapter 7.
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It says... Verses 10-12.
It says: "The commandment
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which was to bring
life... " To bring what?
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Life. "life, I
found... " the apostle Paul said
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"to bring death. "
Now was the problem
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in the commandment or was the
problem with the apostle Paul?
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Was the problem with
the life-giving commandment
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or the sin-dealing counter
to God's Ten Commandments?
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He says: "I
found to bring death. "
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Then he names
the culprit: "For sin
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taking occasion
by the commandment
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deceived me and it killed me. "
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I think I've shared this
somewhere else, so if you
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hear it again, forgive me.
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When I was a boy we
lived in North Carolina
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and the summers were
really hot and sticky.
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And we didn't have air
conditioning so we used to play
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in the basement.
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Had a dirt
floor and some cement.
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And everything was exposed.
You could see all the pipes
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and everything. And my
mom and dad had a rule.
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What did I say? A rule. A rule:
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do not swing on the pipes.
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Now there was a
good reason for the rule.
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Am I right? Yes! That
was a sewer line down there.
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That was a water line
down there. That was...
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But, you know, when
you're 6 or 7 years old
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you don't think much about that.
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You just know you're bored.
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So I'm swinging
upside down on those pipes
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and all of a sudden I hear
that wonderful mother of mine.
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She's sleeping,
waiting for Jesus to come.
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I lost her a
little over a year ago.
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Wonderful mother.
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I heard her say:
"Jay... come up here. "
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So I went outside. The
steps didn't go inside the house
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to the basement of
the house. I went outside
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up the steps to the back porch
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and she looked at me. She had
one of the washing machines...
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I date myself... you
know where it has the rollers
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and you squeeze
out? OK... you got that.
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And she looked at
me and she says: "Jay,
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were you
swinging on the pipes? "
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And I looked at my mother
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and I said: "No. "
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The first and last time
I ever lied to my mother.
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Now question and answer...
if they had not made a rule
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would I have
been in trouble? No.
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Yes and no.
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No because I wouldn't be
held accountable. Am I right?
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But that doesn't change
the consequences of breaking
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a sewer line in the basement.
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You understand?
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Ignorance isn't
going to help us.
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We need to know,
and Jesus lets us know
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through His Ten Commandments
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"You break these you're
going to break the sewer line
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and it's going to
be a huge problem. "
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And it's far bigger
than breaking a sewer line.
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So sin in me
takes advantage of me.
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That's how it kills me.
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That's why Paul says:
"Therefore the law is holy. "
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I don't know why our
friends can't get this.
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I say in sweet kindness to our
friends: "Therefore the law is
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holy and the commandment
is holy and just and good. "
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If the commandment
is holy, just and good,
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then ALL OF IT is
holy, just and good.
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Now I've said this
before, I'll say it again:
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if the 10 Commandments
matter the Sabbath matters.
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AMEN! The Sabbath... If the
10 Commandments don't matter,
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the Sabbath doesn't matter.
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The 10th commandment
spoken on just before so nicely
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and wonderfully...
the 10th commandment
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says nothing... says
nothing about what you do.
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It says everything
about what you think.
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It talks about your heart.
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But we're born with a
covetous selfish heart.
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But the Lord
says: "Don't covet. "
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So how do I get
this change of heart?
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Let me tell you:
theory - the truth -
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always needs an
agent. Am I right?
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In the book of
Romans chapter 7 and verse 8
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there are three laws.
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One of the laws is
the Ten Commandments.
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You can look at the context.
The other law is the law of
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sin and death, but there's
another law that will come
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into play because as Paul
has these two wrestling here
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he says this,
you know the words.
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He says... he says: "O
wretched man that I am!
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Who... " There's the
agent not the theory.
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"Who will deliver me
from this body of death? "
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From this terrible
struggle. And chapter 8 verse 2
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introduces a new
law, a new agent.
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This law does not
come merely in theory.
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It doesn't merely
tell you the truth.
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It brings with it the agent.
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And here is the agent
and the agent is this:
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"For the law of the spirit
of life in Christ Jesus. "
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There's a third law. The
law of the spirit of what?
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Life in Christ Jesus.
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Has made me free from that
other law of sin and death.
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I want to say Hallelujah!
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That's what I
want to be free from.
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And then he says this
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which I don't understand
why people don't get it.
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I say it real kindly,
but for the sake of time
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I'm going to move right down
to verse 3, part of verse 3.
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It says... He does this
third law, this third agent.
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He condemns sin in the flesh.
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Verse 4... here it is.
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By the way, let
me say it this way:
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Everything that you
know about faith in Christ,
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everything that you know
about Christ our righteousness,
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everything that you know
about righteousness by faith,
00:46:15.10\00:46:18.21
everything that you know about
the great Protestant concept
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that we're saved by
faith alone and grace alone,
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all of that is for
what's coming next.
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"That the righteous
requirement of the law
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might be fulfilled in us. "
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Amen! In other words,
this whole thing is to bring us
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back into harmony with
God's beautiful law of freedom.
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That's why Jesus
came to this world.
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And for people to get up and say
the law of God doesn't matter
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I don't know if they
need their glasses changed
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or just what. But
the Scripture is clear!
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All of this, and there's
no greater man who preaches
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righteousness by
faith than the apostle Paul.
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And right in the
middle of it all he says:
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"In other that the righteous
requirements of the law
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might be fulfilled in... " Whom?
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"us. "
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Saints with patience
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are going to do battle
with the beast and his image.
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In that book
Testimonies to the Church vol. 6
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and I say...
Evidence... we have a blessing.
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We believe in sola scriptura
but we also believe that
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we have in the
church the gift of prophecy.
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Isn't that a wonderful thing?
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I think it's a great thing.
You know, Ellen White says
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her work was like a lesser light
to lead to the greater light.
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It's like John the
Baptist pointing to Jesus.
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Her work was to point
back to the Scripture.
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And she had an insight here
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that she saw, I think in
vision, she saw the prophet
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John looking and
watching the scene
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of Revelation.
Isn't that interesting?
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Here's what she... and
you'll get the context here:
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"Satan is working to the
utmost to make himself as God
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to destroy all who
oppose his power. "
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That's why we have to have
the patience of the saints.
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We've got somebody
working against us.
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We fight not
against flesh and blood.
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"And today" she goes on... "the
world is bowing before him. "
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"His power is
received as the power of God.
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The prophecy of
Revelation is being fulfilled
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that all the world
wondered after the beast. "
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It might just started
being fulfilled in her day
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but today it's been fulfilled!
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Then she goes on:
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"Men in their blindness
boast of the wonderful progress
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and enlightenment. " Does
that sound like our world?
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Hello Silicon Valley.
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But to the eye of the Omnipotent
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are revealed the
inward guilt and depravity. "
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You can have all the
technology in the world
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and it cannot fix a human heart!
00:49:30.10\00:49:32.80
All the education and Ph.D's
00:49:33.00\00:49:35.57
and Th.D's... and I'm
not against those things...
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all of that education
cannot fix a human heart.
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It cannot bring
us back into harmony
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with the great
law of the universe.
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It cannot put us
back in harmony with God.
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"The heavenly
watchers see the earth filled
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with violence and crime.
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Wealth is obtained by
every species of robbery:
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not robbery of
men only but of God.
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Men are using His means
to gratify their selfishness.
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Everything they can grasp
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is made the
minister of their greed. "
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We might add to
their hedonistic pleasure.
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Moving down. "But the
cloud of judicial wrath
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hangs over them. " There's
going to be a price to pay.
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Jesus paid the
price so we don't have to.
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But if you reject Jesus
or you create a false Jesus
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or you create a
Jesus in your own image
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you will pay the price.
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"But a cloud of
judicial wrath hangs over them
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containing the
elements that destroyed Sodom. "
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We're living in
Sodom and Gomorrah today.
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"In his visions of
things to come... " she says...
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"John beheld the
scene... beheld the scene.
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This demon worship was revealed
to him, and it seemed to him
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as if the whole world
were standing on the brink
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of perdition. "
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In other words, he looks and
he says: "I don't see any hope
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for the world. The world looks
like it's just headed for utter
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destruction. "
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He sees it!
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He can see it all from Adam
all the way down, but he sees it
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here in the end of time as
Babylon puts her thing together.
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And then she says this:
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"But as he - John the
prophet, John the Revelator -
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looked with intense interest
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he beheld the company of God's
commandment-keeping people. "
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AMEN!
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That's the company I
want to be part of. Amen!
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Now they may take away what-
ever little money you've got.
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They may take away your farm;
they may take away your house.
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They may take away your car.
00:52:08.49\00:52:09.82
They may take away
all the credit cards.
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I'm telling you
before it's done and said
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we won't have anything
except our faith in the Savior.
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Amen! And Satan
is getting ready.
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This is final deception...
this is the big deal.
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This is when he's going
to bring it all together.
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But I'm telling you
that the prophet says
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that he sees... he
sees a group of people
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keeping the commandments of God
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and in their foreheads they
have the seal of the Living God.
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And then he quotes the
text, he sees them. "HERE... "
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I love that word. He looks
everywhere across the universe.
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He looks at the world
ready to be destroyed,
00:52:43.93\00:52:46.19
divine judgment
hanging over the world,
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and then he says: "HERE. "
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"Here is the
patience of the saints.
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Here are they that
keep the commandments of God
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and the faith of Jesus. " AMEN!
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Let me tell you...
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let me tell you:
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this thing is going to get ugly.
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Going to get really ugly.
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We need to become perfect
like our heavenly Father.
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Now I know... I
can hear them now
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in the church and
out of the church.
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I tell you in sweet kindness.
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But Jesus trumps everybody.
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And I don't know that I
have a lot of time to read this,
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but let's just... let's
just go back to Matthew.
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Let's just go back to Matthew
chapter 5 for just a minute.
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Matthew chapter 5.
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We'll come back to
this: Matthew chapter 5
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and I want to look at verse 43.
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"You have heard...
" chapter 5 verse 43,
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Sermon on the Mount...
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I don't think there's ever
been a sermon preached like this
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sermon. I would
love to have heard it.
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"You have heard that it
was said to you 'You shall love
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your neighbor and
hate your enemy. '
00:53:55.06\00:53:56.60
But I say to you:
love your enemies. " What?
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Ever find that hard to
do? Don't raise your hand.
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We've all been there.
00:54:06.98\00:54:08.31
"But I say to
you: love your enemies.
00:54:11.65\00:54:13.82
Bless those who curse you.
00:54:14.12\00:54:16.28
Do good to those that hate you
00:54:17.39\00:54:19.92
and pray for those
who spitefully use you
00:54:20.82\00:54:24.16
and persecute you. "
00:54:24.36\00:54:25.99
Let me tell you: it was
the patience of the saints
00:54:26.19\00:54:28.66
with this ringing in their
ear that allowed them to face
00:54:28.86\00:54:31.90
the lions in the arena
and watch their families
00:54:32.10\00:54:35.30
torn to bits.
00:54:35.50\00:54:37.47
It was the
patience of the saints
00:54:37.87\00:54:39.57
that faced the
Jesuit persecution
00:54:39.77\00:54:42.01
and all of their
horrible tortures.
00:54:42.21\00:54:44.55
And yet they wouldn't move!
00:54:44.75\00:54:46.92
And it will be the
patience of the saints
00:54:49.28\00:54:52.02
that will go through
this horrible time of trouble.
00:54:52.52\00:54:55.59
And we will go through
it because we will have
00:54:55.79\00:54:59.53
by the grace of God,
by the indwelling Christ,
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we will have perfect hearts.
00:55:03.00\00:55:06.60
Amen!
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Then He goes on to say,
just in case we didn't get it.
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Verse 45: "that you may be
sons of your Father in heaven
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for He makes the sun
rise on the evil... "
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He made the sun rise on Hitler.
00:55:25.65\00:55:27.16
He made the sun rise on
those terrible Communists
00:55:27.36\00:55:29.59
like Mao Tse Tung.
He makes the sun rise on
00:55:29.79\00:55:32.56
people who are
aborting their babies.
00:55:32.76\00:55:34.73
He makes the sun rise
on evil people everywhere
00:55:34.93\00:55:38.53
'cause He loves them.
00:55:39.83\00:55:41.54
Doesn't condone them.
00:55:41.94\00:55:43.84
He hates what they do.
00:55:44.24\00:55:46.14
"on the evil and on the good
and He sends rain on the just
00:55:51.18\00:55:54.22
and the unjust. "
00:55:54.42\00:55:55.75
Then He said: "If you
just love those who love you,
00:55:55.92\00:55:58.35
what reward do you have?
00:55:58.55\00:55:59.99
Do not even the tax
collectors do the same? "
00:56:00.39\00:56:02.46
Verse 48:
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"Therefore you shall be
perfect. " That's a command.
00:56:04.03\00:56:07.96
"You shall be perfect
just as your Father in heaven
00:56:09.73\00:56:12.30
is perfect. " If we
want to be perfect like
00:56:12.50\00:56:14.30
our heavenly Father,
then we must have a heart
00:56:14.50\00:56:16.74
of unselfish love
00:56:16.94\00:56:19.14
and a patience... a patience
that puts up with slander.
00:56:19.34\00:56:23.21
A patience that
puts up with persecution.
00:56:23.41\00:56:26.05
A patience like Job!
00:56:26.25\00:56:28.48
How could Job go
through what Job went through?
00:56:28.68\00:56:31.79
There's only one way
that Job could go through that
00:56:32.19\00:56:35.16
and that is that he had hope!
00:56:36.36\00:56:38.96
Brothers and sisters,
the patient and the saints
00:56:39.16\00:56:42.66
in their patience
they always have hope!
00:56:42.90\00:56:46.57
Amen! They trust the Good Book.
00:56:46.77\00:56:49.30
They trust this powerful Savior
00:56:49.50\00:56:51.47
to resurrect them from the dead.
00:56:51.67\00:56:53.51
And that's why you can hear
Job in the midst of his pain...
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Yes, he told about his pain.
00:56:56.58\00:56:57.91
Yes, he wished the
day could have been erased
00:56:58.21\00:56:59.55
that he was born, but
then he would come back
00:56:59.68\00:57:01.58
and he would never
give up his integrity.
00:57:01.78\00:57:03.55
Even when his wife
said: "Curse God and die! "
00:57:04.39\00:57:07.39
She was so
discouraged... bless her heart.
00:57:07.59\00:57:09.32
But Job says: "Though He slay me
00:57:10.39\00:57:13.96
yet will I trust Him. " AMEN!
00:57:14.16\00:57:16.36
"Even if I die
and worms eat the skin
00:57:16.77\00:57:21.30
someday in my
skin - in this body -
00:57:21.50\00:57:24.57
I shall see the Lord. "
00:57:24.77\00:57:26.84
My dear brothers and sisters,
00:57:27.88\00:57:29.48
Babylon is going to make
the Nazis and the Communists
00:57:30.55\00:57:35.28
look like child's play,
00:57:35.48\00:57:36.82
and I want to tell you
that we need this Living Christ,
00:57:39.39\00:57:43.49
this incomparable Jesus,
00:57:44.36\00:57:46.26
who alone can
give us that endurance.
00:57:46.66\00:57:50.70
"Here... " And may you
be part of it; may I be
00:57:51.10\00:57:53.64
part of it... "Here is
the patience of the saints
00:57:53.84\00:57:57.37
and those who keep
the commandments of God. "
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