Summer Camp Meeting

Three Angels Broadcasting Network

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Series Code: SCM

00:01 The hour is urgent, as darkness is dispelled by the light of
00:07 God's word.
00:08 A new day begins.
00:10 Jesus, the light of the world is shining.
00:13 Prepare your hearts to proclaim the final cry.
00:17 This is 3ABN Summer Camp Meeting.
00:24 Good morning, friends, and welcome to 3ABN Summer Camp
00:27 Meeting.
00:28 Good morning.
00:30 Now, if you're in another part of the world where it's night,
00:32 excuse us, it's a beautiful day here.
00:35 We just had some showers of blessings.
00:38 And oh, that today they might fall.
00:42 We thank you for taking the time.
00:44 If you have not joined us for the prior messages, you can go
00:47 to 3ABN Plus and catch up on those messages that have been
00:51 already preached.
00:53 But this morning, we're asking for the Lord to bless, to
00:57 strengthen the messenger for this hour, to give wisdom and
01:00 understanding.
01:04 come to our camp meeting.
01:06 Amen?
01:07 Has it been a blessing?
01:09 Surely has.
01:13 Lord's blessing to be with us.
01:15 After the prayer, I'll sing a song and then we'll go to God's
01:19 word.
01:19 Let's pray together.
01:22 Loving Father, gracious God in heaven, we thank you, Lord, for
01:27 the early and latter rain.
01:31 We pray that your presence and power will be with us.
01:36 And we know, Lord, that you said little is much when God is
01:42 in it.
01:43 And so we ask you to lead us and guide us this morning to
01:46 send your Spirit, Lord, into this place and do what only you
01:51 can accomplish.
01:53 So now, Father, we commit ourselves to you.
01:55 We submit ourselves to you.
01:58 And we thank you.
02:00 In Jesus' name.
02:02 Amen.
02:11 Shall we gather at the river Where bright angels' feet have
02:23 trod With its crystal tide forever, Flowing by the throne
02:35 of God.
02:39 Yes, we'll gather at the river, The beautiful, the beautiful
02:49 river, Together with the saints at the river, That flows by the
03:02 throne of God.
03:05 Looking forward to that day.
03:10 Soon we'll reach that shining river, Soon our pilgrimage will
03:21 cease.
03:23 Soon our happy hearts will quiver With a melodious peace.
03:37 Yes, we'll gather at the river, The beautiful, the beautiful
03:47 river, Together with the saints at the river, That flows by the
04:00 throne of God.
04:05 Yes, we'll gather at that river, The beautiful, the
04:14 beautiful river, Together with the saints at the river, That
04:26 flows by the throne of God.
04:38 That flows by the throne of God.
04:48 Amen.
05:01 There's been a little change in the speaker for this morning.
05:06 And we just want to be candid with you.
05:08 We want to keep Shelley Quinn in our prayers.
05:14 So, let's just pray right now.
05:19 Loving Father in heaven, as we come to you in Jesus' holy,
05:22 precious name.
05:24 Lord, we come knowing that your strength is perfect when our
05:30 strength is gone.
05:32 We ask, precious Savior, now that as we commit to this
05:35 message, that we will know that your presence and power is with
05:40 us.
05:43 That you will tend to her as the great physician.
05:46 And you'll bring to her the strength and healing she needs.
05:50 And we ask this in Jesus' holy and precious name we pray.
05:55 Amen.
05:58 The message is entitled, The Impregnable Church.
06:01 The Impregnable Church.
06:04 If you have your Bibles, go with me to the book of Matthew,
06:06 chapter 16.
06:07 And we're going to look together at verse 18.
06:10 Matthew, chapter 16, and we're going to look together at verse
06:14 18.
06:16 You know, so many people today think the church is in trouble.
06:19 I say the church is not in trouble.
06:21 The people in the church are in trouble.
06:24 God did not build a church out of cookie crumbles.
06:29 He did not build a church out of plywood.
06:32 Matthew, chapter 16, verse 18, reads as follows.
06:36 Jesus is speaking to Peter.
06:39 And he says, And I say unto thee, Thou art Peter.
06:44 And upon this rock I will build my church.
06:47 And the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
06:49 So I'm going to begin by saying today, God's church is going
06:53 through.
06:53 What do you say?
06:54 Amen.
06:55 God's church is not going to fall.
06:57 But the challenges of the last days is simply this.
07:00 The challenges of these days has caused there to be two
07:05 types of Christians.
07:06 How many types did I say?
07:08 Two types.
07:09 Those that focus on crisis and those that focus on Christ.
07:15 If you keep your eye on the crisis, you'll always have
07:18 reasons to be concerned.
07:20 But if you keep your eyes on Christ, there will be no reason
07:24 to be concerned at all.
07:25 Because Jesus is able to carry the church that he built to its
07:31 final destination.
07:33 My wife and I fly quite a bit, and we know that once the
07:36 flight attendants say the door has been closed, they always
07:40 say, If your final destination is not...
07:45 This is a good time to get off the plane.
07:48 But when the doors are closed and the plane takes off,
07:50 nobody's getting off.
07:53 Nobody asks to get off.
07:54 And I want to say this point.
07:56 When the church is going through turbulence, the pilot
07:59 would say, The fasten your seatbelt sign has been ignited.
08:04 Please follow flight attendant rules and just stay seated.
08:08 Buckle your seatbelts.
08:09 Brethren, the church is going to go through turbulence.
08:12 But don't get off the plane.
08:15 I mean, isn't it ridiculous to ask the flight attendant, You
08:18 know, I heard that there's a turbulence coming.
08:19 Could you let me out?
08:22 No, brethren.
08:27 down.
08:28 And then make sure that you're not distracted.
08:30 Put away your tray tables.
08:32 Return your seat in the upright and locked position.
08:34 Store away all the things.
08:35 Put away the large electronic devices.
08:37 You could tell I fly too much.
08:40 But we have to make sure that when we are on our way and
08:43 turbulence hits, that we are buckled in because Jesus can
08:47 carry us through.
08:48 So today the security of the church is not dependent on our
08:52 problem solving proficiency, but on the providences of God.
08:57 When the Lord built the church, Jesus made sure that the
09:01 foundation was going to be solid.
09:04 And He is the foundation of His church.
09:07 When we think about it, David the Psalmist makes it so clear
09:10 in Psalm 8, verse 3 and 4, he talks about the ability of God
09:15 to preserve.
09:19 each other, if the Lord can keep all the stars stable from
09:23 generation to generation, if we can trace ourselves back
09:26 thousands of years by simply looking at the position of the
09:29 planets, is God able to preserve His church?
09:33 David the Psalmist says in Psalm 8, verse 3 and 4, When I
09:35 consider your heavens, the works of your fingers, the moon
09:39 and the stars which you have ordained, I love this part,
09:43 what is man that you are mindful of him and the son of
09:47 man that you visit him?
09:50 Praise God.
09:51 If God can keep billions of galaxies from crashing into
09:55 each other, God can maintain the veracity and the integrity
10:01 of His church.
10:01 Amen somebody.
10:03 So the Lord is making it very clear to us in Jeremiah 32 and
10:06 verse 27, nothing difficult for God.
10:09 The only way that we can think of things difficult for God is
10:12 if we think, and I say this with total respect because I'm
10:15 a pastor of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, we have
10:18 administrators and we have leaders, but the security of
10:21 the church is not based on our administrators and our leaders,
10:24 it is based on the one who built the church.
10:27 Jeremiah 32 and verse 27, Behold, I am the Lord, the God
10:30 of all flesh.
10:33 Is there anything hard for me?
10:35 And what is your answer?
10:37 Nothing hard for us.
10:39 So God does not need our assistance to keep His church
10:43 secure.
10:44 You know, flight attendants never ask me to help them when
10:46 the plane goes into difficulty.
10:48 Did you say sir?
10:50 What did they say?
10:53 Remain seated.
10:54 Brethren, when the church is going through difficulty, let's
10:56 say it together, remain seated.
10:58 Why?
11:01 and leave.
11:03 Am I right, Beverly and Leon?
11:05 That's why the folk here at 3AB and they come real early.
11:07 They sit on the front row so nobody can take their seat.
11:10 Brethren, the Lord say, remain seated.
11:14 This ship is going to arrive into port safely.
11:18 But we live in a generation where Satan has hired unstable
11:22 minds to attack God's church.
11:25 And they try to paint God's church as the most insecure,
11:29 confused and unstable place on earth.
11:32 Have you watched YouTube at all?
11:34 Have you heard the controversies flying?
11:36 There's a new movement now.
11:38 Somebody said, they're starting a new church.
11:41 I wish I could make this up, but it's not.
11:43 Somebody said, I'm starting a new Adventist church with no
11:46 Ellen White.
11:48 We don't need her.
11:49 Now let me make a point.
11:50 We don't need Ellen White to be saved.
11:52 But God has blessed this church with her writings.
11:55 Amen.
11:56 There are those now that cannot overcome sin by the grace of
11:59 God and the strength of the Holy Spirit.
12:00 So they want to start a church now where all you need is just
12:04 the cross.
12:07 People are trying to find creative ways of being saved
12:10 without tying into the power that God has made available to
12:15 us.
12:17 And so what the devil does nowadays, he creates conspiracy
12:21 theories.
12:22 Have you heard any of them lately?
12:24 You look on the YouTube and you see this conference leader and
12:27 that conference leader fighting one against the other.
12:30 And I'm convinced that the devil knows that this is God's
12:32 remnant message.
12:36 consistently is the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
12:40 They're not talking about the Baptists and the Catholics and
12:42 the Pentecostals.
12:43 It's us all the time.
12:45 And they're trying to find ways of getting us to be confused.
12:48 But this is not new.
12:50 In the days of Nehemiah, they tried to do the very same thing
12:53 to Nehemiah.
12:55 In Nehemiah 4 and verse 8, the Bible talked about how the
12:59 enemies of God's church worked.
13:01 In Nehemiah's work it says, And all of them conspired together
13:07 to come and attack Jerusalem and create confusion.
13:10 Create what?
13:11 Confusion.
13:12 Let me say something.
13:14 Don't listen to the talking heads on YouTube unless they
13:18 all are from 3ABN.
13:21 I just want to put that together in there.
13:23 And make sure they are on the plain, thus saith the Lord.
13:27 But there's a confusion that's taking the church over.
13:31 People looking at the confusion rather than the Christ are
13:35 thinking of ways, Well, how am I going to be saved if I stay
13:38 in that church or that church?
13:40 Brethren, let's say it together.
13:43 Remain seated.
13:44 Buckle your seat belts.
13:45 It's going to get rough before the turbulence is over.
13:49 But when we land, I say the Lord is going to say, Lift up
13:53 your heads, O ye gates, And be lifted up the everlasting
13:56 doors, And the King of glory shall come in.
13:58 And we will be in his tail.
14:01 He's going to bring us in.
14:03 But there are those nowadays.
14:04 I was recently, somebody sent me an email.
14:07 And for whatever reason, You ever get emails and things that
14:09 are connected to your email have nothing to do with what
14:11 you're looking for?
14:13 So I had an email come to me and there was a little click in
14:15 the top right.
14:17 And it had a little video of Chicken Little.
14:20 You remember Chicken Little?
14:22 And I clicked on Chicken Little just to, Why do you click on
14:26 these things?
14:27 And the video started rolling.
14:29 And I remember, what did Chicken Little, What would he
14:32 say?
14:32 The sky is falling.
14:34 The sky is falling.
14:35 And you see all the other animals running in all
14:39 different directions until somebody says, Who said the sky
14:43 is falling?
14:44 Nobody even questioned all the confusion.
14:48 And so Chicken Little's father said, What do you mean the sky
14:50 is falling?
14:55 on my head.
14:57 It was an acorn.
14:59 Some people are turning an acorn into the church is
15:03 falling.
15:03 Come on.
15:05 The church is not falling.
15:06 God is in charge of His church.
15:08 But if you spend more time on social media than you spend on
15:12 your Bible, it'll look confusion.
15:15 If you spend time on that device that is continuing to
15:18 pull your brain out rather than insert God's word in, it's
15:22 going to look confusing.
15:23 The sole reason that the church is going to succeed, let's go
15:26 to the first one, in 1 Corinthians chapter 3 and verse
15:29 11.
15:30 The first reason is Jesus is the foundation.
15:33 Say that with me.
15:34 Jesus is the foundation.
15:38 1 Corinthians chapter 3 and verse 11.
15:41 The church is built on Christ.
15:45 The Bible says in 1 Corinthians chapter 3 verse 11, For no
15:49 other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which
15:55 is who?
15:55 Which is Jesus Christ.
15:57 Come on, say amen, church.
15:59 When you get up in the morning and you pick your Bible up,
16:02 remember, God has given us responsible leaders and I
16:06 praise God for the administrative prowess of those
16:09 in leadership position in this church.
16:12 I've been in this church now going on 40 years as an
16:14 ordained pastor.
16:16 God did not call perfect individuals.
16:19 But Jesus is perfect.
16:21 And He's able to work through all of our inconsistencies.
16:24 He's able to bring His ship safely into port, not because
16:28 we are good sailors, but because He's the master of the
16:32 seas.
16:33 Not because we are good at finding where we are, but Jesus
16:36 can speak to the storms of our lives and say, Peace be still,
16:40 and can calm anything in this church.
16:43 Can I say what Ellen White says?
16:44 Can I say that here?
16:46 Ellen White says there's no need to doubt that the church
16:48 will not succeed.
16:49 God is able to bring the church safely into port.
16:53 And then she goes on and says, If matters need to be adjusted
16:56 even at the head of the work, God will set everything in
17:00 order.
17:00 Come on, say amen.
17:01 So we don't have to worry about our leaders.
17:03 Praise God for godly men like Elder Ted Wilson.
17:06 I know him personally.
17:08 Praise God for people like Pastor Mark Finley and all of
17:11 our conference leaders.
17:12 None of them is perfect, but God is the one working in us
17:16 and through us for His glory.
17:18 But the foundation is built on Christ.
17:21 The church is divinely constructed and humanly
17:26 inhabited.
17:28 Where's the problem?
17:29 The humans that are built inside.
17:31 The church is built perfectly, but it's filled with imperfect
17:35 people.
17:37 But the good news is, one day we're going to be just like
17:40 Jesus.
17:41 When I wake up sometimes and I'm not who I want to be, I
17:44 say, Lord, keep on working.
17:47 Keep on working.
17:48 Don't stop working.
17:51 When you realize that you have more time behind you than ahead
17:56 of you, there's some sobering that comes into play.
18:00 Am I telling the truth?
18:01 You start getting sober.
18:03 You start thinking of all the foolishness you did growing up.
18:06 And then you realize, Lord, I don't have time for that.
18:09 I need to get my life on the right path and stay there.
18:12 There are things that the Lord promises to do, but there are
18:16 things He will not do that He promises He gives you the
18:19 strength and the power to do for yourself.
18:21 You've got to pick up your Bible.
18:23 You've got to pray.
18:25 You've got to study.
18:26 The Lord is not going to do that.
18:28 When you commit to what God has called you to commit to, then
18:32 He'll give you the strength and He'll give you the guidance.
18:34 Thank you so much.
18:35 My wife probably called him and said, tell him to get a tissue.
18:41 When you commit to what God has called you to commit to, He
18:44 will do what He has promised.
18:49 When you read and you pray, the Lord will answer that prayer.
18:53 But don't get this confused.
18:56 The Lord adds people to the church.
18:57 Somebody once said, well, you know, do I have to go to
19:02 church?
19:03 That's another thing that really irritates me.
19:06 I want to be a part, I want to see the Super Bowl, but do I
19:09 have to go to the stadium?
19:13 Now let's eliminate the television part.
19:17 But you've got to be in the stadium.
19:18 What gets me is that people in Chicago, this is no lie, they
19:23 would go to football games in January.
19:27 They'll bring a snow shovel with them to shovel the snow,
19:32 to sit there for two hours with nine layers of clothes on, to
19:37 watch guys in tights kick a pigskin ball right back and
19:41 forth and kick a ball through a pole.
19:44 And folk won't come to churches where the seats are perfectly
19:47 comfortable.
19:48 The skies will just turn gray and they get nervous.
19:51 Brethren, we've got to have more dedication than sports
19:54 fans, because the church has been added for a particular
19:58 purpose.
20:02 church?
20:03 The Bible says in Acts 2 and verse 47, and the Lord added to
20:07 the church daily those who were being what?
20:11 Saved.
20:12 Why did God put a church together?
20:14 Why are you in the church?
20:15 Some of you need somebody else's iron to sharpen your
20:19 iron.
20:21 You won't know how justified you are and how much God's work
20:24 is being accomplished in you until you meet somebody with an
20:27 attitude just like yours.
20:33 Am I right?
20:37 So the Lord is saying, there's somebody coming to church this
20:40 morning that's going to test you.
20:42 We had a lady come to church one Sabbath morning.
20:44 Not here, I was pastoring in California and she walked on
20:47 the floor and she said, Pastor, I'm angry and don't try to get
20:49 me to stop being angry.
20:51 And she was serious.
20:53 I had another church where a member brought a baseball bat
20:55 to church and she threatened to beat up the head deacon.
21:00 Now I didn't pray for her to go home.
21:01 I said, Lord, get that evil spirit out of here.
21:03 And between Sabbath school and church, she went home and left
21:06 her bat and came back, but still, the head deacon kept his
21:10 eye on her because she still had the look on her face.
21:15 No, brethren, this is God's hospital.
21:19 Or is it his insane asylum?
21:22 Because sometimes we wonder ourselves whether or not we're
21:26 going to make it based on some of the challenges we bring to
21:29 our own brothers and sisters.
21:31 But the Lord added to the church daily those who were
21:33 being saved, but he did not just add them to the church.
21:36 Go to John 1 verse 12.
21:37 There's something else he did.
21:38 He didn't just add them to the church to a fellowship, but he
21:42 called them to do something else.
21:43 The Lord added them to the church, and when he added them,
21:48 something changed.
21:49 John 1 verse 12.
21:50 What happened?
21:52 When he added to the church, something changed.
21:54 The Bible says, But as many as received him, to them he gave
21:59 the right to become children of God to those who believe in his
22:03 name.
22:04 Let me make a very important point.
22:06 When you are added to the church by the work of the Holy
22:08 Spirit, you're not just a member,
22:14 I've got to get that because often times I've heard people
22:16 say, you know, I'm only human, I'm just a sinner.
22:20 Let me just, hopefully if you're watching, I want to kind
22:23 of correct this.
22:26 You are a sinner before Jesus comes into your life.
22:31 In that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
22:36 When you give your life to Christ,
22:43 you are under construction.
22:44 Help me out somebody.
22:46 Paul never said, greet the sinners in Rome.
22:50 He said, greet the saints in Rome.
22:53 But the word saint has been so distorted that we are afraid to
22:56 call ourselves saint.
22:57 I believe if we understand that we are saints under
23:00 construction, God is finishing the work he began in us, we'll
23:04 start acting like saints rather than like sinners that continue
23:09 to excuse the behavior
23:14 The Lord calls us saints, but you've got to receive him, not
23:17 just membership.
23:18 Too many people settle for membership.
23:20 You have to settle for being a child of God, knowing that what
23:24 he has started in you, he is able to complete.
23:28 And when we become children of God, Jesus begins a process
23:33 that reproduces his character in our lives.
23:37 More and more I'm convinced, and I just heard this on the
23:40 news and I'm not going to get into that at all, but there's a
23:46 statement that really caught my attention and it is this.
23:49 They said, we are concerned as to whether or not this person's
23:53 character is fit to occupy that office.
23:56 And let me just make it clear, I'm not talking about our
23:58 president.
23:59 I'm talking about something else in the Department of
24:01 Defense or different places.
24:02 They said, we're concerned about whether or not the
24:04 person's character
24:14 should be concerned about their character as children of God.
24:18 God has given us the beautiful privilege, and I believe one of
24:20 the reasons why more people don't come to Jesus is because
24:24 they see the character of those claiming to be children and
24:28 they say, I don't want to be in that family.
24:32 But if they see what?
24:35 Love, joy, peace, long -suffering, gentleness,
24:40 meekness, patience.
24:42 If they see in us that we are transforming, when you come
24:45 into somebody else's presence, they need to know that you are
24:50 part of a royal family.
24:52 We are a holy nation.
24:54 What kind of priesthood?
24:55 A royal priesthood.
24:57 So, God is saying, I've given you the power every day to live
25:01 as you are a royal priesthood.
25:03 But now there's another component to that.
25:05 We are children of God when?
25:08 Say it again, when?
25:10 1 John 3 verse 2, turn your Bibles there.
25:12 This is something we have to get in mind because a lot of
25:14 times people say, well, you know, I can't wait till I get
25:17 to heaven.
25:20 Not till you get to heaven.
25:22 And if you're children, when I was growing up in New York and
25:25 Brooklyn, they would say, see, we grew up in the day and age
25:29 where the neighbors would spank you.
25:30 Anybody know what I'm talking about?
25:32 Have you ever had that experience where they grab you
25:34 by your ear and take you home?
25:41 They say, you wait till your dad gets home.
25:43 It's like three strikes, you're out.
25:45 Nowadays, you can't touch anybody.
25:47 But they always say, did you know how your son was behaving?
25:53 They always connect the behavior to the parents.
25:56 And parents say, don't you embarrass me.
25:58 Have you heard that before?
26:00 Brethren, we should not embarrass God.
26:02 Amen.
26:04 We are his children now.
26:05 1 John 3 verse 2.
26:07 Now, he's still working, but here's the reality.
26:08 Beloved, what's the next word?
26:11 Now, we are children of God.
26:14 And it has not yet been revealed what we shall be.
26:17 Meaning, he's not finished yet.
26:19 But we know, those are words of confidence, that when he is
26:23 revealed, we shall be what?
26:25 Like him, for we shall see him as he is.
26:30 Praise God for that.
26:32 Now, why is that important?
26:33 Because there are angels right now.
26:35 You've got an angel.
26:38 That every now and then goes back to heaven and says, Lord,
26:40 are you sure you want to let them in here?
26:43 Because I saw something today.
26:47 I don't know, because, you know, what they did is worse
26:51 than what Lucifer did.
26:53 I don't know.
26:56 Remember that, there's a judgment coming.
26:58 They're writing stuff down.
26:59 You don't know what they said today.
27:02 And by the way, Lord, they haven't returned an honest
27:04 tithe in six months.
27:09 They all of a sudden stop breathing.
27:14 So the reason why God has to finish the work in us is
27:17 because he has to ensure that we are safe to occupy a sinless
27:24 environment.
27:26 So he said, I'm not done yet, but let's go to Philippians 1,
27:29 6.
27:29 You've got to stay in the process.
27:31 Say that with me, you have to do what?
27:32 Stay in the process.
27:34 Look at Philippians 1, verse 6.
27:35 And this is beautiful.
27:37 I'm giving you blessed assurance this morning.
27:39 Words of confidence.
27:40 Now we are children of God.
27:42 Look at Philippians 1, 6.
27:44 This is important.
27:45 If you remain in the process, Jesus will finish what he
27:49 started.
27:50 Philippians 1, 6.
27:53 What's the first two words?
27:55 Being what?
27:57 Confident of this very thing that he who has begun a good
28:04 work, in you, room by room, attitude by attitude, will
28:10 complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.
28:14 Isn't that good news?
28:16 So you might wake up one day and say, I don't even think
28:19 about smoking anymore, but I still can't stand, brother, so
28:22 and so.
28:27 Notice I'm looking at the trees.
28:30 Because some of us boast about what we have overcome, but we
28:34 don't talk about what we're still struggling with.
28:36 But let me say something.
28:38 God sees the struggle.
28:40 And if Jesus calls us to be his children, which he does, he's
28:45 able, over here, he's able to complete what he started.
28:47 What do you say?
28:49 Being confident.
28:51 He looks at our rough edges.
28:52 And sometimes I believe one of the reasons why the Lord allows
28:55 us to go through trial, as he did with Peter, sometimes we
28:59 need a satanic shake-up to wake up.
29:02 So sometimes the Lord commits us to the enemy, as Paul the
29:05 Apostle is speaking about those who just refuse to be people of
29:08 integrity in the Corinthian church.
29:10 He said, commit such a one to Satan that he may buffet him,
29:17 that in the end his flesh may be saved.
29:20 And as a pastor, I see sometimes church members going
29:22 through difficulty, and I say, Lord, I'm not going to touch
29:25 that.
29:27 I had a church member once, he knows who I'm talking about, I
29:30 had a church member once that was going through stuff, and I
29:33 saw it all over his face, and I said, what are you going
29:37 through?
29:38 I said, okay, well, I'm going to just pray that God will keep
29:40 you in the oven until he's done.
29:43 Am I right?
29:45 Some of us get in God's way while God is dealing with his
29:48 children.
29:50 Jesus didn't even get in Peter's way when the devil
29:52 wanted to sift him.
29:54 He didn't say, I'm not going to let him sift.
29:55 He said, I'm going to pray that when he's done, your faith will
29:58 not fail.
29:59 So the sifting is not to get you out.
30:02 The sifting is to get the sin out and to strengthen the Jesus
30:07 within.
30:09 But some people are not going to endure the sifting because
30:11 they want the sin to stay in and the sin is not going to
30:15 stay in.
30:18 it's just built on Jesus.
30:19 Say with me, it is what?
30:21 Built on Jesus.
30:22 Jesus is the foundation.
30:24 The second reason I know this is God's church, let's go to
30:27 Revelation chapter 14 verse 12.
30:29 The second reason is God's church honors his commandments.
30:35 Revelation 14 verse 12.
30:37 Here it is.
30:39 Revelation 14 verse 12.
30:40 And notice, here is the patience of the sinners.
30:45 That's right, brethren.
30:46 You got to get that text right.
30:48 Here is the patience of the saints.
30:51 Here are those who keep the commandments of God and the
30:54 faith of Jesus.
30:56 You know, if I were the devil, I would tell people revelation
30:58 is not able to be understood either because if he tells them
31:01 that revelation is easy to understand, they might find
31:05 this text and leaders might start teaching their church
31:08 that God's commandments can be kept by the strength and power
31:12 of his Holy Spirit.
31:14 Isn't that a beautiful passage?
31:16 Here are those who do what?
31:17 Keep the commandments of God.
31:19 Somebody told me, they said, you can't keep God's
31:22 commandments.
31:23 And I said to them, not even the devil believes that.
31:27 Because the devil is upset with those who keep the commandments
31:30 of God.
31:31 The devil is angry with the woman who does what?
31:34 Keep the commandments of God.
31:37 So I said to somebody, the devil doesn't even agree with
31:39 you on that.
31:41 And it shocked them into reality.
31:43 So people are telling you lies that the devil won't even tell
31:46 you.
31:48 God's commandments can be kept by the indwelling Christ.
31:52 When you think about the commandments of God, it is a
31:54 role of sanctification.
31:56 What did I just say?
31:58 Justification is the Lord brings you out of Egypt just as
32:02 you are by the blood of the lamb and by the broken body of
32:05 Jesus.
32:08 have to do anything to get out of Egypt.
32:10 Simply partake of the body of Jesus, the lamb, and cover
32:16 their homes with the blood of Christ.
32:18 That's a complete divine act.
32:21 You're not justified by anything you do.
32:23 We are saved by grace through faith.
32:25 It is the gift of God not of works that anyone should boast.
32:28 You cannot do anything to be justified.
32:31 You are covered by the blood of the lamb.
32:33 You are redeemed by his broken body.
32:37 But here's the thing that concerns me nowadays and I hear
32:39 this new thing starting to rise up in Adventism.
32:45 People asking questions like, do you know what salvation is?
32:48 You don't know what salvation is and the church doesn't know
32:50 what salvation is and people don't know whether or not
32:52 they're saved.
32:52 Brethren, no, wait a minute.
32:53 Wait a minute.
32:57 as to whether or not we know what salvation is.
33:00 A lot of these young whippersnappers, you don't know
33:01 what salvation is.
33:02 No, brethren, we know what salvation is.
33:04 But salvation is not just justification.
33:07 Salvation is not just coming out of Egypt.
33:10 Salvation is getting Egypt out of us.
33:14 That's why the Lord took 40 years.
33:17 Some of you have been in the church 30 years.
33:20 You've got 10 more years and you're completely out.
33:24 You know that, am I telling the truth?
33:26 So this is the part of the Gospel that's often left out.
33:28 Yes, we are justified by faith in Jesus Christ alone through
33:32 his grace.
33:34 But, John 17, 17, let's go there.
33:37 John 17, 17.
33:38 You know what it is.
33:40 You ready for it?
33:41 What's the first word?
33:43 Sanctify.
33:44 Sanctify them by your truth.
33:47 Your word is truth.
33:50 Now wait a minute.
33:52 That means if you exclude God's word from your life, you cannot
33:57 be sanctified.
33:59 If God's word is not being ingested, you're getting the
34:02 wrong vitamins.
34:04 If God's word is not being input into your life, into your
34:07 mind, my wife and I have just finished the book of Luke.
34:10 We're now starting on the book of John.
34:12 This is our second time through as a couple.
34:15 We were going to try to do it in a year.
34:16 It took us like seven years to get through the Bible.
34:19 You know why?
34:20 Because it was so good.
34:21 We did not want to run a path.
34:24 We did not want to rush past God's Thanksgiving dinner.
34:29 God's word is good.
34:30 Somebody help me out.
34:32 And sometimes, my wife has done this for me on several
34:35 occasions.
34:36 Sometimes I'd come home exhausted and she'd say, let's
34:39 read our Bible.
34:39 I said, honey, I'm just so tired.
34:42 Okay, let's just read a few passages.
34:45 And when God's word gets in there, all of a sudden it's
34:48 like my gas tank starts filling up.
34:50 And it's like maybe 1045 at night.
34:54 And she gets up really early in the morning.
34:56 All of a sudden she drops this holy gasoline in me.
34:59 And I want to read the rest of the passage.
35:02 And she says, I got to go to bed.
35:04 I got to wake up early in the morning.
35:05 I said, honey, you just started a fire.
35:08 She said, go out in the living room.
35:09 Go out in the kitchen.
35:14 'clock the Lord woke me up and I got to tell you what.
35:17 You ever had that experience?
35:19 And you pull out your Bible and you start reading and you wake
35:22 up in the morning.
35:24 It's like you get up in the morning fired up.
35:25 She said, why are you so spunky?
35:27 I said, honey, last night between 345 and 512, God and I
35:33 were studying our Bibles together.
35:35 She said, how was that?
35:36 I said, on my phone.
35:37 Amen.
35:39 The phone has some positive uses.
35:42 And I said, look at all these notes.
35:44 Look at all these notes.
35:47 I was wondering while you were moving around.
35:49 I thought you were restless.
35:50 I said, no, honey, I was not restless.
35:51 I was resting in Jesus.
35:53 When you allow God's Word to be in your life, sanctification
35:58 happens.
35:59 And sanctification, which is living by God's Word, notice
36:03 what it produces.
36:05 It produces unwavering faithfulness to Biblical truth.
36:11 Secondly, spiritual discernment and resistance to deception.
36:16 Now, don't run past that one.
36:17 Because if you don't know God's Word, anybody can tell you what
36:21 they think God's Word says and you'll believe it.
36:23 And that's what's happening nowadays.
36:25 People are saying, did you know?
36:27 And then if you don't know, then they could deceive you.
36:30 And deception is high nowadays.
36:32 The third thing it produces is sacrificial commitment to God's
36:36 mission.
36:38 Brethren, we are not just connected to a church.
36:40 We are connected to a mission.
36:47 And separation from worldliness.
36:50 Now watch this.
36:51 My good friend Pastor Doug Bachelors said this, and I have
36:53 to give him the credit for it.
37:00 Bible will keep you from what?
37:02 Sin.
37:10 First, Jesus is the foundation.
37:14 Secondly, God's church keeps His commandments.
37:16 Thirdly, the evidence that we are in God's church is it is a
37:19 worldwide mission.
37:20 Come on, say amen.
37:22 Why is it a worldwide mission?
37:23 Go to John 10, 16.
37:24 Let's look at that together.
37:25 Why is God's church a worldwide mission?
37:28 Why is it a worldwide mission?
37:32 And this is important.
37:33 Because we often say, and this is true, the majority of God's
37:37 people are still where?
37:39 Out in the world or in other churches?
37:41 The words of Jesus verifies that point.
37:44 John 10, 16.
37:45 The Word of God says, And other sheep I have which are not of
37:50 what?
37:51 This fold.
37:52 Let's put a pin right there.
37:54 This fold.
37:55 So therefore there must be a fold that Jesus identifies
38:00 with.
38:00 Amen.
38:04 would just say, other sheep I have.
38:06 But He said other sheep I have that are not of this fold.
38:09 And I want to give you a hint.
38:11 The devil knows what fold he's talking about.
38:13 Amen.
38:15 But he doesn't stop there.
38:16 What does mission do?
38:17 He says, them also I must bring.
38:19 And how does that happen?
38:20 And they will hear my voice.
38:23 And there will be one flock or one fold and one shepherd.
38:26 Now let me do a survey.
38:27 How many of you were in different churches before you
38:31 accepted the Advent message?
38:32 Raise your hand.
38:34 Wow.
38:35 That's huge.
38:36 You know why?
38:37 You heard God's voice.
38:37 Come on, say amen.
38:39 You heard God's voice.
38:40 As a 17-year-old, I think I was about maybe 15 or 16, not even
38:43 17.
38:47 world.
38:50 And I had this crazy internal desire.
38:54 I wanted to still be a disc jockey and still be saved.
39:00 I partied from Thursday to Sunday.
39:03 I still went to church.
39:04 I was in the building, but I was not in Jesus.
39:09 And at the time, this is shortly before I started dating
39:12 Angie.
39:14 And we're still dating.
39:17 Thursday night is our date night.
39:21 And I went to a Nazarene church and it was a Sunday morning,
39:25 and I went to their youth group and I'm not trying to throw any
39:28 aspersions against any denomination, but this
39:30 particular instance, I asked in the class, I was trying to get
39:36 away from the Sabbath.
39:37 I was not yet converted.
39:38 I said, why don't we keep the Sabbath and the Bible and the
39:41 youth pastor said, come with me.
39:43 I thought he was going to carry me to show me the reason.
39:48 It was on the lower level in that building and I could still
39:51 see it today.
39:55 steps, outside the church and said, don't you ever come back
39:58 here.
40:01 And I got on my bicycle and I rode home.
40:05 I went to a apostolic church next, which was right across
40:10 the street from my house.
40:12 They had bought out this big Catholic cathedral, big old
40:15 bishop, brother bishop, big brother like Pastor Ryan
40:20 Johnson.
40:22 No holes, just all solid rot.
40:25 So I said, so one evening after the services, I went to his
40:29 office and said, I need to ask you a question.
40:31 Could you tell me why you don't teach your members to keep the
40:35 Sabbath?
40:37 This blew me away.
40:38 And I was just starting to read the great controversy so I knew
40:41 this, Karen.
40:43 He said, now don't tell me that in 320, 180, Roman Emperor
40:46 Constantine changed the Sabbath to Sunday.
40:49 And he started rattling off history and I thought, whoa, he
40:53 knows.
40:54 He said, I'll be right back.
40:55 I sat in that seat for about 45 minutes and he never came back.
41:00 And I saw my way out.
41:03 I had one more shot.
41:05 We had a Catholic priest.
41:07 His name was Father John.
41:09 Sunday after the services, he would take the kids in the
41:11 community to get ice cream.
41:14 I benefited from the ice cream on many occasions.
41:18 So as I got older, I remember I went to the rectory and rang
41:25 the doorbell.
41:25 He let me in.
41:26 And I asked him the same question, why don't we keep the
41:31 Sabbath?
41:32 He said, that's very simple.
41:34 Our church was instrumental in changing it from Saturday to
41:36 Sunday.
41:38 And he said this, but we're too far gone to change now.
41:41 He's the only one that told me the truth.
41:45 So I thought, Lord, I can't get away from the Sabbath.
41:48 So what did they say?
41:50 If it's so high, you can't go over it.
41:54 If it's so low, you can't go under it.
41:57 If it's so wide, you can't go around it.
41:59 So what do you have to do?
42:00 You got to go what?
42:01 You got to go through it.
42:03 Thus, I decided, I got to give up this jockeying and become a
42:09 Sabbath -keeping Christian.
42:13 I heard the Lord's voice.
42:16 One Friday evening, when I was visiting with my girlfriend,
42:19 who's my wife, who's still my girlfriend, Friday evening
42:23 worship at her home, she asked me a question.
42:28 She said, have you ever heard of the great controversy?
42:30 I said, I think I did when I was growing up.
42:32 She said, hey, let's read it.
42:34 See, she was not allowed to date.
42:35 She had five Jamaican brothers, just like Fort Knox, trying to
42:41 date their youngest sister.
42:43 She's the youngest girl out of three girls.
42:45 And so I had to get through five.
42:47 So the only reason I could go to her house was for family
42:49 worship.
42:50 So this Friday evening, we're having family worship.
42:55 And she said, have you heard of the great controversy?
42:57 I said, I have.
43:00 read it.
43:02 Now keep in mind, my plan was to go to a party right after
43:05 family worship.
43:06 That was my pattern.
43:07 They would invite me to come over.
43:08 She said, I can't invite you over as a date, but I can
43:11 invite you over for worship.
43:14 That was my safety cover, worship.
43:17 That's how we dated through worship.
43:19 That Friday evening, she had me read a chapter in the great
43:23 controversy.
43:23 Now, remember, I'm living.
43:25 I'm deep into sin.
43:28 And guess what the first chapter was that she had me
43:29 read?
43:31 The Time of Trouble.
43:35 That shook my core.
43:36 I fell to my knees that Friday evening right there in her
43:40 living room, and I cried my heart out saying, Lord, forgive
43:43 me.
43:47 of Christ Return.
43:48 And I want to tell you, that did something to me.
43:50 I didn't go to that party that night.
43:53 And the next morning, I was in church.
43:56 But I had one more party left.
43:59 Seriously, I was invited to be the disc jockey for a wedding.
44:02 And I said, OK, Lord, let me just do this one more time.
44:05 You cannot bargain with God.
44:06 It's dangerous.
44:08 So here was a Sunday morning.
44:11 I was not the wedding officiant, but after that, I
44:14 was supposed to be the disc jockey at a wedding in the
44:16 Bronx.
44:19 And I had a small Honda Civic.
44:24 Does anybody remember when Honda Civics were small?
44:27 I mean, we're talking like, that's it.
44:31 Two doors.
44:32 I had two 15-inch speaker cabinets in the back, about 400
44:37 albums, two power amps.
44:40 And I think the equipment was heavier than the car.
44:45 And so here I am on Lafayette Avenue, on DeKalb Avenue in
44:48 Brooklyn, going downtown to get to the bridge.
44:52 And in front of me, I'm going to go way back.
44:54 Some of the guys that like cars remember this phrase, a deuce
44:58 in the quarter.
44:58 Anybody know what that is?
45:00 Electra 225, a deuce in the quarter.
45:04 And it was raining just lightly, and I pressed the
45:07 brakes on that car, and that Honda slid into the back of
45:13 that deuce in the quarter.
45:14 That big American car did not move.
45:18 I bent the steering wheel, broke the windshield on my
45:20 side, Angie broke the windshield on her side, and
45:23 this thought came to my mind, if you had died here, you'd
45:26 have been lost.
45:28 Monday morning, I took a whole list of all my albums to Bank
45:32 of America, where I worked downtown in Wall Street, gave
45:35 them all away.
45:37 Now, I'd have thrown them away now.
45:39 But you know, when you spend thousands of dollars on albums,
45:42 that was, you know, sinners have to get something back.
45:45 The wages of sin, you got to get some of those wages back.
45:49 And the Lord pulled me out of that life.
45:52 And God has an amazing sense of humor, because God knew what
45:58 his plans and his dreams for my life were.
46:01 You know what he did?
46:07 Anybody from Brooklyn?
46:08 That's a stretch.
46:10 Okay.
46:11 And here I am, people cussing and arguing and playing their
46:15 heavy music, and here's old brother John, got my big old
46:19 boombox, come on.
46:21 And I'm playing the heritage singers in a park in Brooklyn.
46:29 I am willing, Lord.
46:33 How's that for evangelism?
46:36 And God, knowing what his plans were for my future, the very
46:40 first album that I got that was not secular was a heritage
46:46 singer's album.
46:47 Someone gifted it to me, never knowing that I would be in that
46:51 group in my future.
46:53 Is God good or not?
46:55 What am I saying?
47:04 Nobody could have told me that this former disc jockey,
47:07 gambler, partier, pool hustler, carouser, nightlife, living for
47:10 the city, would ever be a preacher one day.
47:15 So God sees us in our brokenness.
47:17 And let me tell you, that was not the last brokenness all
47:19 throughout life, even throughout ministry.
47:23 The Lord still sees in us things that need to be pulled
47:25 out, and every now and then he allows the enemy to get access
47:29 to us so that we could straighten up, because God is
47:33 going to bring his church through.
47:35 What am I saying?
47:36 When you live according to God's purpose, you become a
47:40 missionary.
47:41 You become a what?
47:43 There are those who need to know the message, but you are a
47:45 missionary.
47:48 disciple, you are a missionary.
47:49 That's why the mission of the church is so vitally important
47:53 to the relevance and the saving of precious souls in the church
47:59 and in the world.
48:00 There are people in the church that need to know Christ
48:03 better, and they're looking at our lives to see whether or not
48:06 they can find Jesus in our lives.
48:09 One more thing.
48:10 Let's go to the book of Acts.
48:12 I'm going to show you the devil's last strategy.
48:15 Whenever a person is committed to the word of God, it shakes
48:20 the devil's kingdom, and he wants to find ways of breaking
48:25 down the effectiveness of God's work.
48:28 And he first goes after the messengers of God.
48:30 He knows that if the shepherd is struck, if the shepherd is
48:33 damaged, the sheep would stray.
48:35 Notice what he does.
48:36 Acts chapter 13, verse 46 and 47.
48:39 Now, Paul and Barnabas are in the city of Antioch, and they
48:42 are preaching the word of God with tenacity and conviction.
48:46 And they're preaching it to the Jewish community.
48:50 And the Jewish community did not recognize that they were
48:55 those who heard the message that wanted to hear it again by
49:02 invitation.
49:03 So the next Sabbath, the Bible says in Acts 13, almost the
49:06 whole city came together to hear the word of God.
49:11 What bothered me is that the folk that came in from the city
49:17 didn't know that some of the church members had a favorite
49:20 seat.
49:26 So they came in and sat in Brother so-and-so's favorite
49:29 seat.
49:33 And they got upset.
49:35 You read the story in the book of Acts.
49:38 And when the whole city filled up that place of worship, got
49:43 the church members so angry that they began contradicting
49:46 and blaspheming what was spoken by Paul and Barnabas.
49:51 Let me tell you something.
49:54 place up, I'm going to say, to God be the glory.
49:57 Church members, y'all sit over there.
49:59 Let the city fill it up.
50:00 Come on, say amen, somebody.
50:02 What did Paul and Barnabas say?
50:03 And this is very significant.
50:04 In Acts chapter 13 verses 46 and 47.
50:08 Then Paul and Barnabas grew bold and said, It was necessary
50:12 that the word of God should be spoken to you when?
50:15 First.
50:16 But here's the danger.
50:18 But since you rejected and judge yourselves unworthy of
50:23 everlasting life, behold, we do what?
50:25 We turn to the Gentiles.
50:27 That's the mission.
50:29 For so the Lord has commanded us.
50:31 I have set you as a light to the Gentiles that you should be
50:36 for salvation to the ends of the earth.
50:39 The message of salvation is our responsibility.
50:44 Not salvation, but the message of salvation is our
50:48 responsibility.
50:50 The three angels' messages is our responsibility.
50:53 Before you leave, get some three angels' messages and
50:55 summary booklets.
50:57 Get some of the investigative judgment booklets.
50:59 I looked at that booklet that was written by Pastor James
51:02 Rafferty.
51:03 Phenomenal!
51:04 That doctrine is under attack.
51:07 Let's attack back by God's word.
51:10 Get some of those books.
51:11 Make sure you carry them home.
51:12 Three angels' messages.
51:13 Get the truth series.
51:15 What happens when you die?
51:17 Get the books.
51:18 God's church does not affirm LGBTQ.
51:21 God's church does not support abortion.
51:23 Come on, say amen to the body.
51:24 Get the gospel out there.
51:25 Let the people understand the message of veracity that God is
51:28 not playing.
51:32 those who think differently than his word actually teaches.
51:37 But let's look at what they did.
51:40 This is called the steps of apostasy.
51:43 What happened?
51:43 Look at verse 45.
51:45 Look at verse 45 of Acts chapter 13.
51:50 The Bible says, But when the Jews saw the multitude, they
51:52 were filled with what?
51:53 Envy.
51:55 And contradicting and blaspheming, they opposed to
51:57 the things spoken by Paul.
52:00 Three steps of apostasy.
52:01 The first one, they were filled with envy.
52:03 Don't ever allow somebody's response to the gospel to make
52:06 you envious.
52:08 Be careful when the spirit of envy rises up in you because
52:13 people are coming to the Lord.
52:15 The spirit of envy.
52:17 And what's amazing about that is the opposition wasn't just,
52:20 I was looking this up in the Bible commentary, the
52:23 opposition wasn't just theological, but it was
52:25 emotional.
52:26 They were filled with envy.
52:29 They were jealous that Paul's success in leading large crowds
52:33 to Jesus interrupted their church service.
52:38 And it made them envious and angry.
52:40 The second thing they did was they started contradicting and
52:43 blaspheming.
52:44 What is that?
52:49 the truth.
52:51 Active opposition to the truth.
52:53 Now, brethren, this is dangerous.
52:56 There are those who are actively living in opposition
52:59 to the truth.
53:00 And here's the thing.
53:01 They don't want it, but they don't want you to want it.
53:05 There are those on YouTube and Facebook constantly posting
53:10 reasons why you should no longer be a Seventh-day
53:12 Adventist, why you should no longer believe the
53:15 investigative judgment, why you should no longer believe that
53:18 the Sabbath is relevant, why they don't want it, but they
53:22 don't want you to want it.
53:23 That's satanic.
53:25 But that's not new.
53:26 They did that in Paul's day, contradicting and blaspheming.
53:33 That's why you have to stay away from those ministers of
53:35 darkness on YouTube.
53:36 You know what it always gets me?
53:38 Those people that are always talking about God's church and
53:40 the junk in it, they don't ever talk about their junk.
53:42 Have you noticed that?
53:45 They don't ever talk about the struggles they have in their
53:47 own life.
53:52 God says, how would you feel if every time you met somebody
53:55 they were saying something bad about your wife?
53:59 God's wife.
54:00 God's church.
54:02 Internal resentment against truth always resulting in
54:06 outward rebellion against the truth.
54:09 And that kind of stuff is going to die out.
54:11 You cannot build a ministry on negativity only on the light of
54:16 God's word.
54:17 Anything negative is not going to last.
54:20 Public opposition against truth always results in outward
54:24 attacks against the truth.
54:26 That's why it says they were opposing the things spoken.
54:30 So, brethren, you know what we're going to keep doing?
54:33 We're going to keep speaking.
54:34 Come on, say amen.
54:35 We're going to keep preaching.
54:36 We're going to make the message clear.
54:38 And as Elder Brooks told me, he says, preach it if it's not
54:41 clear.
54:42 Make it clearer.
54:43 If they don't hear it, say it again.
54:46 God calls us to integrity in these last days.
54:52 So, brethren, 2 Corinthians chapter 13, verse 8.
54:56 Will the church fail?
54:59 Is the question.
55:00 What's the answer?
55:01 Let me tell you why.
55:03 Here's the reason.
55:05 Let me tell you why.
55:06 Here's the reason.
55:07 2 Corinthians 13, verse 8.
55:09 This is the reason why God's church is not going to fail.
55:12 And I'm so glad for this passage.
55:14 Thank you, Paul.
55:18 Verse 8.
55:20 I'm going to repeat it and then I'm going to have you join me.
55:22 For we can do how much?
55:26 Nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
55:30 How much can you do to stop the truth?
55:32 Say it.
55:34 Nothing.
55:35 How much?
55:36 Nothing.
55:37 The devil was trying.
55:38 He's trying.
55:39 He's continuing to try.
55:43 But the apostle Paul says, you can try all you want.
55:46 You can't do anything against the truth.
55:48 Hallelujah.
55:50 You can't do anything against the truth.
55:51 But there's one more thing we must do.
55:53 First of all, Jesus is the foundation.
55:56 Secondly, God's church is the commandment-keeping church.
55:59 Thirdly, God's church is a mission-focused church to lead
56:03 those in darkness into this marvelous light.
56:06 But now what do you have to do?
56:07 Let's look at the last passage.
56:09 Luke chapter 6, verse 47 and 48.
56:11 There's something that we must do.
56:13 There's something that in a time of storm and controversy,
56:16 this is what we must do.
56:19 Luke 6, verse 47.
56:21 Whoever comes to me and hears my sayings and does them, I
56:26 will show you whom he is like.
56:29 This is your daily day.
56:31 He is like a man building a house who dug how?
56:34 Deep.
56:35 You got to dig deep in God's word.
56:37 And lay the foundation on the rock.
56:39 Who's the rock?
56:40 Jesus.
56:41 And when the flood arose, and the stream beat vehemently
56:46 against that house, and could not shake it, for it was
56:51 founded on the rock.
56:53 Amen, church?
56:54 The Advent message founded on the rock.
56:57 The remnant message founded on the rock.
57:00 God's people need to stay on the rock.
57:03 So when it gets rough, what do you say?
57:06 Remain seated.
57:07 When it gets tough, you have to get off.
57:11 Because when this plane lands, when this old ship of Zion
57:15 pulls into port, it should be your commitment that you follow
57:18 the Lord from the beginning, and when the journey is over,
57:21 you will be there in the end.
57:22 What do you say?
57:24 Jesus is the rock, His word is the anchor, and when we remain,
57:28 we are in the impregnable church.
57:30 God bless you.

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