The hour is urgent, as darkness
is dispelled by the light of
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God's Word.
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A new day begins.
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Jesus, the light of
the world is shining.
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Prepare your hearts to
proclaim the final cry.
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This is 3ABN
Summer Camp Meeting.
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Happy Sabbath and welcome
to 3ABN Summer Camp Meeting.
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This is the Divine Worship Hour.
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Were you blessed with
the Sabbath School Panel?
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Yes.
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Well, I had a few words during
Sabbath School that I don't
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think were words either, so
sometimes we just create them
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as we talk.
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But you all are students of
the Word and it's a blessing to
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open the Word of God, isn't it?
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And what a blessing to be
part of the family of God here.
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You know, we always
look forward to Camp Meeting.
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Yes, you're coming
here and spending your time.
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And I know you enjoy
coming to Camp Meeting.
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But those of us that are here
on a daily basis, we are also
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encouraged.
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Isn't that right, Pastor John?
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It's an encouraging time of
fellowship, opening God's Word.
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And I know the Divine Worship
Hour will be no exception.
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Absolutely.
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We are in the presence of
God, so grateful for that.
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You are our 3ABN family.
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You at home, we thank you for
tuning in around the world as
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we praise the
name of Jesus together.
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We're going to be hearing today
from Brother Danny Shelton.
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His message is shockwaves
and you're going to have to wait
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and see what that's about.
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Amen.
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welcome each one of you
that are here with us today.
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Some of you have traveled from
different parts of the world,
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many different
states to be here.
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And countries.
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And countries, that's right.
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Pastor Donnie, where are you?
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Right over there.
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And from Illinois, right?
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We have people from
Illinois, praise the Lord.
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That's where 3ABN is located.
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All of us here together,
praising the Lord today.
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I want to just mention also, we
have so many people that wanted
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to be here.
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Some of your Iowa family is
here, of course, celebrating
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the Sabbath with us today.
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I'm thinking of
Grandma Tina Bames.
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She used to always
sit on the front row.
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Remember the little person here
that was always used to attend
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camp meetings?
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I think of also
Miss June Strong.
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I believe she's
going to be 97 years young.
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Yes, 97, yes.
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So, praise God for
her and many others.
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Thank you for joining us
and being a part of the 3ABN
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family.
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Music, right?
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Should we go to the
opening song, Pastor John?
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What's on your heart?
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Yes, I think we
should stand for that song.
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Let's all stand together.
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We're going to
sing this hymn together.
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All hail the
power of Jesus' name.
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The lyrics will be on the
screen so you can join us in
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that song.
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Alright, let's raise your
voices to the glory of God
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today.
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All hail the
power of Jesus' name.
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Let angels prostrate forth.
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Bring forth the royal diadem
and crown him Lord of all.
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Bring forth the royal
diadem and crown him Lord.
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Deceit of Israel's chosen
race, he ransomed of the fall.
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Hail him who saved you.
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What do we do?
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And crown him Lord.
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Hail him who
saved you by his grace.
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And crown him Lord of all.
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Everyone together.
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Let every kindred, every tribe,
on this terrestrial board, to
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him all majesty.
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What do we do?
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And crown him Lord of all.
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To him all majesty ascribes.
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And crown him Lord of all.
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For though that is yonder
sacred throng, we at his feet,
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together, join in the
everlasting song and crown him
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Lord of all.
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Together, join in the
everlasting song and crown him
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Lord of all.
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Amen.
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Let us pray.
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Loving Father in heaven, we
thank you so much for the fact
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that one day we will
see you crowned Lord of all.
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Send your holy angels,
Father, to fill this place.
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Send your holy spirit to be
the surgeon of our hearts today.
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And when the message goes
forth and the seeds of truth are
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planted, may we go forth to
bear harvest from our lives,
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more souls for
your eternal kingdom.
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And this we ask in your
glorious and majestic name.
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And everybody said amen.
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You may be seated.
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Amen.
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Yes.
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Good job.
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And Tim.
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And Tim.
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Thank you, Brother Parton.
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And our 3ABN choir.
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You all sounded awesome.
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Jill, we should take them
on the road to our next rally,
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shouldn't we?
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Maybe we should go
on the road together.
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Thank you for
singing at home as well.
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I believe a number of people
probably stood up at home and
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joined us for that opening song.
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I tell you what, I'm not a
singer, but on that last chorus
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there I had to unbutton my suit
because I was getting ready to
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take that last big breath
to put out and belt it out.
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And you all did a great job.
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What a blessing to
praise the Lord this morning.
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You know, we have a special
family member with us this
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morning.
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Sister Larnetta, I'd
like to invite you out.
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We first heard from Sister
Larnetta via email here, oh, a
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few years ago.
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And this is her
first time to camp meeting.
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Let's give her a warm welcome.
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Sister Larnetta, welcome.
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You okay there?
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I'm great.
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Happy Sabbath.
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So tell us how you
first stumbled across 3ABN.
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I'd be happy to.
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I've had four
reconstructive spine surgeries.
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And this was the second one.
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I was home recuperating
and, you know, getting part
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disability.
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And so I lost the ability to,
you know, pay cable and phone
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and just all that.
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So I cut things out.
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And cable was one of them.
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So I went rabbit ears.
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And so I started
scanning for channels.
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I got two channels, Ion and
this channel I've never seen.
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What was the name of that
channel you never saw before?
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They said 3ABN.
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And so about three days
later, Ion completely went away.
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I've got 3ABN.
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I never heard of you
people, never seen your people.
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I had no idea what was going on.
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And then I would listen.
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And then you start
talking about revelations.
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I didn't do revelations.
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Not because I didn't believe
the Bible, but because I did.
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If 65 books of the
Bible was true, so was 66.
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I don't want no scorpions.
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I don't want no bees.
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I didn't want to see nothing.
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So it was a little scary.
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Very scary.
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And 3ABN talks quite
a bit about prophecy.
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Yes.
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Well, I'd turn the volume down.
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All right.
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I just wasn't ready.
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But over time, over the
years, 3ABN has taught me so
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much.
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Not just prophecy.
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They have just taught me not
only what the Bible says, but
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what it means.
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My question is, what are
all the other preachers doing?
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I've been in church all my life.
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I left and came back.
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But I've been in
church all my life.
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And it's like I was
taught what it says.
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But 3ABN is telling
me what the words mean.
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You're teaching me how powerful
the words are and what they
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mean.
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And 3ABN has just
really changed my life.
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And Jill?
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It's all right.
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It was Jill that really brought
my heart with her transparency.
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With envy, jealousy, anger.
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And she would just be so
transparent and just so real
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with it.
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It's okay to be angry sometimes.
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God's not going to hate me.
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It doesn't mean
I'm a bad Christian.
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And so I just want
to thank you for that.
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But she also told
you what to do about it.
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You guys.
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Jesus.
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Jesus.
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Confess.
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And will cleanse us.
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All unrighteous.
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And you guys are
good Bible stars.
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Amen.
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So tell me also about Paula and
Curtis Aikens because they had
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a real personal
Bible studies with you.
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Talk to us about that.
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Yes.
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So Paula and Curtis.
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I live in a.
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Thank you.
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I knew this was going to happen.
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I knew tears were coming.
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So I live in a suburb of
Nashville, Tennessee called
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Hermitage.
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But I just say Nashville
because everyone knows who that
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is.
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healthy conference in
another little suburb called
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Murfreesboro.
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And so I said, they're
going to get that close.
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I've got to see them.
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I was in the kitchen
one day and I heard this.
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Get all the goodies.
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Get all the goodies.
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And I'm like, who is that?
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And so that's how
I first saw Paula.
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So we're doing
a cooking program.
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And so Curtis gave
his personal number.
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I called the number, let
him know I'd like to come to the
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healthy heart conference.
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But I didn't
have transportation.
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Paula and Curtis ubered me
from Nashville to Murfreesboro,
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which is like 30 minutes.
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And uber is not cheap.
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I came to the conference.
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They paid for me
to stay over hotel.
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And so Curtis gave
me my Bible studies.
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As busy as they are, they
carved out some time for me.
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And then I got baptized in
2019 and to the Seventh-day
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Adventist Church.
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Now, backstage, you mentioned
something about you had you
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considered
yourself an Adventist.
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Is that right?
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Okay, so I actually was a
TV Adventist for four years.
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I'd never heard that.
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She was backstage.
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She says I was a TV Adventist.
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I said, oh, I like that.
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But four years, because of
the health challenges and all of
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the rehabs and all of that,
I'm the only person in my world
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that's a Seventh-day Adventist.
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And all I had was 3ABN.
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You guys taught me how to do
Sabbath and began to teach me
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that revelations with
symbols, symbolism and stuff.
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And I was like, all this
time, nobody told me that.
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And so I began
to learn from 3ABN.
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But it was just me.
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So I did Sabbath with you guys.
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And it was just 3ABN on
TV and me for four years.
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I did not meet real live people
until Curtis and Paula put me
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with Hillcrest, which
is in Nashville, Tennessee.
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And now I attend Riverside.
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So we've just got a
couple of minutes left.
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So Sister Larnetta, what would
you say to our audience here,
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to those at home, something
that's on your heart, some word
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of encouragement?
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What do you want to share?
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Well, I've been here.
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I've been blessed.
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3ABN brought me here this week.
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I've never been to
camp meeting before.
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And so I was wondering,
what was my mission here?
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God arranged all of this.
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Okay.
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I planned nothing.
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And so I finally found
out a couple of days ago.
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And so let them know on those
days when it's hard, on those
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days when they feel
like, is it worth it?
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It translates well on the
other side of that camera.
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Okay.
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camera.
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So I want to say 3ABN, don't
stop because you are mending
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broken people like me.
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Let's have a prayer
for Sister Larnetta.
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God, we come before you
and we're so grateful for her
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journey.
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Larnetta is your
daughter and our sister.
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Thank you for leading her out
of darkness into this marvelous
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light and the truth in
your word you've taught her.
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Thank you for anointing
her with your Holy Spirit.
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And we pray for your
continued blessing upon her.
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And God, we pray for many other
broken people right now who
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watch this ministry, people
even now who are listening,
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that by the power of your Holy
Spirit, you would convict and
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convert and change and
transform into the image of
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Jesus.
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Thank you for the power of your
word that goes forward and that
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it never goes
forth and returns void.
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In Jesus' name, amen.
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Amen.
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Thank you, 3ABN.
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Amen.
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if your $1, your $5 ever
makes a difference, it does.
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All right.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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Melody and Tim,
Who Will Be Jesus.
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He came home from work one
night to find that she is gone.
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Now he's spending his first
week at church sitting in the
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pew alone.
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There are
whispers all around him.
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His heart breaks in two.
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He's wondering who will
reach out and help him make it
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through.
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Who will be Jesus to him?
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Who will show the love
that restores him again?
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He doesn't need a judge.
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He needs a friend
who will be Jesus to him.
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She has a reputation
like the woman at the well.
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The only love she ever knew
is the kind she buys and sells.
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But her thirsty heart is
searching for a love that will
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be true.
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The Savior cries for her
to see himself in me and you.
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Who will be Jesus to her?
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Who will show the love
that's commanded in God's word?
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Will she see in us
the mighty God we serve?
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Who will be Jesus to her?
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Wounded people everywhere.
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And when they look at
us do they see Jesus there?
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Who will be Jesus to them?
00:17:50.20\00:17:58.34
Who will show the love
that restores them again?
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They do not need a judge.
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They need a friend
who will be Jesus to them.
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Who will be Jesus to them?
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Amen.
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Thank you so much Melody.
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Thank you Tim.
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Powerful message in song.
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Praise the Lord for that.
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I just love music.
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All right Jill, who
do we have with us here?
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More 3bin family.
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That's right.
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Faith Family Media.
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I hope I got that right.
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I know the name just adjusted,
but they are a very strong 3ABN
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affiliate covering North
Texas and many other places.
00:19:06.24\00:19:10.08
So talk to us Stephen.
00:19:10.28\00:19:11.45
You're the president
of Faith Family Media.
00:19:11.91\00:19:13.78
Talk to us just a little
bit about the reach of this
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ministry and how far
3ABN is reaching there.
00:19:17.62\00:19:19.85
Sure thing.
00:19:20.12\00:19:20.89
So we're located in North Texas.
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If you think of Dallas Fort
Worth area that would be sort
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of the center of
where we broadcast.
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And we do both radio,
3ABN radio and 3ABN TV.
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On TV we're on three stations
including a channel that covers
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all of Dallas Fort Worth.
00:19:35.34\00:19:36.71
How many people is that?
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Well that station probably
covers about 5.6 million people
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and a percentage of those watch
with an antenna so they can
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pick it up.
00:19:46.28\00:19:46.98
And it's been on the air for
a number of years, quite a few
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years.
00:19:50.75\00:19:54.52
covering from Abilene
across various places.
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And the new station we're
working on this year will be in
00:19:58.79\00:20:01.66
Texarkana.
00:20:01.66\00:20:02.33
Amen.
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their stations are located
next to major interstates.
00:20:06.53\00:20:09.64
And as you know, Texas
is majorly mountainous.
00:20:09.84\00:20:13.27
I think they got it.
00:20:14.58\00:20:15.84
Okay, Texas to
me is majorly flat.
00:20:16.18\00:20:18.75
So Stephen, they can get the
signal sometimes for many, many
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miles.
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interstate?
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couple hours drive, you can
find one of the stations the
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entire distance and
even west of Abilene.
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And the Abilene station covers
at least a 60 mile radius of
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Texas.
00:20:39.13\00:20:39.67
Incredible.
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this question.
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Is broadcasting expensive?
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Well, if you remember the price
of eggs was expensive recently
00:20:46.61\00:20:50.31
and the price of everything you
do is expensive, broadcasting
00:20:50.81\00:20:53.68
is expensive as well.
00:20:53.68\00:20:55.32
But it turns out that God can
meet our needs just as he meets
00:20:55.65\00:20:59.39
the needs of 3ABN.
00:20:59.39\00:21:00.96
So when we start a project,
I say, how many tacos is this
00:21:01.16\00:21:04.83
going to take?
00:21:04.83\00:21:05.43
Because I'm from Texas.
00:21:05.49\00:21:06.59
And so if you think of a taco
as maybe $5, although Rosa can
00:21:07.00\00:21:10.23
make them a lot cheaper than
that, I'll give you an example.
00:21:10.23\00:21:14.77
So a few years ago, there was
a station that was offered to us
00:21:14.77\00:21:18.37
for sale and I went to the
board and I said, you know,
00:21:18.37\00:21:21.14
this station is
going to cost $100,000.
00:21:21.38\00:21:23.61
That's a lot of tacos.
00:21:24.08\00:21:25.21
And this is how much money we
have and it said zero dollars.
00:21:26.08\00:21:29.62
Our ability to raise
money is zero dollars.
00:21:29.98\00:21:32.35
And a board member raises
his hand and says, I make the
00:21:32.75\00:21:34.96
motion we buy this station.
00:21:34.96\00:21:36.16
And it's like,
well, yeah, now what?
00:21:36.89\00:21:38.99
And then the rest of the board
voted unanimously to buy this
00:21:39.33\00:21:42.90
station.
00:21:42.90\00:21:48.00
And if you remember in
the Bible it says God owns the
00:21:48.40\00:21:51.21
cattle on a thousand hills.
00:21:51.21\00:21:52.54
So what has to happen is we
have to sell one of the cattle,
00:21:53.04\00:21:55.98
right?
00:21:56.11\00:21:56.75
So you may have a
cow in your backyard.
00:21:57.05\00:21:58.81
I don't have cows, but my
wallet may be made out of a
00:21:59.25\00:22:03.55
cow.
00:22:03.55\00:22:03.89
And in this case, God moved on
someone's heart and seven days
00:22:04.92\00:22:09.19
after they voted to buy this
station, someone walked up and
00:22:09.19\00:22:11.93
handed me a check for $100,000.
00:22:11.93\00:22:13.86
And we bought that station.
00:22:14.30\00:22:15.33
This is what God can do for
us and he can do it for you.
00:22:16.20\00:22:19.90
When God opens the door,
you need to run through it.
00:22:20.14\00:22:22.84
That's powerful, I love that.
00:22:23.24\00:22:25.07
Sister Rosa, share with us
briefly, I know our time is
00:22:25.17\00:22:27.54
running, but share with
us briefly a story of someone
00:22:27.54\00:22:29.98
whose life has been changed
and transformed through the
00:22:29.98\00:22:33.11
ministry.
00:22:33.11\00:22:33.52
Yes, let me tell you
the story about Jayce.
00:22:34.58\00:22:36.95
Jayce from a very young age
became involved in drugs and
00:22:37.09\00:22:40.82
the occult, spiritualism,
and he was going down the wrong
00:22:40.82\00:22:43.22
road.
00:22:43.22\00:22:43.63
So he was listening.
00:22:44.66\00:22:46.56
He came across our station,
3 ABN radio, and he heard about
00:22:46.80\00:22:51.83
the Sabbath and prophecy and
his mom had mentioned maybe he
00:22:51.83\00:22:56.14
should go to the
Adventist church there in town.
00:22:56.14\00:22:59.01
And so he
decided, well, let's do it.
00:22:59.31\00:23:01.78
And so he went.
00:23:01.78\00:23:02.81
He began studying with an
elder and he got baptized a few
00:23:03.28\00:23:09.15
months later.
00:23:09.15\00:23:10.15
Right away, he went to Wachita
Hills College and in Amnesty,
00:23:11.15\00:23:15.99
Arkansas, if you
don't know where that is.
00:23:15.99\00:23:18.19
And then he graduated, became
a Bible worker, loved doing the
00:23:18.39\00:23:25.63
door -to-door sales, and he
went to Idaho where he met his
00:23:25.63\00:23:30.17
future wife.
00:23:30.17\00:23:30.97
And now they're becoming
parents and he and his wife are
00:23:31.81\00:23:37.21
serving as pastor in two
Texas Conference churches.
00:23:37.21\00:23:41.82
So we're very happy for Jayce
and his family and especially
00:23:42.38\00:23:46.42
for 3 ABN for
putting that signal out.
00:23:46.42\00:23:49.46
Amen, amen.
00:23:50.26\00:23:51.29
Thank you both so much for
the work that you do there with
00:23:51.49\00:23:53.83
Faith Family Media.
00:23:53.83\00:23:54.86
What an encouragement, right?
00:23:55.36\00:23:56.36
Thank you both so much.
00:23:56.43\00:23:57.47
You know, what an
encouragement, you think about
00:23:57.80\00:23:59.03
the programming of 3 ABN.
00:23:59.03\00:24:00.70
Sorry, babe, I'll
step on this side, okay?
00:24:00.77\00:24:02.30
Think about the
programming of 3 ABN.
00:24:02.30\00:24:04.84
Again, the testimony that she
just shared is because of you
00:24:05.14\00:24:08.44
and your support for
the ministry of 3 ABN.
00:24:08.44\00:24:11.41
They were able to put the
signal out and present the
00:24:11.51\00:24:14.12
gospel truth to a
lost and dying world.
00:24:14.12\00:24:16.55
You know, there are people,
we talk about timing, right?
00:24:16.85\00:24:19.19
God's divine
providence and the timing.
00:24:19.39\00:24:21.66
In each person's life that
finds Jesus Christ, many people
00:24:22.26\00:24:25.36
tell us it was at that
moment that I was searching.
00:24:25.36\00:24:28.60
God knew it was the perfect
moment and that's when I found
00:24:28.80\00:24:31.87
3 ABN.
00:24:31.87\00:24:32.80
I'm thinking of,
is Mr. Miller here?
00:24:33.50\00:24:35.67
Boy, I may not see your hand.
00:24:35.97\00:24:37.07
I talked to you the other day.
00:24:37.11\00:24:38.31
I think this may be your first
or second camp meeting here.
00:24:38.34\00:24:40.14
Anyway, he said that he was
a Mormon bishop and 3 ABN was
00:24:40.18\00:24:47.28
instrumental in
bringing him into the truth.
00:24:47.28\00:24:50.29
He's here today because
of the ministry of 3 ABN.
00:24:50.29\00:24:50.32
And if I were to ask for a
raising of hands, I'm sure many
00:24:53.69\00:24:56.26
of you would raise your hand
because of the impact of 3 ABN.
00:24:56.26\00:25:00.43
But Jill, it's not the
impact of just 3 ABN, right?
00:25:00.76\00:25:03.73
It's the gospel message that
is presented across the airwaves
00:25:03.73\00:25:03.77
that we have the privilege
of sharing to the world.
00:25:07.57\00:25:10.31
It's a blessing to be alive at
this moment in Earth's history,
00:25:10.44\00:25:14.81
isn't it?
00:25:14.91\00:25:15.71
What an opportunity we
have to share this gospel.
00:25:15.98\00:25:18.41
I think in my own personal
life, I think, God, I don't
00:25:19.01\00:25:22.32
know how many more days I have.
00:25:22.32\00:25:24.09
How many more days does
the ministry of 3 ABN have this
00:25:24.45\00:25:27.29
freedom to present
the gospel to the world?
00:25:27.29\00:25:29.19
None of us know, right?
00:25:29.69\00:25:30.69
Nothing is guaranteed.
00:25:30.89\00:25:31.93
The breath that we have,
our heartbeat that we have is a
00:25:32.36\00:25:35.00
gift from God.
00:25:35.00\00:25:35.73
I believe that our
privileges will be taken away.
00:25:36.10\00:25:38.60
I really do.
00:25:38.73\00:25:41.14
message that 3 ABN proclaims.
00:25:41.14\00:25:43.44
So we have to go forward.
00:25:43.74\00:25:45.11
This is the year 3 ABN has
a theme every year, and this
00:25:45.17\00:25:48.44
theme this year is
the year to go forward.
00:25:48.44\00:25:51.01
And I have to be honest with
you, 3 ABN is facing some very
00:25:51.38\00:25:56.02
serious, not serious, but very
challenging financial times.
00:25:56.02\00:25:58.82
They're not serious because
nothing is serious with God.
00:25:58.82\00:25:58.85
He's got it
taken care of, right?
00:26:00.72\00:26:02.16
So I just want to encourage
each one of you, as the Holy
00:26:02.56\00:26:05.13
Spirit is impressing you to
give, we're going to be taking
00:26:05.13\00:26:07.13
up an offering here shortly, or
if you want to put a pledge in
00:26:07.13\00:26:10.63
there, that's fine as well.
00:26:10.63\00:26:11.97
We just thank you in advance
for listening to the Holy
00:26:12.33\00:26:14.90
Spirit.
00:26:14.90\00:26:20.88
the lady was saying, she says,
you know, all day there's a
00:26:20.88\00:26:24.61
number that's been on my heart
that I need to give to 3 ABN.
00:26:24.61\00:26:28.75
She said, what are your needs?
00:26:29.12\00:26:30.55
So I shared some of the needs
and she said, okay, here's the
00:26:31.05\00:26:33.79
figure, here's the number, and
I know God's going to use that
00:26:33.79\00:26:37.26
and multiply that.
00:26:37.26\00:26:38.46
And we again just thank those
of you as you listen to the
00:26:38.49\00:26:41.26
Holy Spirit and you give,
you make a massive difference in
00:26:41.26\00:26:44.57
many people's
lives for eternity.
00:26:44.57\00:26:46.03
Amen.
00:26:46.47\00:26:51.37
of the brevity of life.
00:26:51.37\00:26:54.41
Have you been reminded
of that in your own life?
00:26:54.78\00:26:56.98
Life is really a
vapor, is it not?
00:26:57.31\00:26:59.48
We're here today, gone
tomorrow, but the truth is we
00:26:59.78\00:27:05.19
have today.
00:27:05.19\00:27:06.02
Every day when I wake up, I
want to make my life count for
00:27:06.79\00:27:12.93
Jesus.
00:27:12.93\00:27:13.63
I want to serve
Jesus with my whole heart.
00:27:13.90\00:27:17.47
Each one of you here and
each one of you at home joining
00:27:17.47\00:27:22.57
hands together.
00:27:22.57\00:27:23.94
It's not us
doing any sort of work.
00:27:24.27\00:27:27.04
It's not even you doing work.
00:27:27.31\00:27:29.18
It's the Lord Jesus.
00:27:29.28\00:27:30.75
God is the one through the
power of his Holy Spirit who
00:27:31.21\00:27:35.45
touches people just like
Larnetta, people broken, people
00:27:35.45\00:27:40.32
searching, people questioning.
00:27:40.32\00:27:42.79
And what happens?
00:27:43.26\00:27:44.46
They flip us channel, they turn
on the television or listen to
00:27:44.46\00:27:49.43
radio, and God, by the power
of his Holy Spirit, delivers
00:27:49.43\00:27:54.14
truth, delivers Jesus
into their lives and into their
00:27:54.14\00:27:58.87
hearts.
00:27:58.87\00:28:01.24
This is specifically
for those of you at home.
00:28:01.28\00:28:04.28
If you would like to donate to
the ministry of 3ABN, just pick
00:28:04.65\00:28:07.65
up your cell phone and you can
scan that QR code and you can
00:28:07.65\00:28:12.42
donate that way.
00:28:12.42\00:28:13.86
Or you can send
in your checks, P.O.
00:28:14.12\00:28:16.66
Box 220, West
Frankfurt, Illinois, 62896.
00:28:16.69\00:28:21.63
Or you can go to 3ABN.TV.
00:28:22.16\00:28:25.20
That's a good way as well.
00:28:25.67\00:28:27.00
Yeah, and then you can just
click the donate button there
00:28:27.17\00:28:29.14
as well.
00:28:29.14\00:28:33.38
Faith Family, also media.
00:28:33.38\00:28:35.21
If you feel impressed to
actually support them as well,
00:28:35.64\00:28:37.88
3ABN doesn't send
any money to them.
00:28:38.01\00:28:39.91
God provides for them.
00:28:39.91\00:28:41.55
But if you feel impressed
also today to give to their
00:28:41.65\00:28:44.45
ministry, you can also just
make a little memo line there,
00:28:44.45\00:28:47.62
Faith Family Media, and
we'll pass it along to them.
00:28:47.69\00:28:50.49
But again, we thank you.
00:28:50.79\00:28:51.99
So many of you give
consistently to the ministry of
00:28:52.09\00:28:55.30
3ABN.
00:28:55.30\00:28:55.90
Some of you give large gifts.
00:28:56.20\00:28:57.80
We appreciate that so
very much, but we want to again
00:28:58.10\00:29:00.90
encourage you.
00:29:00.90\00:29:01.80
You are making a huge
difference in people's lives
00:29:02.00\00:29:06.51
for eternity.
00:29:06.51\00:29:07.38
And someday soon,
we'll be in heaven.
00:29:07.38\00:29:10.55
Can you imagine people that
come to you and say, wow, thank
00:29:11.11\00:29:13.82
you so much for your support.
00:29:13.82\00:29:15.18
Because of you,
I'm here in heaven.
00:29:15.48\00:29:17.99
So we look forward to that day.
00:29:18.05\00:29:19.29
Again, thank you.
00:29:19.59\00:29:23.22
prayer for the orphan.
00:29:23.22\00:29:23.73
Yes, I see them.
00:29:23.76\00:29:25.83
And then Brother Tim
will lead us in some music.
00:29:28.00\00:29:30.43
Holy Father, we come
before you in the name of Jesus.
00:29:30.63\00:29:33.13
And we just ask that you would
multiply right now the loaves
00:29:33.40\00:29:36.14
and fishes as you did
all those years before.
00:29:36.14\00:29:38.47
And Father, that as we give,
we would in turn be blessed.
00:29:39.07\00:29:42.71
We thank you and we
trust you in Jesus' name.
00:29:43.21\00:29:46.35
Amen.
00:29:47.12\00:29:47.15
Sing this with me.
00:30:18.15\00:30:19.91
Let us be thankful and sing.
00:30:34.36\00:30:36.36
Jesus is coming again.
00:30:37.90\00:30:40.90
Coming again.
00:30:43.10\00:30:45.64
Coming again.
00:30:46.04\00:30:48.08
Jesus is coming again.
00:30:48.51\00:30:52.38
Echo with hilltops,
proclaim it he plains.
00:30:54.45\00:30:58.95
Jesus is coming again.
00:30:59.39\00:31:02.52
Coming in glory,
the lamb that was slain.
00:31:04.43\00:31:09.73
Jesus is coming again.
00:31:10.63\00:31:12.70
Coming again, coming again.
00:31:15.17\00:31:19.87
Jesus is coming again.
00:31:20.28\00:31:25.05
He beings of earth, tell
the vast wandering throng.
00:31:25.98\00:31:30.52
Jesus is coming again.
00:31:30.52\00:31:36.09
Typhus and whirlwinds,
the anthem prolonged.
00:31:36.39\00:31:40.73
Jesus is coming again.
00:31:41.96\00:31:44.63
Coming, coming again.
00:31:47.44\00:31:51.74
Jesus is coming again.
00:31:52.17\00:31:57.45
Nations are angry.
00:31:58.15\00:31:59.28
By this we do know.
00:31:59.28\00:32:04.82
Jesus is coming again.
00:32:05.92\00:32:09.62
Knowledge increases.
00:32:10.13\00:32:11.86
Men run to and fro.
00:32:12.73\00:32:15.03
Jesus is coming again.
00:32:15.40\00:32:20.34
Coming again, coming again.
00:32:20.97\00:32:25.74
Jesus is coming again.
00:32:26.11\00:32:29.28
Oh, sing it one more time.
00:32:29.28\00:32:29.31
Oh, he's coming again.
00:32:31.15\00:32:33.31
Coming again.
00:32:35.38\00:32:36.72
Jesus is coming again.
00:32:38.09\00:32:41.32
Wow, amen.
00:32:49.00\00:32:50.20
Praise God.
00:32:50.40\00:32:51.17
Jesus is coming again, isn't he?
00:32:51.20\00:32:53.13
Wow, thank you so much, Tim.
00:32:53.60\00:32:55.47
You all sounded great as well.
00:32:56.04\00:32:57.94
I have the privilege of
introducing to you and it
00:32:57.94\00:33:01.54
really requires no
introduction Mr. Danny Shelton.
00:33:01.54\00:33:04.38
You know, I think about
40 years ago when he felt
00:33:04.98\00:33:08.18
impressed to build a television
station, one that would what?
00:33:08.18\00:33:13.89
Counteract?
00:33:14.52\00:33:15.22
The counterfeit, right?
00:33:15.86\00:33:17.39
To preach an undiluted three
angels messages of Revelation
00:33:17.73\00:33:21.73
chapter 14.
00:33:21.73\00:33:23.00
40 years ago, right?
00:33:23.60\00:33:25.13
He had no idea where a three
-avian would be, would the Lord
00:33:25.27\00:33:28.47
have come within 40 years.
00:33:28.47\00:33:30.01
But one thing is sure,
and that is Mr. Danny has been
00:33:30.57\00:33:33.68
passionate about proclaiming
the undiluted three angels
00:33:33.68\00:33:38.45
messages to
counteract the counterfeit.
00:33:38.45\00:33:41.98
And today's message I
know will be no exception.
00:33:42.42\00:33:45.09
He's a man that
loves evangelism.
00:33:45.25\00:33:47.96
But preaching the
truth is on his heart always.
00:33:48.42\00:33:52.23
I have to tell you, it is
so fun working with Mr. Danny.
00:33:52.66\00:33:57.30
And when we, you know, changed
positions, he said, I'm going
00:33:57.83\00:34:00.47
to present your name to the
board, you know, and I'm going
00:34:00.47\00:34:02.80
to kind of step back.
00:34:02.80\00:34:03.74
My big concern was, is don't
step too far back, Mr. Danny,
00:34:04.04\00:34:07.78
because it's fun
working with you.
00:34:07.88\00:34:09.94
And he said, don't worry.
00:34:09.94\00:34:09.98
He said, I'll be close
by, just a phone call away.
00:34:11.21\00:34:13.68
And it's a blessing to be
in ministry, of course, with my
00:34:13.68\00:34:13.72
wife, but with
Mr. Danny Shelton.
00:34:16.15\00:34:18.92
He has such a passion for souls.
00:34:19.15\00:34:25.03
And it comes through
loud and clear every day.
00:34:26.76\00:34:29.33
So what a blessing to have the
privilege of introducing him to
00:34:29.43\00:34:33.20
you today.
00:34:33.20\00:34:37.44
going to be sharing
with us from the Holy Spirit.
00:34:37.44\00:34:39.14
But before he shares, we have
a special song brought to us by
00:34:39.51\00:34:43.81
Reggie and Lady Love
and Tim Parton softly and
00:34:43.81\00:34:50.85
tenderly Jesus is calling
calling for you and for me and
00:35:03.13\00:35:20.62
see on the port of He's waiting
and watching, watching for you
00:35:20.62\00:35:33.70
and for me.
00:35:33.70\00:35:37.80
He who are weary, come home
00:35:50.85\00:35:58.69
earnestly, tenderly.
00:36:03.89\00:36:07.96
Jesus is calling,
calling, O sinner, come home.
00:36:08.13\00:36:23.21
Tears so sweet to trust in
Jesus, just to take him at his
00:36:34.26\00:36:47.07
word, just to rest upon
his promise, just to know.
00:36:47.07\00:36:59.51
Thus said the Lord,
let's sing it, sing it.
00:36:59.51\00:37:04.95
Jesus, Jesus, how I trust
him, how I prove him forever.
00:37:04.95\00:37:04.99
Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus,
oh, for grace to trust him.
00:37:20.34\00:37:35.38
Oh,
00:37:35.88\00:37:37.89
so are you weary and troubled.
00:37:45.33\00:37:53.44
No light in the
darkness you see.
00:37:53.77\00:38:03.41
There's light for
a look at the saving.
00:38:04.61\00:38:11.02
And life more abundant and free.
00:38:14.22\00:38:22.30
Turn your eyes upon Jesus.
00:38:23.47\00:38:33.84
Look full in his wonderful ways.
00:38:34.74\00:38:41.95
And the things of earth
will grow strangely deep.
00:38:41.95\00:38:52.43
In the light of
his glory and grace.
00:38:54.30\00:39:02.04
Cause all my life
you have been faithful.
00:39:24.29\00:39:29.33
And all my life you
have been so, so good.
00:39:30.83\00:39:39.81
With every
breath that I am able.
00:39:40.51\00:39:45.45
Oh, I will sing of
the goodness of God.
00:39:46.41\00:39:52.19
Sing the chorus again,
sing it out, all my life.
00:39:52.19\00:39:55.52
Cause all my life
you have been faithful.
00:39:55.86\00:40:00.73
And all my life you
have been so, so good.
00:40:01.03\00:40:10.21
With every
breath that I am able.
00:40:10.47\00:40:15.24
Oh, I will sing of
the goodness of God.
00:40:15.24\00:40:22.85
I will sing of
the goodness of God.
00:40:24.25\00:40:33.26
Amen, praise the Lord.
00:40:44.94\00:40:47.18
Well, I've got a visitor today.
00:40:47.78\00:40:49.48
Say hi.
00:40:49.48\00:40:51.51
Wave hi.
00:40:52.18\00:40:52.58
Wave hi.
00:40:53.31\00:40:53.85
Can you wave at baby Blair?
00:40:53.98\00:40:55.22
Oh, she wants the microphone.
00:40:56.15\00:40:57.49
You want to talk?
00:40:57.62\00:40:58.25
I wonder where
you get that from.
00:40:58.72\00:41:00.09
Probably Gigi.
00:41:01.42\00:41:02.52
Let's take this out a minute.
00:41:03.32\00:41:05.03
Okay, you can hold it.
00:41:05.56\00:41:07.23
You're the boss right now.
00:41:07.76\00:41:08.93
Okay.
00:41:09.43\00:41:09.83
This is baby Blair.
00:41:10.47\00:41:11.67
Last year exactly at this time.
00:41:11.93\00:41:14.00
Yeah.
00:41:16.00\00:41:16.54
Talk.
00:41:17.37\00:41:17.71
You want to talk about it?
00:41:18.84\00:41:19.84
Oh no, you want to eat it.
00:41:20.44\00:41:21.64
Okay.
00:41:21.78\00:41:22.11
We don't want to do that.
00:41:22.71\00:41:23.65
Some of us, we get
excited and we do that too.
00:41:23.75\00:41:26.31
Last year this time, Trinity
walked out with Palmetta.
00:41:27.88\00:41:31.59
They turned
sideways, if you remember.
00:41:31.89\00:41:33.96
This was what was in the tummy.
00:41:34.32\00:41:35.89
Then for the fall camp meeting,
we saw them about three months
00:41:37.03\00:41:41.23
old.
00:41:41.23\00:41:41.60
Good girl.
00:41:42.80\00:41:43.47
I preach it.
00:41:43.47\00:41:45.23
I preach it.
00:41:45.37\00:41:46.07
I just wanted to bring her out.
00:41:46.74\00:41:48.80
She's going to be a year
at the end of this month.
00:41:48.84\00:41:51.14
She's 11 months old.
00:41:51.47\00:41:52.81
She's a papa's girl.
00:41:53.21\00:41:54.38
Oh, you still want to eat it?
00:41:54.68\00:41:55.88
Okay.
00:41:56.58\00:41:57.05
Anyway, because we're going
to talk about this a little bit
00:41:58.45\00:42:00.92
later on.
00:42:00.92\00:42:01.52
Isn't life precious?
00:42:01.72\00:42:02.75
She's 11 months old.
00:42:03.25\00:42:04.99
Here, give papa a kiss.
00:42:06.02\00:42:07.26
Can you give papa a
kiss and then go bye-bye?
00:42:07.42\00:42:09.52
Okay, she wants to preach.
00:42:09.86\00:42:11.19
Not this time.
00:42:11.19\00:42:12.03
You're too young.
00:42:12.13\00:42:12.63
All right.
00:42:13.23\00:42:14.00
Mama, you want to
come out and get her?
00:42:14.10\00:42:15.36
We'll talk about this
a little more later on.
00:42:16.23\00:42:18.33
Here she comes.
00:42:19.33\00:42:20.07
Here's Trin.
00:42:20.10\00:42:20.70
Thank you, Trin.
00:42:20.80\00:42:21.80
Bye-bye, baby, there.
00:42:22.60\00:42:23.47
Papa loves you.
00:42:23.71\00:42:24.67
Papa loves you.
00:42:25.37\00:42:26.34
How many of you have grandkids?
00:42:27.14\00:42:28.81
How many love them like crazy?
00:42:32.11\00:42:34.78
Right?
00:42:35.55\00:42:36.02
Wow.
00:42:36.62\00:42:37.15
There's nothing
like them at all.
00:42:37.92\00:42:40.06
We have a bunch of them.
00:42:40.42\00:42:41.76
Yvonne and me.
00:42:41.96\00:42:42.59
Palmetto couldn't be here.
00:42:42.82\00:42:44.26
And Jay with baby Brooke.
00:42:44.59\00:42:46.59
And we have new
additions to the Shelton family.
00:42:47.36\00:42:50.60
Noah.
00:42:50.87\00:42:51.23
Used to be baby
Noah and Tiny Tots.
00:42:51.73\00:42:53.64
They have little Hudson.
00:42:54.10\00:42:55.10
And then, of
course, Jesse and Danae.
00:42:55.94\00:42:59.37
They have little Danny.
00:42:59.37\00:43:00.34
He's three years old or so.
00:43:00.34\00:43:00.38
And what incredible blessings
these young people are.
00:43:02.01\00:43:06.85
Well, today, as you can see,
preparing to proclaim the final
00:43:07.35\00:43:12.09
cry.
00:43:12.09\00:43:12.49
Now, this has not been
an easy subject for me.
00:43:13.89\00:43:16.73
But I said, what if this is my
last sermon that I could give?
00:43:18.16\00:43:22.63
What would I hold back?
00:43:23.97\00:43:25.13
Or should I hold back?
00:43:25.20\00:43:26.20
Or should I just do what I feel
like the Lord's impressing me
00:43:26.43\00:43:29.57
to do?
00:43:29.57\00:43:34.41
say.
00:43:34.41\00:43:34.74
Though I won't blame
everything on the Lord.
00:43:35.88\00:43:38.11
If something's not right,
then you can blame me for that.
00:43:38.28\00:43:40.75
Right?
00:43:41.12\00:43:41.38
But I think it's such a
privilege to be able to still
00:43:42.28\00:43:46.86
live in a country where we can
proclaim the everlasting gospel
00:43:46.86\00:43:50.76
that's not going to last.
00:43:50.76\00:43:51.66
I heard someone
say it a while ago.
00:43:51.86\00:43:52.89
Greg said, this is
not going to be forever.
00:43:53.03\00:43:55.33
Tough times are coming.
00:43:56.06\00:43:57.60
Tough times are
coming and we know that.
00:43:58.17\00:44:00.84
So today the name of
my sermon is Shock Waves.
00:44:01.30\00:44:06.41
How many knew that?
00:44:07.28\00:44:08.08
Had you heard about that yet?
00:44:08.18\00:44:09.48
Shock Waves.
00:44:10.51\00:44:11.45
Now, Yvonne said to me, I told
her what I was talking about
00:44:11.75\00:44:15.82
and where the Lord was leading
me, and she said, you know how
00:44:15.82\00:44:18.72
last year I said I should have
the car running and that way
00:44:18.72\00:44:22.39
you could make a quick escape?
00:44:22.39\00:44:23.83
She said, after this, I think
you should have a hole cut in
00:44:23.96\00:44:27.46
the roof, have a helicopter,
drop a ladder, and that sounded
00:44:27.46\00:44:32.90
good, but then I said no,
because as soon as I disappear
00:44:32.90\00:44:36.04
they'll say I'm
teaching the rapture.
00:44:36.04\00:44:37.94
So I don't want to
do any false teaching.
00:44:40.31\00:44:42.58
I just want to say that
the sermon is Shock Waves, and
00:44:43.98\00:44:49.42
today probably I'm going to try
to remember to say Shock Wave
00:44:49.42\00:44:53.76
right before I shock
you, because you want to be
00:44:53.76\00:44:55.76
prepared.
00:44:55.76\00:45:00.13
being shocked unexpectedly.
00:45:00.13\00:45:01.63
I hate being shocked anytime,
but it's really a shock because
00:45:02.13\00:45:05.53
sometimes no matter how hard
you try you reach over and you
00:45:05.53\00:45:08.94
hit this and it shocks you,
so today I really intend to give
00:45:08.94\00:45:14.68
some Shock Waves, and maybe...
00:45:14.68\00:45:16.64
oh, maybe he's drooled on there?
00:45:16.64\00:45:18.58
Oh, how sweet.
00:45:18.88\00:45:21.08
Oh, that's precious.
00:45:23.79\00:45:24.69
I brought an extra coat just
in case I needed it, because I
00:45:25.59\00:45:28.82
said I'm carrying it
around, so you never know.
00:45:28.82\00:45:30.73
So it is Shock
Waves for a good reason.
00:45:31.96\00:45:33.93
Now, if you're a member of any
Christian church, I'm going to
00:45:34.56\00:45:36.97
talk to the folks at home,
I've got to remember, we have a
00:45:36.97\00:45:39.80
television, I have
a great audience here.
00:45:39.80\00:45:41.64
Thank you all for coming here,
and what a blessing it is to
00:45:41.90\00:45:45.14
have you here, and we do
these 3ABN camp meetings for
00:45:45.14\00:45:48.14
you, because without you we'd
love you being here, because
00:45:48.14\00:45:54.05
it's one thing to talk to you
through the television screen,
00:45:54.05\00:45:56.79
and we love when we go to
churches and we meet it, but
00:45:56.79\00:45:56.82
when you come
here, we have more time.
00:45:59.55\00:46:01.82
It's kind of a reminder, a
little bit of what heaven will
00:46:01.99\00:46:04.66
be like, when you're together
with brothers and sisters from
00:46:04.66\00:46:07.60
all over the country,
and out of the country.
00:46:07.60\00:46:10.03
Very diverse audience we have
here, so praise the Lord for
00:46:10.43\00:46:14.17
that.
00:46:14.17\00:46:14.50
So, I'm going to make sure
I don't forget my audience at
00:46:15.94\00:46:19.61
home, too.
00:46:19.61\00:46:23.35
you for your love and your
prayers and financial support
00:46:23.35\00:46:26.31
of 3ABN.
00:46:26.31\00:46:27.52
Now, you all may want to
listen, because many of us
00:46:28.52\00:46:31.92
Christians, especially
SDAs, are living in a spiritual
00:46:31.92\00:46:35.09
bubble.
00:46:35.09\00:46:35.59
Now listen closely, and to
be upfront, it's my intention to
00:46:36.36\00:46:41.60
burst that
spiritual bubble today.
00:46:41.60\00:46:43.63
Alright?
00:46:44.40\00:46:47.74
world as it really is.
00:46:47.74\00:46:51.04
We're really confused.
00:46:51.97\00:46:53.21
Now, we think that we
know everything, don't we?
00:46:53.38\00:46:55.41
We as Adventists, we think we
know what's coming down, but we
00:46:55.44\00:46:58.98
really don't.
00:46:58.98\00:46:59.41
But many of us
think business is usual.
00:46:59.91\00:47:02.18
So, it's not.
00:47:02.92\00:47:04.72
The devil's termites have been
continually eating away at the
00:47:04.99\00:47:08.02
pillars of our church for a
number of years, yet it seems
00:47:08.02\00:47:11.23
many of us either
don't care, or we don't know.
00:47:11.23\00:47:14.83
So, I'm going to show you
some numbers today from some
00:47:15.40\00:47:18.47
reputable resources, such as
Pew Research Center, that will
00:47:18.47\00:47:24.17
absolutely shock you.
00:47:24.17\00:47:25.47
So, now I'm going to give you,
warn you, a shock is coming.
00:47:25.67\00:47:28.91
This shocked me,
I'm going to tell you.
00:47:30.05\00:47:32.51
At least, and I'm going to show
this to you from the research,
00:47:32.61\00:47:35.45
at least one out of every
two Seventh-day Adventists in
00:47:35.85\00:47:40.69
America by their own admission
do not believe that it's
00:47:40.69\00:47:45.76
necessary to keep all
ten of God's commandments.
00:47:45.76\00:47:49.26
Now, thank you.
00:47:50.43\00:47:51.40
I should hear that.
00:47:51.50\00:47:52.40
I wanted to hear that.
00:47:52.73\00:47:53.80
I was going to be
worried if everything was quiet.
00:47:53.80\00:47:53.84
So, when you got shocked,
you let me know that, okay?
00:47:56.87\00:47:59.94
I'm going to show that to you.
00:48:00.31\00:48:01.61
I'm also going to give you
information today that will
00:48:01.91\00:48:04.65
confirm the Christian church,
including the SDA churches, on
00:48:04.65\00:48:08.52
the same downward moral spiral
as the rest of the secular
00:48:08.52\00:48:12.09
world.
00:48:12.09\00:48:12.72
Plus, get this, for every ten
shockwave, for every ten people
00:48:13.62\00:48:20.43
baptized into the Adventist
church, four of them leave.
00:48:20.43\00:48:25.23
Now, folks, this is a wake-up
call that our church is in
00:48:27.04\00:48:30.01
deep, deep, well, I better say
something, deep, deep trouble.
00:48:30.01\00:48:34.58
I don't want you getting
your own thoughts out there.
00:48:34.68\00:48:38.18
We're in deep weeds
out standing in a pasture
00:48:38.25\00:48:40.25
somewhere, but it's telling
us we're in deep trouble.
00:48:40.25\00:48:42.75
So, let's look at a graphic
because I'm all about showing
00:48:43.49\00:48:46.42
you.
00:48:46.42\00:48:46.89
This is from A&N.
00:48:46.89\00:48:46.92
You know who A&N?
00:48:47.76\00:48:48.99
Adventist News Network.
00:48:49.42\00:48:50.29
I want to put this
graphic up on the screen.
00:48:50.63\00:48:52.73
I'm going to leave it there for
a minute, and then we're going
00:48:52.93\00:48:55.46
to talk about it.
00:48:55.46\00:48:56.36
You see six people there, right?
00:48:57.27\00:48:59.07
On the right, four are walking
away, and six are looking at
00:48:59.63\00:49:03.51
us.
00:49:03.51\00:49:04.14
Now, you may not be able to
read the fine print, so what I
00:49:04.84\00:49:09.31
want to do now is I want to
put up, if they can, put the
00:49:09.31\00:49:12.55
graphic of Dr. Trim.
00:49:12.55\00:49:14.75
Now, Dr. Trim, I'll just start
reading them, but as soon as
00:49:16.18\00:49:19.52
they get it on the screen, if
they can, I want you to see it
00:49:19.52\00:49:22.82
for yourself.
00:49:22.82\00:49:23.59
Dr. Trim pointed out, you
follow with me, 2023 saw the
00:49:23.99\00:49:28.53
highest number of net
accessions or baptisms or
00:49:28.53\00:49:32.17
members gaining in the church,
in church history, exceeding 1
00:49:32.17\00:49:37.27
.383 million added in 2018.
00:49:37.27\00:49:40.98
Now, the number of accessions
is now back on the same level
00:49:41.91\00:49:45.38
as it was prior to the
challenging years of 20 and 21,
00:49:45.38\00:49:50.49
during the COVID pandemic.
00:49:50.85\00:49:52.35
Although church members may
rejoice over the large number
00:49:52.85\00:49:56.06
of new members added to the
fellowship, church growth is a
00:49:56.06\00:50:00.96
function of both
accessions and net losses.
00:50:00.96\00:50:03.30
Now, listen to this.
00:50:03.63\00:50:04.63
In 2023,
00:50:04.73\00:50:05.90
836,905 persons who are alive
and well decided to leave the
00:50:09.34\00:50:13.81
Adventist Church.
00:50:13.81\00:50:14.48
Folks, Nashville, Tennessee
is only about 715,000 people.
00:50:15.01\00:50:19.51
As big as that is, we had 100
plus thousand more people leave
00:50:19.51\00:50:23.75
than the entire
Nashville, Tennessee.
00:50:23.75\00:50:26.39
That's how many left the church.
00:50:26.99\00:50:28.69
Now, that was the third
highest year for net losses.
00:50:29.02\00:50:31.73
Get this.
00:50:31.96\00:50:40.80
persons leaving our fellowship.
00:50:40.80\00:50:43.00
Yeah, I want to
hear some of that.
00:50:44.71\00:50:45.84
That should be shockwave.
00:50:46.34\00:50:47.58
I should have called it out.
00:50:47.61\00:50:48.88
Dr. Trim showed a slide in his
displaying membership data that
00:50:49.24\00:50:52.78
we just saw for
59 years since 1965.
00:50:52.78\00:50:57.19
In almost six decades, the
church has accepted, get this,
00:50:58.35\00:51:02.06
45,117,980 persons into the
Adventist Church membership.
00:51:02.72\00:51:10.63
45 million.
00:51:10.93\00:51:12.03
But in the same period, 19
million, I'm going to say it
00:51:12.47\00:51:16.71
again, 19 ,392,486
people have chosen to leave.
00:51:16.71\00:51:24.78
More than 4 of every 10, it's
actually almost 43%, members
00:51:26.21\00:51:30.99
are slipping away, said Trim,
while urging both GC executive
00:51:30.99\00:51:36.32
committee members and church
members to be their brother's
00:51:36.32\00:51:39.56
keeper and their sisters, too.
00:51:39.56\00:51:41.63
Now, this should be a big
shockwave, right, for most of
00:51:42.03\00:51:46.20
us.
00:51:46.20\00:51:49.90
me.
00:51:49.90\00:51:53.04
Now, maybe you're asking, why
are so many people leaving the
00:51:54.01\00:51:58.41
church?
00:51:58.41\00:52:00.62
my two cents, all right?
00:52:00.62\00:52:02.45
Well, one reason, let me say
this up front, I don't think it
00:52:02.62\00:52:06.25
has near as much to do
with false doctrine or the
00:52:06.25\00:52:11.19
teachings.
00:52:11.19\00:52:11.63
Folks, it has to
do with me and you.
00:52:12.59\00:52:14.40
We don't always reflect
the love of Jesus, the way we
00:52:15.36\00:52:19.20
should.
00:52:19.20\00:52:19.63
So people leaving four out
of 10 leave because they see too
00:52:20.47\00:52:26.84
many mean-spirited people.
00:52:26.84\00:52:28.28
Now, I'm going to
give you an example.
00:52:28.48\00:52:30.21
I won't give any names.
00:52:30.35\00:52:31.38
I like giving examples.
00:52:31.48\00:52:32.75
I didn't know that this one was
going to literally be handed to
00:52:33.01\00:52:36.38
me, but last evening, somebody
came and handed me this and
00:52:36.38\00:52:40.39
said, there's a woman here
at camp meeting who wants you to
00:52:40.39\00:52:42.86
read this.
00:52:42.86\00:52:43.59
So I said, oh,
great praise the Lord.
00:52:44.16\00:52:45.76
That's probably a check, right?
00:52:45.83\00:52:47.10
Some of you feeling guilty
you haven't given anything yet.
00:52:48.00\00:52:50.83
So maybe you've
written a nice check.
00:52:51.80\00:52:54.17
So let's see, is it $50?
00:52:54.37\00:52:55.40
Who knows?
00:52:55.67\00:52:56.17
It might be $50,000.
00:52:56.20\00:52:57.44
So I open it up and
I'm going to paraphrase.
00:52:57.71\00:53:00.11
But the woman says that
she wants me to confess of
00:53:01.01\00:53:06.55
something that I did
that she knows nothing about.
00:53:06.55\00:53:09.92
She wasn't there, but she's
read about on the Internet,
00:53:09.95\00:53:12.39
something that I did 20
years ago, over 20 years ago, a
00:53:12.79\00:53:16.79
situation, and that if I do
that, maybe the latter reign,
00:53:16.79\00:53:20.36
the Holy Spirit, because in
history, when people confess,
00:53:20.46\00:53:23.33
big things happen.
00:53:23.80\00:53:24.70
Well, if I thought getting
the Holy Spirit here, I might
00:53:25.17\00:53:27.34
confess whether I did it or not.
00:53:27.34\00:53:28.84
I mean, I'd be tempted to say
yes, because we want to see the
00:53:28.90\00:53:33.07
Holy Spirit.
00:53:33.07\00:53:33.98
But she's telling me that now
this is what I'm talking about.
00:53:34.31\00:53:38.31
You have people in the church
who knows nothing about the
00:53:38.98\00:53:42.22
situation she's talking about,
but she made a judgment call.
00:53:42.22\00:53:45.15
She didn't do anything wrong.
00:53:45.35\00:53:47.46
She didn't do anything wrong.
00:53:47.46\00:53:48.66
Folks, if I were new in
the church, I would leave.
00:53:48.69\00:53:51.26
I'd go find a full, a friendly
church, somebody that loves
00:53:52.19\00:53:56.30
people.
00:53:56.30\00:54:01.27
sinned, and I've come
short of the glory of God.
00:54:01.27\00:54:03.24
I've been wrong about a lot of
things, especially in the last
00:54:03.64\00:54:06.01
20 years, but this particular
thing, I'm not, so I'm going to
00:54:06.01\00:54:09.38
throw that one away.
00:54:09.38\00:54:10.11
She says
00:54:10.75\00:54:11.41
I could get this burden.
00:54:14.68\00:54:16.45
She says you'll be able to
get that burden you've been
00:54:16.55\00:54:18.85
carrying for 20 years.
00:54:18.85\00:54:20.12
And I said, Devon, I
said she doesn't know.
00:54:21.26\00:54:23.09
When it comes to that subject,
the only burden I've been
00:54:23.16\00:54:25.43
carrying is that
extra 10 pounds I've gained.
00:54:25.43\00:54:27.30
So, alright.
00:54:28.90\00:54:29.66
I'm making light of it a little
bit, because I really, it's
00:54:30.10\00:54:32.50
very disturbing, and I don't
care personally, because when
00:54:32.50\00:54:35.30
you've been in a fish bowl,
fish tank for 40 years, you
00:54:35.30\00:54:38.84
have everything in the world
said about you, written about
00:54:38.84\00:54:42.01
you, and if I didn't,
I'm doing something wrong.
00:54:42.01\00:54:45.31
In other words, I must be
button heads with running along
00:54:46.21\00:54:50.39
beside the devil
instead of button heads with it.
00:54:50.39\00:54:52.42
We, as Seventh-day Adventist
Christians, we should be button
00:54:52.75\00:54:56.02
heads with the
devil all the time.
00:54:56.02\00:54:57.29
All who live godly
shall suffer persecution.
00:54:57.59\00:55:01.43
So, first of all,
it's not biblical, right?
00:55:02.33\00:55:06.23
And I'm going to tell you, oh,
here's shockwave, four out of
00:55:06.84\00:55:10.77
ten people we just said are
leaving the Adventist Church.
00:55:10.77\00:55:13.27
Four out of ten.
00:55:15.21\00:55:16.21
And I want you to think about
this, before you pass judgment
00:55:17.45\00:55:20.28
on me, it's not biblical to
baptize people into the church.
00:55:20.28\00:55:24.95
Oh, did you get
quiet on that one?
00:55:26.42\00:55:28.22
I didn't get one, amen.
00:55:29.36\00:55:30.89
It's not biblical to
baptize people into the church.
00:55:30.89\00:55:34.30
Somebody's saying, what in
the world is he talking about?
00:55:35.16\00:55:38.70
We should be baptizing
people into Jesus, all right?
00:55:40.10\00:55:44.01
No one is going to make it
to heaven through the church.
00:55:44.24\00:55:47.51
We only will make it to
heaven through Christ and Christ
00:55:47.94\00:55:51.18
alone.
00:55:51.18\00:55:51.68
There are numerous stories
in the Bible of people being
00:55:52.38\00:55:55.12
baptized, and none of them went
through the amazing fact school
00:55:55.12\00:55:58.15
of evangelism or
3ABN side, right?
00:55:58.15\00:56:01.69
I myself have
baptized a number of people.
00:56:02.36\00:56:05.23
Some have come from out of
state and asked me to baptize
00:56:05.23\00:56:08.70
them because the Adventist
Church they were visiting and
00:56:08.70\00:56:12.33
going to, the pastors
refused to baptize them.
00:56:12.33\00:56:15.74
I had one pastor
very upset at me.
00:56:16.07\00:56:18.64
He said, well, you're not
an ordained Seventh Adventist
00:56:18.77\00:56:21.84
minister.
00:56:21.84\00:56:22.31
You didn't go to the cemetery.
00:56:22.54\00:56:24.51
You didn't go to the seminary.
00:56:25.41\00:56:28.68
But my answer is, Lord forgive
me, I've always been a little
00:56:31.12\00:56:36.09
bit what you see is what you
get, and sometimes I need boxed
00:56:36.09\00:56:39.93
around a little bit, and
people will do that to you.
00:56:39.93\00:56:42.03
But my answer was, look pastor,
if you're not going to do your
00:56:42.26\00:56:45.63
job, somebody needs to.
00:56:45.63\00:56:47.07
All right?
00:56:48.24\00:56:49.17
So please read Acts chapter 8
about Philip and the Ethiopian
00:56:49.50\00:56:53.74
eunuch.
00:56:53.74\00:56:58.18
Bible studies, right?
00:56:58.18\00:56:59.18
I've been so amazed that we
SDAs preach Bible and the Bible
00:56:59.85\00:57:04.45
only, yet we insist on doing
things our way, somehow making
00:57:04.45\00:57:09.29
excuses in actuality.
00:57:09.29\00:57:11.06
Now, ordination by
denominational church, that can
00:57:11.83\00:57:14.46
be good, but it has
zero effect on one salvation.
00:57:14.46\00:57:17.33
Now think about it.
00:57:18.27\00:57:19.47
Four out of every people being
baptized into this church or
00:57:19.47\00:57:22.94
leaving, so
something's not working.
00:57:22.94\00:57:25.71
So, you can't argue
with the figures, right?
00:57:27.28\00:57:30.81
Four out of ten leaving
the church, this A&N report, we
00:57:31.55\00:57:35.38
have changes.
00:57:35.38\00:57:36.25
To me, we have to change
the mindset, because when we
00:57:36.99\00:57:41.89
baptize people into the church,
they leave because they look at
00:57:41.89\00:57:45.69
us.
00:57:45.69\00:57:46.29
They look at people for
answers, and you know what
00:57:46.80\00:57:49.00
they'll get?
00:57:49.00\00:57:52.17
they'll see our frail human,
what frail human agents we are,
00:57:52.57\00:57:56.67
just like themselves.
00:57:56.67\00:57:58.14
But when they're baptized
into Jesus Christ, they will see
00:57:58.57\00:58:02.84
God's love.
00:58:03.98\00:58:04.75
They will see the
love of God for fallen man.
00:58:05.01\00:58:07.58
Their lost hopes, their
lost dreams will be restored.
00:58:07.95\00:58:10.82
I mean, that's, I love this.
00:58:11.32\00:58:12.82
Thank you Jesus for
your love for fallen man.
00:58:12.99\00:58:15.69
I also have to say that when
we're studying the Bible with
00:58:16.09\00:58:18.83
people, preparing them to join
our church, notice how loving
00:58:18.83\00:58:22.83
and kind, and we are, and
if they have shortcomings, we
00:58:22.83\00:58:26.94
overlook their failures.
00:58:26.94\00:58:28.04
We stay close to them.
00:58:28.17\00:58:29.54
We tell everybody,
I'm praying for somebody.
00:58:29.67\00:58:31.41
He's about to accept the
Sabbath, you know, and go
00:58:31.54\00:58:34.68
through, we help them
through all the struggles.
00:58:34.68\00:58:37.05
But hey, once they're baptized
into the church, we expect them
00:58:37.91\00:58:41.12
to be a mirror-like image
of us older members, right?
00:58:41.12\00:58:44.09
They need to dress like
us, look like us, act like us.
00:58:44.12\00:58:47.66
In fact, if we don't see
a reflection of ourselves in
00:58:48.02\00:58:50.69
them, we begin
to criticize them.
00:58:50.69\00:58:52.33
Now come on, I'm just
telling you the truth.
00:58:52.33\00:58:54.73
If you don't like it, you
gotta bear with me a little bit,
00:58:55.20\00:58:57.83
please.
00:58:57.93\00:58:58.33
Please, bear with me.
00:58:58.67\00:58:59.70
Because after all, they're
now baptized into the church, so
00:58:59.90\00:59:02.77
I'm gonna move on
to a different subject.
00:59:02.77\00:59:05.01
But I just want to tell you,
well, I can't totally move on.
00:59:05.97\00:59:12.28
Let me just say, remember,
people become what they behold.
00:59:12.35\00:59:15.55
So if we baptize into
Jesus, they'll continue to grow
00:59:16.48\00:59:21.19
through the work of the
sanctification and reflect the
00:59:21.19\00:59:24.66
character of Jesus
instead of other church members.
00:59:24.66\00:59:28.03
Now Jesus says, say this with
me, I, if I be lifted up, will
00:59:28.93\00:59:35.37
draw all men.
00:59:35.37\00:59:37.21
How many?
00:59:37.27\00:59:37.91
All right.
00:59:38.81\00:59:40.08
Now all of this talk is leading
me into another direction that
00:59:40.41\00:59:43.88
I really didn't
plan on originally.
00:59:43.88\00:59:45.68
I didn't intend to go, but
after reading these reports,
00:59:46.21\00:59:49.12
I'm showing you today,
I'm including a few from Pew
00:59:50.15\00:59:54.52
Research Center, another,
these are gonna be some shocks,
00:59:54.52\00:59:57.06
folks.
00:59:57.49\00:59:57.53
Okay.
00:59:58.23\01:00:02.90
I'm gonna ask you a question.
01:00:04.27\01:00:05.73
Now you don't have to raise
your hands if you don't want
01:00:06.40\01:00:09.04
to.
01:00:09.04\01:00:09.54
But I'm gonna
ask you a question.
01:00:10.57\01:00:11.77
If I ask you, are you saved?
01:00:11.91\01:00:14.78
How many people
would raise their hands?
01:00:15.48\01:00:17.35
Okay.
01:00:18.25\01:00:18.71
A few of you did.
01:00:19.05\01:00:22.78
now because we've got a lot
of people that aren't saved.
01:00:22.78\01:00:25.62
Apparently if you're not
saved, you're lost, okay?
01:00:26.25\01:00:28.39
So now, so here's the problem.
01:00:28.76\01:00:30.76
If you ask ten Adventists that
same question, are you saved?
01:00:30.89\01:00:35.66
About 80 of them will
start squirming around and start
01:00:36.20\01:00:39.27
looking fishy.
01:00:39.27\01:00:40.34
Anybody know what
I'm talking about?
01:00:42.47\01:00:43.77
Some of you just did it here.
01:00:44.34\01:00:45.81
Why in the world would
this make someone uncomfortable?
01:00:45.81\01:00:49.81
I don't get it.
01:00:52.05\01:00:53.21
For some reason, Christians,
including SDAs, we're not the
01:00:53.28\01:00:56.15
only ones,
struggle with this question.
01:00:56.15\01:00:58.15
But sometimes, trying to
find answers, we try to dig too
01:00:58.89\01:01:02.29
deeply when the answer
is right in front of us.
01:01:02.29\01:01:04.69
The Bible's very clear
on how we are to be saved.
01:01:04.99\01:01:08.90
One is to be saved
from what and by whom?
01:01:09.00\01:01:11.80
Right?
01:01:12.63\01:01:16.30
this should give us
assurance of salvation.
01:01:16.71\01:01:19.94
Which brings great peace
to the human heart and mind.
01:01:20.21\01:01:24.31
So why the
confusion on the subject?
01:01:25.15\01:01:27.08
Do you mind if we walk
through it just a little bit?
01:01:28.08\01:01:30.25
Okay.
01:01:30.79\01:01:31.35
Cause you're still
really quiet on this.
01:01:31.65\01:01:33.12
Some of you can't get
over I just said that.
01:01:33.25\01:01:35.12
Alright.
01:01:35.39\01:01:38.09
more.
01:01:38.09\01:01:38.49
Okay.
01:01:39.26\01:01:40.03
It's kind of like the
gender confusion issue.
01:01:40.26\01:01:43.13
No one should be confused when
it comes to how many genders
01:01:43.93\01:01:46.60
there are.
01:01:46.60\01:01:47.27
Right?
01:01:48.10\01:01:48.70
The answer is
there's only two genders.
01:01:49.40\01:01:51.44
So according to the Bible,
God created male and female and
01:01:52.14\01:01:55.28
that's it.
01:01:55.28\01:01:56.04
There's no in-between
and there's no such thing as
01:01:56.85\01:01:59.45
claiming there are
more than two genders.
01:01:59.45\01:02:01.65
One young person told
me there are 107 genders.
01:02:02.02\01:02:05.52
So I asked him if that were
the case, why with every gender
01:02:06.05\01:02:09.99
surgery are doctors attempting
to change, make the transition
01:02:09.99\01:02:13.96
from male to
female or female to male?
01:02:13.96\01:02:15.96
Why not go to the one the other
105 that you think so great?
01:02:16.46\01:02:20.20
You with me?
01:02:22.07\01:02:22.94
So the answer is simple.
01:02:23.17\01:02:24.74
There are no other genders
and when it comes to salvation
01:02:25.11\01:02:28.48
folks, there's only two options.
01:02:28.48\01:02:30.28
So you're either
saved or you're lost.
01:02:30.51\01:02:32.61
So when someone asks me if I'm
saved I say yes, but of course
01:02:33.52\01:02:37.95
I give all glory and praise
to Jesus Christ as I cannot save
01:02:37.95\01:02:42.06
myself no matter how hard I try.
01:02:42.06\01:02:44.23
So when someone
asks are you saved?
01:02:44.86\01:02:47.60
I can't imagine any
Christian answering no I'm lost.
01:02:48.13\01:02:51.37
Right?
01:02:52.47\01:02:52.90
So why the
hesitation to say yes?
01:02:53.27\01:02:55.20
It's amazing to me that so many
SDAs who claim to be people of
01:02:55.44\01:02:59.04
the word find themselves in
some kind of spiritual limbo
01:02:59.04\01:03:02.38
between saved or lost.
01:03:02.38\01:03:04.08
That kind of reminds me of some
Catholics who are considered in
01:03:04.55\01:03:07.52
purgatory.
01:03:07.52\01:03:08.25
Right?
01:03:08.45\01:03:08.75
Well guess what?
01:03:09.08\01:03:09.98
There is no in between.
01:03:10.29\01:03:11.69
We are either saved or lost.
01:03:11.82\01:03:13.25
This is according to the Bible.
01:03:13.66\01:03:14.82
If you don't believe that,
please don't ever sing Amazing
01:03:15.19\01:03:20.00
Grace.
01:03:20.00\01:03:20.66
How sweet the sound that saved.
01:03:20.70\01:03:23.73
Oh there's that word that saved.
01:03:24.63\01:03:26.63
How many have
sang that song before?
01:03:27.04\01:03:28.74
Had you didn't
raise your hands well ago.
01:03:29.60\01:03:31.37
Okay.
01:03:32.14\01:03:32.57
All right.
01:03:32.91\01:03:38.95
mine.
01:03:38.95\01:03:39.45
So you don't have
blessed assurance.
01:03:39.81\01:03:41.02
Don't be singing
that song anymore.
01:03:41.05\01:03:42.95
Right?
01:03:43.15\01:03:43.55
We got to have
blessed assurance.
01:03:43.95\01:03:45.79
All right.
01:03:45.79\01:03:46.49
Now Christians including cause
I'm I realize I'm talking to a
01:03:47.46\01:03:51.29
world audience so it's kind
of a family talk today but I got
01:03:51.29\01:03:55.06
to include you at home.
01:03:55.06\01:03:56.33
So when I say Christians
including SDA Christians should
01:03:56.33\01:03:59.67
indeed have the calm
assurance that we are saved.
01:03:59.67\01:04:03.10
Otherwise we must
be in a lost condition.
01:04:03.14\01:04:05.91
As I mentioned there is no
spiritual limbo between heaven
01:04:06.14\01:04:09.31
and hell.
01:04:09.31\01:04:13.42
enough to save the
lost sinner or it was not.
01:04:13.42\01:04:16.32
But my Bible tells me
that it's strong enough.
01:04:16.92\01:04:19.05
I'm not even going to put
the scripture up on the screen
01:04:19.45\01:04:23.32
because I want
you to say it with me.
01:04:23.32\01:04:25.13
For God so loved the world that
he gave his only begotten son
01:04:25.33\01:04:31.40
that whosoever believeth in
him should not perish but have
01:04:31.40\01:04:38.97
everlasting life.
01:04:38.97\01:04:40.31
Now listen shouldn't that
give you some great assurance?
01:04:40.88\01:04:44.11
Mercy.
01:04:45.51\01:04:49.42
subject.
01:04:49.42\01:04:53.02
are searching for
truth on how to be saved.
01:04:53.02\01:04:55.09
They know your seventh day
evidence so they come to you
01:04:55.16\01:04:58.16
and say look can you help me?
01:04:58.16\01:05:00.06
Can you tell me how to be saved?
01:05:00.16\01:05:02.16
And you look a little fishy
so they say well are you saved?
01:05:02.26\01:05:05.93
And you hum all around.
01:05:06.70\01:05:08.24
You're like well
you know what I'd do?
01:05:08.94\01:05:14.01
Fire them.
01:05:14.88\01:05:18.61
because they know how to
get you saved in a flash.
01:05:18.61\01:05:20.92
You can go from lost
to saved in a minute.
01:05:21.78\01:05:24.89
Okay I've got your
attention at least on that.
01:05:25.72\01:05:28.29
Can't you just see the little
gossip presses magazines going
01:05:28.46\01:05:32.09
on right now
already at camp meeting?
01:05:32.09\01:05:33.73
Danny Shelton tells people
to go join the Baptist church.
01:05:34.00\01:05:36.77
That's what
you're going to hear.
01:05:37.80\01:05:39.03
Well at least those of you
hearing those others you'll
01:05:39.23\01:05:41.44
have heard the rest of it.
01:05:41.44\01:05:42.50
People love to take
things out of context.
01:05:42.70\01:05:44.74
So folks if you don't
have peace about your spiritual
01:05:45.37\01:05:48.98
condition right now I'm praying
that you will find that peace.
01:05:48.98\01:05:52.68
Because I'm on limited time
so for the next few minutes I
01:05:52.68\01:05:56.38
really want to deal with
those who are already called
01:05:56.38\01:05:58.82
themselves Christians
and Seventh-day Adventist
01:05:58.82\01:06:01.62
Christians but don't have
the assurance of salvation.
01:06:01.62\01:06:04.63
But now all are welcome.
01:06:05.16\01:06:06.23
You all at home you're
welcome to listen and decide for
01:06:06.33\01:06:09.06
yourselves.
01:06:09.06\01:06:09.63
Brothers and sisters
it's really this simple.
01:06:10.10\01:06:12.80
Think about it.
01:06:13.80\01:06:14.37
It's simple.
01:06:14.37\01:06:18.21
The Bible contains several
scriptures that illustrate the
01:06:18.87\01:06:22.31
concept that humans are born
into a sinful world and inherit
01:06:22.31\01:06:26.35
a sinful nature.
01:06:26.35\01:06:27.52
Now let's go
over a few passages.
01:06:28.85\01:06:30.85
I think we should
stick with the Bible right?
01:06:31.12\01:06:32.95
We're going to
stick with the Bible.
01:06:33.46\01:06:34.46
If you'll put up on the
screen Psalms 51 5 Behold I was
01:06:34.92\01:06:40.26
brought forth in iniquity and
in sin my mother conceived me.
01:06:40.26\01:06:44.43
This verse expresses the belief
that sin is inherent from the
01:06:44.77\01:06:48.80
moment of conception.
01:06:48.80\01:06:49.80
Romans maybe have this up too.
01:06:51.17\01:06:53.04
I can't see the side screen
so hopefully we got it up.
01:06:53.14\01:06:55.64
Romans 3 23 say it with me.
01:06:55.91\01:06:58.21
For all have sin and come
short of the glory of God.
01:06:58.58\01:07:03.25
Now this verse emphasizes
that every human being is sin.
01:07:03.59\01:07:06.92
Now Romans 5 12
let's look at it.
01:07:07.59\01:07:10.19
Therefore just as through one
man sin entered the world and
01:07:10.49\01:07:15.26
death through sin and thus
death spread to all men because
01:07:15.26\01:07:21.07
all have seen.
01:07:21.07\01:07:22.44
Here Paul explains that sin
entered the world through Adam
01:07:23.04\01:07:26.14
affecting humanity.
01:07:26.14\01:07:27.58
Also Ephesians 2 1 to 3
Galatians 5 7 there's so many
01:07:28.04\01:07:31.65
scriptures.
01:07:31.65\01:07:32.21
Collectively they affirm the
belief that we humans are born
01:07:33.25\01:07:36.92
into a sinful affected world
and we can't help that we're
01:07:36.92\01:07:42.16
born there and we
inherit a sinful nature.
01:07:42.16\01:07:44.86
Right?
01:07:45.43\01:07:45.99
Underscoring the
need for salvation.
01:07:46.49\01:07:48.83
Through who?
01:07:50.70\01:07:51.30
Through Jesus Christ.
01:07:51.70\01:07:52.93
So we have inherited the sins
of our fathers which separates
01:07:53.20\01:07:56.24
us from God but the good news
is Jesus paid the penalty for
01:07:56.24\01:08:00.84
our sins and that
reconciles us to God.
01:08:00.84\01:08:04.01
Now I'm just giving you Bible.
01:08:04.35\01:08:05.78
I don't know what you've
been taught or what books you've
01:08:05.91\01:08:07.88
been reading.
01:08:07.88\01:08:08.45
But here's Romans 5 10.
01:08:08.92\01:08:10.89
For if we were enemies we were
reconciled to God through this
01:08:12.35\01:08:16.46
new King James version
through death of his son.
01:08:16.46\01:08:19.33
Much more having been
reconciled we shall be saved by
01:08:19.63\01:08:23.40
his life.
01:08:23.40\01:08:24.30
And then Colossians 1 21 22 And
you who once were alienated and
01:08:24.67\01:08:29.97
enemies in your mind by wicked
works yet now he has reconciled
01:08:29.97\01:08:35.34
in the body of his flesh
through death to present you
01:08:35.34\01:08:39.85
holy.
01:08:39.85\01:08:40.15
How?
01:08:40.25\01:08:44.65
reproach in his sight.
01:08:44.65\01:08:46.29
Somebody should be
saying praise the Lord.
01:08:46.89\01:08:48.56
That is amazing.
01:08:49.62\01:08:50.53
From the foundation of the
world the Godhead knew that man
01:08:50.79\01:08:54.50
would fall into sin and they
came up with a plan to redeem
01:08:54.50\01:08:58.63
his fallen state.
01:08:58.63\01:08:59.63
And reconcile us to God himself.
01:09:00.40\01:09:02.77
This we refer to as the again
we've been talking about the
01:09:03.27\01:09:07.24
plan of salvation.
01:09:07.24\01:09:09.11
So in a nutshell the plan
of salvation from a biblical
01:09:09.11\01:09:12.51
standpoint revolves around
the themes of sin redemption and
01:09:12.51\01:09:17.15
reconciliation
between humanity and God.
01:09:17.15\01:09:19.69
Do we understand that?
01:09:20.22\01:09:21.26
I want to say today that the
Bible is clear on the subject
01:09:21.79\01:09:24.99
of salvation.
01:09:24.99\01:09:25.86
Now there's a lot of
information on social media
01:09:26.06\01:09:28.66
accusing Seventh-day Adventists
of not really understanding the
01:09:28.66\01:09:31.87
gospel and I think sadly
to some extent that's true.
01:09:31.87\01:09:35.34
Many of us don't.
01:09:35.37\01:09:36.81
Now some of you listening to me
who disagree with me before you
01:09:36.81\01:09:41.98
recommend that I read such
and such book please don't.
01:09:41.98\01:09:45.28
The Bible is very clear and the
Bible is the source that most
01:09:45.88\01:09:48.82
people have access to.
01:09:48.82\01:09:50.35
So I'm going to
stick with that right?
01:09:50.72\01:09:52.25
Some of you are like
oh my my what's he saying?
01:09:52.49\01:09:55.02
I'm saying just what I said.
01:09:55.36\01:09:56.59
I'm going to
stick with the Bible.
01:09:56.89\01:09:58.09
The Bible has the answers for
this world's problems today and
01:09:58.33\01:10:01.83
that's Jesus Christ.
01:10:01.83\01:10:02.96
So I believe that we must
do a better job as Seventh-day
01:10:03.30\01:10:06.94
Adventists Christians teaching
our members the importance of
01:10:06.94\01:10:10.24
having the
assurance of salvation.
01:10:10.24\01:10:11.87
I think that's one of the
reasons so many are walking
01:10:12.07\01:10:14.08
away.
01:10:14.08\01:10:14.58
Leaving the
church, four out of ten.
01:10:15.14\01:10:16.68
I'm aware there are numerous
churches now they go too far
01:10:16.91\01:10:19.98
with the assurance of salvation
that they believe that you
01:10:19.98\01:10:23.12
cannot lose your salvation
once they commit their lives to
01:10:23.12\01:10:26.62
Christ and you know I'm
referring to the one saved
01:10:26.62\01:10:29.22
always saved group.
01:10:29.22\01:10:30.16
To me this is a misuse of
scripture and a misperception
01:10:30.43\01:10:33.19
of the devil because it makes
people feel they're saved when
01:10:33.19\01:10:37.70
maybe they're really not.
01:10:37.70\01:10:38.93
So let's never lose focus that
the devil is out to here's the
01:10:39.47\01:10:43.41
scripture we'll do it
several just part of it.
01:10:43.41\01:10:45.57
He's out to steal
kill and to destroy.
01:10:45.61\01:10:48.54
This is going to be very
important before we end this
01:10:48.74\01:10:51.05
service today.
01:10:51.05\01:10:52.21
And because God created us with
free choice we can walk away
01:10:52.21\01:10:57.09
from his covering.
01:10:57.09\01:10:58.09
We can reject the free gift
of salvation anytime we want to.
01:10:58.35\01:11:02.02
Now think about it like
this God is not going to force
01:11:02.16\01:11:04.89
anyone to be in heaven
that doesn't want to be there.
01:11:04.89\01:11:08.23
Wouldn't you hate to be
somewhere a billion plus years
01:11:08.60\01:11:11.00
and you didn't want to be there?
01:11:11.00\01:11:12.63
So God's not going to take you
there because you don't want to
01:11:13.30\01:11:15.24
be there.
01:11:15.24\01:11:15.74
You'd be miserable.
01:11:15.74\01:11:15.77
It'd be hell to you.
01:11:16.30\01:11:17.34
Right?
01:11:17.84\01:11:18.17
Hey that's a good thought.
01:11:19.17\01:11:20.04
I should write
that down somewhere.
01:11:20.14\01:11:21.54
So how better to deceive people
than to have them confused
01:11:22.94\01:11:26.61
about the plan of salvation.
01:11:26.61\01:11:27.98
It's really one more
time I'm going to say it.
01:11:28.42\01:11:30.52
It's very simple.
01:11:30.59\01:11:31.49
Once we take the steps to
commit our lives to Christ we
01:11:32.02\01:11:35.76
are saved until we...
01:11:35.76\01:11:37.09
Uh oh.
01:11:37.09\01:11:37.46
Shock.
01:11:37.46\01:11:37.89
We are saved until we are not.
01:11:38.39\01:11:40.30
Somebody said what?
01:11:41.56\01:11:42.93
What in the world is he saying?
01:11:43.50\01:11:44.47
Once you submit your life
to Christ you're saved until
01:11:44.67\01:11:48.50
you're not.
01:11:48.50\01:11:49.14
So let me say it again.
01:11:49.57\01:11:51.21
Once we come to Jesus and
accept his shed blood as an
01:11:51.81\01:11:55.28
atonement for our sins.
01:11:55.28\01:11:56.54
Listen to me folks at home too.
01:11:56.91\01:11:58.45
We are saved.
01:11:58.71\01:11:59.58
The only way we can be
lost is when we reject.
01:12:00.15\01:12:04.85
It's our own decision to reject
to follow Christ by rejecting
01:12:04.95\01:12:08.89
the plan of salvation.
01:12:08.89\01:12:10.09
The devil can't rob
us of our salvation.
01:12:10.89\01:12:12.96
The people in the church who's
offending us, they can't rob us
01:12:13.56\01:12:16.13
of our salvation.
01:12:16.13\01:12:16.93
We can't blame
somebody else for that.
01:12:17.20\01:12:19.40
We have salvation until
we choose to leave Christ.
01:12:20.37\01:12:25.41
Now I know this may sound
confusing to some of you but
01:12:26.04\01:12:29.61
think about it like this.
01:12:29.61\01:12:30.78
Jesus' blood covers my
confessed sins but that does
01:12:31.08\01:12:35.68
not mean I will never sin again.
01:12:35.68\01:12:37.72
But even as a professed
Christian I will fall short of
01:12:38.12\01:12:40.76
the glory of God from
time to time and so will you.
01:12:40.76\01:12:43.39
If you don't agree with me on
that point then you must think
01:12:43.63\01:12:46.70
you're perfect which is a
shortcoming in itself, right?
01:12:46.70\01:12:49.80
So follow me now.
01:12:50.47\01:12:52.00
Let's say as a confessed prayed
up Christian I allow someone to
01:12:52.70\01:12:56.71
offend me and I really lose my
Christianity for a minute and I
01:12:56.71\01:13:01.08
tell them off.
01:13:01.08\01:13:01.81
My mom used to say, boy he
told him how the hog ate the
01:13:02.34\01:13:05.18
cabbage.
01:13:05.18\01:13:05.58
Now I never knew what
that meant but I knew it wasn't
01:13:06.51\01:13:09.12
good.
01:13:09.12\01:13:09.58
Right?
01:13:10.49\01:13:10.52
Okay.
01:13:10.79\01:13:11.42
Does God now turn his back
on me because I make a mistake?
01:13:12.02\01:13:16.76
Absolutely not.
01:13:17.26\01:13:18.16
Some people think God is in
heaven looking down on humanity
01:13:18.89\01:13:21.90
recording every mistake they
make so on judgment day he can
01:13:21.90\01:13:26.50
burn them up for eternity.
01:13:26.50\01:13:27.74
What a distortion of God's
eternal love for fallen men.
01:13:29.10\01:13:32.31
Now let me ask a mother and how
many mothers we have out here.
01:13:32.87\01:13:35.74
Okay.
01:13:35.98\01:13:36.28
Let me ask a mom a question.
01:13:36.64\01:13:38.18
Many of you have sons.
01:13:38.71\01:13:39.88
Let's say that you have a 17
year old son who's a good boy.
01:13:39.95\01:13:43.52
He loves you and respects
the rules of your house and he
01:13:44.12\01:13:48.22
loves Jesus.
01:13:48.22\01:13:49.02
You have a wonderful
relationship with this son but
01:13:49.32\01:13:52.49
on graduation night from
high school he goes to celebrate
01:13:52.49\01:13:56.03
with his friends and that night
he comes home and you smell
01:13:56.03\01:13:59.63
alcohol on his breath.
01:13:59.63\01:14:01.10
Now he'd never done this before.
01:14:01.90\01:14:03.64
At this point is
he no longer your son?
01:14:04.81\01:14:06.98
Did you kick him out of the
house and abandon him from ever
01:14:09.08\01:14:11.91
coming back?
01:14:11.91\01:14:12.71
You didn't stop loving him?
01:14:13.01\01:14:14.95
Okay.
01:14:15.85\01:14:16.25
He now sees time goes on how
disappointed you are in him and
01:14:17.15\01:14:22.52
he's disappointed in himself.
01:14:22.52\01:14:24.19
So he says mom I'm
so sorry I did wrong.
01:14:24.59\01:14:29.20
Can you forgive me?
01:14:29.56\01:14:31.00
Now what do you
think mom's gonna do?
01:14:31.13\01:14:32.73
What's she gonna do?
01:14:33.94\01:14:35.07
She's gonna forgive her
precious son that she's loved
01:14:35.27\01:14:38.64
his entire life.
01:14:38.64\01:14:39.94
Am I telling the truth?
01:14:40.04\01:14:40.98
Now if the story had a
different ending, listen to
01:14:41.61\01:14:44.68
this, graduation night was
the beginning of a rebellious
01:14:44.68\01:14:49.12
relationship with mom because
he not only disrespects her and
01:14:49.12\01:14:52.82
her house rules but allows the
alcohol to destroy his own life
01:14:52.82\01:14:57.73
and all those around him and he
begins to live a life of crime
01:14:57.73\01:15:01.36
and sustains his,
to sustain his habits.
01:15:01.36\01:15:05.13
So let me ask you mom, even
after all of that do you stop
01:15:05.43\01:15:10.77
loving him?
01:15:10.77\01:15:11.41
No.
01:15:12.01\01:15:12.61
No.
01:15:12.84\01:15:13.88
I love that.
01:15:14.18\01:15:18.88
made a decision that he
does not want to be in a
01:15:18.88\01:15:22.22
relationship with you.
01:15:22.22\01:15:23.35
You can't force him to show his
love for you as he has freedom
01:15:23.45\01:15:27.36
of choice.
01:15:27.36\01:15:28.22
Instead you wait patiently
praying daily that he will
01:15:28.59\01:15:32.49
surrender his life to Jesus
and your relationship will be
01:15:32.49\01:15:36.30
restored with him.
01:15:36.30\01:15:37.63
Now I said all that to say
that Jesus loves you eternally.
01:15:38.07\01:15:42.57
Jesus' love for us
was written in red.
01:15:44.14\01:15:47.01
Isn't that beautiful?
01:15:47.04\01:15:47.81
Don't let anyone tell you that
Jesus gives up on you and is
01:15:48.51\01:15:51.71
ready to judge you unworthy
every time you make a mistake.
01:15:51.71\01:15:55.38
After we accept Jesus as
Lord and Savior of our life our
01:15:56.32\01:15:59.95
character is the telltale sign
of whether we have accepted him
01:15:59.95\01:16:03.53
or not.
01:16:03.53\01:16:04.13
Right?
01:16:04.96\01:16:04.99
He knows our humanity.
01:16:06.09\01:16:07.66
God knows us.
01:16:08.43\01:16:09.23
He knows how
cunning the devil is.
01:16:09.23\01:16:10.83
He's out to deceive us.
01:16:11.73\01:16:13.34
Jesus actually, get this, he
stands in your defense because
01:16:13.60\01:16:17.77
when something like this
happens he now becomes your
01:16:17.77\01:16:20.58
brother.
01:16:20.58\01:16:20.91
He becomes your attorney
and he becomes your judge.
01:16:21.78\01:16:27.32
Now somebody better
say praise the Lord.
01:16:27.72\01:16:29.48
If you had to go to court
wouldn't you like it if you had
01:16:29.82\01:16:32.35
your brother and you had your
attorney and the judge all on
01:16:32.35\01:16:35.26
your side?
01:16:35.26\01:16:35.99
All rooting for you?
01:16:35.99\01:16:37.46
All right.
01:16:37.76\01:16:38.89
we can be 100% sure of our
salvation according to God's
01:16:38.89\01:16:44.40
word.
01:16:44.40\01:16:44.80
Now I'm going to read again.
01:16:45.07\01:16:46.00
I want to stick with the Bible.
01:16:46.03\01:16:47.44
1 John 5 11-13.
01:16:47.67\01:16:50.47
All right?
01:16:50.94\01:16:55.61
And this life is his son.
01:16:55.98\01:16:57.65
He who has the son has life.
01:16:57.98\01:17:00.35
He who does not has the
son of God does not have life.
01:17:00.58\01:17:04.72
These things I have written to
you who believe in the name of
01:17:04.72\01:17:08.42
the Son of God that you may
know that ye have eternal life
01:17:08.42\01:17:12.23
and that you may continue to
believe in the name of the Son
01:17:12.23\01:17:16.20
of God.
01:17:16.20\01:17:16.93
Now the devil wants you
doubting your salvation and
01:17:17.43\01:17:20.30
robbing you of
your peace of mind.
01:17:20.30\01:17:21.97
But please trust
that Jesus loves you.
01:17:22.64\01:17:25.51
Jesus loves me.
01:17:26.21\01:17:27.51
This I know.
01:17:27.81\01:17:28.64
Remember that right?
01:17:28.74\01:17:30.01
For the Bible tells me so.
01:17:30.41\01:17:33.72
Little ones to him belong.
01:17:34.18\01:17:37.22
They are weak but he is strong.
01:17:37.75\01:17:41.69
You see, his supreme sacrifice
on Calvary covers the sins of
01:17:42.16\01:17:46.76
the world.
01:17:46.76\01:17:47.40
And all we have to do is repent
of our sins and accept the plan
01:17:48.00\01:17:50.93
of salvation, turn from
our wicked ways and go forward.
01:17:50.93\01:17:54.14
Now some of you may be wanting
me to place and you've been for
01:17:54.20\01:17:57.27
a long time.
01:17:57.27\01:17:57.97
But what about John 14-15?
01:17:58.24\01:18:00.24
Here it says, If you
love me, keep my commandments.
01:18:00.24\01:18:03.31
But to be clear, the gift of
salvation, shockwave for some
01:18:04.15\01:18:08.02
Adventists.
01:18:08.02\01:18:08.68
But to be clear, hold on
to your seat, the gift of
01:18:09.32\01:18:13.52
salvation has zero to do with
the outward sign of obedience.
01:18:13.52\01:18:17.03
Oh boy.
01:18:18.23\01:18:19.03
Oh boy.
01:18:20.66\01:18:21.43
You want to be
there by works, right?
01:18:22.86\01:18:25.23
It sounds like it.
01:18:25.47\01:18:26.77
All right.
01:18:26.84\01:18:27.77
Think about it.
01:18:29.84\01:18:31.24
What did I say wrong?
01:18:31.37\01:18:32.37
It has zero to do
with your salvation.
01:18:33.54\01:18:35.81
We cannot do
anything to save ourselves.
01:18:36.71\01:18:38.81
That's the point
I'm trying to make.
01:18:39.21\01:18:40.58
Salvation through
Christ and Christ alone.
01:18:40.95\01:18:43.18
Obedience is an outward
growth of our love for Christ.
01:18:43.62\01:18:47.46
I have found out that through
the years that I can do nothing
01:18:47.52\01:18:51.09
to save myself.
01:18:51.09\01:18:52.23
It is all Jesus.
01:18:52.23\01:18:53.70
But I do have the freedom
of choice to walk away from the
01:18:53.93\01:18:57.17
arms of God.
01:18:57.17\01:18:58.03
God is judging my character,
not my every move, as I said.
01:18:58.40\01:19:02.27
That's why I continue to teach
that as a church, we cannot
01:19:02.64\01:19:06.11
allow open sin in our churches.
01:19:06.11\01:19:09.11
There's a difference in a
person stumbling and falling
01:19:09.21\01:19:11.68
than to have outright
rebellious sin against God.
01:19:11.68\01:19:15.68
God cannot bless us and we call
ourselves whatever name we want
01:19:16.18\01:19:20.19
to as a church.
01:19:20.19\01:19:21.09
And we're involved
in a lot of open sin.
01:19:21.22\01:19:23.22
We're going to talk about it.
01:19:23.26\01:19:24.09
We're going to
let the stats show us.
01:19:24.09\01:19:25.86
But we can call
ourselves the remnant church.
01:19:26.26\01:19:28.23
We can call
ourselves God's church.
01:19:28.60\01:19:30.40
Whatever holy name
we want to put on it.
01:19:30.77\01:19:33.13
But if we affirm open sin
against God's commandments, we
01:19:33.34\01:19:36.54
are not part of
His remnant church.
01:19:36.54\01:19:38.21
Do I need to say that again?
01:19:40.68\01:19:42.34
We're not part of
His remnant church.
01:19:43.81\01:19:47.62
If we support
open sin in any way.
01:19:48.68\01:19:52.22
That's rebellion.
01:19:52.22\01:19:53.22
I'm talking about open
rebellion that's misleading to
01:19:53.36\01:19:56.99
the world.
01:19:56.99\01:19:57.59
The church that He's coming
back for is going to be those
01:19:58.43\01:20:02.56
who keep the commandments
of God and have the faith of
01:20:02.56\01:20:04.60
Jesus.
01:20:04.60\01:20:08.17
We can as a church.
01:20:08.30\01:20:09.34
We can reject His grace and
atonement on the cross and try
01:20:09.54\01:20:14.64
to work it out all by ourselves.
01:20:14.64\01:20:16.14
Work our way into heaven.
01:20:16.14\01:20:17.18
But again, I'm
stressing this over and over.
01:20:17.51\01:20:20.18
I can guarantee you, you
will never make it to heaven if
01:20:20.18\01:20:24.19
you're trying to
do it on your own.
01:20:24.19\01:20:25.59
So again, I can say salvation
has zero to do with me and
01:20:26.15\01:20:31.43
everything to do with Christ.
01:20:31.43\01:20:32.79
Now, how we go forward,
I'll get to that in a minute.
01:20:33.46\01:20:37.53
Some of you have been
and some have to call 911.
01:20:37.57\01:20:39.77
Alright.
01:20:40.40\01:20:40.94
I've had to ask myself
some hard questions as to why so
01:20:41.60\01:20:45.77
many questions, as to why
so many SDAs struggle with the
01:20:45.77\01:20:50.15
concept of telling
people they are saved.
01:20:50.15\01:20:52.65
I've come to the conclusion
that the devil has a soul
01:20:53.25\01:20:55.92
wrapped up oh no, shockwave,
has a soul wrapped up in
01:20:55.92\01:21:00.49
prophecies such as the
predicted National Sunday Law,
01:21:00.49\01:21:03.22
the Investigative Judgment,
1844, the Health Message, and
01:21:03.56\01:21:07.60
even the Sabbath that many
totally have lost a personal
01:21:07.60\01:21:10.93
relationship with Jesus Christ
or we never had one to begin
01:21:10.93\01:21:14.00
with.
01:21:14.00\01:21:14.50
Oh, mercy.
01:21:15.44\01:21:16.30
None of the above
things will save us.
01:21:16.30\01:21:18.64
Only the blood of Jesus Christ.
01:21:19.04\01:21:20.88
Can we get that
through our heads?
01:21:20.94\01:21:22.18
Will save us.
01:21:22.44\01:21:23.51
To make this as clear as I
can, let's read one more main
01:21:23.58\01:21:27.02
scripture that emphasizes
the inability of humans to save
01:21:27.02\01:21:31.55
themselves regardless of their
good deeds and the necessity
01:21:31.55\01:21:35.22
for salvation is
through faith in Jesus Christ.
01:21:35.22\01:21:38.33
This one I want to put up on
the screen and you read it with
01:21:38.66\01:21:41.26
me.
01:21:41.26\01:21:41.86
Because it's
very, very important.
01:21:42.03\01:21:43.30
It's Ephesians 2, 8, and 9.
01:21:43.37\01:21:45.97
Here we go.
01:21:46.33\01:21:47.24
For by grace you have been
saved through faith and that
01:21:47.50\01:21:53.61
not of yourselves it is the
gift of God not of works lest
01:21:53.61\01:22:00.62
anyone should burst.
01:22:00.62\01:22:02.32
Burst or boast?
01:22:03.45\01:22:04.42
Oh, boast.
01:22:04.75\01:22:05.15
There we go.
01:22:05.52\01:22:06.35
Burst that bubble we
were talking about today.
01:22:06.55\01:22:08.46
Remember?
01:22:08.56\01:22:11.79
in.
01:22:11.79\01:22:14.93
It's not really.
01:22:16.00\01:22:17.03
But we get things so confused.
01:22:17.23\01:22:18.67
We're supposed to be people
of the word and we get things so
01:22:18.80\01:22:21.60
confused because this
is the way we were taught.
01:22:21.60\01:22:24.41
This is what somebody said.
01:22:24.44\01:22:25.54
Folks we're going to have
to stay to the Bible no matter
01:22:25.81\01:22:28.84
what.
01:22:28.84\01:22:29.28
No matter who
around us, alright?
01:22:29.58\01:22:30.78
So the scripture clearly states
that salvation is a gift from
01:22:31.51\01:22:35.65
God that cannot be earned
through human effort or good
01:22:35.65\01:22:38.65
works, right?
01:22:38.65\01:22:39.62
It underscores the importance
of faith and grace in salvation
01:22:39.89\01:22:43.56
process affirming that no
one can claim credit for their
01:22:43.56\01:22:47.20
salvation based
on their own merits.
01:22:47.20\01:22:49.36
This scripture is foundational.
01:22:49.83\01:22:51.50
To me this is foundational
of understanding the Christian
01:22:51.83\01:22:55.40
doctrine of salvation.
01:22:55.40\01:22:56.54
Now, that's why I say salvation
is through Christ and Christ
01:22:57.11\01:23:06.11
alone.
01:23:06.11\01:23:06.51
Say it one more time.
01:23:06.68\01:23:07.58
That's why salvation is
through Christ and Christ alone.
01:23:07.82\01:23:12.65
Okay, now, here we go.
01:23:13.15\01:23:14.69
Some of you Adventists are
going to feel a little better.
01:23:14.79\01:23:16.56
Once a person is saved and
finally if we got to that point
01:23:18.39\01:23:22.66
I'm scared to ask now how
many people are saved because I
01:23:23.20\01:23:26.90
don't know if we've made any
progress or not or if the Lord
01:23:26.90\01:23:29.24
has.
01:23:29.24\01:23:29.74
Okay?
01:23:30.24\01:23:30.94
So, once we will serve the Lord
once we're saved, we'll serve
01:23:31.47\01:23:36.08
him out of love.
01:23:36.08\01:23:37.28
Not to keep our salvation
our salvation is ours until we
01:23:38.88\01:23:43.45
break from Christ by
our words and our deeds.
01:23:43.45\01:23:46.52
So, let me ask you will
keeping this Sabbath save you?
01:23:47.12\01:23:50.79
No.
01:23:52.26\01:23:52.66
No, it will not.
01:23:52.66\01:23:53.43
Now, let me ask
you another question.
01:23:53.70\01:23:55.16
It's not a trick question.
01:23:55.26\01:23:56.30
Can not keeping the
Sabbath cause us to be lost?
01:23:57.87\01:24:03.47
Yes.
01:24:03.97\01:24:04.54
Absolutely.
01:24:05.01\01:24:05.61
As you can be lost by
the rejection of any of God's
01:24:06.14\01:24:08.81
commandments.
01:24:08.81\01:24:12.58
what in the world?
01:24:12.58\01:24:13.45
You think you're
saved by the Sabbath?
01:24:13.48\01:24:14.72
No, no, no.
01:24:14.78\01:24:15.62
We're just putting it
in with the rest of the Ten
01:24:15.88\01:24:17.85
Commandments, right?
01:24:17.85\01:24:18.65
But now, here's the thing we
can't judge other human beings
01:24:19.25\01:24:22.36
as to where they are in their
spiritual walk with Christ.
01:24:22.36\01:24:25.09
That's why we don't say oh,
he doesn't keep the Sabbath.
01:24:25.49\01:24:27.56
Well, he's lost.
01:24:27.66\01:24:28.36
No, we don't do that.
01:24:28.63\01:24:29.46
Man looks on the outward
appearance, but God looks on
01:24:29.76\01:24:32.93
the heart.
01:24:32.93\01:24:33.54
Aren't you glad?
01:24:33.87\01:24:34.64
Again, it's all about a loving
relationship with our Heavenly
01:24:35.14\01:24:38.37
Father.
01:24:38.37\01:24:39.04
Now, many of us have a
checklist that make us feel
01:24:39.47\01:24:41.84
like we're saved.
01:24:41.84\01:24:43.24
We pay tithe.
01:24:43.95\01:24:44.88
We go to church Sabbath.
01:24:45.21\01:24:46.51
We eat tofu.
01:24:46.88\01:24:47.95
We don't smoke or drink alcohol.
01:24:49.02\01:24:51.12
But sadly, the checklist people
are likely the ones that Jesus
01:24:51.85\01:24:55.59
will say depart from
me, you workers of iniquity.
01:24:55.59\01:24:58.83
I never knew you.
01:24:59.09\01:25:00.36
To which they may answer,
but Lord, have I not done great
01:25:00.36\01:25:04.93
things?
01:25:04.93\01:25:05.60
Maybe the Lord missed it, right?
01:25:05.73\01:25:06.87
Have I not done
great things in your name?
01:25:06.90\01:25:08.87
I've healed the sick.
01:25:09.14\01:25:10.04
I fed the poor.
01:25:10.31\01:25:11.27
I gave big time
finances to the church.
01:25:11.64\01:25:14.08
I kept the Sabbath.
01:25:14.38\01:25:15.51
I was a strict vegetarian,
and I didn't even wear a wedding
01:25:15.84\01:25:19.45
ring.
01:25:19.45\01:25:19.88
Brothers and sisters, all of
these outward works do not open
01:25:22.35\01:25:25.79
the doors of Heaven.
01:25:25.79\01:25:26.72
Only a heart transformation
accomplished through the work
01:25:27.29\01:25:30.86
of the Holy
Spirit will get us there.
01:25:30.86\01:25:33.53
Are these other
things important?
01:25:34.66\01:25:36.10
Yes, they are.
01:25:36.20\01:25:37.00
Now, for my all of us
Adventists, we're going to put
01:25:37.33\01:25:40.74
up on the screen, because this
is going to make us feel much
01:25:40.74\01:25:43.54
better.
01:25:43.54\01:25:44.11
John 14, 15.
01:25:44.84\01:25:46.47
You can repeat it
without even seeing it.
01:25:46.68\01:25:48.94
If you love me,
keep my commandments.
01:25:50.05\01:25:54.28
So, commandments are important.
01:25:55.38\01:25:56.82
So, all of this talk, I haven't
been trying to do away with the
01:25:57.02\01:25:59.65
Ten Commandments.
01:25:59.65\01:26:00.39
You get it?
01:26:00.62\01:26:01.49
But can you see how easy
it is to be deceived by Satan?
01:26:01.89\01:26:05.43
Salvation is a free gift
from God that cannot be earned.
01:26:07.73\01:26:10.80
Think of it like this.
01:26:11.17\01:26:12.40
It's the same as in a marriage.
01:26:13.00\01:26:14.74
For those of you who are
married, are you living your
01:26:15.14\01:26:17.94
best life by having a checklist
to secure your marriage, or
01:26:17.94\01:26:23.31
have you...
01:26:23.31\01:26:24.31
Wait a minute, men
don't say anything to that.
01:26:24.31\01:26:26.08
I see people like, oh boy.
01:26:27.12\01:26:28.95
No, no, no, no, don't do that.
01:26:29.45\01:26:31.29
To secure your marriage,
or have you developed a
01:26:31.89\01:26:34.72
relationship built on love.
01:26:34.72\01:26:36.52
See, hopefully
it's built on love.
01:26:37.59\01:26:39.13
You will still do the same
things that you do for your
01:26:39.29\01:26:43.00
beautiful wife.
01:26:43.00\01:26:43.90
That you'll do these things not
because of the checklist, but
01:26:44.80\01:26:47.64
because you love her.
01:26:47.64\01:26:48.60
You want to please her.
01:26:48.64\01:26:50.04
Because you are
motivated by love.
01:26:50.14\01:26:53.94
Again, it's not
because you have to.
01:26:54.94\01:26:57.35
That's the way it
should be, and hopefully it is.
01:26:57.55\01:26:59.71
It's the same way with
our relationship with Jesus.
01:26:59.88\01:27:02.32
We serve him now out of love.
01:27:02.58\01:27:05.32
Once we're saved, because
we're not lost and we're not in
01:27:05.32\01:27:07.99
between, so we must be
saved, the way I figure it.
01:27:07.99\01:27:10.83
So not by trying to fix our own
character, but allowing him to
01:27:11.13\01:27:15.43
fix our
shortcomings and failures.
01:27:15.43\01:27:17.20
So once I confess my sins to
Jesus, he is faithful and just
01:27:17.53\01:27:22.24
to forgive me of my sins
and cleanse me from what?
01:27:22.24\01:27:25.81
From all unrighteousness.
01:27:26.14\01:27:27.91
Christ's blood, you should
be getting excited right now,
01:27:28.78\01:27:30.98
Christ's blood covers my sin,
and I'm saved until I reject
01:27:31.18\01:27:35.02
God and disconnect
from our relationship.
01:27:35.02\01:27:37.39
Alright, now
that's the Thus Sayeth Me.
01:27:38.35\01:27:40.26
But as I admitted, I didn't
go to the cemetery we talked
01:27:40.49\01:27:43.12
about.
01:27:43.12\01:27:48.36
Bible and reading
it for what it says.
01:27:48.36\01:27:50.47
Okay, I talked about
rejection of God's law.
01:27:51.73\01:27:54.54
Now we're going to get into
that, because now there's going
01:27:55.47\01:27:58.17
to be some shockwaves.
01:27:58.17\01:27:59.14
You're not going to
like it, many of you.
01:27:59.37\01:28:02.24
I didn't like it when I'm
studying it, but I just said,
01:28:02.44\01:28:05.98
okay Lord, if this is the
truth, we want to speak it,
01:28:06.18\01:28:09.08
right?
01:28:09.12\01:28:09.85
So, I want to talk about
the open rejection of God's
01:28:10.25\01:28:13.66
commandments.
01:28:13.66\01:28:14.26
I opened up my eyes, and
I determined by making a big
01:28:14.79\01:28:16.89
statement that nearly one
out of two S.D.A.'s by their own
01:28:16.89\01:28:21.30
admission admit they do
not believe that all ten
01:28:21.30\01:28:24.00
commandments are still valid
in today's society, didn't I?
01:28:24.00\01:28:27.70
So, if that is a true
statement, then it shows that
01:28:28.64\01:28:31.97
at least fifty percent,
we're going to find that, fifty
01:28:31.97\01:28:35.71
percent of Adventists are as
steeped, oh, I hate to even say
01:28:35.71\01:28:39.28
it, are as steeped in Babylon,
which is confusion just as much
01:28:39.28\01:28:44.12
as the churches that
we point our fingers to.
01:28:44.12\01:28:46.19
We've been pointing fingers
at other churches for nearly a
01:28:46.82\01:28:49.52
hundred and eighty
years since our inception.
01:28:49.52\01:28:51.46
We as a church have been called
to proclaim, right, the three
01:28:52.23\01:28:56.16
angels messages of Revelation
14, which is to give the
01:28:56.16\01:28:59.83
everlasting gospel to
a lost and dying world.
01:28:59.83\01:29:02.90
And in 1984, the Lord impressed
me to build a television
01:29:03.30\01:29:06.34
station to reach the world
with an undiluted three angels
01:29:06.34\01:29:10.71
messages, undiluted, you get
that, messages, one that would
01:29:10.71\01:29:15.38
counteract the counterfeit.
01:29:15.38\01:29:16.55
Now, I really had no idea
at that time what it meant.
01:29:16.75\01:29:19.42
It never occurred to me in
1984 that forty years later, we
01:29:20.16\01:29:26.13
would have a large percentage
of our own members, I'll show
01:29:26.13\01:29:28.83
you in a minute, who would
carry the name of Seventh-day
01:29:28.83\01:29:31.87
Adventists while openly
rejecting God's Ten Commandment
01:29:31.87\01:29:35.30
laws.
01:29:35.30\01:29:35.87
I'm not talking about
hiding it or individuals.
01:29:36.30\01:29:38.24
In 1984, the only commandment
under attack was the fourth
01:29:38.57\01:29:42.34
commandment of remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy.
01:29:42.34\01:29:45.11
For as I know, I might
have been a bubble myself.
01:29:45.48\01:29:48.32
But I'm not suggesting that any
of us were perfect back then,
01:29:48.68\01:29:51.89
because a lot of you were there
too, we know we're not, but I
01:29:52.25\01:29:54.86
want to be clear that no
Seventh-day Adventists in good
01:29:54.86\01:29:57.36
standing in the church would
have dared to openly support
01:29:57.36\01:30:00.63
the breaking of any of
God's commandments, am I right?
01:30:00.63\01:30:04.27
Some of you said so.
01:30:05.73\01:30:07.07
We wouldn't have, because
that's the whole calling that
01:30:07.07\01:30:10.51
we have to be a separated
people, come out of her my
01:30:10.51\01:30:13.17
people, right?
01:30:13.17\01:30:13.98
So we SDA stood up against
any attempted changes by the
01:30:14.34\01:30:18.35
Catholic Church and
openly challenged all Protestant
01:30:18.35\01:30:21.52
churches to rethink their
position on God's law that it
01:30:21.52\01:30:25.62
was nailed to the cross.
01:30:25.62\01:30:26.65
This made the devil furious.
01:30:26.89\01:30:28.52
As he hates God's law, that's
why he has rebelled, why he
01:30:28.82\01:30:33.19
rebelled in heaven and
why he got kicked out, right?
01:30:33.19\01:30:36.33
Of heaven.
01:30:36.46\01:30:37.10
As prince of this earth, he
is out to destroy God's law and
01:30:37.70\01:30:41.00
those who lift it up
for the world to see, right?
01:30:41.00\01:30:45.34
He's against well,
we're going to find out.
01:30:45.77\01:30:48.04
After all the Ten Commandments
is a transcript of God's own
01:30:48.31\01:30:52.35
character, but I want to read
a scripture and you know this by
01:30:52.35\01:30:55.25
heart, so you can say it with
me and get it on the screen,
01:30:55.25\01:30:57.55
great.
01:30:57.59\01:30:58.29
The devil is angry at people
who keep the law of God, right?
01:30:58.79\01:31:01.69
So here's the
scripture, Revelation what?
01:31:01.79\01:31:04.06
Is it on the screen?
01:31:04.33\01:31:05.19
12, 17.
01:31:05.56\01:31:06.53
And the dragon was enraged with
the woman and went to make war
01:31:07.03\01:31:11.80
with the rest of her offspring
who keep the commandments of
01:31:11.80\01:31:16.34
God and have the
testimony of Jesus Christ.
01:31:16.34\01:31:20.18
So, hang with me now, so being
the only major Christian church
01:31:21.14\01:31:25.68
whose teachings affirmed
the keeping of all Ten of God's
01:31:25.68\01:31:29.32
commandments, we gave ourselves
the name of the remnant church.
01:31:29.32\01:31:33.69
Nobody else gave it to us.
01:31:34.29\01:31:35.22
The Catholics didn't call
us the remnant church, the
01:31:35.42\01:31:37.86
Baptists don't call us that.
01:31:37.86\01:31:38.99
We call ourselves that.
01:31:39.36\01:31:40.50
After all, we even had a
prophetess named Ellen G.
01:31:40.93\01:31:43.83
White.
01:31:43.90\01:31:48.40
is the spirit of prophecy.
01:31:48.40\01:31:49.84
Combining the keeping of the
Ten Commandments along with the
01:31:50.51\01:31:53.41
woman who had the gift of
prophecy, no one could convince
01:31:53.41\01:31:57.01
us that we were not the remnant
church called by God in the
01:31:57.01\01:32:00.35
closing moments
of earth's history.
01:32:00.35\01:32:02.05
To uplift the law of God.
01:32:02.82\01:32:04.42
We were called to uplift
the law of God to the world.
01:32:04.45\01:32:07.46
Am I right?
01:32:08.36\01:32:08.86
Some of you are getting quiet.
01:32:09.26\01:32:10.39
We understood that we were to
be a separated people from the
01:32:10.53\01:32:13.93
rest of the world.
01:32:13.93\01:32:14.50
Separated.
01:32:14.83\01:32:15.53
That people would see us and
know us by our love for God and
01:32:16.00\01:32:20.44
our love for fellow man.
01:32:20.44\01:32:21.54
Most Christian churches
still claim this is going to get
01:32:22.34\01:32:25.84
better.
01:32:25.84\01:32:28.18
Most Christian churches still
claim the Ten Commandments are
01:32:28.84\01:32:32.65
nailed to the cross.
01:32:33.88\01:32:35.18
I'll say this kindly.
01:32:35.62\01:32:36.99
Now be careful about it.
01:32:37.92\01:32:39.05
It doesn't take a rocket
scientist to figure out that
01:32:39.29\01:32:45.63
either all the Ten Commandments
were nailed to the cross or
01:32:45.63\01:32:48.53
none of them were.
01:32:48.53\01:32:49.60
I don't want to talk down to
people, but once you read them
01:32:49.76\01:32:53.37
it's pretty simple.
01:32:53.37\01:32:54.37
We can't separate them, right?
01:32:54.37\01:32:57.54
God didn't give any man
authority to divide them up as
01:32:57.84\01:33:02.18
he sees fit.
01:33:02.18\01:33:03.01
You can't have it both ways.
01:33:03.65\01:33:04.91
All you have to do is go into
your, let me tell you how to
01:33:05.35\01:33:08.92
prove it, go into your
Christian neighbor's garage,
01:33:08.92\01:33:11.55
take his brand new riding
lawn mower home without his
01:33:12.25\01:33:15.02
permission, and tell him you
love it so much you're going to
01:33:15.02\01:33:17.99
keep it.
01:33:17.99\01:33:18.66
You decide to keep it.
01:33:18.89\01:33:20.03
I'll guarantee you he'll
instantly have a heart change
01:33:20.03\01:33:22.76
about the Eighth Commandment
being nailed to the cross.
01:33:22.76\01:33:25.17
Right?
01:33:26.53\01:33:26.74
That's what happens.
01:33:27.80\01:33:28.80
While other churches
were running from the books of
01:33:28.94\01:33:32.07
Daniel and Revelation, our
church was running towards it.
01:33:32.07\01:33:35.28
Why?
01:33:35.44\01:33:40.38
end.
01:33:40.38\01:33:40.72
By doing this we
made an enemy of Satan.
01:33:41.45\01:33:43.79
Satan doesn't
want to be exposed.
01:33:44.25\01:33:45.49
Daniel and Revelation exposes
him entirely to the world.
01:33:45.59\01:33:49.26
So let me ask you, who do you
think then is Satan's greatest
01:33:50.13\01:33:53.50
enemies?
01:33:53.50\01:33:53.90
According to the Bible, they
are sold out Christians for the
01:33:54.83\01:33:57.87
cause of Christ, those who
resemble the remnant church.
01:33:57.87\01:34:00.84
Now you know this.
01:34:01.30\01:34:02.27
Who is the remnant church?
01:34:02.34\01:34:03.34
I don't mean by title.
01:34:03.47\01:34:04.51
Let's see what the Bible says.
01:34:04.77\01:34:06.17
Revelation we can call
ourselves whatever, but let's
01:34:06.44\01:34:08.98
see what Revelation 12, 11 says.
01:34:08.98\01:34:11.01
If you can get it on the
screen, if not you know it.
01:34:11.51\01:34:13.95
And they overcame him by
the blood of the Lamb and by the
01:34:14.32\01:34:18.92
word of their testimony, and
they did not love their lives
01:34:18.92\01:34:22.82
to the death.
01:34:22.82\01:34:23.79
That's who Jesus is
coming back for, folks.
01:34:24.29\01:34:26.66
Not people compromising.
01:34:27.56\01:34:29.10
People who's willing to
love not their lives unto death.
01:34:29.96\01:34:32.77
God's end time people should
be willing to die defending God
01:34:33.03\01:34:37.31
and his character of love.
01:34:37.31\01:34:38.74
Not people who've jumped
spiritual ships in order to
01:34:38.94\01:34:42.08
join forces with current
politics and race and culture.
01:34:42.08\01:34:46.31
We cannot compromise the
law of God not at any one point.
01:34:46.61\01:34:51.89
And I never thought I
would be preaching to a group of
01:34:52.59\01:34:55.66
Adventists and have to put out
this text for us to read to get
01:34:55.66\01:35:00.76
your attention.
01:35:00.76\01:35:01.36
I just never thought I would.
01:35:01.43\01:35:02.60
I always thought
this for everybody else.
01:35:02.66\01:35:04.37
But when I show you some
figures and stats in just a
01:35:04.60\01:35:06.97
minute you're going to see why.
01:35:06.97\01:35:08.67
Brother and sister James 2, 10.
01:35:09.04\01:35:11.34
Alright.
01:35:12.24\01:35:12.57
I'll read it.
01:35:13.17\01:35:14.31
For whoever shall keep the
whole law and yet stumble in
01:35:14.34\01:35:17.98
one point, he's guilty of all.
01:35:17.98\01:35:20.95
For he who said do not commit
adultery also said do not what?
01:35:21.35\01:35:26.92
Do not what?
01:35:27.29\01:35:28.19
Murder.
01:35:28.29\01:35:28.96
Now if you do not commit
adultery but you do murder you
01:35:29.46\01:35:34.10
have become a
transgressor of the law.
01:35:34.10\01:35:36.63
In other words, you will reap
the consequences of breaking
01:35:37.23\01:35:40.94
God's Ten Commandment Law.
01:35:40.94\01:35:42.54
The Bible says, for those who
don't know and those watching
01:35:42.77\01:35:45.67
my television
audience 1 John 3, 4.
01:35:45.67\01:35:48.74
Whoever commits sin also
commits lawlessness as sin is
01:35:48.88\01:35:53.52
lawlessness.
01:35:53.52\01:35:54.28
Okay?
01:35:54.65\01:35:55.32
Now that's easy
enough to understand.
01:35:55.55\01:35:56.92
So what does the Bible
say is the wages of sin.
01:35:57.02\01:36:00.52
So I'm quickly going through
because I'm running out of
01:36:00.56\01:36:02.92
time.
01:36:02.92\01:36:03.36
Romans 6, 23.
01:36:03.53\01:36:04.69
Say it with me.
01:36:04.69\01:36:05.83
For the wages of sin is death,
but the gift of God is eternal
01:36:05.96\01:36:11.00
life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
01:36:11.00\01:36:13.84
So does everyone understand
the Bible process of sin?
01:36:14.27\01:36:17.37
Alright?
01:36:18.07\01:36:18.77
When we go back to James 2, 10
right now I want to think about
01:36:19.31\01:36:22.01
it.
01:36:22.01\01:36:26.08
the closing moments of verse
history as I look back I never
01:36:26.08\01:36:29.15
thought of this scripture
before, but it says here James
01:36:29.15\01:36:32.05
uses the example of
being of murder as a sin.
01:36:32.05\01:36:37.09
Hmm.
01:36:37.89\01:36:41.13
Anybody heard of Pew research?
01:36:41.20\01:36:42.60
Very reputable.
01:36:42.96\01:36:44.43
Results that I told you I would
show you from the beginning,
01:36:45.47\01:36:48.74
right?
01:36:48.94\01:36:53.48
keep or they believe in
keeping all ten commandments.
01:36:53.48\01:36:56.08
Okay.
01:36:56.75\01:36:57.21
Let's read it.
01:36:58.45\01:36:59.21
Can we put that quote up?
01:36:59.28\01:37:00.68
Look at this.
01:37:01.65\01:37:02.32
The study by Pew also
highlights that while the
01:37:02.85\01:37:06.69
majority of SDAs hold
more restrictive views than the
01:37:06.69\01:37:10.86
general public, there's
still a segment 42% who believe
01:37:10.86\01:37:16.20
abortion should be
legal in all or most cases.
01:37:16.20\01:37:20.44
Brothers and sisters, it didn't
say you know, let that soak in
01:37:21.77\01:37:25.67
a minute.
01:37:25.67\01:37:30.28
emergency or rare case.
01:37:30.28\01:37:31.95
It's just the opposite.
01:37:32.31\01:37:33.55
This poll shows that 42%
of church members believe that
01:37:33.95\01:37:38.49
abortion should be
legal in all or most cases.
01:37:38.49\01:37:41.89
That's unacceptable.
01:37:42.09\01:37:42.99
Oh, you got quiet now.
01:37:44.26\01:37:45.59
According to this research
by Pew, nearly one half of our
01:37:47.60\01:37:50.60
church members are so deceived
they have jumped ships and now
01:37:50.60\01:37:54.40
support the work of the devil,
which is to steal, kill, and to
01:37:54.40\01:37:58.14
destroy.
01:37:58.14\01:37:58.44
That's John 10 10.
01:37:58.74\01:37:59.77
And while we are at it, let
me put up another shock wave.
01:37:59.94\01:38:03.65
I forgot to say shock wave.
01:38:03.71\01:38:05.05
Put up this one.
01:38:05.45\01:38:06.31
This one is hard to believe.
01:38:06.58\01:38:07.85
Is it on the screen?
01:38:08.15\01:38:08.88
A Pew Research Center
study found that about 63% of
01:38:09.28\01:38:14.12
Adventists oppose allowing
gay and lesbian couples to marry
01:38:14.12\01:38:18.29
legally.
01:38:18.29\01:38:18.99
However, there's also a
minority who are supportive or
01:38:19.46\01:38:23.00
have more nuance to whatever
that is, more nuanced views.
01:38:23.00\01:38:26.57
Folks, if my numbers are
correct, 63% from 100 equals
01:38:26.97\01:38:31.57
37%.
01:38:32.67\01:38:38.51
compromised the biblical view
of same-sex marriage and now
01:38:38.51\01:38:42.38
support or have a more nuanced
view, right, in favor of LGBTQ
01:38:42.38\01:38:48.36
lifestyle.
01:38:48.36\01:38:49.09
God have mercy on us.
01:38:49.52\01:38:50.89
You put those two together
and you got more than 50%.
01:38:51.49\01:38:54.66
In fact, let me show you what
Adventist Health Center just
01:38:54.66\01:38:59.40
placed on their
Facebook a few days ago.
01:38:59.40\01:39:01.80
Just a few days ago.
01:39:02.64\01:39:03.74
If we can get it up on the
screen, alright, you can go to
01:39:04.41\01:39:07.91
Facebook and look it up.
01:39:07.91\01:39:08.88
I won't bother to read it.
01:39:08.98\01:39:10.25
But it's Pride Month.
01:39:10.38\01:39:11.41
They're celebrating Pride Month.
01:39:11.51\01:39:13.42
And they put it up so you
go there and you read it for
01:39:14.98\01:39:18.42
yourself.
01:39:18.42\01:39:22.56
putting up
celebrating Pride Month?
01:39:22.56\01:39:24.19
They don't
celebrate Straight Month.
01:39:24.43\01:39:26.59
Right?
01:39:26.59\01:39:27.56
They don't celebrate Yvonne's
so beautiful, I think we should
01:39:28.86\01:39:31.97
have to celebrate
Yvonne for a month.
01:39:31.97\01:39:33.70
They don't do that.
01:39:34.44\01:39:35.74
So obviously they're doing
it to let the world know they
01:39:36.34\01:39:39.07
support gay pride.
01:39:39.07\01:39:41.01
Now pride's what got the
devil kicked out of heaven.
01:39:41.41\01:39:43.45
Of course, complete
with the rainbow colors.
01:39:43.65\01:39:45.61
Now frankly speaking, our moral
values and regard for God's Ten
01:39:46.01\01:39:50.22
Commandment Law,
folks, are at an all-time low.
01:39:50.22\01:39:54.16
The only thing that can save us
now is revival and reformation.
01:39:54.16\01:39:58.66
And that can only happen how?
01:39:59.09\01:40:01.00
When we as a people repent of
our wicked ways and cry out for
01:40:01.00\01:40:05.07
God to save us from our sins.
01:40:05.07\01:40:07.00
God doesn't
forgive us in our sins.
01:40:07.30\01:40:09.00
He forgives us
from our sins, right?
01:40:09.14\01:40:11.71
Now this scripture I really
want us to read because we need
01:40:11.91\01:40:15.21
this scripture.
01:40:15.21\01:40:15.78
We need this right now.
01:40:15.91\01:40:17.85
Chronicles.
01:40:17.85\01:40:17.88
Second Chronicles.
01:40:18.48\01:40:19.28
Let's put it on the screen.
01:40:19.35\01:40:20.38
7-14.
01:40:20.65\01:40:21.98
Let's read it together.
01:40:21.98\01:40:23.59
If my people who are called by
my name will humble themselves
01:40:24.32\01:40:30.13
and pray and seek my face
and turn from their wicked ways,
01:40:30.13\01:40:35.86
then I will hear from heaven
and will forgive their sin and
01:40:35.86\01:40:41.20
heal their lands.
01:40:41.20\01:40:42.30
I'm looking at my clock.
01:40:44.01\01:40:45.07
I'm hurrying.
01:40:45.14\01:40:45.94
Folks, we need to be pleading
with God to forgive us not only
01:40:46.81\01:40:51.41
corporately as a
church, but also individually.
01:40:51.41\01:40:54.88
We have the truth, but
shamefully, the graphics from
01:40:55.32\01:40:59.42
these surveys show many of us
are in deep spiritual darkness.
01:40:59.42\01:41:03.46
I can tell you how, one thing
I can tell you, a little side
01:41:04.06\01:41:07.03
story, that I've written a
number of books and literally
01:41:07.03\01:41:12.17
millions of them.
01:41:12.17\01:41:13.30
You have ordered millions
because we give them away free.
01:41:13.30\01:41:15.60
You just pay the shipping.
01:41:15.70\01:41:16.77
The last couple of books we
wrote was one of them is The
01:41:17.41\01:41:21.81
Truth About Abortion and
the other one is The Truth About
01:41:21.81\01:41:26.08
Can the Christian
Church Affirm LGBTQ?
01:41:26.08\01:41:29.02
Most of those couple million
are sitting over in a warehouse
01:41:29.68\01:41:33.12
because you didn't
want them for free.
01:41:33.12\01:41:35.12
You didn't want them to pass.
01:41:35.79\01:41:36.99
I wouldn't have believed these
figures are too high, but I got
01:41:36.99\01:41:40.10
thinking about it.
01:41:40.10\01:41:41.20
All of these other books
literally we've sold several
01:41:41.70\01:41:43.97
millions and they reorder, but
these two, people in our church
01:41:43.97\01:41:48.94
don't want them.
01:41:48.94\01:41:50.04
You're either afraid to pass
them out or you don't believe
01:41:50.17\01:41:52.57
that there's
anything wrong with it.
01:41:52.57\01:41:54.74
So that's my own little that
wasn't a Pew research that was
01:41:55.04\01:41:59.31
a Danny.
01:41:59.31\01:41:59.75
Brothers and sisters, I'm
convinced that the remnant
01:42:00.85\01:42:03.35
group of
believers will be just that.
01:42:03.35\01:42:05.39
It's only going to be a
small fraction of Christians,
01:42:05.72\01:42:08.09
including SDAs, will be ready
and waiting for the soon return
01:42:08.16\01:42:11.99
of Jesus Christ.
01:42:11.99\01:42:12.96
Now we're being judged by our
words and our actions, not only
01:42:13.23\01:42:16.46
by God, but those around us.
01:42:16.46\01:42:18.30
As the old saying goes, we're
so heavenly minded sometimes
01:42:23.14\01:42:27.51
that we're no earthly good.
01:42:27.51\01:42:28.78
You ever hear that?
01:42:28.88\01:42:29.68
Satan has been gaining ground
like never before, especially
01:42:30.48\01:42:33.52
in the last 10 or 20 years.
01:42:33.52\01:42:35.12
Now I'm going to try to
make this quick, but I got some
01:42:35.52\01:42:37.65
important stuff to say.
01:42:37.65\01:42:38.79
Yes Adventists are so confused,
they are now supporting many of
01:42:39.19\01:42:45.16
those we see, nearly half,
the breaking of God's sixth and
01:42:45.16\01:42:48.43
seventh commandments of thou
shalt not murder and thou shalt
01:42:48.43\01:42:51.30
not commit adultery.
01:42:51.30\01:42:52.20
God hates compromise.
01:42:52.53\01:42:54.07
Matthew let's put
it in Matthew 15 9.
01:42:55.50\01:42:58.41
Again, I never thought I'd need
to give this to an Adventist
01:42:58.61\01:43:01.14
audience.
01:43:01.14\01:43:01.74
And in vain, read it with
me, and in vain they worship me,
01:43:02.38\01:43:06.72
teaching as doctrines
the commandments of men.
01:43:06.85\01:43:10.65
Now this is pretty
straightforward, isn't it?
01:43:11.52\01:43:13.82
A counterfeit Christian
group teaching doctrines of men
01:43:13.82\01:43:17.33
rather than the Bible doctrines.
01:43:17.33\01:43:19.53
Could this be a religious
people who insert their own
01:43:19.66\01:43:22.80
personal opinions into God's
commandments to fit their own
01:43:22.80\01:43:26.53
personal narrative of political
or cultural or racial views?
01:43:26.53\01:43:30.44
Oh yeah, now you're quiet.
01:43:31.67\01:43:32.74
It's alright.
01:43:32.84\01:43:33.51
So we see here that one
of the identifying marks of a
01:43:33.98\01:43:37.38
counterfeit church are those
people who add to or take away
01:43:37.38\01:43:41.42
from God's Ten Commandment Law.
01:43:41.42\01:43:42.88
Do you agree with that?
01:43:42.95\01:43:43.89
We say that
about everybody else.
01:43:44.02\01:43:46.42
So please follow me now.
01:43:46.82\01:43:48.12
Speaking of a counterfeit
religious group, history tells
01:43:48.39\01:43:51.53
us that during the Dark Ages,
50 to 70 million people were
01:43:51.53\01:43:55.80
persecuted at the hands of
the I'm just going to say the
01:43:55.80\01:43:58.77
church.
01:43:58.77\01:43:59.40
Now all in the
name of religion, right?
01:43:59.67\01:44:01.84
So guess what?
01:44:02.24\01:44:03.20
Since 1973, the United States
government has legislated laws
01:44:03.51\01:44:09.21
murdering over 65 million
babies in what many call a
01:44:09.21\01:44:14.65
Christian nation.
01:44:14.65\01:44:15.38
So let me ask you, since God,
now this is very simple, since
01:44:16.02\01:44:20.39
God is the creator of life,
do you believe these millions of
01:44:20.39\01:44:24.76
murders were of
the Lord or the devil?
01:44:24.76\01:44:27.46
It has to be either God
killing the people or the devil.
01:44:28.33\01:44:32.10
There's no in between.
01:44:32.63\01:44:33.90
It's like these
other things, folks.
01:44:34.00\01:44:35.40
This is just down
home common sense.
01:44:35.67\01:44:38.21
There's no in between.
01:44:38.54\01:44:39.54
All right.
01:44:40.04\01:44:43.85
on yet.
01:44:43.85\01:44:45.45
We've said it several times,
but let's put John 10 10 up
01:44:45.45\01:44:48.62
there because the beautiful
parts, the last part, it says
01:44:48.62\01:44:52.32
the thief does not come except
to steal and to kill and to
01:44:52.32\01:44:57.96
destroy.
01:44:57.96\01:45:03.10
more abundantly.
01:45:03.10\01:45:06.33
people, right?
01:45:06.33\01:45:07.04
So to the 42% of S.D.A.s
who support abortion, in all or
01:45:07.54\01:45:12.44
most cases, do you feel you're
supporting the work of the
01:45:12.44\01:45:15.54
Lord?
01:45:15.54\01:45:15.74
Oh, that's a tough one.
01:45:17.61\01:45:18.78
Or do you feel you're
supporting the work of the
01:45:19.35\01:45:22.35
devil?
01:45:22.35\01:45:22.88
Again, you're either on
God's side, right, in all this
01:45:23.52\01:45:27.76
shedding of innocent blood,
or you're on the devil's side.
01:45:27.76\01:45:31.19
I'm letting you think about
it a bit, soak in a minute.
01:45:32.99\01:45:35.60
Just as many babies have
been killed in America as were
01:45:36.30\01:45:39.83
killed during all the religious
wars during the Dark Ages, but
01:45:39.83\01:45:43.24
there's one big difference.
01:45:43.24\01:45:44.91
Satan got a bad historical rap
for that, murdering millions of
01:45:45.47\01:45:50.21
people during the Dark Ages,
so history has not been good to
01:45:50.21\01:45:53.25
him on that one.
01:45:53.25\01:45:54.28
So even Satan can learn
from his mistakes, since he
01:45:54.62\01:45:58.35
accomplished the same amount
of murders just since 1973 as
01:45:58.35\01:46:02.52
during the entire 1200 years
or so of the Dark Ages, he's
01:46:02.52\01:46:07.20
changed his tactics.
01:46:07.20\01:46:08.16
He's changed his tactics.
01:46:09.13\01:46:10.90
This time he not only
has support from the federal
01:46:11.53\01:46:15.37
government, but the support
of many, many Christians.
01:46:15.37\01:46:18.51
Over 45 percent of Christians
support murdering of innocent
01:46:19.04\01:46:23.98
babies in the womb.
01:46:23.98\01:46:25.18
Now they didn't get this
from New Light on the subject.
01:46:26.75\01:46:29.68
There's no New
Bible scriptures on that.
01:46:29.68\01:46:32.52
But from gaining support
of millions and millions of
01:46:32.95\01:46:35.59
Christians by joining them
to race, culture, and politics.
01:46:35.59\01:46:39.93
Satan himself
learned a big lesson.
01:46:40.93\01:46:42.66
He learned that he can work
side by side with Christians in
01:46:43.67\01:46:48.34
the name of
God-given freedom of choice.
01:46:48.34\01:46:51.61
It was a slam dunk for him.
01:46:53.24\01:46:55.08
Slam dunk.
01:46:55.74\01:46:56.61
This has worked so beautifully
in the Christian church that he
01:46:56.98\01:47:00.28
now is able to get a front row
seat or get a job as the choir
01:47:00.28\01:47:03.65
director almost undetected.
01:47:03.65\01:47:05.69
Almost in any church in America
and quite possibly yours.
01:47:06.39\01:47:09.46
So while we may be getting
weary of hearing, you may be
01:47:11.23\01:47:14.60
getting weary of hearing this
kind of message, and I may be
01:47:14.60\01:47:17.30
getting tired of preaching it,
I have to do what God's asked
01:47:17.30\01:47:20.37
me to do.
01:47:20.37\01:47:23.24
worse.
01:47:23.24\01:47:23.57
So if we've lost 19,300,000
members since 1965, whatever we
01:47:24.57\01:47:31.21
have done, I think we
ought to do something different.
01:47:31.21\01:47:35.42
We need to do an about face
because we couldn't lose that
01:47:35.62\01:47:38.55
many members if we tried.
01:47:38.55\01:47:39.72
If you started a church
and wanted to lose that many
01:47:40.09\01:47:42.19
members, you couldn't.
01:47:42.19\01:47:43.32
I don't think, right?
01:47:43.86\01:47:44.99
So brothers and sisters, this
is a problem that's not going
01:47:45.26\01:47:48.46
to go away on itself.
01:47:48.46\01:47:49.50
People are looking for
truth like never before.
01:47:50.30\01:47:52.73
We as a church need to be there
like a beacon on a hill calling
01:47:53.07\01:47:57.11
all people to come and worship
God in the spirit of holiness
01:47:57.11\01:48:01.21
and righteousness that God can
pour out in abundant blessings
01:48:01.21\01:48:04.71
to those in need.
01:48:04.71\01:48:06.01
Folks, we don't have the right
to judge individuals, but we do
01:48:06.65\01:48:10.22
as a church have the
responsibility to judge bad
01:48:10.22\01:48:13.42
fruit and be
protectors on the walls.
01:48:13.42\01:48:15.82
Open sin is bad fruit.
01:48:16.36\01:48:17.93
So when a church affirms the
open degenerate actions of the
01:48:18.19\01:48:22.33
LGBTQ movement and the
promotion of abortion as
01:48:22.33\01:48:25.63
exemption to God's Ten
Commandment Law leading them
01:48:25.63\01:48:29.10
out of sin, right?
01:48:29.10\01:48:30.84
They're taking it
out of the sin category.
01:48:30.94\01:48:33.04
God will remove his covering
of blessings on that church.
01:48:33.48\01:48:36.68
And the problem for many church
members is sometimes the pastor
01:48:37.18\01:48:40.78
and the elders and the deacons
are the ones in support of open
01:48:40.78\01:48:44.25
sin against God.
01:48:44.25\01:48:46.55
Wow.
01:48:47.19\01:48:47.22
So pastors, elders, and
deacons, members claiming to be
01:48:48.76\01:48:52.13
God's agents representing God's
remnant church, but instead are
01:48:52.13\01:48:56.60
joining hands with Satan
and his followers, trampling the
01:48:56.60\01:48:59.60
law of God.
01:48:59.60\01:49:00.20
Now let me give you an example.
01:49:00.50\01:49:01.67
While SDAs teach that God's Ten
Commandment Law was given for
01:49:02.07\01:49:05.87
mankind and not just for the
Jews and were not nailed to the
01:49:05.87\01:49:09.71
cross and are very much valid
today, including the keeping of
01:49:09.71\01:49:14.15
the Fourth Commandment of
Remember the Sabbath Day to
01:49:14.15\01:49:17.19
Keep it Holy, the quote
from Pew Research Center shows
01:49:17.19\01:49:20.72
something different.
01:49:20.72\01:49:21.56
Forty-two percent of
Seventh -day Adventists support
01:49:21.86\01:49:24.86
abortion in all or most cases.
01:49:24.86\01:49:26.73
This gives the world a totally
different view of Seventh-day
01:49:27.03\01:49:30.30
Adventists than
they used to have.
01:49:30.30\01:49:31.80
In fact, it shows us who
support same-sex marriage.
01:49:32.30\01:49:35.77
I'm going to say
those because I don't.
01:49:35.77\01:49:37.44
Those who support same-sex
marriage and abortion as
01:49:37.51\01:49:40.98
hypocrites.
01:49:40.98\01:49:41.78
I'm sorry.
01:49:42.81\01:49:43.71
I mean, that's
what the facts show.
01:49:43.91\01:49:45.78
Please let this soak in.
01:49:45.78\01:49:48.05
This should be a shockwave big
enough to wake up the worldwide
01:49:48.52\01:49:52.42
church.
01:49:52.42\01:49:58.09
defend the law of God against
the attacks of the devil, now
01:49:58.09\01:50:01.26
has forty-two percent of its
members openly supporting the
01:50:01.26\01:50:05.40
breaking of the Sixth
Commandment of Thou Shall Not
01:50:05.40\01:50:08.40
Murder.
01:50:08.40\01:50:09.00
Stay with me, please, and for
whatever reasons many have also
01:50:09.64\01:50:12.87
compromised the biblical view
of the Seventh Commandment and
01:50:12.87\01:50:16.38
now support same-sex marriage.
01:50:16.38\01:50:18.45
So the devil is cunning.
01:50:18.78\01:50:19.71
Now watch this, please.
01:50:20.12\01:50:21.35
I love this part.
01:50:21.38\01:50:22.75
Watch this.
01:50:22.95\01:50:23.75
Thank you.
01:50:25.22\01:50:25.82
Somebody said shockwaves.
01:50:25.85\01:50:27.12
Thank you, sir.
01:50:28.86\01:50:30.13
Somebody's listening.
01:50:30.29\01:50:31.23
Our leaders, our deceived
leaders and members in the
01:50:31.86\01:50:35.03
Church, get this, teach the
Fourth Commandment from God as
01:50:35.03\01:50:39.93
a command.
01:50:39.93\01:50:40.60
But they teach the Sixth
and Seventh Commandment as a
01:50:41.30\01:50:44.27
choice.
01:50:44.27\01:50:44.77
Come on, somebody.
01:50:46.37\01:50:47.14
Somebody ought to
be responding to that.
01:50:47.24\01:50:49.04
We teach the Fourth Commandment
as a command, but we teach the
01:50:50.25\01:50:55.35
Sixth and Seventh
Commandments as a choice.
01:50:55.35\01:50:58.22
So please somebody
tell me you got it.
01:50:58.79\01:51:00.52
Did you get it?
01:51:00.52\01:51:01.26
Alright.
01:51:01.66\01:51:05.76
Commandments,
not the Ten Choices?
01:51:05.76\01:51:08.46
Amen!
01:51:08.46\01:51:09.13
Now it's hard for me to
fathom that approximately fifty
01:51:11.07\01:51:14.27
percent of Adventists are now
joining Babylon by negating the
01:51:14.27\01:51:18.11
Six and Seventh
Commandments, and we are.
01:51:18.11\01:51:20.18
If you, if you turn away from
God's law and break His law,
01:51:20.34\01:51:26.08
openly reject it.
01:51:26.18\01:51:27.42
That's what we
teach everybody else is.
01:51:28.15\01:51:30.09
But we want to make exceptions.
01:51:30.92\01:51:32.19
No, we're the remnant Church.
01:51:32.32\01:51:33.39
Well think about it like this.
01:51:33.92\01:51:35.22
When the Catholic Church
01:51:35.46\01:51:36.59
tried to change the Fourth
Commandment by instituting the
01:51:40.36\01:51:44.10
First Day of the Week as
the new Christian Sabbath, we
01:51:44.10\01:51:47.34
Adventists point the fingers
at them and call them the Beast
01:51:47.34\01:51:50.37
Power.
01:51:50.37\01:51:50.91
When the Protestant Churches
follow the change of the
01:51:51.51\01:51:54.58
Seventh Day Bible Sabbath
from Saturday to Sunday, we call
01:51:54.58\01:51:58.75
them apostate Protestants.
01:51:58.75\01:52:01.12
But when we SDAs, half of
us at least, affirm adding the
01:52:01.25\01:52:05.69
exceptions of rape and incest
to the Sixth Commandment of
01:52:05.69\01:52:09.16
Thou Shall Not Murder, taking
it out of the sin basket, and
01:52:09.16\01:52:12.89
adding the exception of
LGBTQ lifestyle to the Seventh
01:52:12.89\01:52:16.77
Commandment of Thou Shall
Not Commit Adultery, we call
01:52:16.77\01:52:19.77
ourselves the remnant Church.
01:52:19.77\01:52:21.70
That's why I said earlier
we gave ourselves that name.
01:52:23.24\01:52:25.84
God have mercy on us.
01:52:26.64\01:52:28.01
Talk about deceptions.
01:52:28.34\01:52:29.64
I'm just about ready to close
here, so hang with me again
01:52:30.55\01:52:33.11
please.
01:52:33.11\01:52:33.45
Let me ask you a question.
01:52:33.95\01:52:35.15
Why would so many SDA pastors
and members suddenly affirm the
01:52:35.38\01:52:39.09
breaking of the Sixth and
Seventh Commandments when for
01:52:39.09\01:52:42.09
two thousand years the New
Testament writers and the early
01:52:42.09\01:52:46.39
Christian Church never
accepted the breaking of these
01:52:46.39\01:52:49.43
commandments?
01:52:49.43\01:52:54.00
third century AD, they've never
affirmed abortion and same-sex
01:52:54.00\01:52:57.71
marriage and neither did Martin
Luther, I don't think Martin
01:52:57.71\01:53:01.08
Luther King either, and
the early Protestant reformers
01:53:01.08\01:53:04.31
including the newly formed
Seventh-day Adventist Church in
01:53:04.31\01:53:07.58
the middle 1800s, Christians
never espoused, affirmed, or
01:53:07.58\01:53:11.45
promoted the breaking of the
Sixth and Seventh Commandments
01:53:11.45\01:53:14.92
until recently.
01:53:14.92\01:53:16.02
This about face came
about Roe versus Wade in 1973.
01:53:17.59\01:53:21.93
That's when it really started
on abortion and Christians
01:53:22.90\01:53:25.70
really weighed in on affirming
LGBTQ lifestyle after then
01:53:25.70\01:53:30.21
President Obama fulfilled
his pledge to the homosexual
01:53:30.21\01:53:33.71
community and to the rest
of America that if elected he
01:53:33.71\01:53:36.95
would champion same-sex
marriage all the way to the
01:53:36.95\01:53:39.91
Supreme Court, and he did, and
same-sex marriage became law of
01:53:39.91\01:53:44.22
the land in 2015.
01:53:44.22\01:53:46.15
Folks, I'm just giving you
the truth, I'm just telling you
01:53:46.45\01:53:48.59
what the truth says, and yet
many of us, I hate to say it,
01:53:48.59\01:53:53.33
but nearly half of us voted
for him knowing he was going to
01:53:53.36\01:53:56.73
pass a law that would be
breaking God's commandments.
01:53:56.73\01:54:00.14
That would be like me
voting for Donald Trump if he's
01:54:00.14\01:54:00.17
running for a
National Sunday Law.
01:54:02.50\01:54:04.27
Are we going to be
voting for him for that?
01:54:04.71\01:54:06.14
No, we wouldn't.
01:54:06.27\01:54:07.41
Absolutely.
01:54:07.71\01:54:10.88
alright?
01:54:10.91\01:54:14.62
about the second time when
he openly said, I'm going to
01:54:14.62\01:54:17.89
trample and take America to the
Supreme Court and let it slap
01:54:17.89\01:54:22.12
God in the face.
01:54:22.12\01:54:22.96
So it's not just him, and
people think I'm getting into
01:54:23.32\01:54:25.66
color or race, it has
nothing to do with race.
01:54:25.66\01:54:27.96
I don't care if he's black,
red, yellow, white, whatever
01:54:28.06\01:54:31.30
color he was, it's just the
fact that that's what happened.
01:54:31.30\01:54:34.17
SDA supporting the sixth and
seventh commandments, did you
01:54:34.64\01:54:38.04
notice there is no
new theological evidence?
01:54:38.04\01:54:40.78
That's what I'm trying to say,
supporting abortion, nothing
01:54:40.84\01:54:43.58
from the Bible, and without
the Bible basis, many Christians
01:54:43.58\01:54:47.58
march with, uh oh, if you're
in this deep, Danny, go ahead,
01:54:47.58\01:54:51.55
they march with lawless groups
and LGBTQ groups and they march
01:54:51.99\01:54:57.39
with my body, my choice groups,
and in doing so, they seem to
01:54:57.39\01:55:01.53
forget God's law says the
shedding of innocent blood of
01:55:01.53\01:55:05.10
babies and same sex marriage,
LGBTQ transgender, are a direct
01:55:05.10\01:55:09.80
attack on God, justified by
some in the name of fairness,
01:55:09.80\01:55:15.01
equity, and inclusion.
01:55:15.71\01:55:17.18
Now many good intentioned
Christians usurp God's
01:55:17.81\01:55:20.98
authority by promoting open sin.
01:55:20.98\01:55:22.85
Now let me explain it like this.
01:55:23.12\01:55:24.52
They're looking at the physical
instead of the spiritual.
01:55:24.95\01:55:27.99
In the physical, they oppose
the United States government
01:55:28.52\01:55:32.79
legislating laws taking
away a person's free choice.
01:55:32.79\01:55:35.86
But Christians have no right to
take those two commandments and
01:55:36.46\01:55:40.20
remove them from the sin basket.
01:55:40.20\01:55:41.90
God placed them
in there, we didn't.
01:55:42.60\01:55:44.14
Can you see the problem?
01:55:44.51\01:55:45.64
Brothers and sisters, I
don't know how I can say it any
01:55:46.01\01:55:49.04
plainer, but I'm
going to try here.
01:55:49.04\01:55:50.21
The Bible is
clear on this subject.
01:55:50.68\01:55:52.61
In other words, SDAs, pastors,
deacons, elders, members don't
01:55:53.05\01:55:58.39
get up in the pulpit and preach
sermons affirming the breaking
01:55:58.39\01:56:01.79
of these two commandments
in the name of free choice.
01:56:01.79\01:56:05.19
Some of them are doing it.
01:56:06.13\01:56:07.03
Listen closely, please.
01:56:07.13\01:56:08.26
No matter what laws
any government in the world
01:56:08.43\01:56:11.50
legislates, it does not negate
or change God's Ten Commandment
01:56:11.50\01:56:15.54
Law written in
stone by his own fingers.
01:56:15.54\01:56:18.04
And furthermore, you have
no right to play God and insert
01:56:18.04\01:56:21.91
the false doctrines of what
you believe may be exceptions to
01:56:21.91\01:56:25.71
the commandments.
01:56:25.71\01:56:26.61
If God says murder is the sin,
don't get up and try to make
01:56:26.95\01:56:30.25
excuses as to your human
thinking of what fits your
01:56:30.25\01:56:33.76
political or cultural narrative.
01:56:33.76\01:56:35.32
I've even heard SDA pastors get
up and preach that abortion is
01:56:36.22\01:56:39.56
the sin except in cases
of rape, or incest, or Down
01:56:39.56\01:56:43.30
syndrome, or any
number of other ones.
01:56:43.30\01:56:45.60
Somebody said it.
01:56:48.97\01:56:50.51
It's still murder.
01:56:50.71\01:56:51.21
Folks, teaching from
the Bible it's not there.
01:56:51.74\01:56:54.98
You can't do it.
01:56:55.04\01:56:55.78
It's not there.
01:56:55.81\01:56:56.61
Now listen closely, please.
01:56:56.95\01:56:58.51
I'm not talking to the
mother right now who's had an
01:56:59.15\01:57:02.42
abortion.
01:57:02.42\01:57:02.72
We love that mother.
01:57:04.22\01:57:05.19
God loves that
mother and God's forgiving.
01:57:05.59\01:57:07.42
I'm talking to the SDAs
including all the way up to our
01:57:08.02\01:57:12.06
pastors that are adding to the
Bible by making exceptions that
01:57:12.06\01:57:16.73
God did not make.
01:57:16.73\01:57:17.87
In other words, preachers, stop
adding unscriptural personal
01:57:18.40\01:57:21.37
opinions.
01:57:21.37\01:57:22.00
We tell everybody else not to,
usurping the authority of God.
01:57:22.74\01:57:26.78
And this is shameful.
01:57:27.14\01:57:28.08
You have no right to play
God and add to the fourth, the
01:57:28.34\01:57:31.35
sixth, the seventh,
or any other commandment.
01:57:31.35\01:57:33.38
So let me give you a couple
texts to read really quickly if
01:57:33.78\01:57:36.79
you're tempted on that.
01:57:36.79\01:57:37.85
Deuteronomy 4,
2, let's put it up.
01:57:38.29\01:57:40.22
You shall not add to the word
which I command you, nor take
01:57:41.26\01:57:46.43
from it, that you may keep the
commandments the Lord your God,
01:57:46.43\01:57:51.47
which I command you.
01:57:51.73\01:57:53.13
That's pretty
straight, isn't it?
01:57:53.13\01:57:54.84
Proverbs 30, 5, and 6.
01:57:55.17\01:57:57.41
Every word of God is pure.
01:57:57.81\01:58:00.14
He is a shield to those
who put their trust in him.
01:58:00.61\01:58:04.38
Do not add to his words, lest
he rebuke you, and you be found
01:58:04.78\01:58:10.39
a liar.
01:58:10.39\01:58:10.79
And there are more scriptures
in the Bible that tell us that
01:58:11.95\01:58:14.76
adding to the word is serious
business and comes with grave
01:58:14.76\01:58:18.03
consequences.
01:58:18.03\01:58:18.76
I want to be clear that
everyone understands that,
01:58:19.26\01:58:21.76
again, I'm not talking
about individuals who have had
01:58:21.96\01:58:25.53
abortions.
01:58:25.53\01:58:26.00
Please don't take that.
01:58:26.30\01:58:27.70
All of us sin and come
short of the glory of God.
01:58:27.97\01:58:30.21
As I said, God is
willing to forgive.
01:58:30.27\01:58:32.41
So Mom, please don't take that.
01:58:33.01\01:58:35.04
This is not a sermon.
01:58:35.14\01:58:36.31
This is a sermon for the family
we're talking to each other.
01:58:36.34\01:58:40.12
So God forgives us, all right?
01:58:41.08\01:58:42.88
Aren't you thankful God
forgives all of our sins?
01:58:43.49\01:58:45.49
So today, again, I'm talking
to Adventist members, well,
01:58:46.49\01:58:50.46
Christians in general.
01:58:50.49\01:58:51.36
You're all our audiences here.
01:58:51.46\01:58:52.79
So I'm talking to you too.
01:58:52.93\01:58:54.10
So let me please speak plainly.
01:58:54.40\01:58:56.56
As to what I'm about to
say, I've said a bunch of stuff
01:58:56.63\01:58:59.67
already, but what I'm about
to say, this part of my sermon,
01:58:59.67\01:59:03.77
please listen closely as I'm
going to explain why it's a big
01:59:04.24\01:59:08.81
deal when an Adventist pastor
preaches exceptions to God's
01:59:08.81\01:59:13.18
commandment law.
01:59:13.18\01:59:13.98
One of the primary reasons
for the existence of the Seventh
01:59:16.02\01:59:19.59
-day Adventist Church is built
on the keeping of all of God's
01:59:19.59\01:59:23.26
Ten Commandment Laws,
intact, without compromise.
01:59:23.26\01:59:27.13
Part of the Three Angels
messages that we as a church
01:59:27.46\01:59:30.53
have been called to give as a
last-day church on earth is to
01:59:30.53\01:59:34.07
call people out of Babylon,
which is confusion over the
01:59:34.07\01:59:37.91
importance of the law of God.
01:59:37.91\01:59:39.31
As you know, most of
the Christian world has long
01:59:39.87\01:59:42.74
compromised the
Fourth Commandment.
01:59:42.74\01:59:44.21
We've talked about it, and
we as a church have been crying
01:59:44.21\01:59:44.25
aloud against this
compromise since our inception.
01:59:47.15\01:59:50.15
Now is not the time to
compromise and play God as to
01:59:50.59\01:59:53.59
which commandments we
want to obey or add to our own
01:59:53.59\01:59:57.23
addendum.
01:59:57.23\02:00:01.50
commandments, they
become part of Babylon.
02:00:01.50\02:00:03.70
Why?
02:00:04.13\02:00:04.63
Because it's confusing.
02:00:05.37\02:00:06.40
It's confusing and
misleading as SDAs, it is our
02:00:07.44\02:00:12.07
responsibility as a church to
call people out of Babylon, not
02:00:12.07\02:00:16.28
join them in their confusion.
02:00:16.28\02:00:17.85
The Second Angel's
message is Babylon has fallen.
02:00:18.51\02:00:22.55
Revelation 18-4, I'll read
it quickly, and I heard another
02:00:22.85\02:00:26.35
voice from heaven saying, Come
out of her, my people, lest you
02:00:26.35\02:00:30.09
share in her sins, and lest
you receive her plagues, for her
02:00:30.09\02:00:34.23
sins have reached to the
heavens, and God has remembered
02:00:34.23\02:00:37.10
her iniquities.
02:00:37.10\02:00:37.90
Brothers and sisters, this
is a strong warning to every
02:00:38.23\02:00:41.67
Christian alive today, and
again, especially to Seventh
02:00:41.67\02:00:45.64
-day Adventists who've been
given truth through prophecy to
02:00:45.64\02:00:48.91
cry aloud and spare not,
to call people out of Babylon.
02:00:48.91\02:00:52.11
So please get this, if we
compromise the Sixth and the
02:00:52.41\02:00:56.18
Seventh Commandments by
joining them to our cultural,
02:00:56.18\02:00:58.85
political, race views,
whatever, we negate the reasons
02:00:58.85\02:01:03.29
for there to be a
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
02:01:03.29\02:01:05.36
You see it?
02:01:06.73\02:01:07.50
You get it?
02:01:07.60\02:01:08.43
That's why it's a big deal.
02:01:12.00\02:01:13.50
That's why it's a big deal.
02:01:13.87\02:01:15.10
We cannot compromise.
02:01:15.14\02:01:16.10
Let's just shut the doors down
and go join a church down the
02:01:16.40\02:01:20.04
street.
02:01:20.04\02:01:25.15
present -day culture and
politics, but will be willing
02:01:25.15\02:01:28.18
to die to defend God's law.
02:01:28.18\02:01:30.59
So, Revelation 12, 11, and they
overcame him, say it with me,
02:01:31.52\02:01:34.79
by the blood of the Lamb
and the word of their testimony,
02:01:34.82\02:01:37.86
and they did not love
their lives to the death.
02:01:38.19\02:01:41.16
I'm so glad, I think
some of you are getting this.
02:01:42.56\02:01:44.60
Please understand
where the confusion lies.
02:01:44.70\02:01:47.17
As we modern-day Christians,
especially SDA Christians, are
02:01:48.00\02:01:51.71
trying to correct
earthly governments.
02:01:51.71\02:01:54.31
That's the whole big deal.
02:01:54.64\02:01:55.91
When all these marches,
everything we're doing, we're
02:01:56.11\02:01:58.35
out there trying to change an
earthly government's decisions
02:01:58.35\02:02:02.05
concerning the Six
and Seven Commandments.
02:02:02.05\02:02:04.42
And I get that.
02:02:05.89\02:02:06.76
A woman who wants to use
her free choice to protest any
02:02:07.22\02:02:11.03
government's legislated
laws that prohibits her from
02:02:11.03\02:02:14.00
choosing to have an abortion at
will up to and even right after
02:02:14.00\02:02:17.43
birth, I get it.
02:02:17.43\02:02:18.70
I also understand the
homosexual community protesting
02:02:19.30\02:02:22.54
for many, many years to get to
use their freedom of choice to
02:02:22.54\02:02:26.44
live their lives as they choose.
02:02:26.44\02:02:27.94
I get that.
02:02:28.24\02:02:29.14
From their perspective,
the secular government does not
02:02:29.78\02:02:33.28
have any business controlling
who they choose as their life
02:02:33.28\02:02:37.49
partners.
02:02:37.49\02:02:37.99
That's not hard to understand.
02:02:38.49\02:02:40.06
Folks, please track with me.
02:02:40.82\02:02:42.29
If I were not a Christian, I
might be out there with them,
02:02:42.52\02:02:45.19
marching with them, to help
protect their rights, right?
02:02:45.33\02:02:48.63
Their God-given rights.
02:02:48.66\02:02:49.76
That's the way
they feel about it.
02:02:50.03\02:02:51.57
Why should a secular government
control what they're saying?
02:02:52.13\02:02:54.87
A woman's right to choose to
murder the baby in her womb or
02:02:54.97\02:02:58.24
to control the
morality of homosexuals.
02:02:58.24\02:03:01.08
But here's why I
cannot support their position.
02:03:01.28\02:03:04.11
The key difference is this.
02:03:04.61\02:03:05.81
They are fighting against
earthly laws, which are not
02:03:06.35\02:03:11.02
based on God's laws, which
means they are fighting for
02:03:11.02\02:03:14.79
freedom of choice in the
physical or the earthly realm.
02:03:14.79\02:03:18.79
And again, I get that.
02:03:19.16\02:03:20.46
But the big deception is this.
02:03:20.83\02:03:22.46
We as Christians are to be
living in the spiritual realm.
02:03:22.86\02:03:25.57
In other words, every decision
we make should be made in the
02:03:25.87\02:03:29.54
spirit of the Bible.
02:03:29.54\02:03:30.54
So the problem is this.
02:03:30.77\02:03:32.24
The physical world and the
spiritual world do not mix.
02:03:32.74\02:03:36.28
So don't try to mix them.
02:03:36.44\02:03:37.65
It won't work.
02:03:37.65\02:03:38.51
There you have it.
02:03:39.18\02:03:40.28
SDAs and especially some of
our pastors and leaders who are
02:03:40.48\02:03:43.79
openly affirming this sin.
02:03:43.79\02:03:47.76
I've said it over and over
again, but this lifestyle as a
02:03:48.92\02:03:51.99
freedom of choice have now
become part of, and I hate to
02:03:51.99\02:03:55.50
say this, but if we do
that, according to the Bible and
02:03:55.50\02:03:59.00
scriptures we've read, if we
compromise, we've become part
02:03:59.00\02:04:02.37
of Babylon.
02:04:02.37\02:04:02.77
It's very confusing for the
non -theologian when a pastor or
02:04:04.44\02:04:09.18
elder or Adventist member
conflates earthly politics and
02:04:09.18\02:04:13.31
culture with the Ten
Commandment Law of God.
02:04:13.31\02:04:15.55
Revelation 14 refers
to the wine of her wrath.
02:04:15.92\02:04:19.02
I did a little word study
on the term and in the context
02:04:19.42\02:04:23.19
God's judgment against Babylon.
02:04:23.19\02:04:25.49
I hope maybe they
can get it on the screen.
02:04:26.13\02:04:27.76
It's real short.
02:04:28.06\02:04:28.76
It is often interpreted as a
symbol of the wine of her wrath
02:04:29.26\02:04:33.07
we're talking about, symbol
of her corrupt systems, false
02:04:33.07\02:04:36.77
religions, or immoral societies.
02:04:36.77\02:04:39.04
The imagery of wine typically
represents the intoxicating
02:04:39.44\02:04:43.38
effects of sin and rebellion
against God and it serves as a
02:04:43.38\02:04:47.62
warning about the consequences
of moral and spiritual failure,
02:04:47.62\02:04:52.02
encouraging readers to remain
faithful and avoid the pitfalls
02:04:52.02\02:04:56.49
of worldly temptations.
02:04:56.49\02:04:58.26
So folks, when we conflate
or join earthly culture and
02:04:58.69\02:05:02.70
politics to override the Law
of God, we have become part of
02:05:02.70\02:05:06.87
Babylon whether
we want to or not.
02:05:06.87\02:05:09.27
We forgot that we were to be
a separated people uplifting the
02:05:10.21\02:05:14.48
Law of God to the world.
02:05:14.48\02:05:15.61
I can tell you no one will
be caught up together with the
02:05:16.68\02:05:19.15
Lord in the air at the second
coming who has rejected the
02:05:19.15\02:05:22.75
keeping of His Ten Commandments.
02:05:22.75\02:05:24.65
I don't care what
name we call ourselves.
02:05:25.22\02:05:26.96
When you get a chance, I
was going to tell you some
02:05:27.36\02:05:30.66
scriptures you can
read them on your own.
02:05:30.66\02:05:32.09
The Lord will give them to you.
02:05:32.16\02:05:33.36
But in closing, I've got to
close because our time is out.
02:05:33.36\02:05:35.86
Our last
scripture, Revelation 22, 14.
02:05:36.00\02:05:38.60
I love this.
02:05:38.67\02:05:39.43
You could say it with me.
02:05:40.14\02:05:41.47
Blessed are those who do His
commandments that they may have
02:05:41.47\02:05:45.77
right to the tree of life and
may enter in through the gates
02:05:45.77\02:05:50.21
of their city.
02:05:50.21\02:05:51.35
So remember, any of us
embracing open sin or hidden
02:05:52.55\02:05:55.78
sins in our life will not
be affirmed by God on Judgment
02:05:55.78\02:05:59.29
Day.
02:05:59.29\02:06:03.06
And I want you to be thinking
about this and then we want to
02:06:03.09\02:06:05.73
have a short appeal because
maybe there's people that
02:06:05.73\02:06:08.80
you've not really understood
the difference in the earthly,
02:06:08.80\02:06:12.20
what people are trying to do in
the earthly and the spiritual.
02:06:12.83\02:06:15.74
So we as Adventists,
Christians, we have to look at
02:06:16.24\02:06:18.94
everything in the spiritual
realm and not the physical
02:06:18.94\02:06:22.74
realm.
02:06:22.74\02:06:27.78
I know I have many times, many
occasions, and I really want
02:06:27.95\02:06:31.49
God to work in my life.
02:06:31.49\02:06:32.69
I really want to
make Heaven my home.
02:06:32.72\02:06:34.89
And I'm going to ask God to
create within me a new heart
02:06:35.02\02:06:39.16
and a new mind.
02:06:39.16\02:06:40.16
Sing.
02:06:40.76\02:06:41.70
Worthy is the
lamb who was slain.
02:06:45.07\02:06:52.11
Holy, holy is he.
02:06:52.81\02:06:55.88
Sing a new song to him who
sits on Heaven's mercy seat.
02:06:59.68\02:07:09.96
Holy, holy, holy is the Lord
God Almighty who was and is and
02:07:13.96\02:07:24.27
is to come.
02:07:24.27\02:07:25.94
With all creation I sing
praise to the King of Kings.
02:07:29.18\02:07:36.15
You are my everything,
and I will adore you.
02:07:36.15\02:07:44.59
Both in rainbows of living
color, flashes of lightning,
02:07:52.30\02:07:59.71
rolls of thunder.
02:08:00.58\02:08:03.51
Blessing and on a
strength and glory and power be.
02:08:04.85\02:08:11.05
Sing to you the only wise King.
02:08:11.05\02:08:16.39
Holy, holy, holy is the Lord
God Almighty who was and is and
02:08:18.96\02:08:27.70
is to come.
02:08:27.70\02:08:29.37
With all creation I sing
praise to the King of Kings.
02:08:32.84\02:08:39.48
You are my everything,
and I will adore you.
02:08:39.48\02:08:48.22
Filled with wonder, such
awestruck wonder at the mention
02:09:01.30\02:09:10.75
of your name.
02:09:10.75\02:09:14.28
Jesus, your name is power,
breath and living water, such a
02:09:16.28\02:09:25.09
marvelous mystery.
02:09:25.09\02:09:27.86
Holy, holy, holy is the Lord
God Almighty who was and is and
02:09:31.20\02:09:40.18
is to come.
02:09:40.18\02:09:41.51
He is to come.
02:09:41.51\02:09:43.91
With all creation I sing
praise to the King of Kings.
02:09:45.25\02:09:51.85
You are my everything,
and I will adore you.
02:09:52.02\02:09:59.39
Holy, holy, holy is the Lord
God Almighty who was and is and
02:10:00.26\02:10:08.40
is to come.
02:10:08.40\02:10:10.04
He is to come.
02:10:10.44\02:10:11.47
Lord, with all creation I sing
praise to the King of Kings.
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Lord, you are my everything,
and I will adore you.
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I adore you.
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I adore you.
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What I'd like to do is ask
each and every one of you here
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today, maybe you have never
felt and I saw from the hands
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that if I were guessing I'd
say and maybe some of you just
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bashful, but look like about
one out of every five people
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feel like if you have the
assurance of salvation, but I'm
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hoping and praying that
God will impress on your heart.
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I can tell you now, I wouldn't
be here 40 years if I hadn't
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had this assurance.
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I mean, I admit I've deserved
a lot of things and a lot of
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things I bring on myself,
but a lot of the things that the
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world does, people do within
the church, I would have quit
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and ran away a long time ago,
but I don't have to worry about
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that.
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mine, and that I know what I
had heart surgery seven years
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ago, and I was surprised myself
pleasantly because you're going
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under right then all the
families around, your friends
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around, you're going under and
you know there's a really good
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chance you're not
going to come out of that.
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And I didn't know how I
was going to act, and I had a
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peace, a peace about it.
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I said, man, if I die, the
worst thing that's going to
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happen, I'll leave my family, a
lot of people will be glad, but
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as far as my family goes,
as far as my family goes, that
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would be bad, but if I make it
through, I get to see them, but
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the worst, this earth, if I
die, the next face I'll see is
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Jesus.
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So I had that assurance, and I
said, thank you Lord, I haven't
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always had that assurance.
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So today, if you want that
assurance, if you don't have
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it, or if you maybe find
yourselves in a position you've
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been compromising the
commandments of God that we, as
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the church, claim to be the one
to uphold, and you just want to
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ask God for a brand new touch,
whatever it is in your life.
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I'm going to ask you to stand
to your feet, and if you really
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want to see God do something
great and mighty and marvelous,
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and you want to get to the
point you can trust God, many
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of you have been there for
years, some of us are slower
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getting there, but right now,
I praise God because I'm praying
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that this message, not from
me, some of it may be, you can
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throw it out the window,
but what it's there and what is
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truth, that you take it in
and you're able to share it, you
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want to share it, and you want
to serve Jesus with all your
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heart, soul, and mind.
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You see the people standing,
God knows the needs of each and
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every one, I'm the first,
I'm like Paul, I'm a sinner, a
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great sinner, maybe chief of
sinners, so none of what I said
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today is me looking down at
anyone else, I'm just thankful
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that God cared enough to look
down to my frailties, and look
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down and forgive me when I've
confessed my sins to him, and
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he wants to do that to
each and every one of you.
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You have no past, as of today,
this moment, as you pray, you
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have no past, the devil can
throw nothing up in your face,
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and don't allow him, when you
leave this building today, to
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throw up anything in your past,
once you ask Jesus into your
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heart in your life, and say,
Lord, forgive me for my sins.
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I'm going to ask
Yvonne to pray in closing.
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Holy, holy, holy, is the
Lord God Almighty, Lord, we just
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thank you for your holiness,
and though we are yet sinners,
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you've invited us to come
into your presence, and as Danny
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said, when we commit ourselves
to you, we have no past, you
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cast our sins into the depths
of the sea, thank you, Lord, as
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far as the east is from the
west, our transgressions are
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taken from us, so we thank you,
Lord God, that we can come to
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you, and we come before
you as sinners, saved by grace.
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Thank you for your grace.
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Thank you, Lord Jesus, for the
sacrifice that you made for us,
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so that we could be
reconciled to God through you.
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Thank you, Lord, and so as we
each come before you, you know
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our challenges, you know our
families, the things that are
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going on in our lives, we
just ask you to please step into
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these situations, and draw us
closer to you, so that one day
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soon, we can see your
faith, and be with you forever.
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Thank you, Lord, for all that
you've done, and for all that
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you do for us to save us.
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We thank you that we are saved.
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In Jesus' name we pray.
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Amen.
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