The hour is urgent, as darkness
is dispelled by the light of
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God's Word, 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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Hello and welcome back, and
what a privilege it is to have
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you join us today.
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We've been having a great time
at 3ABN Summer Camp Meeting.
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We wish you all were here, but
for those of you that are not,
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we're glad that we can
communicate together back and
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forth and you can
watch what's happening here.
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I don't know about you all, I
think you'll agree with me here
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in the audience, or folks, that
we felt the Holy Spirit, right?
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How many of you have
been here since Wednesday?
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Anybody?
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Oh, a lot of you.
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Wow.
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And how about
today's your first day?
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All right.
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There are a few.
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We've got a wonderful group
of people here, and it's kind of
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like a little bit
of heaven on earth.
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So it's my privilege today
to introduce our next speaker.
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It's my brother Kenny
Shelton, and Kenny is...
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Behold the Lamb Ministries,
his ministry, he and Chris, and
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director there for many years.
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And Kenny and I, we grew up
together, and we played fast
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pitch softball together, we
played basketball together, we
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do any kind of sports that used
to be, you could do, I guess we
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did it.
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houses and a few churches.
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And then we both, the Lord
called us into ministries, and
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so we've been here ever since.
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And so Kenny is a person
who loves the Lord, and he's not
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afraid to tell it like it is.
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And I can promise you, I don't
know what his total sermon's
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about, but he's
gonna give you Jesus.
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And when it's over,
that's what you want, right?
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We want Jesus, so it's a
privilege to introduce him
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today, and I'm
thankful that he's my brother.
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And before that, though, before
Kenny comes out, my daughter
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Melody, that I love very much
with all my heart, she's gonna
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be coming out and
singing a beautiful song for us.
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You gonna do written in red?
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Okay.
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In letters of crimson God wrote
his love On a hillside So long,
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long ago And for you and for me
Jesus died and love's greatest
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story was told, It said,
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I love you, love you,
that's What Calvary said,
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Love you, love you, I love
you, and it's written in red.
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Down through the ages, God
wrote his love with the same
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hands that suffered and bled.
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Giving all that he had to give,
the message so easily read.
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I love you,
that's what Calvary says.
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I love you,
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Precious is the flow
that makes me white as snow.
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Other found, I'm nothing but
the blood, the blood of Jesus.
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I love you,
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that's what Calvary says.
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I
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love you, and
it's written in red.
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Isn't that why you're here?
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Because you
responded to the love of God.
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That love that
was written in red.
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And the Holy Spirit has been
walking in and amongst each and
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every one of us, hasn't he?
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The power that he's
given to the speakers.
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If you haven't felt it, then
I encourage you to get on your
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knees right now and pray for it.
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Because it has been felt in
this room as he has walked in
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and amongst us.
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And this message that you're
about to give, and by the way,
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I love you too.
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Well, I love you
too, honey, thank you.
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Fearlessly, fearlessly
sharing the final cry.
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I think that's a call
for all of us, isn't it?
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Are we not at war?
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Yes.
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We're definitely at war.
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And it's almost like each
day, you feel it more and more.
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You see it more and more.
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You hear it more and more.
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That there is definitely a
spiritual warfare that is going
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on and we need to be ready.
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We need to be preparing.
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We need to be
preparing for that final cry.
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So if you don't mind, if you
would join us in prayer, we're
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going to pray for Pastor Kenny.
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Pray along with me, okay?
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Because he needs that power too.
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Most gracious Heavenly Father,
as we bow before you now, we
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want to lift up
Pastor Kenny Shelton.
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We want to lift him up
to the throne room of God.
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He's just a weak
and vacillating vessel.
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But in your hands, he
can be a vessel of honor.
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In your hands, he can
be a mouthpiece for you.
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In your hands, you
can strengthen him.
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In your hands, we can feel the
word coming directly into our
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hearts, into our minds and
helping us to say, yes, Lord,
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yes, Lord, I want to do more.
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I want to stand.
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I want to be prepared for this
final warning and these final
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days and this final judgment.
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Thank you, Father, for hearing.
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Thank you for
answering our prayer.
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We pray in the lovely name of
Jesus that we were so reminded
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that he loves us.
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Amen.
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Praise the Lord.
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Isn't God good?
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To have camp meeting, be
able to come together, study the
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word.
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You know, sing songs.
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It's all about Jesus
and it lifting him up.
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And the more that we lift
him up, the more I believe that
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he's telling us I'm getting
ready to come back to take my
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children home.
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I have the privilege to
talk a little bit about the
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fearlessly, fear.
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That's something that just
captivates people sometime.
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But the Bible said
perfect love does what?
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Cast out all fear.
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So fearlessly
sharing the final cry.
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And how does one do that?
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So we're going to ask a few
questions and by God's grace
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answer them as we go along
fearlessly in the hour that we
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live in and what's soon
to take place in this world.
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How do we give that final cry?
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How do we do that?
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And then who will God use?
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Who's God going to
use to give this cry?
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Is he going to just use anyone,
everyone, whatever, or is there
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going to be maybe a certain
group of people that he's going
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to use?
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Fearlessly
sharing that final cry.
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I don't know about you but
I studied over this and you
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studied these
things before I'm sure.
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I found there was quite a
connection between that which
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we call the loud
cry and the final cry.
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Interesting, loud
cry and the final cry.
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It starts to stir us
up just a little bit here.
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But I think this we know
three little points quickly.
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The work is so,
so very important.
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Everything that's going on
in our movement is so important
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right now.
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The devil has his eye, right?
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He's watching and he's trying
to take notes of who, what,
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where, where he can get away
with something and God has his
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watchful eye on us.
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I'm very grateful
and thankful for that.
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But we know this message is so
important that God is going to
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send as it were the
angels of heaven, right?
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Is going to help us to give
this as it were the final cry.
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Do we believe that
we're in the final cry?
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The last cry.
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It needs to be loud, right?
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It needs to wake people up like
myself to really believe that
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Jesus is coming and not
just talk about it all the time.
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Two, great power and
glory will attend this cry.
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It has to.
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Great things are taking place
in our world that we're living
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in.
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It almost makes you
shake in your boots.
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If you didn't
know Jesus, it would.
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Three, it's the last work
of the third angel's message.
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So talking about the final
cry, the loud cry, it's the last
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work of the
three angels' message.
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And we realize that's a very
heavy duty message, isn't it?
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You know, God's people, we've
been commissioned to warn the
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world about the mark of
the beast and the image of the
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beast.
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faithful until the very end.
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No doubt about that.
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But when you talk about
these messages, as I said, we
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fearlessly give these messages.
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I wonder how many of us
have that spirit of living God
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inside of us who dare to be
a Daniel, who dare to stand for
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what is true, who dare to stand
in the commission that God has
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given us to give
this message to the world.
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So who will God fearlessly use?
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Who will He give this final cry?
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Well, I read something and
I want you to pay attention.
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One testimony, 619, says this.
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It says, the
refreshing or the power of God.
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I like it when it talks about
the refreshing, the power of
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God that reminds me of what?
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The latter
reign, isn't that right?
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Revelation 18 angel.
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God's going to give power to
the work because we need more
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power.
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I want more power.
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I desire more power in
my heart and in my life.
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And I know you do too, but
notice the refreshing and the
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power of God comes only to
those who have prepared, notice
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the word, themselves,
for, listen, for doing the work
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which God bade them
do or told them to do.
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Now it doesn't stop there, but
notice I say, oh, praise God!
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Well, we've been
preaching every day, right?
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Been teaching the
cyberschool lesson every day.
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We've been singing every day.
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We're giving
Bible studies every day.
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Maybe we might think
that's what it's all about.
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Remember those who the
refreshing, the power of God is
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going to be given.
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Those who will give that final
cry are those who, notice this,
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who have been doing that
which God has asked them to do.
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Now, what might that be?
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Namely, it is by cleansing
themselves from all filthiness
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of flesh and spirit, perfecting
holiness in the fear of God.
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See, a little interesting
last thought there, isn't it?
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We think, oh yeah, we've been
doing what God's asked us to
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do, all these things
we're doing, doing, doing.
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God says, now, the ones I'm
going to use to give this last
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message to the
world, they've come to me.
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They've asked for the blood
of the Lamb to cleanse them from
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all filthiness of
the flesh and the spirit.
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You know, I like that.
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I don't know if you've been
praying about that, but I've
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been praying about it and
certainly praying a lot about
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what God will do for us as we
commit our will to him each and
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every day.
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I pray that you do
that every morning.
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Say, Lord, I'm
committing my will to you.
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And I just tell him because I
don't have enough sense to make
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the right decisions.
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Is that all right?
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Some of you don't
want to be honest.
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I recognize I do not.
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I'm not capable of making
the right decisions without him.
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And I hope you realize that too.
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We need God, isn't that right?
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So maybe if we must give this
message, then my question was,
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what is it?
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What are we
supposed to give here?
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What are we supposed
to share with the world?
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And then we find out as we move
along that the enemy is trying
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to hold this back.
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He's causing confusion in the
church, outside the church, in
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the world.
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So this work of warning these
people, you, me, all of us,
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who's going to be
able to stand the test?
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When the test really comes,
who's going to be able to stand
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the test?
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Will the pillars of our faith,
will the pillars of our faith
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stand the test?
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There are some
that are saying no.
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I'm saying yes.
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I'm saying by God's grace, I'm
going to live and die by it, by
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God's grace.
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I hope you're with me.
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They will stand the test
and they have stood the test of
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time.
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And so we know then as the
enemy says, they're supposed to
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be giving a cry.
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We're going to
wake up the world.
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But I'm going to cause
division, confusion, everything
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I can.
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I read a little article in
testimonies of ministers page
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107 that said this.
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If, if the pillars of our
faith will not stand the test of
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investigation, it
is time we knew it.
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Yeah, a little too quiet.
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Think about it.
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If the pillars
of our faith, right?
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If, it says if starts out, our
faith will not stand the test
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of investigation.
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It's time we knew it.
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And when we're challenged
by these things, a challenge is
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not always bad.
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It gets some of us on the
ball to study to show ourself
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approved unto God.
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Say, well, and I hear this.
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Oh, this
happened, that happened.
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Well, what's my position?
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What's your position?
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What has God given to us here?
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Every pillar of our faith
is being tested and tried.
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We know that.
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And maybe we have forgotten
medical missionary page 96 says
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the church is now
engaged in a warfare.
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Do we believe it?
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And it says it will continue
to increase in intensity.
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So it's not all over with yet.
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There's a little shaking going
on right now and all it takes
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is a little bit of shaking.
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We find people
lay it out everywhere.
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It's time to get up and
move and say, let the test come.
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If you have truth,
it will stand the test.
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We know that.
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The acid test.
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Not, notice this, not one
pillar of our faith is to be
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moved.
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Now I don't need
much more than that.
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We got one, amen.
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Will there be two?
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What are they doing?
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Not one peg.
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Not one pin is to be removed
from that which God has given
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us.
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message that we have to
give to the world today.
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I'm confident.
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I'm sure of it.
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And we must be
sure of this message.
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There's no doubt about it.
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Remember when you're building
something and you're using pegs
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or pins and you're putting them
together, you pull the wrong
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pin, everything comes down.
00:18:09.62\00:18:11.22
The devil's
trying to pull the pin.
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He's trying to pull the peg out
and we cannot let him do it by
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the grace of God.
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Every time he puts his little,
almost said, nasty hands on
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those pegs and those pins
and the devil's hands are nasty.
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Is that okay?
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You know they are.
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And when he does, we say, oh
God, give us grace and give us
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strength, give us knowledge
to stand for what is truth.
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Some things I just can't
explain, but there's some
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things I just know in my heart.
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Right, when you read in your
study, how many of us really
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know everything?
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No.
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And I'm here to advocate
that by the grace of God.
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I know men have failed us.
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The armored
flesh have failed us.
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We failed each other,
but God's word never fails.
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It stands, I mean, it's
what a foundation we have.
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In sharing this final cry,
we're talking about we must
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know who is going to come to
the light or give them a chance
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to make a decision.
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We can think back quickly.
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Remember about
Elijah in 1 Kings 18.
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You remember what he said?
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Huh, you remember?
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If what?
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If God be what?
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Oh yeah, if God
be God, then what?
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If he's Baal, then follow Baal.
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So the decision today, if
we follow Baal, we follow God,
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isn't that right?
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If God is for us, who
can really be against us?
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But notice this I found was
Evangelism page 224 said this,
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in rejecting the testimonies.
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In rejecting the
testimonies, somebody listen.
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It results in moving of
the pillars of our faith.
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In rejecting,
certainly the word of God.
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Certainly in rejecting
the testimonies, it begins, it
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results is moving
the pillars of our faith.
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That's what the devil wants
to do for testimonies 2.11.
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Read more about that.
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So not one peg, not
one pin is to be removed.
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But remember, the devil is
saying, I'm gonna cause trouble
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here because I know you people,
we're supposed to give that
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warning message, that
loud cry to wake up the people.
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Listen, if anybody needs to
wake up call, it's Seventh-day
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Adventist.
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Is that okay?
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I am one, and I can
say it if I want to.
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You know what I'm saying.
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It's not that we're
against him, we are.
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And you know what,
I'm happy about it.
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I don't wanna use the word
wrongfully, but I'm so happy.
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I'm proud to be a
Seventh-day Adventist Christian.
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So any teachings we know, any
instructions that's given from
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the Bible, from the
spirit of prophecy, right?
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Anything we delve out to
the church that we give to one
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another, must come
from the word of God.
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It must have a sure foundation.
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And if the church finds out
that it's not, then we have to
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do something about it.
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Too long, in my opinion.
00:21:13.20\00:21:14.84
Too long we've let things go in
among maybe our local churches.
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We knew they were wrong.
00:21:19.41\00:21:20.81
We knew it
shouldn't be going on.
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But brother saw and
saw, or sister saw and saw.
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They're high on the totem pole.
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Well, it's time they come down.
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If they're doing the
wrong thing, come down.
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The church has an obligation
to stand for what is truth and
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what is right.
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Now remember, you know, in
1 John 1, 1 through 4, I won't
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take time to read that,
but 1 John 1, 1 through 4, John
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begins his gospel with
the words, in the beginning.
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So maybe sometime we
start in the beginning, in the
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beginning.
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But in 1 John 1, he begins with
this word, these words, from
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the beginning.
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In the beginning, from
the beginning, there is a
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difference.
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Think on it for a moment.
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So in the
gospel, what is he doing?
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He's looking in the beginning
and then he's looking before,
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in the beginning and before.
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And here in the epistle, he
looks at something different,
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the beginning and after.
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Man, that pretty well covers it.
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See, what was John dealing with?
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Some of the things that we're
dealing with today that we must
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deal with.
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And I think this, before we can
give that loud cry or that, you
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know, the last cry or however
you want to say it, as we look
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at these things, some
issues have to be settled.
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We've got to get them settled
in our heart and get them
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settled in our mind.
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There's no doubt about it.
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See, John here, when he was
talking, he was dealing with
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some who denied the
reality of the incarnation.
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See, how would
you deal with that?
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How would I
deal with that today?
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In John's day, he's looking, he
said, man, they're denying the
00:22:57.11\00:22:59.77
incarnation of Jesus Christ.
00:22:59.77\00:23:01.51
They denied Jesus coming and
putting on flesh and blood and
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may I say sinful
flesh without the sin.
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Are you still with me?
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Read Romans 8, 3, and 4.
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He was explaining and
establishing something which
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maybe we need to be, have a
little more hands on ourselves.
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The grounds of his argument,
we have to have arguments.
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Some of you don't like to say
we have to have arguments, but
00:23:24.80\00:23:26.60
there's times that you're
going to be confronted with the
00:23:26.60\00:23:28.84
devil, things that are not
true, and we need to have an
00:23:28.84\00:23:34.11
argument, as it were, a defense.
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And so in nothing different,
John was doing the same thing
00:23:36.75\00:23:38.95
right here.
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He said, look,
here's my defense.
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I believe that
Jesus came in incarnation.
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He was born in this world.
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And he said, what do you mean?
00:23:44.35\00:23:44.39
He said, listen, don't tell me.
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He said, I've seen him.
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Whoo.
00:23:49.72\00:23:50.06
Man, I've heard him.
00:23:50.56\00:23:51.83
I've touched him.
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Wow.
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Son of God?
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Oh, I've examined him closely.
00:24:00.40\00:24:03.54
That's hard to put up an
argument against that, isn't
00:24:05.61\00:24:07.64
it?
00:24:07.64\00:24:07.98
Some of us heard, some of
us has listened, but have we
00:24:09.11\00:24:13.31
really by faith touched?
00:24:13.31\00:24:14.58
Have we really reached out
and touched him by faith to know
00:24:15.12\00:24:17.92
that he really exists?
00:24:17.92\00:24:19.25
I think we need to be
doing more of that today.
00:24:20.09\00:24:22.16
I probably clearer words could
probably never be spoken than
00:24:22.49\00:24:25.36
these words.
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Because he said, I have a
relationship with the Word.
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Mmm.
00:24:33.87\00:24:34.57
He said, I have a relationship
with the Word that was made
00:24:35.10\00:24:38.11
what?
00:24:38.11\00:24:41.48
And when you say
Word, that concerns what?
00:24:42.11\00:24:44.51
Life.
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Wow.
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The Word gives
life, the Bible tells us.
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The Word is life.
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And the Bible said the
Word was, I love it, manifested.
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Mmm.
00:24:55.09\00:24:55.52
Or what?
00:24:56.16\00:24:56.76
Or it was made known to us.
00:24:56.96\00:24:58.49
Isn't that right?
00:24:58.49\00:24:58.53
It was made visible for us.
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Yeah, boy.
00:25:01.63\00:25:02.46
Now, it's interesting.
00:25:04.27\00:25:05.33
John wants to share in the
knowledge and the blessing.
00:25:06.07\00:25:10.24
So when we come to
these, trying to give this last
00:25:10.37\00:25:12.84
warning message to the world,
there's going to be challenges
00:25:12.84\00:25:16.04
that we're going to have.
00:25:16.04\00:25:17.11
And I think the main thing John
wanted us to know and we need
00:25:17.28\00:25:19.85
to know here is he had the
knowledge and he said, I have
00:25:19.85\00:25:23.15
the knowledge and the
blessing to know Christ.
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We need to know
Christ, don't we?
00:25:26.62\00:25:29.79
I really wonder how many of us
really put to the test, really
00:25:30.49\00:25:33.53
know Him.
00:25:33.53\00:25:34.46
Or many of us
want to know Him more.
00:25:35.50\00:25:37.37
Isn't that right?
00:25:37.40\00:25:38.00
And better.
00:25:38.10\00:25:38.67
But John's
saying here, I know Him.
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I've seen Him.
00:25:41.90\00:25:42.44
I've felt Him.
00:25:42.50\00:25:43.04
I've touched Him.
00:25:43.17\00:25:43.64
I've examined Him.
00:25:43.91\00:25:44.91
I want you to know Christ.
00:25:45.71\00:25:47.14
I want you to have
fellowship with Him.
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And the first thing that
happens, remember, before we
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can give this loud, this cry
we're talking about, the final
00:25:52.38\00:25:55.28
cry, we have to have a
knowledge of what's going on in
00:25:55.28\00:25:58.39
other people's minds
and what's happening.
00:25:58.39\00:26:00.16
And John is saying here to
have fellowship with Christ, to
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reach out and be able to touch
Him and have fellowship with
00:26:05.19\00:26:07.13
Him.
00:26:07.13\00:26:10.73
there's
something that takes place.
00:26:10.93\00:26:13.00
There's born in the heart.
00:26:14.24\00:26:16.04
There's born in the heart
something, a desire to make Him
00:26:16.57\00:26:20.64
known to others.
00:26:20.64\00:26:21.61
You know, when you accepted
Christ as your Lord and Savior,
00:26:22.38\00:26:24.75
you'd probably run down the
street or rode your bicycle.
00:26:25.31\00:26:27.78
You did something.
00:26:27.88\00:26:28.72
And everybody you saw, you
want to talk about Jesus, didn't
00:26:29.35\00:26:31.49
you?
00:26:31.49\00:26:33.92
Why not?
00:26:33.99\00:26:34.66
What's happened?
00:26:35.36\00:26:36.02
Go out and get
you a 10 -speeder.
00:26:37.16\00:26:38.29
What do they make now?
00:26:38.36\00:26:39.03
20, 30, 40.
00:26:39.03\00:26:39.89
Get you another bike.
00:26:40.10\00:26:41.70
Get out and we
should be doing more.
00:26:42.23\00:26:43.73
Isn't that right?
00:26:43.73\00:26:43.77
We love Him yesterday.
00:26:44.33\00:26:45.40
We need to love Him more today.
00:26:45.47\00:26:47.10
And we want to tell what a
precious friend that He is to
00:26:47.37\00:26:51.21
us and what a precious
friend He wants to be to them.
00:26:51.21\00:26:54.14
How interesting that is.
00:26:54.48\00:26:56.08
So you can say maybe a purpose
of the study is to look at some
00:26:56.75\00:26:59.28
of these things.
00:26:59.28\00:27:03.85
inside and outside the church.
00:27:03.85\00:27:05.95
Now you can talk about battles
going on outside the church and
00:27:06.55\00:27:09.12
everybody's fine.
00:27:09.12\00:27:10.06
Soon as you say there's a
battle going on inside the
00:27:10.26\00:27:12.13
church.
00:27:12.13\00:27:12.36
Oh, let's be realistic.
00:27:14.73\00:27:16.33
Nobody try to hammer anybody.
00:27:16.43\00:27:17.77
We're just trying to look at it
and say, is this a real thing?
00:27:17.90\00:27:20.24
What is the devil really doing?
00:27:20.34\00:27:21.44
He's tried to find a lodging in
Seventh-day Adventist Movement.
00:27:22.07\00:27:24.87
Don't you believe it?
00:27:25.34\00:27:26.54
Sure he is.
00:27:26.84\00:27:27.58
And sometimes these things
arise in the midst, the middle
00:27:29.11\00:27:33.38
of us and even in
the Apostles' Day.
00:27:33.38\00:27:37.35
And you know
what they call them?
00:27:39.12\00:27:40.39
They call them
doctrines of devils.
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And the Apostle felt as they
were led by the Holy Spirit,
00:27:44.06\00:27:47.56
I'm sure, that they had to
deal with some of these issues.
00:27:47.56\00:27:50.10
They didn't want to deal with
them, didn't want to spend time
00:27:50.50\00:27:52.77
with them, but
they did every time.
00:27:52.77\00:27:55.10
It was necessary, 1 Timothy
was it, 4.1, the doctrine of
00:27:56.00\00:28:00.58
devils.
00:28:00.58\00:28:03.24
of the devil?
00:28:03.24\00:28:03.85
That can't be good, can it?
00:28:06.25\00:28:07.85
No.
00:28:08.38\00:28:09.05
And sometimes we see doctrines
of devils, but we want to push
00:28:09.65\00:28:12.45
them back on the shelf
and not say too much about it.
00:28:12.45\00:28:14.99
We want to kind of let it
go rather than say, that's a
00:28:15.19\00:28:17.93
doctrine of the devil.
00:28:17.93\00:28:18.73
It's either a doctrine
of Jesus Christ, right?
00:28:20.33\00:28:22.50
The Holy Spirit is a
doctrine of the devil.
00:28:22.50\00:28:24.00
It's about time we called
it that, and then there'd be no
00:28:24.00\00:28:26.90
confusion.
00:28:26.90\00:28:27.60
So I say this, that the
Apostles had rather, they'd
00:28:30.01\00:28:35.28
rather went about
preaching Jesus Christ.
00:28:35.28\00:28:38.01
They'd went about, you know,
preaching the gospel, inviting
00:28:38.91\00:28:40.98
people to come in, but they
were confronted day in and day
00:28:40.98\00:28:44.69
out by these doctrine of devils.
00:28:44.69\00:28:46.89
And so they had
to deal with them.
00:28:46.99\00:28:48.46
We'll prove that as we go.
00:28:48.46\00:28:48.49
Now, let me ask you a question.
00:28:49.46\00:28:49.49
If you came upon a beautiful
garden, walking along, we all
00:28:51.46\00:28:55.53
love a garden, love the
flowers, love all the stuff in
00:28:55.53\00:28:57.97
it.
00:28:57.97\00:28:58.50
And we came along and we've
seen this beautiful garden.
00:28:59.17\00:29:01.47
And it was just filled
with sweet smelling flowers.
00:29:02.57\00:29:05.94
Yum, yum.
00:29:06.17\00:29:07.21
What had you rather do?
00:29:09.58\00:29:11.15
There's a choice.
00:29:11.91\00:29:12.75
Just stop and smell the flowers
or you look closely at those
00:29:14.25\00:29:20.39
flowers and you say, I see
some cut worms on my flowers.
00:29:20.39\00:29:25.86
Some caterpillars.
00:29:28.20\00:29:29.16
Come on.
00:29:29.66\00:29:30.33
You know, what do you do
when you go to your garden or
00:29:31.73\00:29:35.27
whatever and you look
out and you see these little
00:29:35.27\00:29:37.27
caterpillar green worms?
00:29:37.27\00:29:38.51
What are you?
00:29:38.74\00:29:39.47
Oh, just just let
them have a feast.
00:29:39.77\00:29:42.31
Not on my tomato plants.
00:29:42.81\00:29:44.18
Right?
00:29:45.81\00:29:46.31
You don't.
00:29:46.65\00:29:47.15
What do you do?
00:29:47.15\00:29:47.68
What do you know?
00:29:47.75\00:29:48.55
You know that
this cutworm, right?
00:29:48.55\00:29:50.65
Caterpillar is destroying that
young tender plant by what, you
00:29:50.75\00:29:54.89
know, what it's doing.
00:29:54.89\00:29:55.62
We have to realize that the
battle that goes on sometime in
00:29:56.56\00:29:59.56
the church.
00:29:59.56\00:30:00.53
Man, cut worm, caterpillars.
00:30:01.86\00:30:05.10
Now remember, the cutworm is
named a cutworm because it cuts
00:30:06.47\00:30:09.87
down.
00:30:09.87\00:30:10.91
And remember, mainly
it feeds on young plants.
00:30:11.54\00:30:15.48
Your job and my job as older
is to watch the young plants
00:30:16.24\00:30:20.58
because a cutworm can
run them rather quickly.
00:30:22.18\00:30:25.05
This demands now
notice a physical removal.
00:30:30.66\00:30:34.73
Something has to give.
00:30:37.17\00:30:38.47
It can't stay the same.
00:30:38.60\00:30:40.17
A physical removal then is
an effective way to save the
00:30:42.10\00:30:46.24
plant.
00:30:46.24\00:30:49.41
cutworm.
00:30:49.41\00:30:50.01
Is that all right?
00:30:50.41\00:30:51.35
Yeah.
00:30:53.25\00:30:53.55
I'm thinking about the
ones maybe in my garden.
00:30:54.58\00:30:56.99
Now you start thinking about
the ones in your garden and
00:30:57.05\00:31:00.12
make you want to go out
and get them, isn't that right?
00:31:00.12\00:31:01.76
Physically remove them,
pull them off of that vine.
00:31:02.42\00:31:04.39
They're trying,
they're killing it.
00:31:04.49\00:31:05.93
We call them bloodsuckers.
00:31:06.13\00:31:07.56
Can I say that?
00:31:07.86\00:31:08.70
Spiritual bloodsuckers, okay.
00:31:11.93\00:31:13.40
So in order then for the sweet
smell of truth to continue,
00:31:15.34\00:31:20.71
these cutworms that are
destroying the truth must be
00:31:23.61\00:31:27.98
exposed and destroyed.
00:31:27.98\00:31:30.15
Nobody said it
would be pleasant.
00:31:32.79\00:31:34.09
I'd rather sit there and
smell the flowers myself or the
00:31:35.26\00:31:38.23
plant, whatever it might be
instead of pulling off those
00:31:38.23\00:31:40.80
old worms.
00:31:40.80\00:31:41.53
But somebody has to do it.
00:31:42.83\00:31:44.37
The apostles all
knew they had to do it.
00:31:45.10\00:31:47.50
Jesus knew he had to do it.
00:31:47.50\00:31:50.01
And how do we do that?
00:31:50.21\00:31:51.27
You talk about
exposed and destroyed.
00:31:51.37\00:31:53.41
You expose and destroy them
by simply presenting what is
00:31:53.61\00:31:56.61
truth.
00:31:56.61\00:31:56.95
There's a way in
which to do that.
00:31:58.18\00:31:59.55
Keep the truth going.
00:31:59.71\00:32:01.28
That would be part of
fearlessly sharing the final
00:32:02.65\00:32:06.32
cry.
00:32:06.32\00:32:07.09
We've got to get those worms,
those cutworms off of the vine
00:32:07.59\00:32:11.66
because I know there's several
worms of false doctrine that
00:32:12.23\00:32:16.20
are going every which way now.
00:32:16.20\00:32:17.50
They always have been.
00:32:17.87\00:32:19.17
They were growing
in the day of Christ.
00:32:20.20\00:32:22.57
Such as we talked about in 1
John 1, 1 through 4, in 1 John
00:32:22.87\00:32:27.28
4, 2 and 3.
00:32:27.28\00:32:30.15
Heresies were developing and
you know one of the big ones in
00:32:30.75\00:32:34.85
Christ's day was they
said no, Christ is not real.
00:32:34.85\00:32:37.99
He's an apparition.
00:32:38.59\00:32:40.36
That means he's a ghost.
00:32:41.62\00:32:42.96
He's an illusion.
00:32:44.13\00:32:45.03
He's a phantom.
00:32:45.03\00:32:46.23
Now how would you
combat something like that?
00:32:46.96\00:32:49.06
How would you
deal with that today?
00:32:49.06\00:32:50.47
They had to deal with it.
00:32:52.07\00:32:53.57
Just leave it
alone, say nothing.
00:32:53.57\00:32:54.94
Well, no.
00:32:55.07\00:32:56.17
If we ever forget that the
enemy is working in the garden
00:33:00.08\00:33:04.05
of God, we are in trouble
because he's always there
00:33:04.05\00:33:08.48
trying to plant dangerous,
poisonous doctrines, always
00:33:08.48\00:33:14.66
error among God's people.
00:33:14.66\00:33:16.26
And I'm really encouraging
you by the grace of God, get
00:33:17.13\00:33:20.46
settled in your faith.
00:33:20.46\00:33:21.86
Don't let every wind of
doctrine, everybody pull a
00:33:22.26\00:33:24.93
little of this or
that and you're gone.
00:33:24.93\00:33:26.37
Know what you
believe and hang on to it.
00:33:27.27\00:33:29.67
It's essential to your
salvation and for heaven.
00:33:29.90\00:33:32.24
John warned the Christians
in the early church against some
00:33:35.98\00:33:39.95
of these ideas, bad ideas
because they were saying that a
00:33:39.95\00:33:44.72
Christian is beyond sin.
00:33:44.72\00:33:46.09
Look out now.
00:33:46.19\00:33:47.29
And they were teaching other
things like you don't have to
00:33:47.99\00:33:50.86
keep the commandments of God.
00:33:50.86\00:33:52.56
It's not important.
00:33:52.93\00:33:54.20
We know better, don't we?
00:33:55.56\00:33:56.90
They were teaching it and some
people were listening and they
00:33:57.20\00:34:01.30
were responding just like
others are saying we don't need
00:34:01.30\00:34:06.04
the spirit of prophecy anymore.
00:34:06.04\00:34:07.44
Get real somebody.
00:34:07.48\00:34:08.54
Is that all right?
00:34:09.58\00:34:10.91
See, we have to be headstrong
on these things to know that
00:34:11.15\00:34:15.15
you studied enough that you
feel content and it's right and
00:34:15.15\00:34:18.05
that God gave it.
00:34:18.05\00:34:19.19
You have to know in your heart
that is a gift that God has
00:34:19.29\00:34:22.89
given in the last days
to anybody that wants it.
00:34:22.89\00:34:25.89
Especially his last day church.
00:34:26.96\00:34:28.73
And then others are saying
it doesn't matter about the two
00:34:30.83\00:34:32.83
identifying marks anymore.
00:34:32.83\00:34:34.04
One is enough.
00:34:34.30\00:34:35.14
It's not.
00:34:35.34\00:34:35.94
It said two.
00:34:36.07\00:34:36.91
Isn't that what it said?
00:34:38.34\00:34:39.04
See, we have to know those
things by the grace of God and
00:34:39.54\00:34:42.24
do some studying.
00:34:42.24\00:34:42.91
We're going to find that people
will arise and we find this
00:34:44.51\00:34:47.52
here over and over and over.
00:34:47.52\00:34:48.78
They're going to have dreams
and they're going to have all
00:34:49.08\00:34:50.95
kind of false visions.
00:34:50.95\00:34:52.15
They're going
to have some truth.
00:34:52.62\00:34:53.82
They're going
to mix it with air.
00:34:53.82\00:34:53.86
It's going to confuse you.
00:34:55.16\00:34:56.19
If you're not careful,
it's going to confuse me.
00:34:56.19\00:34:57.86
And I'm so thankful that God
has given us this rule always
00:34:58.93\00:35:02.03
that you know so well,
especially the Seventh Day.
00:35:02.03\00:35:04.57
Can I say Seventh Day more?
00:35:04.60\00:35:05.83
I want to say it more.
00:35:05.90\00:35:06.97
Seventh Day Adventist Christian.
00:35:08.17\00:35:09.17
Seventh Day Adventist Christian.
00:35:10.31\00:35:11.47
You can dislike
me if you want to.
00:35:12.61\00:35:14.21
I'd rather you not I'd rather
love, but hey, sometimes you
00:35:14.38\00:35:17.28
just want to say it,
not be embarrassed by it.
00:35:17.28\00:35:20.38
God gave, I believe with
all my heart, Isaiah 820.
00:35:22.45\00:35:26.09
He said, Kenny, here's
the test to the law, right?
00:35:26.22\00:35:30.09
And to what?
00:35:30.09\00:35:30.69
The testimony.
00:35:31.23\00:35:34.93
little bit of light in them.
00:35:34.93\00:35:36.20
No light in them.
00:35:36.56\00:35:37.60
Rule them out.
00:35:37.63\00:35:38.57
Find anybody that's degrading
and taking out and say God's
00:35:38.87\00:35:41.37
law.
00:35:41.37\00:35:43.17
You know, if they don't
pay heed to what God has said,
00:35:43.17\00:35:47.71
they're not paying heed to
the testimonies that have been
00:35:48.51\00:35:51.41
revealed.
00:35:51.41\00:35:52.01
You know what?
00:35:52.58\00:35:53.15
They're deceiving themselves.
00:35:53.28\00:35:54.55
Now remember, we've got to get
past these things in order to
00:35:55.68\00:35:58.42
give that final
cry to the world.
00:35:58.42\00:36:00.52
We have to meet
these things head on.
00:36:00.62\00:36:02.76
It's important.
00:36:03.16\00:36:04.23
You may not have approached
this subject the way that I
00:36:04.36\00:36:06.49
felt and led to do it, but I
understand that we have a road
00:36:06.49\00:36:09.96
that we've got to cross.
00:36:09.96\00:36:10.73
We've got a road.
00:36:10.80\00:36:13.23
These things are going to be
happening and by God's grace.
00:36:13.23\00:36:16.57
And you can talk to some people
and say, oh yeah, well, we know
00:36:17.47\00:36:19.91
we, we kind of believe in
feelings and emotions and all
00:36:19.91\00:36:24.25
kind of things right now.
00:36:24.25\00:36:25.51
And you present
scripture to them.
00:36:25.95\00:36:27.38
That's not good.
00:36:27.38\00:36:28.35
They say we have, we
have something better now.
00:36:28.95\00:36:31.62
Really?
00:36:32.15\00:36:32.59
Who has the audacity?
00:36:33.46\00:36:34.89
Is that right too?
00:36:35.36\00:36:35.99
Audacity to say we have
something better than what God
00:36:36.52\00:36:38.63
has given.
00:36:38.63\00:36:39.16
Do you realize what that takes?
00:36:40.03\00:36:43.73
We have something better.
00:36:47.27\00:36:48.04
No, you don't.
00:36:48.07\00:36:48.84
They're in reality following
their imagination and that
00:36:50.47\00:36:55.91
which is inspired by Satan.
00:36:55.91\00:36:58.31
It's okay because it
either is of God or it's not.
00:36:58.98\00:37:01.85
So what once we come to that is
be so easy for us to be able to
00:37:02.15\00:37:05.42
stay on track.
00:37:05.42\00:37:06.05
It's either God or it's of the
enemy and we don't want nothing
00:37:06.65\00:37:09.26
to do with the enemy.
00:37:09.26\00:37:10.16
Let me say something here.
00:37:10.66\00:37:11.86
Manuscript 27, 1894.
00:37:11.86\00:37:14.20
This, it starts out like this.
00:37:14.76\00:37:16.16
Bear in mind that trials of
this character are to come upon
00:37:16.26\00:37:21.80
us.
00:37:21.80\00:37:22.54
Not only from without,
but from within our own ranks.
00:37:24.71\00:37:30.45
You see, we have to know that
and not just be so, you know,
00:37:31.68\00:37:35.58
torn up about we
lay down and we die.
00:37:35.62\00:37:37.55
This is when we stand.
00:37:37.79\00:37:39.09
We stand in defense of the
faith, once delivered to the
00:37:39.59\00:37:43.22
saints.
00:37:43.22\00:37:46.26
about it.
00:37:46.26\00:37:46.80
Seventh-day
Adventism is raised to me.
00:37:47.83\00:37:50.10
We have distinct
doctrines that no one else has.
00:37:50.43\00:37:54.14
That doesn't mean
you're any better.
00:37:54.37\00:37:55.44
Doesn't mean I'm any better.
00:37:55.47\00:37:56.40
We know more.
00:37:56.47\00:37:57.07
But do we not have
distinct doctrines?
00:37:57.94\00:38:00.54
They're different from most
all the other doctrines of other
00:38:00.91\00:38:04.08
churches.
00:38:04.08\00:38:04.98
Some are very different from
the teachings of maybe other
00:38:05.28\00:38:09.92
Christians or churches.
00:38:09.92\00:38:11.02
We have always insisted
upon it, Thus saith the Lord.
00:38:12.52\00:38:15.96
I love that.
00:38:16.32\00:38:17.86
Thus saith the Lord.
00:38:18.23\00:38:19.56
And because of this,
because we, Thus saith the Lord.
00:38:22.26\00:38:25.37
Just because of this, right,
we found it necessary then to
00:38:25.63\00:38:29.10
defend our position.
00:38:29.10\00:38:31.11
Does that make sense?
00:38:31.81\00:38:32.74
Thus saith the Lord.
00:38:33.34\00:38:33.94
We have to defend our position.
00:38:34.04\00:38:35.91
If you can't defend your
position, you have no position.
00:38:35.91\00:38:39.08
Is that all right?
00:38:39.08\00:38:40.25
I think that's true.
00:38:40.68\00:38:41.98
And we defend that position
against those who are trying to
00:38:45.95\00:38:49.72
change Scripture to suit their
own way of life and maybe the
00:38:49.72\00:38:54.46
way they think.
00:38:54.46\00:38:55.50
I just say, my brothers and
sisters, we cannot be silent at
00:38:56.93\00:39:01.10
this time.
00:39:01.10\00:39:02.04
That's treason against God.
00:39:03.30\00:39:05.11
He doesn't have
neutral in His transmission.
00:39:06.07\00:39:09.14
And you don't
have neutral in yours.
00:39:12.01\00:39:14.32
And I don't have it in
mine by the grace of God, right?
00:39:14.75\00:39:17.19
No, by the grace of God.
00:39:17.99\00:39:19.42
From the beginning, our
teachings have been built.
00:39:21.56\00:39:25.23
And I can say
this for what I know.
00:39:25.89\00:39:28.00
I don't know that much.
00:39:28.10\00:39:29.00
I'm just saying I'm smart.
00:39:29.10\00:39:30.00
But from the very beginning,
for a mile of years in this
00:39:30.30\00:39:32.73
movement, I know from the very
beginning, our teachings have
00:39:32.73\00:39:36.30
been built upon that solid
rock, which is Jesus Christ.
00:39:36.30\00:39:39.31
Isn't that
right, Matthew 16, 18?
00:39:39.74\00:39:41.54
Built upon that rock.
00:39:41.84\00:39:43.21
You can be sure of it.
00:39:44.38\00:39:46.38
Bible said the foundation
of God's stand is sure.
00:39:47.98\00:39:50.89
Isn't that beautiful?
00:39:50.99\00:39:51.65
2 Timothy 2, 19.
00:39:51.82\00:39:53.69
And so I do submit once again,
every attack and much more is
00:39:54.92\00:39:59.09
going to happen
in the near future.
00:39:59.09\00:40:00.46
Will we be ready?
00:40:00.70\00:40:03.83
The pillars of our
faith are being attacked.
00:40:04.17\00:40:06.10
But I say this, just a little
small argument in defense of
00:40:07.60\00:40:11.01
that platform, that
foundation that we are.
00:40:11.01\00:40:13.61
I say it's sure.
00:40:13.84\00:40:14.81
And I say it's sure
because from all, you know, the
00:40:14.98\00:40:18.25
doctoral positions, because
after all these years, it's
00:40:18.25\00:40:21.15
still there.
00:40:21.15\00:40:21.85
It's still there.
00:40:22.32\00:40:23.52
What you have, it's still there.
00:40:23.99\00:40:25.32
It hasn't changed.
00:40:25.65\00:40:26.76
And it won't change.
00:40:26.89\00:40:28.62
Well, praise God for that.
00:40:30.33\00:40:31.79
We're called upon to wage a
war in defense of the faith.
00:40:32.33\00:40:36.87
See, people don't
like to talk about it.
00:40:37.10\00:40:38.63
A war.
00:40:38.90\00:40:39.77
This is a battle royale.
00:40:41.10\00:40:42.60
You know that.
00:40:42.60\00:40:43.71
We're called upon to wage a
war in defense of the faith.
00:40:45.37\00:40:48.68
Keep this in mind,
Review and Herald 1, 1, 18, 89.
00:40:49.64\00:40:52.75
It says, there is today
prospect before us, you read
00:40:53.38\00:40:56.35
this many times, of
waging a continuous war.
00:40:56.35\00:40:59.92
Are we there?
00:41:00.16\00:41:01.06
At the risk of imprisonment,
of losing property, even life
00:41:01.92\00:41:06.66
itself, to
defend the law of God.
00:41:06.66\00:41:09.20
How many of you love the law
of God enough you're willing to
00:41:09.73\00:41:12.27
defend it, give your life
for it, property, whatever it
00:41:12.27\00:41:15.37
takes.
00:41:15.37\00:41:15.74
You know what I'm saying?
00:41:16.34\00:41:19.34
are you going to say then?
00:41:19.34\00:41:20.28
You know, know by the grace
of God, which is being made void
00:41:21.01\00:41:26.85
by the laws of men.
00:41:26.85\00:41:27.72
We know that.
00:41:27.85\00:41:28.58
So the Bible puts forth strong
arguments against error and we
00:41:29.82\00:41:35.59
are encouraged
to do the very same.
00:41:35.59\00:41:37.66
Let me give you several
examples quickly of our time.
00:41:37.69\00:41:39.76
Paul, Paul liked
to meet him head-on.
00:41:41.23\00:41:42.66
Did you like that?
00:41:42.73\00:41:43.50
I love to read about Paul.
00:41:43.67\00:41:44.77
Some of you will
go, huh, that's okay.
00:41:47.34\00:41:49.34
I'll find out sometime you need
to lead with a left and give
00:41:52.47\00:41:54.71
them the right and that's it.
00:41:54.71\00:41:56.18
Some people need it.
00:41:59.85\00:42:01.42
Other people may be a little
different way, but notice 1st
00:42:02.25\00:42:04.45
Corinthians 15 12.
00:42:04.45\00:42:05.65
Paul said he was dealing with
this thing going, there's no
00:42:06.05\00:42:09.69
resurrection.
00:42:09.69\00:42:10.29
If you die, you just die.
00:42:12.19\00:42:13.16
That's it.
00:42:13.26\00:42:13.53
He went boy.
00:42:13.66\00:42:14.46
He went to scripture.
00:42:14.66\00:42:15.73
He met it head-on and
man, he gained a lot of people
00:42:15.80\00:42:18.53
followers because of that
and he just said this simply.
00:42:18.53\00:42:21.40
He encouraged others.
00:42:21.40\00:42:22.20
He said fight with me.
00:42:22.47\00:42:24.41
He said it like this.
00:42:24.87\00:42:26.41
First Timothy 6 12.
00:42:26.54\00:42:27.81
He said fight the
good fight of faith.
00:42:27.81\00:42:29.81
Fight do what?
00:42:30.55\00:42:31.75
Fight the good fight of faith.
00:42:32.68\00:42:33.98
Stand in there.
00:42:33.98\00:42:35.25
Then he said hold fast
to the form of sound words.
00:42:36.02\00:42:39.49
Oh, I like that.
00:42:40.26\00:42:41.39
He said which you
have heard from me.
00:42:42.19\00:42:44.13
What are people
hearing from you?
00:42:44.33\00:42:45.73
What are they hearing from me?
00:42:46.39\00:42:47.13
Are they really sound words?
00:42:47.23\00:42:48.93
Things that they can as we're
sink their teeth into and say
00:42:49.66\00:42:51.77
man, this is this is something.
00:42:51.77\00:42:53.54
There has to be
something that's going on.
00:42:55.70\00:42:58.37
God is moving in a marvelous
way with his people right now.
00:42:58.61\00:43:02.24
Don't miss it.
00:43:02.28\00:43:03.41
Don't miss it.
00:43:03.71\00:43:04.88
You don't have
to be real special.
00:43:05.31\00:43:06.65
I've seen a young
man just yesterday.
00:43:07.62\00:43:08.95
I mean, I've seen him two or
three different times and went
00:43:10.45\00:43:12.55
in there and he brought me
something and did something.
00:43:12.55\00:43:15.42
He said sir, yeah, I hope one
of these days I have some time.
00:43:15.49\00:43:23.57
I'm going what?
00:43:24.57\00:43:25.53
He said I'd just love to
sit down and just talk with you.
00:43:26.43\00:43:29.80
There's something that's
telling me to talk to you.
00:43:30.57\00:43:34.21
Don't know his name.
00:43:34.71\00:43:36.04
That's nothing good.
00:43:36.98\00:43:37.71
Remember, they must see Jesus.
00:43:37.98\00:43:39.21
They must see something
that's different from the world.
00:43:39.28\00:43:41.82
He sees all kind of people,
but he said there's something.
00:43:42.12\00:43:44.82
I want there to be time.
00:43:45.75\00:43:47.12
Can we just sit
anytime you want my brother.
00:43:47.32\00:43:49.42
Probably 22, 23 years of what?
00:43:50.53\00:43:52.26
That's awesome.
00:43:52.26\00:43:53.03
God is opening doors
and avenues right now.
00:43:54.73\00:43:57.37
You know, Peter warns the
church of false teachers among
00:43:59.63\00:44:03.64
you.
00:44:03.64\00:44:04.07
You remember this?
00:44:04.14\00:44:04.54
He said they're
bringing in damnable heresies.
00:44:05.27\00:44:07.34
You remember that?
00:44:07.41\00:44:08.04
Soul destroying.
00:44:08.31\00:44:09.34
If we believe they're soul
destroying, we've got to do
00:44:09.74\00:44:11.55
something about
it by God's grace.
00:44:11.55\00:44:12.98
2 Peter 2, 1.
00:44:13.18\00:44:14.42
And so then what does he do?
00:44:15.02\00:44:16.32
He tells, he warns the church.
00:44:16.75\00:44:18.32
And so we said,
well, I've warned them.
00:44:18.62\00:44:19.72
That's enough.
00:44:19.72\00:44:22.16
doing that.
00:44:22.16\00:44:22.52
No, no, no.
00:44:22.56\00:44:22.92
What he did.
00:44:22.92\00:44:23.46
He began to examine and to show
his disapproval of their heirs
00:44:24.26\00:44:28.70
and their heresies.
00:44:28.70\00:44:30.20
See, he began to show
them where they were in error.
00:44:30.87\00:44:34.84
How about you?
00:44:36.37\00:44:37.11
How about me?
00:44:37.11\00:44:37.94
How about giving that faith
once delivered to the saints?
00:44:38.34\00:44:40.58
You remember that?
00:44:40.71\00:44:41.74
In Jude chapter 3.
00:44:42.11\00:44:43.18
I mean, what a thought.
00:44:43.71\00:44:44.55
How about the time
of the reformation?
00:44:45.81\00:44:47.45
What I'm saying, we're living
in the last hours of verse
00:44:47.75\00:44:49.78
history and we look at a lot
of things that have been started
00:44:49.78\00:44:52.09
years ago and yet they're
continuing on right now and
00:44:52.09\00:44:54.66
they're going to be
brought to completion.
00:44:54.66\00:44:55.92
So instead of just smelling the
flowers, the roses, these men
00:44:56.66\00:45:00.73
had to fight to
present what is truth.
00:45:00.73\00:45:03.30
The faith once
delivered to the saints.
00:45:04.13\00:45:05.83
Now think about it.
00:45:05.93\00:45:06.94
The time of the reformation,
when the reformers had to do
00:45:07.14\00:45:12.44
much, much more, imagine,
than focus on righteousness by
00:45:12.44\00:45:16.81
faith.
00:45:16.81\00:45:17.21
Okay, I've got a job.
00:45:17.38\00:45:18.01
Righteous by faith.
00:45:18.11\00:45:18.81
Righteous by faith.
00:45:18.88\00:45:19.35
Oh, it's all good.
00:45:19.35\00:45:20.38
No, I'm not
saying it's not good.
00:45:20.55\00:45:21.75
But as soon as they began
to proclaim righteousness by
00:45:23.08\00:45:24.95
faith, they were challenged.
00:45:24.95\00:45:26.22
And so what did they have to do?
00:45:26.76\00:45:28.79
They had to be prepared
to meet these arguments.
00:45:31.86\00:45:35.03
And they had to meet some of
the most intelligent, smartest
00:45:36.10\00:45:40.90
minds of Rome.
00:45:40.90\00:45:42.10
Wow.
00:45:42.97\00:45:43.41
And we have to meet, as it
were, the mind of the enemy
00:45:44.41\00:45:47.04
through others, if you
know what I'm talking about.
00:45:47.58\00:45:49.71
How about William Miller
and his associates in the early
00:45:51.05\00:45:55.15
1840s, you remember?
00:45:55.15\00:45:56.38
See, they were
not just permitted.
00:45:57.22\00:45:59.09
They believed in
the coming of Jesus.
00:46:00.86\00:46:02.86
Oh, Jesus is
coming, Jesus is coming.
00:46:03.89\00:46:05.53
And they wanted to just
keep telling people and telling
00:46:05.69\00:46:07.40
people, but the people wouldn't
let them continue to do what
00:46:07.40\00:46:09.73
they were supposed to be doing.
00:46:09.73\00:46:10.90
They had to
spend time on refuting.
00:46:12.20\00:46:15.50
All the arguments of many
of the ministers who tried to
00:46:17.34\00:46:21.91
prove from Scripture that
the world conversion came before
00:46:21.91\00:46:25.91
Jesus comes back.
00:46:25.91\00:46:27.72
Some of the stuff you
might be hearing today.
00:46:28.65\00:46:30.89
And all you have to do is
examine some of the writings of
00:46:32.72\00:46:35.29
the 1844 movement to see
there were some very heavy-duty
00:46:35.29\00:46:40.56
meetings that occurred when
air was exposed and somebody was
00:46:40.56\00:46:45.00
dismissed.
00:46:45.00\00:46:45.57
Interesting.
00:46:46.47\00:46:46.97
So, let me take it quick.
00:46:48.14\00:46:49.10
What about the
Seventh-day Adventist Movement?
00:46:49.17\00:46:50.64
What about the
Seventh-day Adventist Movement?
00:46:51.64\00:46:53.74
As it first began, we began,
a lot of time was spent by voice
00:46:55.84\00:47:00.62
and by pen, any which way, to
put up an argument that Sunday,
00:47:00.62\00:47:05.29
as they say, and not Saturday,
was taught in Scripture.
00:47:06.65\00:47:09.42
That was put right,
it's Sunday, it's Sunday!
00:47:10.09\00:47:12.43
And we said, no, it's Saturday,
it's Saturday, the seventh day.
00:47:12.43\00:47:16.16
It'd be nice to go ahead
and just proclaim, proclaim,
00:47:16.40\00:47:18.13
proclaim, but then there
had to be some, you know, papers
00:47:18.23\00:47:20.90
printed and books printed and
different things going on to,
00:47:20.90\00:47:23.41
you know, fight the
good fight of faith.
00:47:23.41\00:47:25.47
Tried to explain one of the
errors of the soul that never
00:47:28.04\00:47:33.95
dies.
00:47:33.95\00:47:34.62
So, in doing what they were
compelled to do or supposed to
00:47:36.15\00:47:39.35
do by God, there's a lot of
other things that had to take
00:47:39.35\00:47:41.96
place because they had to give
a warning message to the world
00:47:41.96\00:47:45.23
that Jesus was soon to come.
00:47:45.23\00:47:46.56
Now, I think beyond a shadow
of a doubt, there's movements
00:47:50.33\00:47:55.90
today that's going forward.
00:47:55.90\00:47:58.01
And some of them are as false
as false can be, and we have to
00:48:00.44\00:48:03.75
be ready and we
have to recognize it.
00:48:03.75\00:48:05.38
But when we see there's
two things we might need to be
00:48:07.02\00:48:09.65
doing as we see a lot of these
false doctors and teachers and
00:48:09.65\00:48:11.89
things going on, we need to
put together evidence in behalf,
00:48:11.89\00:48:17.93
right, of that belief.
00:48:18.33\00:48:20.10
We have to be ready for it.
00:48:20.96\00:48:23.13
Number two, be able to answer
any argument about that belief.
00:48:23.53\00:48:28.20
Well, that means we have
to get into the word, right?
00:48:28.87\00:48:30.54
We're going to have to study it.
00:48:30.57\00:48:31.91
If a church wants to maintain
its own identity and even
00:48:32.17\00:48:37.45
separate from other churches
who play down some of maybe
00:48:37.45\00:48:41.85
your theology or mine, they
say, let's just come together.
00:48:41.85\00:48:45.32
It doesn't
matter what you believe.
00:48:45.35\00:48:46.52
Don't believe them.
00:48:46.55\00:48:47.82
You have been chosen and called
by God to give something very
00:48:51.53\00:48:55.20
special.
00:48:55.20\00:48:55.73
And if you find a group who
just minimizes your importance
00:48:56.93\00:49:00.84
of doctrine, it says minimum,
it's just, don't worry about
00:49:00.84\00:49:03.41
it, then we need to be very
careful, wouldn't you think?
00:49:03.41\00:49:07.38
Because I hear this, nothing
matters, but just get along.
00:49:08.64\00:49:12.65
Just have peace.
00:49:13.52\00:49:14.52
We're all trying to
get to the same place.
00:49:15.28\00:49:16.89
Sometimes you heard that.
00:49:16.99\00:49:18.32
A man once said there's danger
when a person tries to buy
00:49:20.46\00:49:24.43
peace with the
currency of compromise.
00:49:24.43\00:49:28.13
The world would have you
to compromise these beautiful
00:49:29.83\00:49:33.10
truths that God has given us.
00:49:33.10\00:49:34.27
I encourage you,
don't compromise.
00:49:34.44\00:49:35.67
Be careful
about trying to doubt.
00:49:36.71\00:49:38.34
It's good to ask questions.
00:49:38.77\00:49:39.87
Don't doubt what God has
already given, made clear in
00:49:39.87\00:49:43.14
Scripture and
Spirit of Prophecy.
00:49:43.14\00:49:44.91
Greatcontroversy 45 says, if
unity could be secured only by
00:49:46.21\00:49:49.18
compromise of truth and
righteousness, let there be
00:49:49.18\00:49:52.49
differences and
let there even be war.
00:49:52.49\00:49:54.59
Man, that's
pretty solid, isn't it?
00:49:55.36\00:49:57.53
But how many of us will do it?
00:49:57.69\00:49:58.93
Most times we sit by idly,
we say nothing, we do nothing,
00:49:59.03\00:50:01.40
we're not defending
the cause of Christ.
00:50:01.76\00:50:03.50
The world at large, if we look
around, the enemy pretty much
00:50:05.63\00:50:09.20
controls it.
00:50:09.20\00:50:10.14
I know God allows him to do it,
but think what you're dealing
00:50:11.04\00:50:14.44
with every day.
00:50:14.44\00:50:15.54
Please don't miss this point.
00:50:17.15\00:50:18.31
A few minutes left.
00:50:18.51\00:50:19.51
The Advent movement is
distinguished in the belief
00:50:21.35\00:50:28.86
that God raised this movement
up to preach the three angels'
00:50:28.86\00:50:32.96
message.
00:50:33.23\00:50:33.70
He raised it up especially
to preach the three angels'
00:50:34.36\00:50:37.80
message and to give that final
cry, as it were, to get ready
00:50:38.23\00:50:42.44
for His coming, to warn the
world of the events that are
00:50:42.44\00:50:45.97
taking place today
right underneath our nose.
00:50:45.97\00:50:48.18
The Advent movement right
now, still yet, is helping the
00:50:50.98\00:50:54.52
objective of the
Reformation of the 16th century.
00:50:54.52\00:50:58.05
It's been part of it,
bringing it to completion.
00:50:59.29\00:51:02.09
If the day comes, may I
challenge you with this?
00:51:05.29\00:51:08.70
If the day comes that the
Adventist movement fails to
00:51:09.83\00:51:15.57
emphasize her doctrines, we
will have lost our reason for
00:51:15.57\00:51:21.21
existing.
00:51:21.21\00:51:21.61
Did somebody get it?
00:51:22.68\00:51:23.85
If the day comes that the
Advent movement fails to put
00:51:27.38\00:51:30.95
emphasis on doctrines, we have
lost our reasons for existing.
00:51:30.95\00:51:36.79
If we minimize these special
beliefs, it's going to destroy
00:51:37.76\00:51:43.20
the movement.
00:51:43.20\00:51:43.77
If we want to compromise it
away, it's going to destroy the
00:51:45.80\00:51:48.60
movement.
00:51:48.60\00:51:49.00
We can't change
one peg or pillar.
00:51:49.90\00:51:52.47
On the other hand, if we just
emphasize these testing truths,
00:51:54.01\00:51:57.35
just emphasize them and
be prepared for opposition.
00:51:58.65\00:52:02.18
Are you prepared
for that opposition?
00:52:04.85\00:52:06.42
That's sure to come, but God
will give you what you need in
00:52:07.92\00:52:11.76
that hour.
00:52:11.76\00:52:12.39
Pray that the Holy Spirit
just pressures your heart and my
00:52:15.63\00:52:18.53
mind right now.
00:52:18.53\00:52:22.17
going to give this little last
warning to the world, a wake-up
00:52:22.17\00:52:27.61
call.
00:52:27.61\00:52:30.58
winds of doctrines
blowing around here.
00:52:30.58\00:52:32.21
I must be settled in the truth.
00:52:32.31\00:52:34.72
Settle in the faith that I
shall not be moved by the grace
00:52:35.42\00:52:38.42
of God.
00:52:38.42\00:52:38.75
I shall not be.
00:52:38.95\00:52:40.06
I shall not be.
00:52:40.29\00:52:41.62
Just like a tree
that's planted by the water.
00:52:41.89\00:52:44.06
Oh, Lord, I shall not be
moved only by the grace of God.
00:52:44.16\00:52:46.86
I know that.
00:52:46.86\00:52:47.83
I say to you today in every
crisis, and I do believe we're
00:52:50.47\00:52:54.80
in a crisis, we as God's people
can confidently declare if God
00:52:54.80\00:53:03.31
be for us, who
can be against us?
00:53:03.31\00:53:05.21
Think about it.
00:53:05.45\00:53:06.31
If God be for us,
who can be against us?
00:53:06.38\00:53:08.68
It's not going to work.
00:53:08.98\00:53:09.98
If God's for you,
you're going to win.
00:53:10.09\00:53:12.22
Oh, I love that.
00:53:13.09\00:53:13.89
Oh, God be for us.
00:53:13.99\00:53:15.26
What's that?
00:53:15.59\00:53:15.92
Romans 8.31.
00:53:15.99\00:53:17.73
Responsive faith in God's Word
and His leading today was made
00:53:18.89\00:53:23.03
by Nehemiah that
always has impressed my mind.
00:53:23.03\00:53:25.93
Our God shall fight for us.
00:53:27.30\00:53:29.20
And you love it?
00:53:29.47\00:53:30.11
Our God shall fight for us.
00:53:30.11\00:53:31.71
You don't have to think you're
out there all alone and always
00:53:32.17\00:53:34.21
all woe is me.
00:53:34.21\00:53:35.18
God's going to
fight the battle for you.
00:53:35.34\00:53:37.48
He's going to win every battle.
00:53:37.58\00:53:39.35
God is in the work.
00:53:39.68\00:53:41.42
In Adventism,
God is in the work.
00:53:41.65\00:53:43.82
I believe it.
00:53:43.82\00:53:47.69
and no peg and
pins to be removed.
00:53:47.82\00:53:49.42
The one who's trying to remove
them is going to be removed.
00:53:50.76\00:53:53.90
Too much for you?
00:53:55.70\00:53:56.63
Remember, no man.
00:54:01.44\00:54:02.90
Mommy, are you here?
00:54:03.34\00:54:04.27
Where are you at?
00:54:04.47\00:54:04.97
Oh, sorry.
00:54:05.24\00:54:05.67
It's okay if I call her Mommy?
00:54:07.74\00:54:09.04
Sweetheart.
00:54:10.28\00:54:10.81
Oh, I'm such a lucky guy.
00:54:11.78\00:54:13.01
Remember, no man can prevent
the ultimate success of this
00:54:15.15\00:54:19.99
movement.
00:54:19.99\00:54:20.36
No man can do it.
00:54:21.26\00:54:22.69
No group.
00:54:22.92\00:54:23.79
No one can do it.
00:54:23.79\00:54:25.86
We stand firm because
God is fighting for us.
00:54:26.33\00:54:30.27
Isn't that wonderful?
00:54:30.70\00:54:33.70
Think about it.
00:54:34.70\00:54:35.40
You're on a winning side.
00:54:35.60\00:54:36.67
You're not a loser.
00:54:36.71\00:54:37.54
You're on a winning side.
00:54:38.01\00:54:39.17
Right?
00:54:39.24\00:54:42.11
It's in Christ that
we have our victory.
00:54:42.11\00:54:43.75
You know, you
started out with John 1-1.
00:54:44.15\00:54:46.38
Yes.
00:54:46.38\00:54:51.92
with God and the word was God.
00:54:51.92\00:54:53.62
And we need to
know, as John knew, Jesus.
00:54:54.16\00:54:57.56
We need to spend time
in the word with Jesus.
00:54:58.03\00:55:00.70
We need to, by
faith, touch Jesus.
00:55:01.00\00:55:03.53
We need to, by faith, eat of
that word each and every day.
00:55:03.83\00:55:07.14
Otherwise, we
will not be prepared.
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It's not a once in a week thing.
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It's not every time, you know,
just on Wednesday or just on
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Thursday, whenever you have
your Bible studies, you need to
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be having and partaking of that
spiritual time with Jesus every
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single day.
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Amen.
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What changed my life, what
changed His life, is when we
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made the decision that we would
partake of the spiritual food
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before we would
partake of the physical food.
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And I encourage you, Church,
to please join us in that effort
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because as we are putting these
things into our minds and our
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hearts, it is Christ that
will work in and through us.
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We won't have the power on our
own, but we need to put it in
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there so then the Holy
Spirit can pull it out.
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He wants, remember some of the
passages you've heard over this
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camp meeting, that once
Christ's character is fully
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reflected in each and every
one of you, what are we told?
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He's going to come.
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Then He will.
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Yes.
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What?
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What's the word?
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Come.
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Yes.
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Then He will come.
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When He sees you, the way
that you are developing that
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character, the character of
Christ, is through the Word of
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God.
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It's through prayer.
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It is through witnessing.
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It's by way of God is
through the sanctuary.
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So we go back and we study
the sanctuary to show ourselves
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approved unto God.
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It's by His grace.
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Oh, sweetheart.
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You need to pray for us.
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And it's by His love.
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We've got less than a minute.
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Would you pray for us?
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You can't be
long-winded, but go ahead.
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We'll pray.
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We're going to kneel up here.
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Let's pray.
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Heavenly Father,
we just thank You.
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We just thank You
for this camp meeting.
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We thank You that
You love us so much.
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That You are even calling us to
be prepared, that we have heard
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Your voice in our hearts
and our minds, and that we even
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have Bibles in our country
that we can access right now.
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But God, please, urge upon
our minds and our hearts to use
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them while we still can, to
use that sword, to put on that
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whole armor of God.
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And thank You for being our
strength because the enemy is
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all around us.
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But You've promised that You're
going to battle for us and
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through us if we just put Your
love and Your Word inside of
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our hearts to eat and to drink
of Jesus Christ as our prayer
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in Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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