Participants: T. Marshall Kelly
Series Code: TCDM
Program Code: TCDM000006
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00:01 Jesus said: "If you love Me, keep my commandments. "
00:05 Now people all over the world are turning back to God's 00:08 eternal moral law, claiming His promise to write them 00:12 in our hearts and our minds. Live from the DC Armory 00:15 in our nations capital, 3ABN presents 00:19 The Commandments Weekend. 00:26 Hello, I'm Shelly Quinn and welcome back to 3ABN's 00:29 10 Commandment weekend. 00:31 We're here in Washington DC with a live audience 00:33 and this sermon will be the 7th hour of our 17 hour 00:38 live broadcast, and we're going to have brother 00:42 T. Marshall Kelly, who is known for being an ambassador of God's 00:47 love and his message today is "It's all about love. " 00:51 But first we have a very special person with us, 00:55 who is going to sing a beautiful song for us, and this pastor is 01:00 really connected to T. Marshall Kelly because it was 01:03 T. Marshall who encouraged him to stir up the gift that God 01:08 had given him for singing. Brother Kelly was his teacher 01:12 in high school and that's where he got his inspiration. 01:16 So it's my joy to introduce to you our brother 01:19 Adrian Pressley, who is an associate pastor 01:22 for nurturing and counseling at the Kansas Avenue SDA Church 01:28 in Riverside, California. He's going to be singing 01:31 one of my favorites "Holy, Holy, Holy" 01:57 Holy, holy, holy! 02:03 Lord God Almighty! 02:09 Early in the morning 02:14 our song shall rise to Thee; 02:21 Holy, holy, holy, 02:27 merciful and mighty! 02:33 God in three Persons, 02:39 blessed Trinity! 02:49 Holy, holy, holy! 02:54 Angels adore Thee, 03:00 Casting down their bright crowns 03:05 before the glassy sea; 03:12 Thousands and ten thousands 03:18 worship Lord before Thee, 03:24 which wert, and art, 03:29 and evermore shall be. 03:39 Holy, holy, holy! 03:45 Though darkness hide thee, 03:51 though the eye of man 03:56 thy great glory may not see, 04:03 only thou art holy; 04:09 there is none beside thee, 04:15 perfect in power, 04:20 in love and purity. 04:37 Holy, holy, holy! 04:44 Lord God Almighty! 04:50 All thy works shall praise thy name, 04:56 in earth and sky and sea. 05:04 Holy, holy, holy! 05:11 Merciful and mighty, 05:18 God in three persons, 05:25 blessed Trinity. 05:30 God in three person, 05:40 blessed Trinity. 05:53 Holy, Holy! 06:06 [Clapping Shouts of "Amen"] 06:09 Amen. Thank you. 06:11 Beautiful. 06:13 Beautiful. 06:14 Wow. 06:15 Well it's a great privilege for me, and an honor, 06:18 to introduce a man of God. 06:21 I've heard T. Marshall sing 06:24 for many many years. I've only had the privilege 06:26 of hearing him preach on a few occasions. 06:30 A few months ago we were able to hear him preach about the 06:34 commandments of God and an overview. 06:36 And I said, we need him at the 10 commandments weekend. 06:39 T. Marshall Kelly is somebody who has been in ministry 06:41 for over 45 years, taught at Oakwood College 06:45 for many years, he's a pastor, he's a singer 06:49 and he's literally traveled the world, 06:52 given his life for Jesus. 06:53 People that I meet around the world, students, 06:56 former students, and I told my family 06:58 this morning the thing that they always say 07:00 about T. Marshall Kelly, even when we were in college, 07:03 and maybe we weren't serious about the Lord, 07:07 all Brother Kelly ever did was love us back to Jesus. 07:13 Oh to have a legacy like that behind you that people would say 07:17 "He always loved us and pointed us to Jesus, no matter what. " 07:22 So it's a privilege and an honor once again to have 07:25 Brother T. Marshall Kelly as a feature speaker today 07:28 and thank you Brother Kelly, you know that we love you 07:30 and appreciate you. 07:31 I'm going to hug you, ok? There you go. 07:34 [Clapping] 07:43 First of all, I'd like to say I'm grateful 07:49 I'm so grateful that 07:52 elder Pressley sang, since I can't sing right now. 07:58 But I'm thankful 08:02 and my father told me when I was a boy, he said: 08:06 "Son, never allow your head to get big" 08:10 "because your replacement is already walking around. " 08:16 Each of us has a significant role to play. 08:21 I want to thank brother Danny Shelton 08:23 and the 3ABN family 08:26 for their invitation here today 08:30 and my wife and I are glad to be with you. 08:34 I want to thank those of you who have prayed for me 08:38 through the years. 08:40 You've written me letters and told me: 08:43 "I'm praying for you. " And I want to say thank you 08:48 because we are a family 08:52 and I ask you today 08:54 to pray that God will speak to your heart. 09:00 Let us pray. 09:03 Eternal Father in Heaven 09:07 I can't reach all of the varied mind that are here today. 09:13 Something that I might say or do might turn them off, but Lord 09:17 don't let them be turned off. 09:20 I pray that the Holy Spirit 09:22 will convict them of their sins, 09:26 point them to Christ, who is an all sufficient Savior 09:32 and trouble their hearts that they will not play with sin 09:36 because the judgment is in progress. 09:41 May Jesus Christ be exalted 09:45 May Thy name be glorified 09:49 and Lord, make all of us here today who are willing 09:53 a channel of your love. 09:56 This is our prayer 09:59 in the worthy name of Jesus. 10:07 I looked into the book of God 10:11 and I ask you to turn in your Bible to Jeremiah 31:3. 10:19 I would appreciate it if you wouldn't mind, 10:22 those of you here 10:23 in the Armory, if you would read with me Jeremiah 31:3. 10:32 And it reads, when you find it join me please: 10:37 "The Lord hath appeared of old unto me," 10:42 "saying, Yea," 10:45 "I have loved thee with an everlasting love:" 10:50 "therefore with loving kindness have I drawn thee. " 10:57 "I have loved thee with an everlasting love. " 11:02 "Therefore with loving kindness" 11:06 "have I drawn thee. " 11:08 When we use the word "God" there are terms that we use like 11:13 "God","Omnipotent", "Omniscient" "Omnipresent", "Ever lasting" 11:18 we don't understand what we are saying. 11:22 How can a finite being explain 11:26 even in his best vocabulary 11:29 what it means to be infinite. 11:33 So, when we talk about God's characteristic we are only 11:37 taking like a teacup of sand on the grain of knowledge. 11:43 I thought that I would check in the World Book Encyclopedia 11:48 and I came across this, the Spirit had led me to look 11:51 up the word "galaxies". "Galaxies". 11:55 When you talk about God's greatness and God's goodness, 11:59 we really are just playing with words. 12:04 How can I, who am finite who could not lift 1000 pounds 12:10 talk about someone who is all powerful? 12:14 The galaxies. 12:16 "The galaxies," I wrote down, "are a system of stars and dust" 12:24 "held together by gravity. " 12:29 I wanted to know how many galaxies there were. 12:35 And the World Book says this, the World Book says that there 12:40 are at least 100 billion galaxies. 12:47 Now I can't even understand 1 billion, much 100 billion. 12:54 When it says that there are some galaxies that are 12:58 200 million miles across, I can't understand that. 13:03 I've traveled to a lot of places in the world, 13:05 but none of them are that far apart. 13:09 So, I looked at the dictionary and it said there that 13:13 the smaller galaxies 13:17 have a little over a billion stars. 13:23 It said larger galaxies have approximately a trillion stars. 13:32 So when you think about God please do not try 13:36 to put Him in a box. 13:38 Please do not try 13:41 to circumscribe Him with Bible texts. 13:44 You're talking about someone who is so infinite and so great 13:49 and yet He's a God of love. 13:54 The message today is "It's all about Love". 13:58 When you think about all of the galaxies that there are 14:03 then you can read John 3:16, and let's say it together: 14:07 "For God so loved this little tiny world" 14:12 "in the Milky Way" 14:15 "that He gave His only begotten Son" 14:20 "that who so ever believeth in Him," 14:23 "should not perish, but have everlasting life. " 14:28 God loves the world, God has always loved the world, 14:32 God has never loved one country more than another, 14:36 God has never loved one ethnic group more than another, 14:40 God has never just loved your group and nobody else, 14:44 He loves the world and everyone in it. 14:49 He loves the agnostic, He loves the skeptic, 14:52 He loves the atheist, He loves the person that doesn't 14:55 even believe He exists 14:59 because His love is so broad He is not afraid. 15:03 I remember meeting with some of my students 15:05 who one time said they were atheist. 15:08 So I told them, I said: "Don't worry," 15:10 "the Lord is not in heaven biting His fingernails" 15:13 "because you think He doesn't exist. " 15:19 I pray this day that we will recognize 15:22 that the 10 commandments were spoken by God. 15:26 As sister Shelly Quinn told us last night, 15:29 they were written by God not one time, but they were 15:33 written by God twice. 15:37 Anything that God speaks once and writes twice 15:42 has to be important. 15:45 And yet, when God wants us to Love Him, He knows that 15:49 without Him we can't even love Him. 15:53 The love that we give to God must come from God. 15:58 We can't manufacture it. 16:00 People can't scare us into loving God 16:04 by talking about hell. 16:06 Fear is a weak motivation for any kind of lifestyle. 16:10 In fact, fear doesn't last too long. 16:14 You can't get but so afraid. 16:16 And yet, love is so broad 16:19 that the more you give away, 16:22 the more you have to give away. 16:26 One day, Jesus was confronted by a Jewish scribe, or lawyer 16:32 as they called him, and I would appreciate it 16:34 if you wouldn't mind looking with me in the 16:36 book of Mark 12:28-34, 16:43 and I invite you, please, to read along with me, 16:46 I get lonesome when I'm just hearing my voice, 16:49 so would you just read with me please, 16:52 Mark 12:28-34. 16:57 Let's read it together. 17:00 "And one of the scribes came," 17:03 "and having heard them reasoning together," 17:05 "and perceiving that he had answered them well," 17:09 "asked him, Which is the first commandment of all?" 17:13 "And Jesus answered him," let's read it together, 17:16 "The first of all the commandments is," 17:19 "Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:" 17:25 "And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart," 17:31 "and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind," 17:35 "and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. " 17:40 "And the second is like, namely this," 17:42 "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. " 17:46 "There is none other commandment greater than these. " 17:51 And then later on, the scribe says: 17:53 "You answered right. " and the Lord said 17:56 "Well, you're not far from the kingdom. " 17:59 "Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart," 18:03 "mind, soul and strength. " 18:07 I can't exhaust the beautiful life of Jesus Christ. 18:13 I just enjoy reading about Jesus everyday. 18:18 In the gospels, throughout scripture, 18:22 He is the central figure of scripture. 18:25 Not Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Paul, name the others, 18:29 they're marvelous servants of the most high God, 18:32 but there's one central figure that stands above all others 18:36 and His name is Jesus. 18:38 And I want to encourage you to spend at least 18:41 that thoughtful hour each day on the life of Jesus Christ. 18:45 You can't exhaust His life, the more you study Him, 18:50 the more you will want to be like Him, and notice this, 18:54 the more you want to be like Jesus, 18:57 the more you will hate sin. 19:02 Unless you focus on Jesus, 19:05 you'll find yourself trying to manipulate God. 19:09 Picking out the commandments that you want to keep 19:12 and ignoring the others. But when you look at Jesus, 19:16 God hates all sin. Many of us hate certain sins, 19:20 but only God hates all sin. 19:25 As a result of that I want you to consider Jesus' life, 19:29 consider the fact that He existed with the Father 19:33 before He came to this world. 19:37 In John 17:5 He makes this observation: 19:41 "And Thou, Father, glorify Thou Me with the" 19:44 "glory which I had with Thee before the world was. " 19:50 And then He comes down here and allows Himself, 19:53 according to Philippians 2:5-8, 19:56 "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus," 20:01 "who being in the form of God" 20:03 "thought it not robbery to be equal with God," 20:06 "but made Himself of no reputation, and took upon Him" 20:10 "the form of a servant and was made in the likeness" 20:13 "of man. And being found in fashion as a man," 20:17 "He humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death," 20:21 "even the death of the cross. " Think about the incarnation, 20:26 how He came down and walked the Earth, 20:29 He didn't ride, 20:31 He walked; 20:33 He got tired, 20:35 He got hungry, 20:37 He wanted human companionship and when He needed 20:41 His disciples the most, they were asleep. 20:45 On the way to the cross, He said: "All of you" 20:48 "are going to forsake Me and leave Me alone. " 20:51 At the time when He needed them most, they ran away. 20:56 The more you read His life, you can't exhaust His life. 21:03 And that's why, when you look at Jesus, 21:05 and especially the closing scenes of His life, 21:09 how He let human beings that He had created, 21:14 slap Him in the face, spit on Him, 21:18 put a crown of thorns on His head, 21:21 hit His head with a stick. 21:23 On those crown of thorns that drove the headthing 21:28 down into His brown and the blood came down, 21:32 and then He allowed them to make Him naked, 21:36 and crucify Him on a cross. Why? 21:39 So that brother Kelly 21:42 and all of you who are sitting here today, and those of you 21:46 around the world, I don't care how remote 21:48 your village, I don't care how far away you are 21:51 from modern civilization. 21:55 God has a place you in His heart that nobody else can take! 22:03 Stop putting yourself down, or comparing yourself 22:07 with somebody else. If God had wanted you 22:10 to be somebody else, He would have made you somebody else. 22:15 If God made any two people alike, one of them 22:18 would be unnecessary. 22:21 And no matter how old you are, or how young you are, 22:25 and no matter how badly people may treat you, 22:29 you have a place in God's heart that God wants to fill, 22:33 and you have unique talents and gifts and abilities 22:37 and skills and potential, that you will never 22:41 fully realize until you have everlasting life. 22:46 Don't think that you were an accident. 22:51 No matter how you were born, you had to come here 22:55 at the permission of God 22:58 and there's somebody on this planet, 23:00 that will be influenced by you to accept Christ, 23:03 that would not be influenced by me. 23:06 Each of us has a sphere of influence over which 23:11 God wants to use you and use me, 23:14 and use everyone else. That's why there's never a time 23:21 to be rude to people. 23:23 Never a time to mistreat them, 23:27 to be unkind to them, 23:29 they don't even have to like you 23:34 when you say that you are a Christian, 23:37 and you keep the commandments of God, 23:40 the commandments, the first 4, deal with our love to God, 23:43 the last 6, our love to our fellow man. 23:46 It's love all the way around. 23:48 How does God treat you 23:51 when you last broke his commandments? 23:55 Did God just cut you off like that? 23:58 Absolutely not! 24:01 And that's how He wants you to treat people. 24:04 I read a quotation by one of God's servants, 24:07 and it was this quotation: 24:10 "The love of Christ is diffusive and aggressive. " 24:18 It's so important to remember another quotation that I read, 24:25 and it said this: "The most degraded person" 24:31 think in you mind now who the most degraded person 24:35 might be, "The most degraded person" 24:40 "should be treated" 24:43 "with respect" 24:46 "and tenderness. " 24:49 Not the nicest person you've ever met, the most degraded. 24:56 And that's how Jesus treated us. 25:00 I brought this rope out here 25:04 sometimes when you work 25:08 with young people, 25:10 you try your best to keep their attention. 25:16 I didn't always succeed 25:21 but I have this rope, 25:24 and I'm trying to untangle it 25:29 and I was talking to a group of children. 25:35 So I said to the young people, 25:39 and I took out some money, 25:42 and I said: "Anyone here" 25:46 "that can come up here and stand on this rope" 25:50 "and pull themselves up off the floor," 25:56 "I will give this $20 bill. " 26:00 Well I knew that no one would even think 26:03 that was sensible. 26:06 But a little boy ran out of the crowd 26:08 and said: "I can do it pastor Kelly. " 26:10 I said: "Son, you can't do it. I didn't mean to deceive you," 26:13 "but you can't do that. " 26:16 "Oh," he said, "yes I can, let me have it. " 26:17 So he got the rope, 26:19 and he put his foot on the rope and he tried to pull, 26:22 and you could see the veins coming out on his neck, 26:25 and his face turned red and he was pulling, 26:28 and I said: "Son, I didn't mean to deceive you," 26:30 "you can't do this. " 26:34 And people laughed, but let me ask you: 26:40 Can the Ethiopian change his skin? 26:44 Can a leopard change his spots? 26:47 Then you can't keep the 10 commandments of God 26:52 unless you allow Jesus Christ to live out His law in you. 26:56 Paul said: "I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless," 27:00 "I live yet not I, but Christ liveth in you. " 27:04 When you tell a drug addict "Just quit taking drugs. " 27:07 When you tell somebody "Just quit stealing!" 27:09 tell somebody else "Quit committing adultery. " 27:12 They can't quit in their own strength, they have to have 27:14 a power outside of themselves. If they are willing, 27:17 God is able to give them power, but they can't 27:21 do it on their own. Fussing at them, 27:23 trying to scare them won't do any good. 27:25 People are not scared into serving God. 27:28 People fall in love with Jesus because of His great sacrifice 27:32 on the cross. That's what makes them want to be His child. 27:37 Paul tried to scare me, I was brought up into church, 27:40 tried to scare me with hellfire, and 7 last plagues and all that, 27:44 I said: "Well look, the way they lived, they'll be" 27:47 "right there along with me. " 27:52 But when my pastor told me, 27:56 he told me his only love. 28:00 He said: "What would you do if somebody" 28:03 "had saved your life? 28:07 Would you be willing to obey them, or help them?" 28:11 I said: "Yes. " 28:14 Well, it happened. 28:17 I wanted to learn how to swim 28:23 and I jumped into water 28:27 that was too deep for me. 28:34 I went down the first time. 28:37 I came up, I started grabbing for paper on the water. 28:44 I started swallowing water, 28:47 I couldn't touch the bottom. 28:50 And I heard two men sitting on the rocks said: 28:55 "That boy can't swim. " 28:59 One was an African American and the other was a Caucasian man, 29:04 and they jumped in the water in Lake Erie, 29:06 outside of Cleveland, Ohio, 29:09 and they pulled me out of the water. 29:13 They said: "Young man, what going on?" 29:15 I told them what I was trying to do. 29:17 They said: "Don't jump into water 16 feet deep" 29:20 "next time. " 29:23 I didn't ask those men what church they went to. 29:27 I didn't ask them were they agnostics or atheists. 29:31 I wanted my life, and that's what Jesus did for us. 29:37 He came into this ugly, sinful, selfish world and went 29:42 through all kinds of trouble just to redeem us from our sins. 29:48 And I want you to know this morning, that God 29:51 knows every sin in your life and in mine, 29:54 and He hates sin, 29:56 and last night we heard one of the pastors saying 30:00 how God wants to separate us from our sins. 30:04 He loves the sinner, but He hates the sin. 30:08 He can't take the sin to heaven, but he can take 30:11 the sinner who will allow Him to separate him from sin 30:15 on his way. 30:17 He gave us these commandments which point out what sin 30:21 really is. 30:23 Now some people think, and I must tell you this 30:26 in all honesty, Satan is a liar. 30:31 John 8:44. 30:35 Satan will lead you into sin, 30:39 and then let you get away with it for a long time. 30:46 And then he'll come to you and say to you: 30:49 "You know one thing," 30:51 "you are one of the smoothest, cleverest sinners" 30:56 "that ever lived. " 30:59 "You've been going at that man's wife" 31:01 "for 10 years, and you're still an elder in the church. " 31:07 "You been watching pornography for 15 years and you're still" 31:12 "one of the head deacons. " 31:14 "You've been taking God's tithe for at least 20 years," 31:19 "putting on the tithe line money that wasn't tithe. " 31:23 And by the way, anything less than one tenth 31:27 is not tithe, it's a tip. 31:33 But you can take an envelope and put it on the tithe line 31:38 and the church doesn't know anything, 31:42 but God knows. 31:45 I beg of you today, I hope none of you 31:48 tried to impress God that you are something that you're not. 31:54 If you are a sinner and you come to Him and say: "Oh Lord, 31:57 I need You, these are the things in my life. " He already knows 32:01 what's in your life. He sees you in the darkness, 32:05 He sees you in the light. When you read Psalm 139, 32:09 and we need to look at that Psalm today. 32:12 Psalm 139:1-5. 32:16 I would appreciate it if you find it to join me. 32:20 "O lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. " 32:23 "Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising," 32:26 "thou understandest my thought afar off. " 32:29 "Thou compassest my path and my lying down," 32:32 "and art acquainted with all my ways. " 32:35 "For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord," 32:39 "thou knowest it altogether. Thou hast beset me" 32:43 "behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. " 32:46 "Such knowledge is too wonderful for me. " 32:51 The Lord sees Brother Kelly, He sees me 24 hours a day 32:54 7 days a week. 32:56 He has never been impressed with anything that I 33:00 have ever done because He reads my heart 33:05 and the motives that prompt my deeds and my words. 33:15 He knows me. 33:18 I remember when Jeroboam, his son was sick. 33:25 And Jeroboam hadn't lived a good life. 33:30 So Jeroboam wouldn't dare go to God's prophet by himself, 33:34 so he told his wife, he told his wife: "Now wife," 33:40 "don't dress up like a queen. " 33:43 Their little baby was sick. 33:46 "Dress up like an ordinary woman" 33:50 "and go to the prophet," 33:53 "the prophet has failing eye sight anyway," 33:57 "so he won't known. " 34:00 "And ask the prophet, as an ordinary woman," 34:04 "will our son live?" 34:08 Well here is a prophet 34:10 who has failing eye sight, 34:13 a woman disguised, 34:16 but don't you know God knows? 34:21 And the Lord told the prophet 34:24 "Jeroboam's wife is coming to see you. " 34:29 "When her foot hits the threshold of the door" 34:34 "I'll let you know. " 34:36 When her foot hit the threshold of the door, 34:39 the prophet who had failing eye sight said: 34:42 "Come in, wife of Jeroboam. " 34:46 "You want to know whether your child will live. " 34:50 Brothers and sisters, don't waste your time trying 34:53 to hide your sins from God, it just won't work. 34:58 David thought he had covered his sins for almost a year, 35:03 until the prophet came to him. That's why the word of God says: 35:07 "If we confess our sins to Him, He is faithful and just" 35:11 "to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all" 35:15 "unrighteousness. " 35:16 The commandments of God, "who so becomes in sin" 35:19 "transgrethes also the law, for sin is the transgression" 35:23 "of the law. " 35:24 And the law has two parts, there's sins of omission 35:28 and sins of commission. 35:33 Every negative commandment 35:36 implies a positive, every what? 35:41 "Though shalt worship the Lord thy God. " 35:44 "Thou shall have no other gods. " 35:46 How's that summed up? "Worship the Lord thy God with" 35:49 "all thy heart, soul and mind. " 35:52 I beg of you today, please, 35:55 we are so good at leading double lives. 36:00 We're so good in looking good and people 36:02 saying that we're good, yet God reads our heart. 36:06 My mind's having a little flashback. 36:08 My mind's flashing back to Samuel. 36:12 Samuel was told to go to the house of Jesse 36:14 to find the next kind of Israel, and so, Samuel goes to the house 36:19 of Jesse and when he sees this tall, good looking son 36:23 called Eliab, the first born of the people of God, 36:27 the first born. Samuel said: "Surely, this is the man. " 36:33 And the Lord spoke to Samuel these words found in 36:36 1 Samuel 16:7, you know what it says there? 36:39 he says: "Samuel, wait a minute, don't anoint him. " 36:46 "Don't look at his stature," 36:48 "how good looking he is. " 36:50 "I have refused him. " 36:53 And then this little [?Jim?] is there, it says what? 36:57 "Man looketh on the outward appearance, but God" 37:03 "looketh on the heart. " 37:06 May I share with you that God read me and God reads you 24/7, 37:13 and that's why I need Jesus every day of my life. 37:17 God is still working on me 37:19 and He's still working on you. The Holy Spirit not only 37:23 convicts us of sin, but He points us always to Jesus 37:27 and He doesn't let the judgment slip up on us. 37:31 There's some people who look good, talk good, 37:35 smell good, sound good, 37:39 but inside... inside... 37:44 One of my classmates 37:47 was always in the hall 37:50 getting after the theology majors. 37:55 Trying to discredit the Bible in some way, 37:59 and I wondered what was the reason behind it. 38:05 So I said to him one day: "You weren't born that way. " 38:10 "What happened?" 38:11 "I'm just a thinker. " "I know, I know" 38:14 "you're a thinker but there's something in you" 38:17 "that is rankling you. I don't know what it is. " 38:20 So I just kept trying to get it out of him. 38:23 I kept trying, and finally, it came out. 38:27 We were in the bathroom late one night 38:31 and he told me the truth. 38:37 "my father is a deacon in the church. " 38:42 "And my daddy is loved" 38:46 "by everybody in the church," 38:49 "they think he's ready for translation. " 38:54 He said: "But he's not ready for translation" 38:58 "because he is so mean to my mother. " 39:02 "There are times he gets upset with my mother and he will not" 39:06 "speak to her for two weeks. " 39:09 "When he wants to communicate something he will say:" 39:13 "Tell your mother to do this. Ask your mother about that. " 39:17 "But he won't speak to her directly. " 39:21 Are you a Christian at home? 39:26 Or just at church? 39:30 God reads the heart. 39:33 If for some reason you don't see Brother Kelly 39:37 in the kingdom of heaven, 39:38 God will have my whole life history on a microchip. 39:46 In the event you want to know what went on, it'll be there, 39:50 and there won't be any scenes missing. You're talking about 39:54 a DVD. A DVD is nothing in comparison to what God has 39:58 in His audio recording studio. 40:02 Pictures, sound and the motives. 40:07 No man can clip around on his wife, be unfaithful 40:10 to his wife by accident. 40:13 No. 1: He has to get in the car. 40:18 Come out of his house, get in the car, turn on the key. 40:24 Drive to the end of the driveway, backup. 40:27 Notice all the decisive things that he's doing. 40:32 Satan didn't make him do anything. 40:35 He made a deliberate decision and God knows when you have 40:40 decided in your mind what you're going to do. 40:46 The church doesn't know it, and you can fool everybody 40:50 but God! 40:53 And you can't even fool all the people 40:55 because some people know where you go. 41:00 Brothers and sisters, the commandments of God 41:03 are going to stand forever. 41:06 In fact, when last have you said all of the 10 commandments? 41:11 It would be a wonderful thing for us to practice that 41:13 right now. 41:15 Let's see how many you can say out of all the of the 41:17 10 commandments. Now remember this, 41:21 there's no commandment greater than any other commandment. 41:26 Can you say Amen to that? [Audience replies] Amen 41:30 Let's say it together. "And God"... don't start 41:33 with "Thou shalt not" 41:36 "And God spake all these words," 41:39 "saying, I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee" 41:44 "out of the land of Egypt," 41:46 "out of the house of bondage. " 41:49 "Thou shalt have no other gods before me. " 41:54 "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any" 41:58 "likeness of any thing that is in heaven above," 42:03 "or that is in the earth beneath," 42:05 "or that is in the waters under the earth. " 42:08 "Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them:" 42:13 "for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God," 42:16 "visiting the iniquities of the fathers" 42:19 "upon the children unto the third and fourth" 42:21 "generation of them that hate me;" 42:24 "And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me," 42:29 "and keep my commandments. " 42:31 "Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain;" 42:36 "for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh" 42:40 "his name in vain. Remember the Sabbath day," 42:44 "to keep it holy. " 42:45 "Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work:" 42:49 "But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD" 42:52 "thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son," 42:58 "nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant," 43:01 "nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle," 43:04 "nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:" 43:07 "For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea," 43:12 "and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day:" 43:16 "wherefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day," 43:19 "and hallowed it. " 43:21 "Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days" 43:24 "may be long upon the land" 43:26 "which the LORD thy God giveth thee. " 43:29 "Thou shalt not kill. " 43:31 "Thou shalt not commit adultery. " 43:33 "Thou shalt not steal. " 43:35 "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. " 43:39 "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house," 43:42 "thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife," 43:45 "nor his manservant, nor his maidservant," 43:47 "nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is" 43:52 "thy neighbor's. " 43:54 Without Christ, it's like trying to lift yourself up 43:59 by your boot straps. 44:03 Only when Christ dwells within, when I'm crucified with Christ, 44:07 "Nevertheless, I live, yet not I but Christ liveth in me. " 44:12 "So that the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by" 44:16 "the faith of the son of God who loved me" 44:19 "and gave Himself for me. " 44:23 When you take the commandments of God and they point out sin, 44:27 they let us know what God does not want. 44:31 And friends of mine, there are people out there today 44:34 who need you to show them Calvary's cross because 44:38 when they see Calvary's cross they are going to want to turn 44:41 away from their sins which put Jesus on the cross 44:46 in the first place. 44:49 Point up, exalt Jesus Christ, exalt His life, 44:53 His sinless life, His perfect life. 44:57 Exalt the fact that Jesus suffered, Jesus died, Jesus 45:02 was resurrected, Jesus ascended, Jesus is now our mediator 45:07 in the heavenly sanctuary. 45:09 And the more you look at Jesus, the more you will hate sin. 45:15 It won't be because you're scared, it won't be 45:18 because hellfire, it won't be because of the 7 last plagues. 45:23 You'll turn from sin 45:25 because when you see what my sins and your sins 45:28 did to Jesus, it'll make us hate that sin, and we'll want 45:33 to help others, and we'll not feel superior to each other. 45:38 There's no Christian 45:40 who should go anywhere 45:42 putting other people down 45:44 because "to whom much is given," 45:47 "much is required. If you know more than I know," 45:51 "you should do more than I do. " 45:55 And there's a whole world out there, and by the way, 45:58 believe it or not, Jesus said 46:01 the only way people really know that you belong to Me, 46:05 take your Bible now and turn to John 13 if you will. 46:10 John 13:35 46:19 And we're going to read together. 46:22 And I can tell you brothers and sisters that every time 46:26 I think about it, it amazes me. 46:31 Many of you believe in washing feet. 46:36 Celebrating the ordnance of humility, as they call it, 46:41 but how many of us 46:43 wash the feet of people we don't know? 46:49 You can wash your friend's feet for 35 and 40 years, 46:55 that won't prove very much. 46:57 How many of you have washed a teenager's feet? 47:01 How many of you have washed a little child that 47:03 had been baptized, he's 10 years old. 47:06 How many of you have washed a little child's feet 10 years 47:09 of age? 47:12 The purpose of that service is not just to go through 47:15 a ritual. 47:16 It's supposed to let everybody know that you're somebody, 47:20 because the same Jesus that died for you, died for me, 47:25 and I'm honored to wash your feet. 47:28 I praise the Lord, and I ask you today, 47:32 let's read John 13:35, this is what Jesus said, 47:36 I didn't say it, Jesus said it. 47:38 Let's read together: 47:41 "By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples," 47:46 "if ye have love one for another. " 47:55 She missed him. 47:57 She was his Sabbath school teacher, 48:01 and she missed him. 48:04 And so, she went to see him. 48:09 When she got to the house 48:12 the young man saw her coming. 48:16 He did not want to be bothered, 48:21 so he goes out of the backdoor 48:25 and she doesn't see him again... 48:28 that time, 48:30 but she comes back again. 48:35 He sees her, and they have a game going on. 48:40 As she would come, he would leave. 48:44 She would come again, he would leave. 48:46 Oh, by the way, 48:48 that's the way the Holy Spirit does you. 48:53 He's not going to ever let you alone. 48:58 As long as there is hope for your salvation, 49:02 He will come again, and again and again, and I want to ask you 49:08 don't put people down who don't respond 49:12 the first time. Stay with them, love them, go back to see them, 49:18 care about them. 49:23 She went 19 times. 49:30 The last time she went, the boy's father, who wasn't 49:34 a Christian, said these words to her: "Lady, you sure must" 49:38 "love my son. " 49:41 He said: "I'm his daddy," 49:44 "and I want you to know that next week" 49:47 "he's going to be in church. I'll see to it. " 49:54 What about the teenagers in your church? 49:59 What about the people who were dropped from the role 50:03 because of their discipline and their behavior. 50:07 Do you still love them? 50:11 Will you go out of your way to save them? 50:14 What about your relatives? When you take out 50:18 your check book, how much money have you spent on your 50:23 relatives? Your uncles, aunts, cousins and others 50:26 who don't know Christ, How much have you spent on them 50:29 to give them the 3 angle's messages 50:32 and tell them about God's love. 50:34 How much money have you spent? 50:36 How much time have you spent? 50:41 We buy shoes, dresses, cars, boats, planes, travel wherever 50:45 we want to go, how much money have you spent? 50:48 One sent his brother the "Message" magazine 50:50 for 30 years. 50:53 As the Message magazine came to the house 50:56 the brother would say: "My brother is trying to make me" 50:59 "a Christian, I don't want to hear it. " and he wouldn't 51:01 throw it away, he would just go and put it over in the garage. 51:05 One day the Message magazine came and it caught his eye 51:10 and guess what he did, he started reading it. 51:18 He was changed. 51:20 He gave his life to the Lord 51:22 to walk in the 3 angle's message of light. 51:26 Don't stop loving people because they turn you down, 51:29 because you don't want to be bothered. Just ask God for 51:32 another way to go back to them. 51:37 And your children, some of your children 51:39 are no longer Christians. 51:41 You brought them up, learnt about Jesus Christ, 51:45 sent them to Christian schools. 51:47 Don't put them down because they don't dress 51:50 like you want them to dress, 51:52 or look the way you want them to look, 51:55 and don't tell them that they embarrass you. 51:58 Look how we embarrass God with the things He knows 52:01 about us. 52:05 Love you children. 52:07 They are free moral agents. 52:10 And stop saying they embarrass you. 52:12 I embarrass Christ by being overweight, 52:17 but He's working on me, 52:21 so don't let anything turn you away from loving people. 52:26 That's what it's all about, it's all about love. 52:28 The commandments are all about love to God, 52:31 love to our fellow man. 52:35 I thank you today, I just want to encourage you 52:39 to let God make you a channel of His love to a lost and dying 52:42 world. 52:44 Be kind to people who don't like you 52:49 because people are going to bother you all of your life. 52:52 I hate to disturb your peace, 52:57 but Satan's going to see to it that people bother you 53:00 until you die. 53:02 When you read Luke 6:27,28 do you know what it says there? 53:08 It says "Love your enemies. " You do have enemies, 53:13 even if you think you are the sweetest person in the world 53:17 some folk can't stand you. 53:22 He says also: "Do good to those that hate you. " 53:27 There's folk that hate you they just haven't told you. 53:31 He said "Bless those who curse you. " 53:35 And there are people who always try to make you look small 53:39 with their words. 53:42 Then he said, the last thing: "Pray for those who" 53:45 "despitefully use you and persecute you. " 53:48 Notice, Christ never told you 53:51 to respond to people who do wrong to you 53:54 the same way they respond to you. 53:56 He says you have got one up-manship 54:01 He said "overcome evil with good. " 54:07 Jesus Christ loves every one of us here today. 54:12 I want to say thank you 54:15 for your being here and supporting this 54:18 10 commandment weekend. 54:21 But my greatest concern is that you won't look 54:24 at Jesus Christ as your example. 54:27 There's no other example that you have. He is your 54:31 example and He loves you, He died for you, He's coming 54:34 back again for you, and if you don't make it, 54:38 it'll be nobody else's fault but yours. 54:42 My daddy, he's now sleeping in Jesus, 54:48 but I want you to know that my daddy saw me going 54:52 up fools hill one time 54:55 and my daddy said to me: "Son," 54:58 "your mother and I want to be saved, but, now son," 55:02 "in the event that you don't want to be saved," 55:05 "I still want to be saved. " Then he said these powerful 55:10 words, he said: "Remember this, I am not going to miss you" 55:14 "forever. " 55:17 "I will not be in heaven miserable and crying" 55:21 "because you are not there. I will enjoy all the fruit" 55:25 "on the tree of life" 55:29 "because God is going to" 55:31 "wipe away all tears from our eyes and the former things" 55:36 "will not come to mind. " and he said, "Son, if you're" 55:39 "not there, you're one of the former things. " 55:48 It's your decision 55:51 to live for Christ. 55:53 Don't follow the crowd. 55:56 I want the privilege on day, of casting my crown 56:00 at Jesus' feet 56:02 and thanking Him for so great salvation. 56:06 Do you want to be there to thank Him personally 56:09 for so great salvation. Would you raise your hand 56:11 if you mean it. 56:13 Let us pray. Father in Heaven, I thank you 56:16 so much for your matchless love for each one of us 56:20 here today. 56:22 Lead us in obedience to all of your commandments. 56:26 Not because we're scared 56:29 but because of what you did for us when you gave Christ 56:34 to us for eternity. 56:36 In His name we pray, 56:39 let all the people say Amen. |
Revised 2014-12-17