Participants: Richard O'Ffill, Kathy Matthews
Series Code: TAH
Program Code: TAH000169
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00:30 Welcome to Thinking About Home, I'm Kathy Matthews.
00:33 And I'm glad that you're back with us again. 00:35 Today, we are going to be talking to Richard O'Ffill 00:39 from the Florida Conference of Seventh-day Adventist. 00:42 And we are teaming up again for our new series Dick. 00:45 And it's gonna be a series 00:46 about the Christian family living in the last days. 00:49 Of what we need to talk about this subject. 00:51 There is no doubt about that, we need, 00:53 you know there has been Christian families 00:55 you know all along, but never Christian families 00:57 in these last days, no. 00:59 And the Christian families 01:00 in the last days have new challenges. 01:03 Yes they do. They have new challenges 01:04 because the scripture said in the last days it would be 01:06 especially dangerous, especially dangerous. 01:08 But before we start, I just want to thank you for inviting 01:11 me here into your living room, I think it's lovely. 01:12 You always keep it all the things so nice. 01:14 Looks the same those flowers 01:16 how do you keep them so fresh and... 01:18 They are fresh cut. 01:19 Fresh cut, always for, always for every program 01:23 and it's so nice to be together. 01:26 You know, when you and I get together we laugh and carry on. 01:29 And I suppose that there are times that we cry. 01:32 Yes, I started to saying some times it's more serious. 01:34 And this is more serious, 01:35 but I think that where we can, we need to smile. 01:39 We need to smile, and trust the Lord, 01:41 because if we have a blessed hope, 01:44 yes, we live in the last days, 01:46 times are difficult and we don't... 01:48 It's all we have to hang on to really. 01:49 So, we got to have a hope 01:51 that bring the smile to our face. 01:52 Sometimes we might want grit our teeth, 01:54 and sometimes wipe a tear. 01:56 But anyway, I'm gonna do a grandpa thing, 01:58 you mind if I do a grandpa thing. 01:59 No, I don't mind I... I hope no one else does. 02:05 This is a funny thing, I hope they understand. 02:08 But now let me kind of set the context for this 02:09 that sometimes in church I will, when I'm preaching, 02:13 when I'm visiting I will say to the congregation 02:15 are there any grandparents here? 02:17 And I want to say we grandparents are proud of it. 02:19 So, you are not a grandma yet? No. 02:21 When you are, this program is gonna really be you know, 02:24 because it say something special. 02:25 I hope to be some day. 02:28 And anyway, so I'll ask how many grandparents, 02:29 and so I could ask or you know, 02:32 those who are watching how many grandparents? 02:34 I raise my hand of course I can't see 02:35 whether they are raising their hands, 02:36 but surely lots of grandparents. Lots of people do. 02:39 I watch Thinking About Home. 02:40 Then I'll say are there any parents, 02:42 of course the grandparents have to keep their hands up 02:44 and their children will raise the hands, 02:47 and then I will say are there any children here? 02:49 And of course the immediate response 02:50 is the little people raise their hands, 02:51 I'm saying no we are all children. 02:53 All children, yes, that's right. 02:55 So anyway, I'm gonna show you... You catch them. 02:57 I'm gonna show you what I do for little children, 02:59 okay, and for even teenagers. 03:01 I did this for Rachel, and she still going crazy, 03:04 trying to figure out how I do this. 03:06 So I've done this when I travel 03:07 all around the world and it works in every language. 03:10 They understand. 03:11 Now people gonna say 03:13 Pastor O'Ffill what in the world are you doing? 03:14 Did you get to play with handkerchief? 03:16 Please, I just want to make sure. 03:19 Don't zero in on this handkerchief. 03:21 Anyway what I do, I will start kind of humming like this, 03:24 because you know children like something repetitive, 03:26 they like something predictable. 03:27 So, I do this, I go... 03:31 And the children are watching. 03:33 They don't have any idea what I'm doing. 03:36 And I'm doing this I'm going... 03:41 You never thought your program 03:42 would deteriorate into this stage. 03:44 But anyway the people gonna 03:45 they can show me it and so I'm going... 03:52 The children are watching like you are watching. 03:54 Yes, I'm... And so then I go like this, 03:56 and I go like this and then I'm going... 04:01 And then I get done like this and you know, 04:04 how I learned to do this I don't know how old I was 04:06 seven or eight years old. 04:07 A boy he told me if I give him a nickel, 04:10 he told me how to make it. 04:11 Oh, really. I paid a nickel for this. 04:14 Anyway, that was probably 55 years ago. 04:16 Just one nickel made a difference, did it? 04:18 And so see how there it is, see I made it see. 04:21 And of course, you been that pretty 04:22 then I usually do this with children I go. 04:27 Okay, then I go, 04:28 I know, and then I go. 04:31 When the children saw, after that they were fascinated. 04:34 They like the little wagging tail 04:35 and then they will say what is it? 04:37 Well I say it is a mouse or rabbit 04:40 and so I call it rabbit. 04:41 And so and I'll just say isn't that sweet... 04:43 They can't view. 04:45 And then the kids they all jump and say what's gonna on there? 04:48 And then they start jumping see, 04:49 and then I got through a great big 04:51 and then people say how do you do that, how do that? 04:53 Yes, and you never told this. 04:55 Aren't you gonna ask me what does it have to with it. 04:57 Yes, what's the point? 05:00 The point is obviously this is an illusion. 05:04 It is. It's an illusion, because this isn't live. 05:06 Now of course I make a big deal I say 05:07 well there is a little springs down here, 05:09 it has a little heart tuck tucked away, 05:11 but it's an illusion. 05:12 Now there will be another word 05:13 we could use for that, a worse word. 05:16 Shall I say it? Go head. 05:18 Deception. It's a deception, okay. 05:19 Now, I know, see when we are watching things that are funny, 05:23 we say well that's an illusion, but it isn't really illusion, 05:26 it's a deception, it's a deception because 05:29 what you see is not really happening there. 05:31 It's creating something that isn't really true, right. 05:35 And when I say tell me about it, tell me how you did that? 05:41 You don't want to tell. 05:42 Well, we gonna have to say and so send a nickel to 3ABN 05:46 because that's what I pay for it, 05:47 you know, okay, make a donation of a nickel to 3ABN. 05:49 I bet you wouldn't give it away. 05:50 No, no, well anyway I end up telling the kids 05:52 but I tell the kids I say, you know you really 05:55 don't want to know how to do this, 05:57 because there is no fun any more. 05:58 You see there comes a time in which we want to be deceived. 06:02 We want an illusion because an illusion is fun. 06:06 So, all the purpose of this... 06:07 You are beginning to sense it, aren't you? 06:09 Wants to make a point... 06:10 That in the last days, Jesus said 06:13 there would be illusions and deceptions. 06:17 And we thought the last days Kathy 06:21 was gonna be about you know, the physical part. 06:24 Well, now you are not saying the deceptions gonna be this simple, 06:27 you are just making a point. 06:28 Well, I'm just making a point 06:29 that this is obviously an illusion. 06:30 This is a deception, because it's you know 06:32 it's giving the person impression 06:34 that this jumps, this doesn't jump. 06:37 Okay. It just appears to jump. 06:39 And you see the devil, the devil is the first illusion, 06:43 doesn't he come on as a serpent, 06:45 and starts talking serpents don't talk. 06:49 So we could say that this problem here in this planet 06:52 began with an illusion serpents talking. 06:57 It began with a deception, yes. 06:59 And that deception then was wrapped in with a lie. 07:03 You know, there is some text or scripture, okay, and... 07:06 I should have brought my Bible? You got yours, go ahead. 07:10 Oh, here let me see if I... Well, I just thought ... 07:11 Let me see if I can find 07:12 where I have these places marked, 07:15 you know when we're doing a television program, 07:18 you know, you can do your finger 07:20 and just trying to find all these places, 07:21 but the page will be stuck together, 07:23 so we cheat, we me mark the place, 07:24 isn't that what you do? 07:26 Oh, yes I do. I certainly do I have to find it quick. 07:28 Anyway here is one 07:29 in Matthew 7 verse 15 Jesus words now. 07:33 It says, "Beware of false prophets, 07:36 which come to you in sheep's clothing, 07:38 but inwardly they are ravening wolves". 07:40 In other words Jesus is saying something can come to you 07:43 appearing to be one thing but it's another, it's another. 07:48 Let me go behind and see 07:49 if I can find another one that I marked. 07:51 This is in Mark. 07:53 This is in Mark 12 and verses 5 and 6 07:57 Jesus said and it says, 07:59 And Jesus answering them began to say, 08:02 Take heed lest any man deceive you, 08:04 deceive you there it goes again. 08:06 For many shall come in my name, saying, 08:09 I'm Christ, and will be successful. 08:11 It says they will deceive many. Let see which one comes up next. 08:17 So, you are trying to... 08:19 we need to recognize 08:22 that there is a lot of deceptions out there. 08:25 Well, I guess what I'm saying is that 08:28 Jesus himself says over and over again. 08:31 That this gonna happen. 08:32 That look out that there would be deceptions, 08:36 look out there would be deceptions and you know, 08:38 how the kids do these days, we're kind going... 08:41 who is the deception. Yes, 08:42 so you didn't say it right. 08:43 Well, the point is, if it's a deception 08:47 you won't even know it's there, right. 08:49 But Jesus is saying check it out. 08:51 In other words, 08:52 what you see is not always what you get. 08:53 Right, trying to make you wiser discerning. 08:57 Remember, isn't one place he said 08:58 so I tell you before hand. Right, this you will know. 09:01 So that you would know. 09:02 And as Christian families, if we are not up to speed, 09:05 if we are just taking it as it comes now the pike, 09:08 we will be victims of this deception. 09:11 Let see if there is another one here. 09:13 Oh, here is one, it's in Ephesians 5 verse 6, 09:17 "Let no man deceive you, 09:19 now it kind of begins to flesh it out with vain words: 09:23 for because of these things cometh the wrath of God 09:26 upon the children of disobedience". 09:27 So it kind of gives you 09:28 how you might be deceived with vain words? 09:31 With vain words. In other words 09:33 is coming in your ears they are telling us something, 09:34 they are telling you something, that isn't true. 09:36 Now I wasn't saying anything 09:38 I was just making something happen. 09:40 But that's not usually the way it is. 09:42 Deceptions come in is ideologies, 09:45 they come in as philosophies. 09:47 Let see what my other one was marked here. 09:51 Let me find it. 09:53 This one was in 2 Thessalonians 09:56 the 2 Chapter in a 3 verse it says, 10:01 Let no man deceive you by any means: 10:04 for that day shall not come, it says let no man deceive you. 10:09 And then it talks about falling away 10:11 that the man of sin might be revealed. 10:13 But I think that the point that we need to be bear in mind 10:17 is that the Christian family in the last days has to be aware 10:22 that there is going to be deception. 10:25 Now you know most of the time Kathy 10:27 when we talk about the last days, 10:29 it's about persecutions. 10:33 The subject matter is not necessarily about vain words? 10:36 That's right the seven last plagues, 10:38 the time of trouble, and see these we interrupt 10:41 as a threat to life and limb. 10:44 You know, I better flee to the mountains, 10:46 I better, you know, given a place in the country, 10:48 you know, which is you know these are... 10:50 Which is a good thing. These are valid, 10:52 but what we don't realize is that the devil 10:56 before he starts putting all these physical persecutions, 11:01 wouldn't he be trying to get your brain. 11:04 Since the frontal lobe is where we need to be protecting 11:08 and that's where we live, yes well is not. 11:11 It sounds like the rest of us aren't alive, 11:12 the rest of it's not alive, 11:14 but that's where the moral decisions are made. 11:16 That's where I'm, yes, this is where I'm 11:18 and again you see if we're thinking, 11:23 well, I've got to get ready for persecutions, 11:25 I've got to get this and that you know... 11:27 Where we may not be guarding against vain words. 11:31 Yeah because it comes in his ideologies, yes. 11:33 It's coming in his lies, and I've saw to myself 11:36 that really those who the death decree 11:39 would go after at the very end, 11:42 would be those whose minds he was not able to get. 11:46 Kind of especially geared. 11:47 Well, in other words because if the devil gets your mind, 11:50 if he deceives your mind, then he runs your body. 11:53 So it seems to me that the death decree is geared 11:56 towards those who he was not able to win 11:59 through his deceptions in life. 12:00 All the other obvious ones, okay. 12:03 Have you ever heard me, 12:04 I didn't make this up when we talk about. 12:06 So this not now you, 12:07 whatever it is you're gonna do next? 12:10 I'm not gonna do this again, okay, 12:12 but you know sometimes I hear a little saying 12:16 and it sticks in my head, yes. 12:17 And it only comes up I'm not thinking of all day 12:20 but it comes up when the subject matter comes up, 12:22 because you know, when you start 12:24 talking about the mind these days 12:25 and the deceptions and all the new ideas, 12:27 are flowing around people will say 12:30 have you got keep an open mind have you heard that one? 12:32 Yes have I know you know what are you gonna saying yes. 12:37 Okay go head, do it. Shall I tell our viewer, 12:39 so here is the way I react to that one when somebody says 12:42 you've got keep an open mind. 12:44 I will say well that might be, but don't keep such an open mind 12:46 that your brain falls out, now that's of course. 12:50 But in other words, what they are saying is 12:53 that though we need to be open to the growth and the truth. 12:56 We also need to be guarded. 12:58 We need to be guarded because the devil where the Holy Spirit 13:01 comes in to our minds and hearts that's where the devil tries 13:04 to get into the same place, occupy the same territory. 13:08 So, I really think that as Christian families 13:13 that we have to prepare for deceptions. 13:17 Now it's, now we don't always know 13:19 what these deceptions are gonna be like, 13:22 a Seventh-day Adventist... 13:24 We have some maybe more special insight. 13:27 We have some pretty good ideas, but Kathy could it be that 13:30 and you know, that maybe we see the deceptions as being 13:34 which day you go to church, right of the state of the dead. 13:38 You know, in other words these purely highly, 13:42 doctrinal, you know, which are to us are obvious, 13:45 So, how would the devil ever deceive me or you? 13:48 Well, I know what you are talking about on that, 13:50 because I thought of this before in that. 13:54 How could be it really sensitive 13:57 maybe even appearing to be guarded mind, 13:59 is there a trap that the enemy has laid for me? 14:03 And it wouldn't be which day you go to church 14:05 I guess that's where... It wouldn't necessarily right, 14:06 it would necessarily be that. 14:08 What would be the area that I might not recognize? 14:10 This is what we're talking about, 14:12 and I think in this program, now later on the series 14:14 we will get the brand name specific, okay. 14:17 We'll say we think 14:18 somebody to do... Okay, we do in generic right... 14:19 Right now, I think what we want to 14:22 get our listeners on board with us 14:24 is in our viewers used to say that beyond God 14:29 in the last days that in the last days 14:32 it's not just what happens to the body. 14:35 In fact Jesus himself set in one place don't fear, 14:39 what happen to the body, what happens to the body. 14:40 Fear those or fear the one 14:42 who can make a loser soul I think... 14:46 It could cause body and soul. 14:47 So really though the devil can kill my body, 14:52 the Lord can resurrect that. 14:54 But if the devil gets into my mind, 14:57 then I get into double jeopardy I've got problems that... 15:00 So, then we're gonna be talking about how 15:02 access to this or what things 15:05 he might access your lined about. 15:07 I think we're gonna wanna do all of that. 15:09 But I think the point we want to make 15:10 is that there are deceptions going on. 15:14 One time someone was asking me this, 15:16 what's it gonna be like to live in the last days. 15:19 What do you mean? I said like this. 15:22 I really believe, I really believe Kathy 15:25 that to me the greatest danger about living in the last days 15:30 is not the physical part, we can get through that, 15:34 even it's resurrection we get to that. 15:37 The greatest thing we have to fear is deception. 15:40 Jesus himself look out you're gonna be deceive, 15:42 look out you're gonna be deceive and here we are though 15:45 I want what that be I know which day 15:46 to go to church I know about this day that. 15:48 Right, it's more the myth. If he is coming in other ways. 15:51 Now what's the deception gonna look like? 15:57 Well, it can look anyway and for one way... 16:00 Well, that could make a person feel like ha! 16:03 Then what do I look for. 16:04 Well, and so I think before we're over all 16:07 we're going say that we have way to protect ourselves I mean. 16:11 The word of the Lord. 16:12 We've got more sure word of prophecy 16:14 we have lamp unto our feet, and light unto our path. 16:17 But I think that one thing we got understand 16:21 is that when the devil would come into deceive us 16:24 he would not be telling us what we didn't want to here. 16:27 What do you mean he would... 16:29 In others words, can you imagine the devil knocking on the door 16:32 of your heart saying, 16:33 it's the devil I get some lines for you. 16:35 Okay, yes, well that's two obvious, 16:38 anyway you gonna have to convince me with something else. 16:40 Now of course and Jesus himself said 16:42 the devil doesn't come as the devil he comes as Christ. 16:46 Okay. And so he would come, 16:48 like an angel of life, as angel of life. 16:50 He would not be cursing 16:52 and swearing and telling dirty jokes. 16:53 Well, we know that, 16:55 I mean I know that and I think most people know that. 16:58 But could he be telling us some other things you know... 17:04 Well I'm anxious first to give specific. 17:05 Well they are gonna have to watch some of the other program 17:07 because we're gonna really get specific, 17:09 but you know I got to thinking to myself that this generation, 17:14 and when I say this generation 17:16 it maybe some of us because you know, 17:20 I think in the next program 17:21 we're gonna talk about the culture health, 17:23 how the Christian family relates to the culture. 17:25 This generation is accustomed to lies. 17:29 Why do you say so? 17:31 Well, could I... illustrate, 17:33 what they illustrate I think. 17:35 Do know advertising, advertising is a lie. 17:38 Now, you will say no that's not right to say advertising, 17:41 no not all advertising is a lie... 17:43 Okay, you better cover yourself. 17:47 And by the way I should say right now 17:48 that when you heard Kathy I talk don't nickel and dime my words. 17:51 Oh, no please. 17:52 We might miss it here and there, 17:54 we might even say it wrong ones in a while. 17:56 But we think that is as we present some of the concepts 17:59 that we want to all of us be thinking together. 18:01 We think we can do better. We may not say it right always. 18:06 But speaking of advertising see here advertising 18:09 comes along and it says if you wanna be beautiful. 18:12 This is what you have to do. 18:13 This is what you have to do, you have to dress this way. 18:16 Is this is a deception? 18:19 Then we need to tell our families about it, 18:22 our children about it. 18:24 Well, because see basically advertising is telling us 18:27 if you will do this, and if you will do that, 18:29 if you will eat this you will dress that, 18:31 you will live here, 18:33 you will have this look on your face, 18:34 you will do that then you will be this, 18:37 or it will actually compliment us. 18:41 Now, you know, we're gonna do a program here 18:43 in a few weeks about dead, yes, yes. 18:46 You know, we are getting into dead, right. 18:48 And I'm gonna bring some of these invitations 18:51 you know to take out our credit card, yes. 18:53 Have you ever read those letters? 18:56 And you read the fine print? 18:59 Can you say the fine print? 19:00 It will say, it will say you are wonderful, 19:02 because we are so proud of you, 19:03 because we think you are the greatest and you... 19:05 And you are reading between... 19:07 Well, no I'm gonna say when the average person doesn't 19:09 because he is goes have sense in gets in more dead. 19:12 In other words, in other words I'm saying, 19:15 I'm thinking we are falling for the lies 19:18 because for many families, our situations are not getting 19:22 better and better but worse and worse. 19:24 Yes, and it seems like that would be obvious, 19:28 but it isn't always I suppose because 19:30 more, and more people are continuing to fall for it. 19:33 Look at the home, look at the home Kathy. 19:35 Well, they are some people waking up, 19:37 but that we want to reach the people 19:39 who are thinkers, who will think, 19:42 who will consider this. 19:45 This is what we're trying to say. 19:49 When we think of the home, and I'm sorry you know, 19:52 to be able to say this and of course 19:53 I don't have the statistics here with me. 19:55 But they are saying for example in divorce in Christian homes, 19:59 is nearly the same, as the world as, 20:02 in the world. Yes. 20:04 Now it was seem to me that and as much as 20:06 we've been we've got special information, 20:09 that the Christian home then would be, 20:13 would not be suffering the same. 20:15 In the same degree or level of it. 20:18 So, some way we must not, we either must be 20:22 letting falls information coming in 20:24 or the true information is coming in, 20:26 we're not paying attention to it. 20:28 It's obviously they are happening. 20:31 Have you wondered, of course we are 20:34 Seventh-day Adventist and how thankful 20:36 we are for the Spirit of Prophecy? 20:37 Amen, yes I'm. 20:38 And you know, some people these days 20:40 have trouble with the Sprit of Prophecy. 20:41 I know, you know. And they are saying 20:43 well you know the Bible in the Bible only. 20:46 And when somebody says that to me, 20:47 I will say it's interpreted by who? 20:50 I said, you, myself. 20:53 Oh no, no let me say that because those who 20:54 wrote the Bible are not here. Right. 20:57 In other words Paul wrote all of his epistles, 21:00 but he is not here to wrote, to explain those what he meant, 21:04 so therefore we interpret him. Yes, we have to. 21:08 So the Bible that we use the Bible 21:10 and the Bible only, it's as interpreted by somebody. 21:13 Right, ourselves or whoever is we agree with. 21:16 That's the point, in other words who is your guru. 21:19 And so what I'm leading up to is that I think God 21:22 was so gracious and so loving 21:26 in giving us the Spirit of Prophecy 21:27 which would be a divinely inspired commentary 21:31 because it's a jungle out there. 21:32 There is all things deceptions, 21:34 and all these lies whirling around. 21:36 And of course have you noticed that most everybody 21:40 in the spiritual world, they are quoting the Bible. 21:46 Well, the Bible says this and the Bible is called... 21:48 It's kind of popular thing to do right now. 21:49 It's Biblizing, in other words 21:51 you can get a wild thought in your mind 21:54 look in the scripture somewhere find a text where it says, 21:56 find something that fits, its out of the Bible. 21:59 So, I'm so thankful for this Spirit of Prophecy 22:02 and yet I'm sad. 22:04 Because it guides us through all the deception. 22:08 All these jungles, so we don't have to wing it. 22:12 Or be blown with everyone to doctrine. 22:14 Trial and error. Yes. 22:15 But the think that really as the young people will say 22:18 blowing my mind is that if I would, 22:20 you know, sit here and say, well you know 22:23 dear Billy Graham we respect, Billy Graham says 22:26 a wonderful author Max Lucado who people respect. 22:29 If he says everybody says oh that's amen, 22:32 that's wonderful, Oh that's wonderful 22:33 we like what he said, or it could be 22:36 Martin Luther or John Wesley, but just as soon 22:39 you know in some of our circles somebody says 22:41 well it says in a Spirit Prophecy, 22:43 right sure and the Bible. 22:46 As if you can listen to anybody, but that and that's painful. 22:52 I say I didn't come up in church I wasn't raised what I mean 22:55 by coming up I was not raised and really a Christian home. 23:00 And then when I discovered this 23:02 when I've discovered Christianity 23:04 in Seventh-day Adventist church and I discovered also 23:06 that we had Spirit of Prophecy to help us to understand 23:11 and that we take those wonderful principles 23:12 that God us given us in the Bible 23:14 and then because my mind is dull, 23:17 and I'm not able to interpret it because I have afraid of myself. 23:21 I have looked at the Spirit of Prophecy to help me, 23:24 that's right, to understand it better, 23:25 and it's changed my life. 23:27 See the Spirit of Prophecy is not more Bible, 23:30 it's not new Bible, it's not instead of the Bible, 23:33 it helps us to understand the Bible. 23:36 And I will tell you, you know if you were 23:38 to put out all these great philosophers 23:40 and historians respected ministries 23:42 and authors and commentators on a table 23:44 with the Spirit of Prophecy, 23:45 I really like the batting average 23:49 out of Spirit of Prophecy. Amen. 23:50 Feel so consistent and so wonderful. 23:52 Jesus told us or tells us 23:55 that there is gonna be deceptions. 23:57 He just says get read for it. 23:58 Right and he is warned us at a time so that we may know. 24:02 And yet here we are being deceived some of us 24:04 and how do we know we've being deceived? 24:07 Because you know, in many Christian homes 24:10 the Christian homes you can't tell sometimes 24:12 whether they are Christian 24:13 or there are generic they get very generic. 24:15 That's right. Go down the street. 24:16 No line of demarcations so to speak. 24:18 You can't tell, see now you can tell by looking. 24:21 I think we're gonna discuss this in another program. 24:23 Should you be able to tell a Christian, 24:26 a person who is a Christian 24:27 from one who is not a Christian by looking. 24:28 We're gonna argue you and me, we are gonna argue yes. 24:31 Should you be able to tell a Christian home 24:33 from a non-Christian home by looking. 24:35 You and I are gonna argue yes, you should. 24:38 But the only way that we can actually 24:43 survive can I say in the last days, 24:45 survive the deceptions is going to be by 24:48 taking you know to the word of God 24:50 and I believe especially as Seventh-day Adventist. 24:53 We would do well to buy some stock ideologically, 24:57 ideologically the Spirit of Prophecy. 25:00 I don't thing we don't loose anything either. 25:02 We gain it's everything to gain and nothing to loose. 25:06 Well absolutely. 25:07 You know, let me say here to you know there is questions, 25:11 there is questions that we can ask ourselves Kathy 25:13 in scripture we don't know the answer for. 25:16 And I suppose... Yeah, we discussed this before. 25:18 I suppose even the Spirit of Prophecy, 25:19 well I'm gonna let that go, I'm gonna let that go. 25:22 There is I know enough for sure that I don't need to hang up 25:27 and go crazy about what I don't know for sure. 25:29 Because what that does I think it makes me 25:31 susceptible to strange winds of doctrine. 25:35 That anything might come in, or like you said 25:37 if you break it down too small then what? 25:40 And this will bring up an interesting point 25:43 is that if we have to have the big picture. 25:46 If you don't have the big picture 25:47 then that little piece comes in 25:49 and you can think that's the picture. 25:51 You don't know where to put the piece. 25:53 Oh we've got to be so careful in the last days. 25:56 I'm not afraid I say this 26:00 I probably you know keep my words. 26:03 Jesus can resurrect our bodies, He has promised to do 26:06 those that sleep in the dust of the earth you know. 26:09 But I think our greatest concern in our homes now, 26:13 we've got to identify error, we've got identify error. 26:17 And so we have to know truth well enough or. 26:21 You said it right, because they tell me 26:23 that those who work with counterfeit money 26:26 that you can't tell counterfeit money unless 26:28 you know what the real money, what does it look like. 26:30 By the way I was in the bank the other day 26:32 talking with someone and I said well we've got 26:34 the new money in the American now. 26:36 I said that took care of the counterfeit money 26:39 and they said no, they said no, no. 26:41 In fact she said you know, there was somebody in here 26:44 when somebody she said we've got a $100 bill, 26:47 it was a counterfeit, 26:48 she said it went to the pencil mark, 26:50 it went through the machine and it passed 26:53 but you could tell it was wrong. 26:55 See that's deception 26:57 that's much more serious than this little guy. 26:59 And so spiritual deception is more... 27:01 Is more serious than a $100 bill. 27:03 More still. Oh, what will... 27:05 Of course it is. 27:06 But we have a precious hope here. 27:07 We will survive thanks to the promise of God. 27:12 So for the Christian family in the family in the last days 27:14 we've got this God's word to keep us from deception 27:18 and we need to use it 27:19 and not be afraid to standup for it. 27:23 That's right. 27:24 Well, it's already over, how can that be? 27:27 And your mouse is going home with you. 27:29 I know anyway here he is, 27:30 saying goodbye to all the people. 27:32 Well, I want you to join us again on Thinking About Home, 27:35 we are going to continue a series. 27:37 Please don't think this is anything we've done in the past. 27:40 So, you stick with us, and Dick you wanna 27:42 pray for us as we go out. I sure will, I sure will. 27:44 Heavenly Father, we're so thankful Lord that 27:48 you knew what it would be like in the last days 27:50 and that you warned this in advance to look out 27:53 that there will be deceptions. 27:54 Father, open our spiritual eyes, open our spiritual heart. |
Revised 2014-12-17