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Doug Batchelor: Now, we want
to welcome our friends who are
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We have members who are
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This is a high day
in Zion, you might say.
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You'll notice that we have
a busy background here for our
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regular Sabbath school
study, and that's because
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this Sabbath is the
Sabbath where we are
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celebrating the
opening of the WORD Center.
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Now, we've, you know, been open
for a little while, but because
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of the pandemic, we weren't
really able to call everybody
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together and celebrate the way
we wanted to, so we picked this
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date right here at the beginning
of spring, and this is going to
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be a great day to worship
and praise the Lord, amen?
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And so, we're so thankful that
each of you are here, and we've
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got a very special Sabbath
school lesson and a presenter
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that will share with
you in just a moment.
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We want to remind you, we're
going through our new quarterly
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dealing with the
subject of Genesis.
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This is just a foundation
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It's called "Aliens, Angels,
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talking about "Who
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And so, if you would like that
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You can download and read this
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blessed when you do, but before
we get into our study for today
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and have our prayer, we're going
to be blessed with some music.
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¤ Our Father, ¤
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¤ which art in heaven, ¤
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Doug: Loving Father, we
just want to thank You and
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praise You for this day
of life and the Sabbath day,
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when we can come together,
study Your Word, and just
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rejoice in the goodness
and the plan of salvation.
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Lord, we pray You will be with
us during this study hour, be in
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a special way with our
presenter, and we ask that
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You'll bless him and
anoint his lips with Your Spirit
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and that we
might all be edified.
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We ask in Jesus's name, amen.
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All right, well, I'd like to
invite our speaker up here, and
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while our choir finds their way
out, I'm so thankful that Elder
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Jay Gallimore is here to
share our lesson with us today.
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Elder Jay is not only a
pastor, an administrator,
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he's been a
conference president.
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He's the chairman of
the Amazing Facts Board
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and is a very
capable Bible teacher.
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And so, Elder Gallimore is going
to be presenting our lesson
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today, and then after the
lesson, don't rush off, because
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we have something special that's
going to follow immediately
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after before we go
into our normal break time.
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Brother Jay, thank you so much.
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Jay Gallimore: All
right, thank you, Pastor Doug.
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Just a joy to be with you.
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What a wonderful day this
is. It's just a fantastic day.
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I'm not going to lead music,
that's really not my thing,
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but--this is really nice and big
so I can get everything else on
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that here, but we
have a wonderful day.
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It's a day of celebration.
The lesson, however, is serious.
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It's sober, and it's one
we must think about carefully.
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I'm sure you have your Bibles,
and I'd like to have you turn to
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Genesis chapter 6, and if you
have a Sabbath School Quarterly,
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we're studying the
chapter--or the lesson number
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four, and we're
studying the flood.
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So this is a
wonderful day, but we exist,
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"Amazing Facts" exists to help
carry out the message to a dying
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world because this world is
headed for another flood, not a
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flood of water
but a flood of fire.
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The lesson has three parts in
my mind, the first part is the
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warning, the second part
of the lesson is the judgment,
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and the third part
of the lesson is the
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rainbow, and so we're
going to plunge into this.
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I'm used to teaching where
I've got a lot of feedback.
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I know that's not
going to be possible today,
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but it's still a teaching.
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It's not a preaching lesson.
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So I hope that you will plunge
into this with me, and so we're
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going to look at chapter--we're
looking at the quarterly, and we
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have on Sunday's lesson--before
I go there, I want to go to the
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memory verse, because we're
gonna come back to the memory
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verse at the end, and it's
one that you probably know well,
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but as it was in
the days of Noah,
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so shall it be also
in the days of what?
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The coming of the Son of Man.
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So, Jesus himself said look
at the antediluvian world, look
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at Noah, look what happened,
look at the flood, because the
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conditions that were there are
also going to be the conditions
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that are going to be
with us in the end of time,
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and that's why first
of all we would need to
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take the warning
and look at the warning.
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So, I want to go to
Genesis chapter 6, and we
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want to look at the
first few verses here,
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so if you're
following right along with me.
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I'm using a New King
James Version this morning.
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"Now, it came to pass that when
man began to multiply on the
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face of the earth--" I'm going
to stop right there and say if
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you look at chapter 4 and you
look at chapter 5, you will see
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that something is
happening very interesting.
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First of all, we have Cain and
Abel, you know the story there,
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and then Seth is
born, and the last words
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we basically hear
from Eve is that "I now
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have somebody to
take the place of Abel."
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Seth becomes the line--the
patriarchs, if you please, of
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those who would
be faithful to God.
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Now, that's
important to keep that in mind.
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There was another line
that was given by--it came
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from Cain who killed
his brother, and we find
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a record of that down
to the seven generations.
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With the line of Seth, we find
a line of seven generations, and
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we have Enoch, who
was taken to heaven,
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and then you come
three more generations
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to ten generations,
and you come to Noah.
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Now, it's important to flash
back and just take a look at
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what's happening in Cain's line,
and the last we hear from Cain's
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line is found in
chapter 4, if you have
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your Bibles, and
you're looking at verse 19.
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"Then Lamech," this is the last
one of Cain's line that we hear
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from in scripture, "took
for himself how many wives?
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Oh.
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That wasn't the way
it was In the beginning.
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That's what Jesus said.
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God gave Adam
how many wives? One.
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So something
terrible is going on here.
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We're finding the
introduction of polygamy, why?
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Now, something else,
and I'm going to do a little
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speculation, I like
sometimes--we do a little
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sanctified
speculation, which tells you
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that I can't
necessarily prove what I'm
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going to say next,
but I think it's logical.
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Lamech does a poem
where he actually brags
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about the fact
that he killed a man.
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First of all, we
have the polygamy,
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and then we have the
fact that he killed a man,
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he said, who wounded
him, and he's basically
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kind of boasting about it.
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Cain, his
great-great-great-whatever
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grandfather killed a
man, his own brother.
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So what's going on here?
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Here's what I
suspect is going on
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and why it's
important for the warning.
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This Lamech may have
got into a conflict with
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this man because he
took his wife by force.
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If you read "Patriarchs
and Prophets," you'll
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find that the antediluvian
world descended into violence.
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You'll find it in scripture.
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God said there was
violence everywhere.
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The intentions
of everybody's mind
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was evil, selfish continually.
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If he took this man's wife by
force and they got in conflict,
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that is one of
the reasons why we see
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the deterioration in
the antediluvian world.
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I'm going to come back to that,
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but now I want to
flashback to chapter 6.
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In chapter 6 we find verse 2.
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"That the sons of God--"
by the way, the book that was
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advertised, you want that
book, because there's a lot of
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information around
today that tells you a
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whole different
story, but it's not true.
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The sons of God and the sons of
man are just the two lines that
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were established, one by Seth,
those who were faithful to God,
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they're the sons
of God, and the one
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established by Cain,
they're the sons of men.
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"The sons of God
saw the daughters
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of men that
they were beautiful."
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So what's going on here?
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Hello, Samson, wasn't
there anybody, weren't there any
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Israelite women that
were lovely and beautiful?
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Why did you have to
go to the Philistines?
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Why Delilah?
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We can say that
with the sons of God.
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Why descendants of Seth?
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Aren't there any
lovely women, good women?
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Why in the world are you
going to the daughters of Cain?
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This comes down to where we have
to understand the warning, and
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the warning becomes
personal to all of us.
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When God created
us, He created us with
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massive,
marvelous, wonderful gifts.
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He created us with
the gifts of pleasure.
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How many of you enjoy eating?
I know the answer to that.
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He gave us the joy of
marriage and intimacy.
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He gave us the joy to be
able to plan and execute.
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He gave us all kinds of
opportunities to find pleasure,
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but He also gave
us something else.
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He gave us self-control, and
self-control that comes from God
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himself.
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The very basis of our
existence according to Jesus is
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to love--and Moses--is to love
the Lord with all your heart,
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your soul, your
mind, your strength.
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Why would you
want to love this God?
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Because this God is a God
of unselfish love, and without
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unselfish love,
life cannot exist.
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Mark it down. That's
what this is all about.
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The great
controversy between Christ
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and Satan was this whole issue.
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Satan says, "I can be
selfish and still live,"
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and God says, "You cannot.
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That's why I gave my law,
is because the law puts a fence
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around unselfish love and
keeps us out of selfishness.
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It guards everybody
else's right to happiness.
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So here's the tragedy.
This is the line of Seth.
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They mix it up with women from
Cain who have this same concept
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as Lucifer of selfishness,
of unrestrained pleasure.
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By the way, you take a gift
of God--regardless of what it
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is--that He gave us for
pleasure, and you turn that gift
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into lust by using
it without restraint.
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And so, what did this cause?
It caused a huge apostasy.
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This is the tragedy.
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We know Cain's
descendants were in apostasy,
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but now we have the
descendants of Seth.
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God raises up Noah
because He finds him
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the only righteous
man that He can trust.
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Now, I'm not saying there are
not other people, but when we
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come to the tragedy of the
flood, you have to understand,
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we have to understand that many
of the people that died in that
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flood were the brothers,
perhaps sisters, perhaps nieces,
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nephews, cousins, the
close relatives of Noah himself,
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because they had
gone into apostasy.
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And with that, God
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begins to say something,
and it's a warning to all of us.
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Look at verse 5 if
you have your Bibles.
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"And then the Lord saw that the
wickedness of man was great--"
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you can look at the descendants
of Seth, you can look at the
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descendants of Cain--"great
in the earth, and that every
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intent and thought of the
heart was only evil continually.
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I don't know that I
need to try to describe
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the horribleness,
the abominations of
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the antediluvian world,
but I will tell you this.
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If you start looking around
and you start looking at what's
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happening in our
world, you are going to see
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a reflection of why
God destroyed that world.
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We do not understand
either the seriousness
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of sin or the
mighty love of God.
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You can only
destroy the power of sin
00:17:41.99\00:17:46.49
by destroying the love of sin.
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I just mentioned it, but I want
to re-underline this because
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people get angry at
God about the flood.
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They say, "God, why?
00:18:02.58\00:18:04.71
How can you
destroy every living being?
00:18:04.75\00:18:10.59
How can you do that?
00:18:10.62\00:18:13.99
Men, women, children, and the
animals, how can you do that?"
00:18:14.02\00:18:23.73
Because we don't
understand the power of sin
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and what it
does to human beings.
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Let me share
with you what I mean.
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Now, God loved that race.
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That's why He raised up Noah
and built the ark for 120 years.
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Noah was a mighty preacher of
righteousness, and everything he
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had went into that ark, and when
he built that on dry land, it
00:18:47.52\00:18:52.63
was a testimony that
God meant what He said,
00:18:52.66\00:18:55.86
and had they
repented, God would have spared
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them the flood
like He spared Nineveh.
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We have to understand
this awfulness of sin.
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The issue is not whether sin
can be forgiven by the blood of
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Christ, the issue is
that sin hardness our hearts
00:19:13.78\00:19:18.45
so that we don't
want forgiveness.
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And we have to understand
that that world headed toward a
00:19:22.82\00:19:25.89
close of human probation and
that we--this world is headed
00:19:25.93\00:19:31.13
once again to a
close of human probation.
00:19:31.17\00:19:38.47
We are looking at our world
today where the entertainment
00:19:38.51\00:19:43.11
industry, the media industry,
and the list goes on, they're
00:19:43.14\00:19:50.69
actually under the control
of demonic forces that want not
00:19:50.72\00:19:56.29
only to take over
the adults, but the young
00:19:56.32\00:19:59.23
people and the
children, and the people
00:19:59.26\00:20:02.53
responsible for
that are their parents.
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Some years ago, I was speaking
somewhere, and I said to a
00:20:10.14\00:20:14.34
group--this was
a long time ago--
00:20:14.38\00:20:17.51
and it's 1,000
times worse today.
00:20:17.55\00:20:21.62
When I jump on my app
phone and they send up their
00:20:21.65\00:20:26.42
advertisements, it's just
a bunch of demonic stuff, the
00:20:26.45\00:20:29.72
games that people are playing
today, you just do the list,
00:20:29.76\00:20:36.73
but I said, how
many of you let your kids
00:20:36.77\00:20:38.47
listen to
higher--Harry Potter stuff?
00:20:38.50\00:20:42.50
Everything got quiet quick.
00:20:42.54\00:20:46.01
I said, "Listen, that is put
together to do one thing, and
00:20:46.04\00:20:49.74
that's to bring demon
possession into your children."
00:20:49.78\00:20:55.82
And this whole thing is
being schemed to do that.
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You can come to the place where
there is no possible way that
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you can save anybody,
including the children,
00:21:04.36\00:21:08.30
because they've been
so utterly corrupted.
00:21:08.33\00:21:13.37
We have to
understand the awfulness of sin.
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And that's what happened
in the antediluvian world,
00:21:16.14\00:21:18.77
that God tried everything
He could to save them, and He's
00:21:18.81\00:21:22.61
doing everything He can to
save this generation, but a
00:21:22.64\00:21:26.08
close of human
probation is on its way.
00:21:26.11\00:21:31.12
Now, I want to say this.
00:21:31.15\00:21:32.39
If you love the Lord Jesus this
morning, and I believe you do or
00:21:32.42\00:21:34.96
you wouldn't be here, you
wouldn't be watching, if you
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love the Lord Jesus, you have
a responsibility and I have a
00:21:38.16\00:21:41.66
responsibility to do everything
we can to bring people to a
00:21:41.70\00:21:45.53
Savior who has
the power not only
00:21:45.57\00:21:47.90
to forgive but to transform, and
00:21:47.94\00:21:51.91
that power was available
to the antediluvian world.
00:21:51.94\00:21:55.78
They understood the sacrifices.
00:21:55.81\00:21:57.88
There was no excuse--I'm, you
know, they had all their bright
00:21:57.91\00:22:00.58
people back then too, but I just
want to underline, the first
00:22:00.62\00:22:06.22
thing is the warning, and God is
warning not because He's trying
00:22:06.25\00:22:10.89
to be mean, not because He wants
a flood, not because He wants
00:22:10.93\00:22:15.76
the destruction of the wicked,
in fact, I think I've asked this
00:22:15.80\00:22:21.47
question as I've talked about
the end of time, as I've talked
00:22:21.50\00:22:24.47
about the destruction of the
wicked, the fact is, the book of
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Revelation says
that God dries our tears.
00:22:28.21\00:22:31.31
My question is
who dries God's tears?
00:22:31.35\00:22:40.22
One person put that
the flood was simply
00:22:40.26\00:22:41.89
God drowning the
world in His tears.
00:22:41.92\00:22:47.60
He didn't want the
antediluvian world to perish.
00:22:47.66\00:22:50.83
He wanted to save
it, but he will not
00:22:50.87\00:22:55.87
take away your
freedom of choice.
00:22:55.90\00:22:59.81
He will not take away the
freedom of parents, and our
00:22:59.84\00:23:04.41
world is fast becoming
like the antediluvian world.
00:23:04.45\00:23:11.69
I believe there will be a lot of
people saved in the end of time,
00:23:11.72\00:23:14.22
and we need to do
everything we can to assist the
00:23:14.26\00:23:17.23
Lord Jesus in that
because it--He invested,
00:23:17.26\00:23:19.73
by the way,
everything He had in Calvary.
00:23:19.76\00:23:23.70
I tell people, when you go and
look in God's treasure house,
00:23:23.73\00:23:26.94
you'll find it's empty, because
when He emptied out His only
00:23:26.97\00:23:30.34
begotten Son, there
was nothing left to give.
00:23:30.37\00:23:36.34
He's invested in us.
00:23:36.38\00:23:38.78
He's invested in our happiness,
and He was invested in the
00:23:38.81\00:23:42.78
antediluvian world, but when the
warnings finally come to an end,
00:23:42.82\00:23:50.59
there comes a place
where mercy folds her wings.
00:23:50.63\00:23:56.80
They didn't believe
him. You know the story.
00:24:04.31\00:24:07.01
Think of the
tragedy. Noah wasn't happy.
00:24:07.04\00:24:11.08
I think Noah was in weeping as
that storm came because he knew
00:24:11.11\00:24:14.82
it was not only the descendants
of Cain, but his own relatives.
00:24:14.85\00:24:20.99
I don't have a long time to get
into the flood, but by the way,
00:24:21.02\00:24:23.99
if you want to find and look
at some of the scientific things
00:24:24.03\00:24:26.36
that have happened, there's some
really good minds out there that
00:24:26.39\00:24:30.00
are seeing the evidence and
are applying it to Noah's flood.
00:24:30.03\00:24:34.04
If you look at
Answers in Genesis,
00:24:34.07\00:24:36.10
you can find it, I
think, on YouTube, it's free.
00:24:36.14\00:24:39.27
Genesis apologetics, they have
about a 20-minute thing that
00:24:39.31\00:24:42.14
shows you a really good picture
of what happened at the flood.
00:24:42.18\00:24:47.92
The scripture is very clear,
that God was going to rain for
00:24:47.95\00:24:53.19
40 days and 40 nights, and
then it says something very
00:24:53.22\00:24:55.22
interesting, that he
broke up the foundations
00:24:55.26\00:24:59.69
of the deep, the great
foundations of the deep.
00:24:59.73\00:25:03.30
This is when we
come to judgment.
00:25:03.33\00:25:05.80
Mercy folds its wings.
Noah is put into that ark.
00:25:05.83\00:25:09.74
That mighty door is shut, I
believe, by an angel of God.
00:25:09.77\00:25:13.31
Noah is shut in by God Himself.
00:25:13.34\00:25:16.44
By the way, when human probation
closes--I don't have a lot of
00:25:16.48\00:25:19.91
time to talk about this--but
when human probation closes,
00:25:19.95\00:25:23.45
dear ones, we want to be
shut in by the grace of God.
00:25:23.49\00:25:30.66
We want to be shut
in by the Holy Spirit.
00:25:30.69\00:25:34.46
We will be protected during that
time, but before we get to that
00:25:34.50\00:25:37.97
time, our hearts must be
utterly surrendered, not 90%,
00:25:38.00\00:25:42.30
not 99%, but 100%
to the Lord Jesus.
00:25:42.34\00:25:47.08
A lot of people love
the Lord Jesus as long as
00:25:47.11\00:25:49.21
they can keep 10%, but
the scripture says you must
00:25:49.24\00:25:54.42
love Him with how
much of your heart?
00:25:54.45\00:25:57.19
Yeah, every bit of
it, and that's my appeal.
00:25:57.22\00:26:00.69
So, let's talk about
the judgments of God.
00:26:00.72\00:26:04.46
So here we have--the ark
is all built, Noah is in,
00:26:04.49\00:26:10.70
people are laughing and mocking.
00:26:10.73\00:26:12.03
These are Noah's relatives.
00:26:12.07\00:26:17.37
All the scientific
people have told him,
00:26:17.41\00:26:19.14
"Oh, it's not going to happen,
it's never--" they, you know,
00:26:19.17\00:26:22.01
everybody today--science is
the new god, have you noticed?
00:26:22.04\00:26:29.15
I'm going to say it clearly.
00:26:29.18\00:26:31.99
I say it kind of--as Christians
of faith, men and women of
00:26:32.02\00:26:35.82
faith, as Christians
we're not against science.
00:26:35.86\00:26:39.33
We just don't believe it's God.
00:26:39.36\00:26:42.80
We believe that God is in
charge of science and that
00:26:42.83\00:26:46.00
true science is not
going to contradict him.
00:26:46.03\00:26:49.30
There may be mysteries
that we don't understand.
00:26:49.34\00:26:51.21
There always will be.
00:26:51.24\00:26:56.68
The fountains of the
great deep were broken up.
00:26:56.71\00:27:00.18
If you look at the earth
like a baseball, you'll find
00:27:00.22\00:27:04.09
that the baseball
has seams all around it.
00:27:04.12\00:27:07.02
You know that clearly.
00:27:07.06\00:27:08.89
If you look at the earth, you'll
find those seams in the trenches
00:27:08.92\00:27:12.59
in these mighty
oceans that we have, because
00:27:12.63\00:27:15.46
the earth was all of
one great land mass with
00:27:15.50\00:27:19.43
lakes and shores and
so forth, pretty huge.
00:27:19.47\00:27:21.50
They call it Pangea,
whatever, but when the flood
00:27:21.54\00:27:24.81
came, it just
broke the continents up.
00:27:24.84\00:27:28.24
Now, they'll tell
you that these continents
00:27:28.28\00:27:29.91
have drifted over
zillions of years.
00:27:29.94\00:27:32.08
Not true, it drifted and came to
what we see today in the flood,
00:27:32.11\00:27:37.25
and if you look at some
of these references that I
00:27:37.29\00:27:38.79
gave you, you'll
see how that works.
00:27:38.82\00:27:42.59
In fact, as you look at
these beautiful mountains
00:27:42.62\00:27:44.29
of the Sierras, the
Sierras are part of the flood.
00:27:44.33\00:27:48.96
You're looking at the results of
the flood, because what happened
00:27:49.00\00:27:52.67
is as these grounds of the great
deep broke up and they sent
00:27:52.70\00:27:57.47
these--the water and
the stones and the earth
00:27:57.51\00:28:02.88
and the debris up
way into the atmosphere.
00:28:02.91\00:28:09.22
As that began to happen
and as these--this, it began
00:28:09.25\00:28:12.92
to break the continents
and they began to slide
00:28:12.95\00:28:15.62
away 5 miles an
hour, sliding away.
00:28:15.66\00:28:19.36
That's what's creating these
great oceans that we have, and
00:28:19.39\00:28:22.36
when these--and when it comes
to rest, when it finally stops,
00:28:22.40\00:28:27.74
that is very powerful forces,
and that's why you get the
00:28:27.77\00:28:31.07
mountains coming up
on the east coast, on
00:28:31.11\00:28:34.48
the west coast,
anywhere around the world.
00:28:34.51\00:28:37.35
So, some people have
laughed at us when we talk
00:28:37.38\00:28:39.28
about Noah's flood,
say, "Oh yeah, was the
00:28:39.31\00:28:41.25
water 15 meters
above Mount Everest?"
00:28:41.28\00:28:43.82
Well, you might
want to take a look
00:28:43.85\00:28:45.15
because Mount
Everest has fossils on it.
00:28:45.19\00:28:50.36
It didn't need to
go above Mount Everest.
00:28:50.39\00:28:52.23
The mountains of those days
were much gentler, much nicer.
00:28:52.26\00:28:57.73
Mount Everest and all of these
great mountains that we have
00:28:57.77\00:29:00.74
today, they came as a result
of the collusion of these great
00:29:00.77\00:29:04.71
continents as a flood broke
it up, and the mountains of the
00:29:04.74\00:29:09.94
great deep pushed them
apart, and when you think about
00:29:09.98\00:29:16.15
that--they discover with all
their oil drilling today, that
00:29:16.18\00:29:20.82
they was swept by about--this is
my lay language here, they have
00:29:20.86\00:29:27.10
scientific language for it, but
I call it, like, great tsunamis
00:29:27.13\00:29:32.63
that spread a layer
of sediment, six of them,
00:29:32.67\00:29:38.54
and they're the
same all over the world.
00:29:38.57\00:29:44.88
All the oil drilling,
they have the bits, they bring
00:29:44.91\00:29:47.52
the cores up and
they look at all of that.
00:29:47.55\00:29:52.15
We know right here in North
America, the huge number, tens
00:29:52.19\00:29:57.43
of thousands, we don't really
know the number, were buried in
00:29:57.46\00:30:01.70
Montana, and they
weren't buried over time.
00:30:01.73\00:30:07.70
They weren't
buried by a local flood.
00:30:07.74\00:30:10.97
There's no explanation for that
except this worldwide flood.
00:30:11.01\00:30:14.68
The Grand Canyon was
not cut over eons of time.
00:30:14.71\00:30:21.18
It was cut within a few
days probably, maybe even less,
00:30:21.22\00:30:26.96
because the flood had left a
huge lake in the inter part of
00:30:26.99\00:30:31.33
what we call the
United States today.
00:30:31.36\00:30:33.33
It was blocked up probably by
ice or whatever, and that broke,
00:30:33.36\00:30:37.57
and when it broke, it swept down
just like--and we have a good
00:30:37.60\00:30:40.87
example of that in
Mount Saint Helens today.
00:30:40.90\00:30:44.07
You can find the same thing.
00:30:44.11\00:30:45.41
By the way Mount Saint
Helens has all the layers,
00:30:45.44\00:30:49.34
and they've done studies in
Colorado, secular universities.
00:30:49.38\00:30:52.71
They talk
about--they study layers.
00:30:52.75\00:30:54.15
If you've ever been to the beach
and you've watched the shore
00:30:54.18\00:30:56.92
come up, you'll watch
it and it'll settle out
00:30:56.95\00:30:59.12
in layers, and that's
why you get the fossil
00:30:59.15\00:31:01.16
record the way you
get the fossil record.
00:31:01.19\00:31:05.36
There's plenty of evidence, and
the scripture is clear, nothing
00:31:05.39\00:31:13.64
from the land was left alive
00:31:13.67\00:31:18.41
except Noah, his family,
00:31:18.44\00:31:24.25
and the animals
that were in the ark.
00:31:24.28\00:31:30.95
The final destruction,
no living thing will be
00:31:30.99\00:31:37.46
left alive outside
of that New Jerusalem.
00:31:37.49\00:31:42.96
It will be our ark, and there's
nothing in that New Jerusalem
00:31:43.00\00:31:49.47
that's not in harmony with the
love of God and the law of God.
00:31:49.50\00:31:57.18
I want to be inside that New
Jerusalem, because what happens
00:31:57.21\00:32:00.88
on the outside of it is a
tragedy, but it has to happen.
00:32:00.92\00:32:05.55
From God's love flows both His
justice and his mercy, and He is
00:32:05.59\00:32:11.66
not going to allow--despite the
Asian, Eastern religions that
00:32:11.69\00:32:16.50
talk about Yin, Yang and an
eternal existence between good
00:32:16.53\00:32:20.70
and evil, in my best
Southern English, it ain't so.
00:32:20.74\00:32:28.94
Evil will be
destroyed, hallelujah.
00:32:28.98\00:32:34.48
All the misery and the suffering
that we see everywhere that
00:32:34.52\00:32:37.89
we're involved in, immersed
in ourselves, it's all going to
00:32:37.92\00:32:42.09
disappear, and we will be
ushered into a new age of love
00:32:42.12\00:32:47.23
and grace and opportunities such
as we cannot even dream, all
00:32:47.23\00:32:53.27
made possible by the
blood of Christ and the
00:32:53.30\00:32:55.90
Resurrection morning
of God who loves us, who
00:32:55.94\00:32:58.61
gave His only
begotten Son for us.
00:32:58.64\00:33:02.08
They can not tell me
that God is mean or arbitrary.
00:33:02.11\00:33:05.11
He's only doing
what's got to be done,
00:33:05.15\00:33:07.35
and He's reluctant to do it.
00:33:07.38\00:33:15.52
That's the judgment.
00:33:15.56\00:33:18.09
That's the judgment of Noah's
day, and it's the judgment of
00:33:18.13\00:33:21.76
our day, will be,
because we're in the same part.
00:33:21.80\00:33:27.90
Now, the wonderful thing, if you
look at Genesis--in Genesis 8,
00:33:27.94\00:33:32.77
verse 1, it says--if
you have your Bibles,
00:33:32.81\00:33:36.21
turn there--Genesis 8, verse 1.
00:33:36.24\00:33:39.05
"Then God
remembered." I love that word.
00:33:39.08\00:33:44.82
Doesn't mean that He
was just--it was just an
00:33:44.85\00:33:46.72
intellectual thing, it was that
when God remembers, God acts,
00:33:46.76\00:33:51.43
and when you trace
it through scripture,
00:33:51.46\00:33:52.76
God acts with
mercy, with great mercy.
00:33:52.79\00:33:58.03
God remembered Noah
and the ark and now He,
00:33:58.07\00:34:01.24
the waters--God
reverses this whole thing.
00:34:01.27\00:34:03.91
He's flooded the earth, He's
announced judgment, but now He
00:34:03.94\00:34:08.91
turns it around, and He begins
to drain the waters off of the
00:34:08.94\00:34:13.55
earth, and He's going to
bring Noah and his family out.
00:34:13.58\00:34:17.25
Now I want to
come to the final one,
00:34:17.29\00:34:21.12
and that's the rainbow.
00:34:21.16\00:34:28.73
The rainbow.
00:34:28.76\00:34:30.47
Noah comes out of
that ark. He sacrifices.
00:34:30.50\00:34:34.90
Now, many people will say that's
00:34:34.94\00:34:36.40
an offering of
thanksgiving, and it was.
00:34:36.44\00:34:38.87
I'm not here to argue that, but
Noah understood the sacrifice.
00:34:38.91\00:34:43.98
He understood
that that would point
00:34:44.01\00:34:45.51
forward to a
Messiah that would come.
00:34:45.55\00:34:47.85
He understood that
the hope of the human race
00:34:47.88\00:34:50.22
was in what that
sacrifice symbolized.
00:34:50.25\00:34:54.59
He understood that there was
a promise made to Eve, and that
00:34:54.62\00:34:59.16
promise was that one of
her children--the seed of the
00:34:59.19\00:35:07.60
woman--trying to get that
back--the seed of the woman, a
00:35:07.64\00:35:11.31
man would come and he would
reverse all of this curse and
00:35:11.34\00:35:16.21
the difficulties that we find
ourselves facing in this world.
00:35:16.24\00:35:24.35
Are you hearing what I hear?
00:35:24.39\00:35:27.22
Okay, I know there are people
controlling this thing, so
00:35:27.26\00:35:29.66
they'll have to work on
the background noise there,
00:35:29.69\00:35:33.40
but I don't want
you to miss this.
00:35:33.43\00:35:34.73
Don't worry about the background
noise, I'm louder than it is,
00:35:34.76\00:35:41.24
because I don't
want to miss this.
00:35:41.27\00:35:43.27
So, he comes out and
he makes this sacrifice.
00:35:43.30\00:35:46.27
Now, the Bible says
that it was a sweet savor.
00:35:46.31\00:35:50.91
I said, "How can
that be a sweet savor?
00:35:50.95\00:35:54.58
When God smells
it, why is God happy?
00:35:54.62\00:35:57.79
After all, it's a sacrifice."
00:35:57.82\00:36:00.99
Well, I went back and I ran
this, and you'll find that in
00:36:01.02\00:36:05.39
the Old Testament--actually,
it's really a fast forward
00:36:05.43\00:36:08.60
because it's after the
time of Noah, but they say that
00:36:08.63\00:36:12.60
when they offer
the sacrifices in the
00:36:12.63\00:36:14.90
sanctuary, it was
a sweet savor, why?
00:36:14.94\00:36:19.07
Why does God take
delight in that sacrifice?
00:36:19.11\00:36:22.11
I tell you why, it's because
it pointed forward to the time
00:36:22.14\00:36:26.08
when His Son would
come to Calvary's cross.
00:36:26.11\00:36:28.45
He didn't take delight in
the death of His Son, but He was
00:36:28.48\00:36:31.19
glad, and His Son was willing
to go to give that gift to us in
00:36:31.22\00:36:36.06
order that He might redeem us
and put sin out of the universe
00:36:36.09\00:36:39.53
because God is getting
ready to do something marvelous.
00:36:39.56\00:36:42.76
He's getting ready to
have an eternity where
00:36:42.80\00:36:45.50
we're both free
and sinless, and it's a
00:36:45.53\00:36:50.91
sacrifice that
accomplishes that.
00:36:50.94\00:36:54.18
In the two minutes
I have left, I want to
00:36:54.21\00:36:55.51
talk about the rainbow.
00:36:55.54\00:36:59.15
The reason I know that--one
reason I know that we're living
00:36:59.18\00:37:01.05
in the end of time is because
the most abominable perversions,
00:37:01.08\00:37:06.05
whether it's heterosexual or
whether it's the other kind of
00:37:06.09\00:37:09.09
perversions
described in Romans chapter 1,
00:37:09.12\00:37:13.93
they had chosen the
rainbow as their symbol.
00:37:13.96\00:37:18.07
They are shaking their
fists in the face of God.
00:37:18.10\00:37:22.64
They're saying,
"It doesn't matter,"
00:37:22.67\00:37:24.94
and we have a
world--it's not just that--
00:37:24.97\00:37:26.91
we have a world
that's in rebellion.
00:37:26.94\00:37:30.08
The scientific
world is in rebellion.
00:37:30.11\00:37:33.15
They see all the
evidence but don't
00:37:33.18\00:37:34.78
let a divine foot in the door.
00:37:34.82\00:37:39.45
Let me tell you, every time you
see that rainbow, that rainbow
00:37:39.49\00:37:45.29
is a promise that Jesus is able
to save us from the guttermost
00:37:45.33\00:37:51.00
to the uttermost, that he
is able and powerful enough to
00:37:51.03\00:37:56.44
transform us and make
new creatures out of us.
00:37:56.47\00:38:00.28
He is powerful enough,
that rainbow says, not only to
00:38:00.31\00:38:03.61
forgive my sins and to cover
them and wipe them clean, but
00:38:03.65\00:38:08.52
he's also able to make a new
creature out of me that can live
00:38:08.55\00:38:12.82
for eternity in
an earth made new.
00:38:12.85\00:38:18.29
That rainbow is
also another symbol.
00:38:18.33\00:38:28.14
God destroyed the antediluvian
world for their sins.
00:38:28.17\00:38:36.64
He's going to do it again.
God's no respecter of persons.
00:38:36.68\00:38:44.82
Just because we're the United
States of America, just because
00:38:44.85\00:38:47.16
we live in this world,
just because we have all these
00:38:47.19\00:38:48.89
scientists
doesn't make us special.
00:38:48.92\00:38:55.60
What he did then he
will be forced to do again,
00:38:55.63\00:39:03.41
but I want to
tell you the good news.
00:39:03.44\00:39:06.71
It's in the rainbow.
00:39:06.74\00:39:09.01
The rainbow is our
hope of everlasting life.
00:39:09.04\00:39:16.18
Doug: You know, I'd
like to just close off
00:39:18.32\00:39:20.12
our Sabbath school
time with prayer, and
00:39:20.16\00:39:21.59
then we have
something very special.
00:39:21.62\00:39:23.69
You know, the Bible says the
last words of Jesus should be
00:39:23.73\00:39:27.40
the first priority of believers
to go, to teach, to meet
00:39:27.46\00:39:30.83
disciples, to baptize, and we're
going to enter into a baptism.
00:39:30.87\00:39:35.00
So, let's just
have prayer right now.
00:39:35.04\00:39:37.24
Loving Lord, we
just thank you so
00:39:37.27\00:39:38.57
much for the study of the Word.
00:39:38.61\00:39:40.54
We thank you so much
for the presence that we
00:39:40.58\00:39:43.08
sense here right
now of the Holy Spirit.
00:39:43.11\00:39:45.35
I pray that you will be
in every heart and mind,
00:39:45.38\00:39:48.08
and bless the
service that will follow now.
00:39:48.12\00:39:50.09
Be in a special way for those
who are now committing their
00:39:50.12\00:39:53.02
lives to Jesus through
that sacred rite of baptism.
00:39:53.05\00:39:56.39
We ask in Jesus's name, amen.
00:39:56.42\00:39:59.26
male: They have been studying so
hard for the past nine months.
00:40:00.96\00:40:03.80
We have been
studying through Zoom, through
00:40:03.83\00:40:06.07
Facebook--Facetime,
and they have
00:40:06.10\00:40:09.34
really, really worked very hard.
00:40:09.37\00:40:11.81
So, because of your love
for Jesus, Abby, and because you
00:40:11.84\00:40:15.81
want to surrender
your life to Him, it is my
00:40:15.84\00:40:19.45
privilege to be able
to baptize you in the name
00:40:19.48\00:40:21.42
of the Father, the
Son, and the Holy Spirit.
00:40:21.45\00:40:26.52
I was hoping, Jackson, the
water wouldn't be over his head,
00:40:38.60\00:40:41.57
so we're glad that
he's doing well with that.
00:40:41.60\00:40:44.91
Jackson studied also very hard.
00:40:44.94\00:40:46.71
He put a lot of scripture into
memory, memorizing the books of
00:40:46.74\00:40:50.68
the Bible the Beatitudes
and everything like that, and
00:40:50.71\00:40:53.28
Jackson, it is my
privilege because you love
00:40:53.31\00:40:55.95
Jesus to be able to
baptize you in the name of
00:40:55.98\00:40:58.55
the Father, the
Son, and the Holy Spirit.
00:40:58.59\00:41:04.83
male: As Melissa comes down,
this--she's very special, and
00:41:13.87\00:41:19.74
all of them are very special,
but as we did the Panorama of
00:41:19.77\00:41:24.68
Prophesy, she came and
she introduced herself to Doug
00:41:24.71\00:41:30.09
because she wanted to get
baptized, and so, Doug shared
00:41:30.12\00:41:33.89
her with me, and we did many
lessons over the phone, and it
00:41:33.92\00:41:40.06
was a true blessing to see her
love and joy for the Lord and
00:41:40.10\00:41:44.93
wanting to make this commitment
to the Lord, and so at this
00:41:44.97\00:41:51.47
time, Allisa, it's my privilege
to baptize you in the name of
00:41:51.51\00:41:58.01
the Father,
Son, and Holy Spirit.
00:41:58.05\00:42:03.52
male: Happy Sabbath.
00:42:12.16\00:42:15.20
Today's such a special
day here at Granite Bay.
00:42:15.23\00:42:17.30
As Pastor Al and John already
said, today's a special day for
00:42:17.33\00:42:21.50
many reasons, including
that we are able to witness
00:42:21.54\00:42:25.91
people giving
their lives to Jesus.
00:42:25.94\00:42:28.61
That's what we do here.
00:42:28.64\00:42:30.31
That is the
purpose of this place.
00:42:30.35\00:42:31.88
It's to lead people to Jesus.
00:42:31.91\00:42:33.75
A few months ago I met Eldar,
and he's a really quiet soul.
00:42:33.78\00:42:38.52
Eldar is very quiet, very
serious soul, but we started
00:42:38.55\00:42:42.09
reading the Bible--actually, we
became friends, and then he told
00:42:42.12\00:42:45.56
me that he
wanted to be baptized.
00:42:45.59\00:42:48.10
We studied together for a while,
and through the time that I was
00:42:48.13\00:42:52.33
able to study with Eldar and
go through a booklet that I gave
00:42:52.37\00:42:55.74
him, and we went through
a few other deep subjects.
00:42:55.77\00:42:58.91
It was very
clear to see that Eldar
00:42:58.94\00:43:00.84
is an intelligent,
intelligent young man.
00:43:00.88\00:43:04.88
Eldar is from the Ukraine.
00:43:04.91\00:43:06.51
His family is
there right now, so we
00:43:06.55\00:43:08.78
continue to ask prayer for them.
00:43:08.82\00:43:10.12
His father's name is Dennis.
00:43:10.15\00:43:11.45
His mother's name is Natalia,
and his sister's name is
00:43:11.49\00:43:14.46
Yeva, hope I said that
right, but they're going to be
00:43:14.49\00:43:16.76
watching this later on,
but please keep them in prayer.
00:43:16.79\00:43:20.33
They have been
through a lot and they
00:43:20.36\00:43:21.63
are still going through a lot.
00:43:21.66\00:43:23.26
Eldar has shared with me many
moments where he's been very
00:43:23.30\00:43:25.83
worried about them,
and the Lord has been good.
00:43:25.87\00:43:28.67
He has protected them.
00:43:28.70\00:43:30.07
And, Eldar, I'm sure that
this decision that you're making
00:43:30.11\00:43:32.71
today, it will reap
eternal dividends as
00:43:32.74\00:43:36.11
Jesus will be the
center of your life,
00:43:36.14\00:43:38.48
and that is my prayer
for you always, my friend.
00:43:38.51\00:43:41.75
And so, Eldar, for all these
reasons, for the reason that you
00:43:41.78\00:43:44.42
have decided to give your
life to Jesus, that you have
00:43:44.45\00:43:46.45
dedicated who you are,
your future, your talents, your
00:43:46.49\00:43:49.59
skills to him, as a minister of
this gospel following the orders
00:43:49.62\00:43:53.06
of the Master for the
forgiveness of your sins and a
00:43:53.09\00:43:55.36
new life in Jesus, I baptize you
in the name of the Father, and
00:43:55.40\00:43:58.87
of the Son, and
of the Holy Spirit.
00:43:58.90\00:44:01.40
¤¤¤
00:44:15.55\00:44:25.53
¤¤¤
00:44:25.56\00:44:34.20
¤ Great is Thy
faithfulness O God my Father. ¤
00:44:34.24\00:44:42.58
¤ There is no shadow
of turning with Thee ¤
00:44:42.61\00:44:50.89
¤ Thou changest
not Thy compassions ¤
00:44:50.92\00:44:56.32
¤ They fail not. ¤
00:44:56.36\00:44:59.36
¤ As Thou hast been,
Thou forever will be. ¤
00:44:59.39\00:45:08.10
¤ Great is Thy faithfulness,
great is Thy faithfulness. ¤
00:45:08.14\00:45:16.21
¤ Morning by
morning new mercies I see. ¤
00:45:16.24\00:45:24.35
¤ All I have needed,
thy hand hath provided. ¤
00:45:24.39\00:45:32.89
¤ Great is Thy
faithfulness, Lord, unto me. ¤
00:45:32.93\00:45:42.60
¤¤¤
00:45:42.64\00:45:49.24
¤ Summer and winter and
springtime and harvest, sun, ¤
00:45:49.28\00:45:58.05
¤ moon, and stars
in their courses ¤
00:45:58.09\00:46:03.19
¤ above join
with all nature in ¤
00:46:03.22\00:46:09.70
¤ manifold
witness to Thy great ¤
00:46:09.73\00:46:16.07
¤ faithfulness,
mercy, and love. ¤
00:46:16.10\00:46:22.78
¤ Great is Thy faithfulness,
great is Thy faithfulness. ¤
00:46:22.81\00:46:31.29
¤ Morning by
morning new mercies I see. ¤
00:46:31.32\00:46:39.63
¤ All I have needed,
thy hand hath provided. ¤
00:46:39.66\00:46:48.37
¤ Great is Thy faithfulness, ¤
00:46:48.40\00:46:53.14
¤ Lord, unto me. ¤
00:46:53.17\00:46:58.78
¤¤¤
00:46:58.81\00:47:06.62
¤ Pardon for sin and
a peace that endureth, ¤
00:47:06.65\00:47:15.86
¤ thine own dear presence
to cheer and to guide. ¤
00:47:15.90\00:47:25.07
¤ Strength for today and
bright hope for tomorrow. ¤
00:47:25.11\00:47:34.48
¤ Blessings all mine, ¤
00:47:34.52\00:47:38.29
¤ with ten thousand beside. ¤
00:47:38.32\00:47:44.53
¤ Great is Thy faithfulness,
great is Thy faithfulness. ¤
00:47:44.56\00:47:53.50
¤ Lord, every
morning new mercies I see. ¤
00:47:53.54\00:48:02.98
¤ All I have needed, ¤
00:48:03.01\00:48:07.05
¤ Thy hands hath provided. ¤
00:48:07.08\00:48:13.56
¤ Great is Thy faithfulness, ¤
00:48:13.59\00:48:23.23
¤ Lord, unto me. ¤
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Diamond Garcia: Hi, my
name is Diamond Garcia,
00:49:24.16\00:49:25.66
and I am from the
beautiful islands of Hawaii.
00:49:25.69\00:49:28.06
I was raised in a
very dysfunctional
00:49:28.10\00:49:31.03
family, like most families.
00:49:31.07\00:49:33.37
Being in that environment,
I would lie, cheat, steal, rob
00:49:33.40\00:49:37.14
houses, cheat in school and
tests, and lie to teachers, and
00:49:37.17\00:49:41.54
getting into fights,
and all kinds of stuff.
00:49:41.58\00:49:45.55
One day, I was asked to take
this little box of something,
00:49:45.58\00:49:48.98
and I had to walk down the road
and give it to someone, and they
00:49:49.02\00:49:51.89
would give me money
and I'd walk back home.
00:49:51.92\00:49:53.56
And I later
realized I was dealing drugs.
00:49:53.59\00:49:58.09
Growing up in that environment,
I thought that, you know, being
00:49:58.13\00:50:00.90
an adult was a life
of drinking and smoking
00:50:00.93\00:50:03.30
and partying, and
that's just adults did.
00:50:03.33\00:50:07.80
When I looked at my family
and saw the road that they were
00:50:07.84\00:50:10.27
going down, getting
arrested, getting beaten up,
00:50:10.31\00:50:13.68
coming home drunk and
puking all over the floor,
00:50:13.71\00:50:16.14
I just didn't
want that for myself.
00:50:16.18\00:50:19.98
Growing up, I had a grandma who
was baptized as a Christian in
00:50:20.02\00:50:23.42
her 20s, but then she wasn't
a real, practicing Christian.
00:50:23.45\00:50:27.32
And so, one day,
I was at her house,
00:50:27.36\00:50:28.96
and there was a
box of various books.
00:50:28.99\00:50:30.46
And I went to the
bottom of that box and found
00:50:30.49\00:50:32.69
a book called "The
Great Controversy."
00:50:32.73\00:50:35.53
And I picked it up and I
said, "This is interesting."
00:50:35.56\00:50:38.00
And I opened to the
first page of that book
00:50:38.03\00:50:40.37
and it said, "If
thou hadst known."
00:50:40.40\00:50:43.71
I had no clue what it meant,
and so I said, "You know what?
00:50:43.74\00:50:45.97
Forget this."
00:50:46.01\00:50:47.31
I put the book down, I
just walked away, did my thing.
00:50:47.34\00:50:50.01
But then something
told me, "You know,
00:50:50.05\00:50:51.35
Diamond, go back to that book."
00:50:51.38\00:50:53.68
And so, I went back to
the book, picked it up,
00:50:53.72\00:50:55.92
went to the last two
chapters, and I read it.
00:50:55.95\00:50:59.95
And I said to my grandmother, I
said, "What church is this from?
00:51:00.06\00:51:03.22
I want to go to that church."
00:51:03.26\00:51:04.56
So, she brought me
down to the local church,
00:51:04.59\00:51:06.83
and then I walk
in from the backdoor.
00:51:06.86\00:51:08.80
And the piano's off-key,
people are off-key, it's like,
00:51:08.83\00:51:11.90
"Man, this is really kind
of--I don't want to be here."
00:51:11.93\00:51:16.40
And I got to the front of
the church, and I sat down,
00:51:16.44\00:51:18.14
I was listening
to the sermon and the
00:51:18.17\00:51:20.11
whole service, it
was so boring to me.
00:51:20.14\00:51:22.68
But then someone
gives me this set of DVDs
00:51:22.71\00:51:25.65
and it was called
"The Prophecy Code."
00:51:25.68\00:51:29.48
It was through watching Doug
Batchelor explain the truths
00:51:29.52\00:51:32.69
found in the Bible that really
brought me to Christ and brought
00:51:32.72\00:51:35.62
me to realize
that, you know what?
00:51:35.66\00:51:37.26
There is a life
better than my family's life.
00:51:37.29\00:51:41.70
My second week at
church on Sabbath, there
00:51:41.73\00:51:43.87
was one person there,
he basically told me, "Hey
00:51:43.90\00:51:46.84
Diamond, do you
want to make some money?"
00:51:46.87\00:51:49.14
And I said, "Sure." I
said, "What do you do?"
00:51:49.17\00:51:51.01
He says, "Well,
I'm a colporteur.
00:51:51.04\00:51:53.14
We go door to door and
we sell Christian books."
00:51:53.17\00:51:55.51
I said, "Oh, okay.
Well, that sounds interesting.
00:51:55.54\00:51:58.58
I do want to
make some money too."
00:51:58.61\00:52:00.12
And so he said, "Okay, well,
why don't you come with me?"
00:52:00.15\00:52:03.32
We drove out to the
neighborhood, parked the car,
00:52:03.35\00:52:06.22
and that night was
just raining, it was pouring
00:52:06.25\00:52:08.52
and pouring, it
could not stop raining.
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He prayed, he said, "God,
this is Diamond's first night.
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If it's Your will, stop the rain
so we can go knocking on doors."
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And as soon as he said
amen, the rain just stopped.
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I was just thinking in my head,
"Is this guy a prophet or what?
00:52:20.04\00:52:23.57
I mean, he just prayed and
asked God and it happened."
00:52:23.61\00:52:27.74
And so I was so--I
was so happy, I grabbed
00:52:27.78\00:52:29.81
the books and I
went to the first door.
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And the first door I went
to, the person gave me 50 bucks.
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That night was actually a
big night for me because it was
00:52:34.62\00:52:36.99
where I saw God's power work
in stopping the rain and people
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actually giving
me lots of money.
00:52:41.22\00:52:43.79
I then became a
colporteur or a canvasser, and I
00:52:43.83\00:52:45.83
save money to pay for
my way through academy.
00:52:45.86\00:52:48.43
And when my church began to
see how God was using me, they
00:52:48.46\00:52:52.57
immediately recognized that it
was God's Spirit moving and they
00:52:52.60\00:52:55.90
put me, you know, preaching, and
teaching, and sharing my faith.
00:52:55.94\00:52:59.34
And I've been engaged in
ministry for the past six to
00:52:59.37\00:53:01.44
seven years now, and God has
taken me all over the world on
00:53:01.48\00:53:04.28
multiple continents, sharing my
testimony, how God has brought
00:53:04.31\00:53:07.15
me out of darkness
into his marvelous light.
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It's a total contrast
as to how I was before.
00:53:10.99\00:53:13.19
And now, you know,
it's a total contrast.
00:53:13.22\00:53:16.96
My name is
Diamond, and "Amazing Facts"
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has helped to change my life.
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Steve Johnson: I was
heading south on Interstate 5.
00:53:56.87\00:53:59.53
This commercial come
on KFBK Radio about a
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revelation
seminar by Amazing Facts.
00:54:03.34\00:54:05.84
I began--my chest began to
tighten up, I began sweating
00:54:05.87\00:54:09.51
profusely, I had
difficulty in breathing.
00:54:09.54\00:54:13.85
There was this big rest area,
and at this time I pulled into
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there, I thought, well,
maybe I'm having a heart attack.
00:54:17.15\00:54:20.22
I got out of my truck,
walked into the men's restroom
00:54:20.26\00:54:23.89
there and put
cold water on my face,
00:54:23.93\00:54:26.23
and then
finally things subsided.
00:54:26.26\00:54:28.16
A week later, again, I heard
this Amazing Facts commercial
00:54:28.20\00:54:31.67
come on the radio,
and in fact the meetings
00:54:31.70\00:54:33.54
were gonna
start that very night.
00:54:33.57\00:54:35.10
Just, and again, immediately
I had the same symptoms.
00:54:35.14\00:54:38.61
I thought, you
know, this isn't my heart.
00:54:38.64\00:54:40.94
I have to go to that meeting.
00:54:40.98\00:54:43.11
And as I was going
down to Sacramento,
00:54:43.14\00:54:45.18
I decided to park and go inside.
00:54:45.21\00:54:48.48
Well, I got in and
walked into the furthermost
00:54:48.52\00:54:52.02
rear seat they
had in the pew there.
00:54:52.05\00:54:55.49
And this particular evangelist,
his name was Kim Care.
00:54:55.52\00:55:01.56
It was like taking one
layer off at a time of an onion.
00:55:01.60\00:55:05.70
He laid it out so perfectly that
we could all understand it, and
00:55:05.73\00:55:08.94
I was really motivated,
I couldn't believe it.
00:55:08.97\00:55:11.54
Well, I finished, I
didn't miss a meeting.
00:55:11.57\00:55:13.51
In fact, on the fifth
night they had an altar call,
00:55:13.54\00:55:17.51
and my knees stood right
up, and I walked forward,
00:55:17.55\00:55:20.22
and I gave my
heart to Jesus Christ.
00:55:20.25\00:55:23.12
I've learned
throughout this whole thing that
00:55:23.15\00:55:25.42
when you leave the devil's
territory, he gets pretty
00:55:25.45\00:55:30.06
active in causing
a lot of problems.
00:55:30.09\00:55:32.93
Well, I had the
evangelist come out,
00:55:32.96\00:55:35.90
and they had prayer
with me about my business.
00:55:35.93\00:55:38.20
I would find a sick business and
make it well and then market it.
00:55:38.23\00:55:43.51
I finally ended up with a
business that I really enjoyed,
00:55:43.54\00:55:46.44
it was one that was building
equestrian centers, and they
00:55:46.47\00:55:50.68
said to me,
"Steve," he said, "You know,
00:55:50.71\00:55:52.48
if you're gonna
really keep the Sabbath,
00:55:52.51\00:55:54.08
you gotta shut your
doors on the Sabbath."
00:55:54.12\00:55:56.99
Well, I did, and so I sold
the business to my brother.
00:55:57.02\00:56:00.49
Took me 22 years to
build that business,
00:56:00.52\00:56:03.56
and he lost it in 33 months.
00:56:03.59\00:56:06.49
My son, who was my
business partner, I'd been
00:56:06.53\00:56:08.66
giving him 10% of the
business every year, he
00:56:08.70\00:56:11.87
thought I'd just
fallen off the bridge.
00:56:11.90\00:56:16.14
My son didn't talk to me
for five and a half years,
00:56:16.17\00:56:19.61
and then a few
other things happened.
00:56:19.64\00:56:21.54
I had an ex-employee living
in my guest house, he kind of
00:56:21.58\00:56:24.51
watched after our place,
and he said, "Steve," he said,
00:56:24.55\00:56:28.58
"There's an Allied
Moving Van backed up
00:56:28.62\00:56:31.29
to your front
door in your home."
00:56:31.32\00:56:32.92
I said, "You're kidding."
I said, "What do you mean?"
00:56:32.95\00:56:36.36
He said, "They're moving
everything out of your house
00:56:36.39\00:56:38.39
into this truck, and your wife
is out there supervising them."
00:56:38.43\00:56:42.56
And when I went home
and opened the front door,
00:56:42.60\00:56:44.63
my voice echoed in that house.
00:56:44.67\00:56:46.27
There wasn't any
furniture left anywhere.
00:56:46.30\00:56:48.37
There was one bed
left in the house.
00:56:48.40\00:56:51.37
I knew my wife was upset because
of my coming to this church, but
00:56:51.41\00:56:55.91
I had no idea that she
would move out like this,
00:56:55.94\00:56:58.71
that was a total shock to me.
00:56:58.75\00:57:01.15
It was some time there, I
locked myself in the bedroom,
00:57:01.18\00:57:04.05
and I began reading the Bible.
00:57:04.09\00:57:05.79
I spent about a half
a year, just every night
00:57:05.82\00:57:08.79
getting home, and I would study.
00:57:08.82\00:57:12.43
It allowed me to have a personal
relationship with Jesus Christ.
00:57:12.46\00:57:16.03
Well, to make a long
story short, I met Crystal,
00:57:16.06\00:57:19.57
and she was a godly woman.
00:57:19.60\00:57:21.60
That was the Lord's doing, not
mine, and he was just there to
00:57:21.64\00:57:25.24
let me know that I'm with you
all the way, even though you're
00:57:25.27\00:57:28.04
gonna have some trials, you're
gonna have some hardships, I
00:57:28.08\00:57:31.01
want you to know that
I'll be with you, because
00:57:31.05\00:57:34.52
no matter what I do
now, he is my leader.
00:57:34.55\00:57:38.52
He's the leader of
my marriage, he's the
00:57:38.55\00:57:40.12
leader of
everything in my life today.
00:57:40.16\00:57:42.92
That one meeting with
the Amazing Facts seminar
00:57:42.96\00:57:45.23
changed my entire life, and
to this day I'm still on fire
00:57:45.26\00:57:50.13
for God, I'm still
witnessing to my neighbors.
00:57:50.17\00:57:52.80
My name is Steve
Johnson, and it's because of you
00:57:52.83\00:57:55.70
that Amazing Facts
has changed my life.
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