Participants: Greg and Jill Morikone (Host), Mollie Steenson, Jason Bradley, CA Murray
Series Code: TDY
Program Code: TDY017058A
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00:01 I want to spend my life
00:07 Mending broken people 00:12 I want to spend my life 00:18 Removing pain 00:23 Lord, let my words Let my words 00:30 Heal a heart that hurts 00:34 I want to spend my life 00:40 Mending broken people 00:45 I want to spend my life 00:51 Mending broken people 01:08 Hello, and welcome to another 3ABN Today program. 01:11 We are so thankful and grateful that you joined us 01:14 as you do each and every day. 01:16 And it's a blessing to come maybe into your living room 01:18 if you're watching on television, the internet, 01:20 maybe you're driving in your car 01:21 and listening on the radio. 01:23 Hopefully you're not looking at your phone 01:24 while you're driving and watching 3ABN. 01:26 We have a YouTube channel as well. 01:28 We stream live there. We do. 01:30 What is the address that... 01:32 Basically look up 3ABN. 01:33 You go to YouTube and just look up 3ABN 01:35 and there's the live stream there and it's great. 01:37 It is. 01:38 So many people where maybe 01:40 the internet doesn't buffer as well, 01:42 you can get it on YouTube and that's wonderful. 01:43 It is. 01:44 And that's something new that, oh, in last few months 01:47 and it's been received very well. 01:49 But anyway, thank you always 01:50 for your prayers and support of the ministry of 3ABN 01:52 because it's a team effort, isn't it? 01:54 You think about it, you know, 01:55 sometimes that you may feel a little isolated, 01:57 don't know where you live. 01:58 We're here in Thompsonville, the thriving metropolis of... 02:02 I think it changed the population sign 02:04 to 550 I think... 02:06 It used be 600 so. 02:07 So I'm not quite sure but anyway, 02:10 sometimes we're on the middle of nowhere feels like 02:11 but it's neat how technology connects us all together. 02:15 But the key thing is that 02:17 we're all spreading the gospel together. 02:19 So your financial support, your prayers for the ministry, 02:22 someday in heaven we'll get the full picture of the impact 02:26 of everyone working together. 02:27 And it's a blessing to be with you. 02:28 Now our topic today, what is it about? 02:31 It's exciting, isn't it? 02:32 Our topic today is Courage to Stand. 02:35 Yes. 02:36 I think it's so vital 02:37 how to live a godly principled life 02:40 in the midst of a world of compromise. 02:42 So we're going to talk today about how to stand. 02:44 It's a difficult thing sometimes to stand 02:46 and to do that. 02:48 We're going to talk about how to stand, 02:49 how not to compromise, 02:51 maybe some of the consequences of compromise 02:54 and what that looks like and then how God can enable us 02:58 by the power of His Spirit to stand up. 02:59 'Cause standing up is a difficult thing sometimes 03:03 especially when you feel like, 03:04 "I'm all alone, and I'm the only one standing." 03:06 You know, that's true. 03:08 I grew up in West Virginia 03:09 and we had a creek that ran through our property 03:12 and it was, you know, didn't run very fast 03:15 but wow, when it would rain hard, 03:17 all that water would run down the mountains 03:19 and into the valley and into the particular creek 03:22 that ran through our property 03:24 and it would become a raging stream. 03:25 Well, I had a brilliant idea, not really brilliant, 03:28 to try and go into the stream 03:30 when it was flooding just to see what it was like and wow, 03:33 it was hard to stand 03:35 against the current of the raging stream. 03:38 You know, it's hard sometimes, like you were mentioning, 03:39 to stand against what may be the stream of the majority 03:44 of what the world, the direction it's going. 03:46 But it's hard to stand. 03:47 But we want to show you today 03:49 through the Bible how to stand with Christ, 03:52 obviously, by our side. 03:54 But we have some guests with us today 03:55 that really aren't guests. 03:57 They're part of our 3ABN family. 04:00 And I have Jason Bradley. 04:02 We have Jason Bradley here. 04:03 I consider you my neighbor 04:04 because your office and your mom's office 04:07 is right next to mine. 04:08 And we're glad to have you here today. 04:09 Tell us what's your title is here at 3ABN? 04:13 The title is 3ABN's Dare to Dream, 04:17 Assistant to the General Manager. 04:19 So Assistant to the General Manager 04:21 at Dare to Dream. 04:22 That's a little mouthful there. It is. 04:24 For a minute, it's like, he wears so many hats, 04:26 now what's his title again? 04:27 Yeah. He wears many hats. 04:30 So Dare to Dream is doing very well 04:31 and I appreciate the work that you and your mom 04:33 and everyone else are doing. 04:35 And the Lord is blessing us. Amen. 04:36 Sitting next to you is Mollie Steenson, 04:38 the Vice president, General Manager... 04:40 Can I say Mom in a respectful way? 04:42 Absolutely. 04:44 3ABN and the woman of great advice, 04:46 godly advice and it's good to have you here 04:48 with us today too. 04:49 And your office is down the hall from Jason 04:52 and myself and Jill and others, close to you, Pastor CA. 04:55 Right across the hall. Yeah, that's right. 04:56 I'm not calling her Mom either. 05:00 Well, I have due respect for you, Mollie. 05:01 I do appreciate the counsel you've given to us "kids" 05:04 at 3ABN. 05:05 You know, I have felt motherly to this ministry 05:06 for many, many years. 05:08 You know, how a mother protects her child, 05:10 and I felt like 3ABN to some degree was my child, 05:13 and I'm here to protect it. 05:15 Amen. Yeah. 05:16 And it's a blessing you 05:18 and your husband Pastor Hal for, 05:19 I don't know, so many years, seems like forever 05:21 but it's been probably 20, 30 years 05:23 you're involved with 3ABN. 05:24 What a blessing. 05:26 Sitting next to you is Pastor CA Murray... 05:27 Good to be here. 05:28 Who wears, I don't know, can we count the hats? 05:30 I don't think we can. 05:32 You are the General Manager of the Proclaim network, 05:35 and of course the producer of this program. 05:37 You're usually sitting in this seat 05:39 or the one that Jill is sitting in right now. 05:41 But thank you, Pastor, for all that you do 05:42 and your wife Irma to the ministry of 3ABN. 05:46 It's pleasure. 05:47 I don't remember how many... 05:49 12 years, 13 years, going on 13 years. 05:51 But they go so fast they seem somewhat compressed 05:54 because you come for the Lord, you really don't track time. 05:56 You look back and say, "Boy, how much time has passed." 05:59 But it has been a true honor 06:01 and blessing to serve in this capacity. 06:02 You know, it's interesting to me 06:04 is you know after a while, 06:05 it seems like, Pastor, you've been here 06:06 for much longer than 12 or 13 years. 06:09 Jason, I think you've been here was it two or three or four? 06:11 Three. Three. 06:13 You know, after a while, you just become such families 06:14 like you can't imagine life really without the people 06:17 we have here. 06:18 And I think it just seems to me like, 06:19 Jay's been here for at least eight or ten. 06:21 You know, you just kind of that thought process like, 06:24 you've been here... 06:25 you can't imagine it without so. 06:27 But it's a blessing to work together. 06:28 We truly enjoy working with each one of you 06:29 and all the others that are here. 06:31 Amen. 06:32 We want to get into our topic, don't we? 06:33 We do, absolutely. 06:35 Before we do that, we better go to some music. 06:36 So let's go to our music. 06:38 We have Scott Michael Bennett with us. 06:40 It's always a blessing when he ministers to us. 06:43 When he sings, when he plays, it's not just a showmanship, 06:47 it is from his heart, from his walk with God 06:50 and it comes through. 06:51 And the song that he will be doing today is 06:53 "Name above all names". 07:05 It's the name above all names 07:12 And who will declare it 07:16 Who will declare it 07:19 It's the name above all names 07:26 And who will shout it to a dying world 07:38 Who will declare my name 07:44 And who will shout my name in the midst of the nations 07:51 Who will take the shield of faith 07:54 And the sword of my word 07:57 And declare my name to a dying world 08:05 He who has declared me thus far 08:11 Will walk in even greater power 08:18 For the sands of time are running out 08:24 But my name will be declared 08:27 In this final hour 08:32 I am Jehovah I am that I am 08:37 And my trumpet shall soon call out 08:45 I formed the worlds with a whisper 08:51 But I'm getting ready 08:55 I'm getting ready I'm getting ready 09:01 To shout 09:08 It's the name above all names 09:15 And we will declare it 09:19 We will declare it 09:21 It's the name above all names 09:28 And we will shout it to a dying world 09:40 It's my will to possess all of your life 09:48 I'll take it all so surrender to me 09:53 For I'm building an army 09:57 To go in my name 10:00 And my words in your mouth 10:03 Shall set the captives free 10:08 I am Jehovah I am that I am 10:13 And my trumpet shall soon call out 10:21 I formed the worlds with a whisper 10:27 But I'm getting ready 10:31 I'm getting ready I'm getting ready 10:37 To shout 10:43 It's the name above all names 10:51 And we must shout it to a dying world 11:09 It's the name above all names 11:16 And we must declare it 11:19 We must declare it 11:22 It's the name above all names 11:29 And we must shout it to a dying world 11:47 Amen. Thank you, Scott Michael Bennett. 11:49 Powerful song. 11:50 There is no other name above Jesus Christ. 11:52 We thank the Lord for Him being our Savior and our God. 11:56 If you're just now joining us, 11:57 we're talking about the topic today of Courage to Stand. 12:00 You know, we are in this world 12:02 that seems like we're bombarded on many sides. 12:04 And sometimes it's easy to compromise. 12:07 And go with I think... 12:09 Sometimes, I think many times. 12:10 True. That could be easy. 12:12 I think about, you know, they talk about our peers, 12:15 you know, as teenagers 12:16 especially I remember hearing a lot of talk about that. 12:18 You know, when you're a teenager, 12:19 you know, being impressed with your friends 12:21 and going in bad directions. 12:23 But even as adults, 12:24 we can be bombarded all the time 12:26 like you were saying. 12:27 And it's the decisions that we make. 12:28 So today, we want to be talking about that. 12:30 We have with us Jason Bradley, good to have you here. 12:32 Mollie Steenson, Pastor CA Murray. 12:35 And I'm thinking about 500 years ago, 12:38 Martin Luther nailed the 95 Theses to the door, 12:41 didn't he? 12:42 And took a major stand, 12:43 you know, we were talking about this, Mollie, 12:45 before and that is by him taking that stance, 12:48 it changed church history. 12:50 I want to read real quick what he said here. 12:53 It says, I don't want to get it wrong, 12:56 "My conscience is captive to the Word of God. 13:00 I cannot and will not recant anything, 13:04 for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. 13:09 Here I stand, I can do no other, God help me." 13:13 And, Mollie, I know that he was going against the church 13:15 which was powerful. 13:16 Yeah, the church hierarchy, the church leadership, 13:18 they come to him and told him recant... 13:20 Or else. Or else we will excommunicate you. 13:23 Now just we had Sabbath School recently. 13:26 And it was in Paul writing to the Galatians. 13:32 And he used the word, 13:34 "If anybody teach any other gospel to you 13:37 other than what I have taught to you, 13:39 let it be a curse, he used the word, anathema." 13:41 Anathema, that's a strong, powerful word. 13:44 And what it means is for the church 13:47 for the ecclesiastical power to excommunicate you. 13:51 So what the church hierarchy 13:52 was saying to Martin Luther was, 13:54 "We will write anathema over you. 13:56 We will excommunicate you." 13:58 And that's when he stood up then and said, 14:01 "Excommunicate me, but..." 14:04 It's almost like he was saying, 14:06 it's better to obey God than man. 14:08 Oh, absolutely. 14:09 And that changed the whole course of church history, 14:13 as we know it today. 14:14 Where would we be today without the Protestant Reformation? 14:18 You're absolutely right. We're talking now. 14:20 We're already getting into this. 14:22 Why does it matter for you to stand? 14:24 Why should we take a stand? 14:26 Does it even make a difference? 14:28 Now, obviously, it's what we're talking here. 14:29 In the case of Martin Luther, it made a huge difference. 14:32 But why do you think it... 14:34 Why does it matter if we take a stand? 14:36 And I could say, "I'm just one person, 14:38 I'm not a Martin Luther." 14:39 Why does it matter if I take a stand? 14:42 I mean, if you don't stand for something, 14:44 you'll fall for anything. 14:45 And when you look at Christ in His life, He stood. 14:48 He came, He spared no expense to come and die for our sins. 14:54 So for someone who loves us that much, 14:59 why wouldn't we stand? 15:01 You know, why not stand? 15:03 Amen. That's a good point. Pastor CA? 15:05 I think, you know, in your life... 15:11 I'll put it this way, 15:12 to justify your existence on this planet, 15:15 to justify the air that you breathe, 15:17 and the space that you take, and the life that you live, 15:21 you've got to have some set of rules 15:26 or laws or something to undergird who you are. 15:30 If not then it's the Wild West, it's free for all. 15:32 There's got to be something 15:34 that justifies my existence here. 15:39 I cannot just live for myself or buy myself or unto myself. 15:43 And once I accept Christ as the foundation of my life, 15:48 then if I'm going to be true to myself, 15:51 and true to my God, 15:53 and true to the world that I inhabit, 15:57 I've got to stand for something. 15:59 My life has got to have some kind of meaning. 16:01 It's got to stand for something. 16:03 And if I don't establish rules for myself 16:07 which is my stand then I'm just here, 16:09 I'm just breathing, I'm living. 16:12 You know, someone said one time, 16:14 said, there are some people 16:15 who will die having never lived. 16:18 If you're going to live, 16:19 it means you're going to have 16:21 to establish your life on something. 16:23 And once you find that something, 16:24 it's important that you stay with that something. 16:27 If it is truth, you determine that it's a truth 16:29 and then you establish your life on that. 16:31 And that's what our living is all about. 16:34 You know, and it's not just enough 16:37 when we see something that is wrong for us 16:40 to be offended that this is taking place. 16:43 We need to make that stand. 16:45 What is it... 16:46 The reason the world is in the condition... 16:49 Some of the things have happened 16:50 that have happened is because good men and women 16:54 didn't stand up and say anything and so things, like, 16:58 had we in this United States of America, 17:01 had the majority stood up and spoken would prayer 17:04 have ever been taken out of the schools. 17:07 See, it's because we were offended by it perhaps. 17:11 We didn't approve of it perhaps, 17:13 but we didn't say anything. 17:15 We didn't stand up 17:16 and we weren't counted as CA was saying. 17:19 Why do you think it... 17:21 I wanna say, maybe the motive, 17:22 why wouldn't we want to stand up? 17:25 Do you think... I'm not saying this is not... 17:26 If we want to include ourselves 17:28 or just we're talking about standing, do you think fear? 17:31 Yes, I think fear would definitely be a factor. 17:35 Maybe be receiving a label or being considered an outsider 17:38 or being called names or whatever the case may be 17:42 but, you know, at the end of the day, 17:46 you have to be able to live with yourself too. 17:48 And you need to be able to represent God. 17:53 I think as a human race we sort of like to be, 17:55 I don't want to say popular, we all want to be accepted, 17:58 we want to have approval. 17:59 And it's interesting, 18:00 I don't know if you've ever done this. 18:02 I'd tried this a few times. 18:03 But been like in a busy area 18:04 and just start looking up at nothing in the sky. 18:06 And you will start gathering people just to see 18:08 what you're looking at. 18:09 And the more crowd you get, the more... 18:12 You've tried to do that, sweetie, 18:14 looking up at nothing in the sky? 18:15 Well, I've just pointed at something actually. 18:17 Yes, kind of cool. 18:19 This is the first time I heard about this. 18:21 Well, I wasn't experimenting on you. 18:24 Okay, I feel better. 18:25 So it's interesting though because, you know, 18:27 you get someone that starts to turn the tide, 18:29 you know, everyone wants to see 18:31 what someone else is and no one wants to be 18:32 not included. 18:33 Everyone wants to be included in something, 18:35 and we want to or... 18:37 You know, it's also hard to, I guess I don't know, 18:41 even with my own self too, 18:42 it's like when someone asks 18:44 in a congregation everybody to stand, 18:47 I've tried to sit just for the sake of it. 18:48 And it makes you feel very uncomfortable 18:50 even though I agree with what's being said, 18:51 you know, just to see what it feels like. 18:53 Because then you feel like everybody is staring at you. 18:54 I don't know whether everybody is staring at me. 18:56 We just feel like, "Why is he sitting down?" 18:58 It's interesting when everybody stands, 19:00 usually everybody stands. 19:01 Everyone has to raise their hand 19:02 and everyone raises their hand. 19:04 It's just interesting how we are sort of... 19:05 The crowd mentality. 19:06 Oh, there you go. 19:08 As you are told to make, I don't know, 19:10 to make a stance sometimes can be scary. 19:13 And possibly not fear but possibly, 19:16 you know, I'm sure Jill will take care of that. 19:19 I'm sure Jill will stand up and so why should I. 19:22 So you wait for the next person to 19:24 or you wait for the other person to 19:26 and then it doesn't get done. 19:29 If we'll all do our part, the whole gets accomplished 19:32 that there is something for all of us to do. 19:34 You know, I'm convicted in my soul 19:39 that when you come to Christ, 19:42 one of the things that He gives you 19:43 is the ability to stand for Him. 19:47 I remember years ago, we were in Russia. 19:48 And we were on a train going from Moscow to Nizhny. 19:52 And there, Irma and I was sitting here 19:55 and there were two men in business suit 19:56 who's sitting about as close as Jill and Greg are. 19:59 And during that four hour ride, 20:01 they never made eye contact with us. 20:02 We were looking for excuse to try to engage with them. 20:07 And sitting that close, 20:08 you would think your eyes will make contact just accidentally 20:11 because we're kind of looking for them to look up. 20:13 They looked out the window, they looked at the ceiling, 20:15 looked at the floor, they looked at each other, 20:16 they never looked at us. 20:17 And we found that a lot that there was this culture 20:20 of just stay below the radar. 20:22 Don't do anything to make yourself conspicuous 20:25 or obvious, just live your life and stay quiet. 20:29 And there're Christians I think who would like to do that, 20:31 don't take a stand, don't ruffle the feathers. 20:35 But Christ says, "If you don't stand up for Me on earth, 20:38 then I'm not going to stand for you before My Father 20:40 which is in heaven." 20:42 So there is a call, 20:43 once we assume the name of Christ 20:47 that we take all that comes with that name, 20:50 which means sometimes standing out in a crowd, 20:53 swimming against the tide, swimming upstream, 20:56 and being less popular than you would be 21:00 if you just went along with everybody else. 21:02 And yet, that's the call to the Christian 21:05 to stand for Him, for Jesus which means sometimes 21:07 you're not going to be a popular person. 21:09 Could you imagine if everyone 21:11 just stuck to their comfort zone, 21:15 what this life would be like? 21:16 What this world would be like if everybody was just focused 21:20 on just remaining in their comfort zone? 21:23 We'd be in a world of trouble. Yes, we would. Yeah, we would. 21:26 I agree with that. 21:27 And, you know, we're talking about like the courage to stand 21:30 but in my opinion, 21:32 let's look at what the opposite of that is. 21:34 What is the opposite of that? That's compromise. 21:36 It is compromise. 21:38 The opposite of compromise is courage to stand. 21:41 And what is compromise? 21:42 Let me read you the definition of compromise. 21:45 "Accepting a standard that is lower than is desirable." 21:49 Do you know what that is, lowering your standard. 21:53 You've got a standard and you'll lower it. 21:55 Compromise, the opposite of that courage to stand. 22:00 You know, I think about the... Go ahead, Pastor. 22:02 You were going to say something? Go ahead. 22:03 No, I was just gonna popping in a text, I'm in Romans 13:14. 22:07 "But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, 22:09 and make no provision for the flesh to fill its lust. 22:14 So the word provision is a very interesting word, 22:17 and I don't have time to go through all of it. 22:18 But he's saying, don't place yourself in situations 22:22 that are going to mitigate against your success. 22:25 Sometimes you can do things to almost assure your failure. 22:28 You know, you're living a life, 22:30 you're doing things you're going to fail. 22:32 Years ago, I wrote my first book, 22:34 "I Will Fear No Evil". 22:36 And there was this young lady there 22:38 who was beginning to come to the Lord, 22:41 married, two children, and she went out. 22:44 And went to a party which she had not, 22:48 shouldn't have gone to 22:50 but she had her first hit of crack. 22:53 Back then, they didn't know as much about crack 22:55 as they do now. 22:57 One of the thing they didn't know 22:58 is that you can become hooked after one sampling, 23:02 terribly hooked and if you are an addictive personality 23:05 then it's even... 23:07 the exit is even harder. 23:10 So she's hooked now. 23:12 Her husband leaves, she's by herself, 23:14 she's raising two kids, 23:15 and then she tells a story of being out late at night 23:18 on a Friday night. 23:20 And she says, "I'm going to church tomorrow morning. 23:21 In four or five hours, I'll be in church. 23:23 But here I am in the darkness, 23:25 trolling the streets trying to get crack." 23:27 Her two kids, young children are in bed by themselves, 23:30 anything could happen, 23:31 but here I am trying to get crack late at night 23:33 on a Friday night. 23:34 When she went to that party, 23:36 she never thought that two years later, 23:38 she'd be out in the street on Friday night. 23:40 But she made provision for that. 23:43 That Friday night was prefigured the day 23:46 she went to that party. 23:48 And the train, you make A decision then B, C, D, 23:51 are made for you. 23:52 You're not in control anymore. 23:54 So he is saying if you want to stand, don't make provision, 23:59 don't work against your own success 24:01 which we can sometimes do. 24:02 So when you see things coming, 24:05 you've got to say, "No" right away. 24:06 You've got to divorce yourself on that right away 24:09 in your friends, the places you go, 24:11 the things you do. 24:12 All makes provision for failure. 24:14 And if you want to stand, 24:15 then do things that will mitigate 24:17 in favor of your success. 24:19 Amen, well said, Pastor. Yeah, absolutely. 24:21 You know, how do we... 24:23 We'll more fill into this... 24:25 But how do we stand? 24:26 You know, you said if we want to stand, 24:28 we make no provision for the flesh. 24:31 I mean, that's powerfully said 24:32 because the choice that she made going to the party 24:35 affected years down the road. 24:38 And sometimes, I think when we make a choice, 24:40 we don't realize, "I'm standing for something at this point." 24:43 You know, I might be saying, 24:44 "Jay, oh, I'm just making a choice for X, Y or Z." 24:47 You don't realize the consequences 24:49 that come from that. 24:51 Yeah. 24:52 And by not making a choice, 24:54 you're making a choice till you're taking a stance. 24:56 I'd like to share with you guys, 24:57 1 Corinthians 16:13, 14 25:01 and this is from the New King James Version. 25:04 Let me just get that. 1 Corinthians 16:13, 14. 25:11 My Bible's King James so I had the printed on out here. 25:15 Are you guys there? Yep. All right. 25:17 "Watch, stand fast in the faith, 25:20 be brave, be strong. 25:21 Let all that you do be done with love." 25:25 You know, there is a right way and a wrong way to stand. 25:29 When taking a stance, 25:31 you should be representing Christ 25:32 and not misrepresenting Christ. 25:36 So at the end, it says, 25:38 "Let all that you do be done with love." 25:42 You know, you can take a stance, 25:44 you see some people take a stance 25:46 where it's law, law, law, law, law, 25:49 similar to the Pharisees. 25:51 And then you see some that are love, love, love, love, love. 25:56 But Christ had a balanced portion, 26:02 very balanced. 26:03 And that's extremely important, 26:06 you know, you have to take a stance 26:08 where you accurately represent the character of Christ. 26:12 That's true. 26:14 You think about Jesus overlooking, 26:15 remember the triumphal entry 26:17 coming over the Mount of Olives, 26:19 and He uttered those scathing rebuke 26:21 with tears in His voice. 26:23 "Oh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how much I loved you 26:26 and I would have gathered you under my arms 26:28 as a mother hen gathers her chicks." 26:30 But you would not do that, 26:32 so making those statements and stance 26:34 but with love, it's important. 26:36 Yes, Mollie. 26:37 Well, I've got 1 Corinthians 10:13... 26:40 Yeah, that's a good one too. We'll look at that. 26:42 And it's talking about temptation. 26:45 1 Corinthians 10:13. Yeah. 26:46 And how many of you been tempted 26:48 and we're tempted perhaps too, 26:52 this lady was tempted to do 26:53 that first hit of crack cocaine. 26:56 You can look at the man in the gutter. 27:01 We call them gutter alcoholics, I guess. 27:04 And realize if that man had never taken the first drink, 27:08 he wouldn't be there today. 27:10 And you are being tempted to take 27:12 that first drink not realizing 27:14 that is where you could very easily wind up, 27:19 that courage to stand in the face of this temptation. 27:22 But we are so blessed that the scripture tells us that, 27:25 "No temptation has overtaken us 27:28 except such as is common to man, 27:31 but God is faithful, 27:33 who will not allow you to be tempted 27:35 beyond what you are able, 27:36 but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, 27:42 that you may be able to bear it." 27:44 That is so encouraging to me to know that no matter 27:48 what the situation, God is there with me. 27:50 And He will make me an overcomer 27:53 in the midst of this situation. 27:55 Give me that courage to stand. Yes. Amen. 27:58 I think one of the things that help you to stand 28:00 also is associating yourself with brothers and sisters 28:03 who will walk in the same way you're walking. 28:05 Amen. 28:06 I'm in 1 John 28:08 1:7, 28:14 "But if we walk in the light 28:19 as He is in the light, 28:21 we have fellowship with one another, 28:23 and the blood of Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin." 28:28 Now what is light? 28:30 Well, two verses before in 1 John 1:5, the Bible says, 28:35 "God is light." 28:36 Amen. 28:38 So what you've got to do is stay in the light 28:41 and out of the shadows. 28:44 The other day, I went in the bathroom, 28:45 turned the light, 28:47 there was a fairly large spider in the bathroom. 28:50 And it headed for the dark. 28:51 Now anybody knows me, particularly my wife knows me 28:54 and bugs just cannot be in the same place. 28:56 I was going to tear that bathroom apart 28:57 trying to get that one spider. 28:59 You were after that spider. 29:00 Yeah, he wasn't invited, he didn't have a key, 29:02 he shouldn't have been there. 29:03 So he had to go. 29:05 But he headed for the dark. 29:06 So I moved a wastebasket, 29:08 then he scooted under the plunger, 29:10 then he scooted under the toilet bowl cleaner. 29:12 But, you know, I'm throwing things, 29:14 'cause he's got to go. 29:16 So I got it, you know, 29:18 but he was heading for the dark. 29:21 He did not want to be in the light. 29:22 And I thought about that that there are some people 29:24 who actually run from light. 29:26 They become accustomed to darkness. 29:29 So one of the things you want to do to mitigate 29:31 in favor of your standing is stay in the light. 29:34 Don't head for the darkness. 29:36 One of the things that the Spirit gives you 29:37 when you come to the Lord is discernment. 29:39 You begin to... 29:41 And it's not perfect but you grow. 29:42 You can say, "This is going to help, 29:45 this is going to hurt. 29:46 This is going to build me up, this is going to tear me down. 29:49 This friend is going to lead me to Christ, 29:50 this friend is going to take me away." 29:52 So you begin making changes in your life 29:54 on the basis of is it light or is it darkness. 29:57 And it does mean something you have to just jettison. 30:00 Certain things you got to just get out of your life 30:02 'cause they're not going to help you. 30:03 But always pursue light. 30:05 And if you walk in the light, 30:06 you'll find nice people to walk in the light with you. 30:08 Amen. And you walk together in light. 30:10 So you get fellowship with one another 30:12 but you also get the blessing of the presence of God 30:14 which makes you stronger so that you do stand. 30:17 That's excellent. Yeah, excellent advice. 30:19 And Mollie, I'm thinking too, 30:21 I'm sure there's someone that's watching 30:22 that is maybe on that line of trying 30:24 to figure out. 30:26 Do I accept Jesus or do I not? 30:27 If I accept Jesus, my life is going to have to change 30:31 and we're going to have to go from the dark for the light. 30:33 So any encouragement that you could give to them 30:35 because, you know, it's hard to make that stance. 30:38 You know, I was raised in a Christian home, 30:39 you know, but still there's choices 30:41 we have to make. 30:42 But I know someone I'm sure 30:43 is struggling going from dark into light. 30:45 Should I go? 30:46 Ugh? My whole life is going to change. 30:47 Well, you know, in thinking about that, 30:52 men love darkness rather than light 30:55 but if you are even contemplating this 31:00 coming out of darkness and into light. 31:03 That is the power of the Holy Spirit convicting you. 31:07 See, the purpose of the Holy Spirit 31:09 is to draw you out of darkness and into light. 31:12 That means that God in His infinite power 31:15 and mercy sees you and knows you personally 31:19 and is personally drawing you. 31:22 And standing at the doorpost of your heart and knocking. 31:27 All you have to do is open that door. 31:29 And you think, "Oh, I could never quit this 31:31 or I could never quit this." 31:32 Oh, yes, you can, 31:34 with the power of God at work in your life and helping you. 31:37 God is more interested, it concerns Him more, 31:40 He cares more that you will have an eternity 31:44 in His presence than you do. 31:46 God loves you. 31:47 He loves you so much, He gave His life for you. 31:50 The life of His only begotten Son 31:52 and now He's drawing you, 31:54 He's wooing you. 31:56 That's God working in your life. 31:57 All you have to do is just yield to that, 32:01 say yes to God and just watch the mighty, 32:04 the might change, 32:06 the revolution is going to happen in your life. 32:08 Amen. Amen. Well said, Mollie, yeah. 32:10 What an encouragement. 32:12 If you think about it, 32:13 just basically it's to surrender, isn't it? 32:15 Because, you know, I think humanly we at times worry, 32:17 "Oh, boy, let's see. 32:19 My friends will probably have to change. 32:21 What am I going to do on the weekends?" 32:24 You know, all that type of stuff 32:25 or just think they could be changed. 32:26 Absolutely. 32:28 But think about... 32:29 Remember before you met and you all may not 32:31 because you all may have become Christians 32:32 early in your life. 32:33 I was 26 years old 32:35 and I was like this basically good person, 32:37 I didn't smoke, drink, you know, 32:39 I've told Jill all this before. 32:41 And I was second grade Sunday school teacher. 32:44 So, you know, I will, but... 32:45 You were in church. 32:47 I was in church, but I hadn't even made Jesus Christ 32:50 the Lord of my life, 32:51 but when I made Jesus Christ the Lord of my life, 32:54 my whole life changed. 32:56 There was a working power within me 32:58 that hadn't been there before. 33:00 Things that were dull became bright. 33:03 And yeah, I lost some of my friends, 33:07 but all the new friends that I have gained. 33:08 Think what you've gained. That's right. 33:09 Look at what you've gained. 33:11 There always God before you... 33:12 Who can be against you? Nobody can be against you. 33:16 Amen. Powerful. 33:17 I'm thinking of Roman 12. 33:19 It talks about one of the verses in there 33:21 as much as lies in you. 33:23 "Live peaceably with all men." 33:26 And so how do we put those two concepts together. 33:30 We're talking about the courage to stand, 33:32 and making sure we stand as men and women of God. 33:37 And stand for principle and not compromise 33:40 as the opposite would be. 33:41 But in the midst of that, 33:42 I'm also supposed to as much as possible live at peace 33:46 with my brothers and sisters. 33:47 So if I'm to live at peace with my husband Greg, 33:50 that would indicate then 33:52 that there has to be some compromise, right? 33:55 It's not all my way or not all his way, 33:57 right, in a marriage. 33:59 You have some of that compromise. 34:00 So does that mean that compromise is always wrong? 34:06 So in other words, I can't start a riot 34:08 for one of my beliefs. 34:11 You know... 34:13 Live peaceably with all men. 34:14 Right, so does that mean there is a time for compromise. 34:17 And if so when would be the time for compromise? 34:21 Well, that's deep. 34:23 I think that when you are peaceably among men, 34:29 you have to make sure that you stand firm in your belief 34:34 but also recognize that God, 34:37 that Jesus Christ has given us the choice 34:40 on whether or not we choose to serve Him. 34:43 We do right by Him first. 34:46 And you know, if it involves us abstaining from something, 34:52 we don't have to push that on them. 34:54 If they choose to go at different direction 34:56 then that's their choice. 34:57 Yeah, that's true. 34:58 But by our example, 35:00 we can still live peacefully among them, 35:03 we just choose not to do something, 35:06 does that make sense? 35:07 Yeah, it does. 35:09 You know, 'cause I know we'll have persecution. 35:11 You know, because, you know, 35:12 Seventh-day Adventist Christians, 35:13 you know, we are standing on the Bible 35:15 and you know there's opposition. 35:16 You know, today, I think of Martin Luther. 35:18 When he nailed that to the door, 35:19 I don't think, Mollie, that he had an idea of 35:21 how that great reformation will come from that. 35:23 I don't think he did. 35:25 But you know, by one person taking a stand, 35:26 there was opposition that came to it. 35:30 Yeah, that's a great question actually. 35:31 How do you live peaceably with all men? 35:32 I don't think it was on purpose that he caused a big uproar, 35:35 it's just he took a stand and then the devil realized 35:37 that and he took his arrows and try to fight against it. 35:40 And don't you think, 35:42 I know Mollie is getting ready to say something. 35:43 Don't you think that the Bible says 35:44 as much as lieth in you, right? 35:46 So it doesn't say that... 35:47 Oh, I get your point. 35:49 You live peaceably all the time, right? 35:50 Because to me if you like the temperature 75 degrees 35:55 and I like it 78 or whatever, okay, that's a mood point. 35:58 That is not a biblical issue, okay? 36:00 So to me that we live peaceably, 36:02 that's a compromise. 36:04 76 degrees. 36:05 If it is... 36:06 Right, if it is a matter of principle... 36:08 Yeah, difference. 36:09 Something that's from the Word of God, 36:12 we are required to stand by what God says. 36:14 Yeah, absolutely. I'm sorry, Mollie. 36:16 See that was the only point I was going to make 36:17 was that depends on what you are compromising. 36:21 That's correct. 36:22 You never compromise the Word of God, 36:24 you never compromise truth, 36:25 you never compromise the integrity of your character 36:28 because that is again lowering your standard. 36:32 And there is a gentleman, it was Hacksaw Ridge, 36:34 I know his last name was Doss. 36:36 Desmond Doss. 36:37 Wow, I couldn't remember Desmond, 36:39 I don't know, okay, did he compromise? 36:42 No, he did not. 36:43 See in the face of all... 36:45 If you read this man's... 36:48 What he experienced with his fellow soldiers 36:51 and he's absolute, he would not compromise. 36:56 And because he didn't compromise, 36:59 look at how God honored him. 37:00 And that's one of the scriptures that I have. 37:02 Well, if you stand for God, He will reward you 37:05 and He will bless you. 37:06 So because Desmond Doss didn't compromise, 37:10 because he stood for truth, 37:12 then look at some of those soldiers 37:16 that had persecuted him. 37:19 He saved their lives by the power of God working, 37:23 you know, through him. 37:24 And so because of him not compromising, 37:27 now these men that had saw his stand, 37:32 do you know they got a whole introduction 37:35 to what a true Christian is. 37:36 Yeah, amen. What a testimony and witness. 37:39 Pastor CA? 37:41 Proverbs says, Proverbs 16, I think 7, 37:44 "When a man's ways pleases the Lord, 37:46 he causeth even his enemies to be at peace with him." 37:50 So your first obligation is to please God. 37:54 Amen. 37:56 The truth is because you pleased the Lord, 37:59 there are some who you will de facto displease, 38:05 for so persecuted they the prophets 38:07 which were before you. 38:09 So since your life is at enmity with the world, 38:13 there are some elements of the world 38:14 that will never be pleased with your life. 38:17 That you cannot do too much 38:20 about except continue to serve the Lord. 38:22 And when upfronted or confronted 38:26 to lead with Jesus. 38:29 But the truth is that righteousness 38:32 is a rebuke to unrighteousness. 38:35 So as you're living your life, 38:36 you're gonna come up to against people 38:39 who may not necessarily dislike you, 38:41 it's the righteousness that they see in you. 38:43 Your light shining kind of highlights their darkness. 38:46 So you have to lead with Jesus under the realization 38:50 that everybody is not going to be pleased 38:52 with what you do. 38:53 So your first obligation is to God and to live for God. 38:57 And to live as Christ asks you to live. 38:59 There will be some 39:01 who that light will actually shine on them 39:02 and make them want to come to that light. 39:04 But there were some like that spider 39:06 that would run from that light 39:09 and just fine light too much for them 39:11 to bear at that point in time. 39:12 And it's not the light's fault. No. 39:14 I mean, you know, it's a choice. It just exposes. 39:17 Jay, you were going to say something. Sorry. 39:19 Yeah, well, Pastor Murray definitely touched on that. 39:22 With the fact that light exposes darkness, 39:25 you know, sometimes having come out of the world, 39:29 I used to be in the world, 39:30 I left the church when I was 14. 39:32 I still had to go to church but I wasn't there 39:35 and not there for the right reasons. 39:38 But having come out of that and, you know, seeing friends 39:42 that I used to have when I was in the world, 39:45 and them seeing the difference not 39:48 because of anything that I have done 39:50 but because God's been working on me. 39:52 And the Holy Spirit is been working on my heart. 39:55 They feel uncomfortable using profanity. 39:58 They feel, you know, 40:00 it's because the light is exposing their darkness. 40:05 I mean, it's humbling, 40:07 you know, to see that, so that's... 40:10 You were willing to surrender, I mean, that's the key. 40:13 That's it. That is the key. 40:14 You know what, God was calling out for your heart 40:16 and you were willing to say, 40:17 "Yes, Lord, I want to follow You. 40:19 Yes, I want to stand for You." Amen. 40:23 Yeah, I like Jason too earlier you were mentioning about 40:25 it's how we stand too. 40:27 Because it seems like in this day and age 40:29 with all the social media and stuff, 40:30 people are trying to make statements. 40:32 You know, there's an obscure person 40:34 that we don't know, 40:35 all of a sudden becomes an internet sensation 40:37 because of something, maybe even evil 40:39 that they have done. 40:41 You know, and sometimes we understand 40:42 that they want to make a statement of some sort. 40:44 So, you know, even in religion, 40:46 you know, or some type of conviction that we have. 40:48 I think one of the most powerful things 40:50 is the way we live our life on a day-to-day basis. 40:54 And not look for the attention, and not look for any of that. 40:57 And I think as Christians, all of us can do that. 41:00 One thing that Satan seeks to do is divide and conquer. 41:02 Yes. 41:04 And, you know, as he's seeking to divide and conquer, 41:09 it can enter into the church as well. 41:10 Oh, he can. 41:12 You know, his thing is to be an accuser of the brethren, 41:15 you know, and we have to recognize 41:18 that we're not the Holy Spirit, 41:21 nor can we do the Holy Spirit's job. 41:24 We don't know men's heart or motives. 41:28 You know, the Bible says, "By their fruits, 41:29 you shall know them." 41:31 So in those instances, 41:33 like internet sensations and stuff like that, 41:35 it's like, "What are you trying to accomplish" 41:41 in that sense, you know. 41:43 "Are you trying to bring glory to God 41:45 or are you taking a Pharisee type approach." 41:51 Well, I think there's some people that are in our church, 41:52 you know, they've come in barely less than 41:53 maybe three have been radio watching 3ABN 41:55 and we know their testimony very well. 41:57 You know, they take a stance. 41:59 They are the only one in their family. 42:00 They believe that Saturday is the Sabbath. 42:02 And so they make a stance. 42:03 And maybe their family may not necessarily persecute them 42:06 but definitely don't agree with their stance. 42:09 And that has to be hard. 42:10 I don't know what that's like 42:12 because I grew up in the Seventh-day Adventist home. 42:13 But I know that making decisions like that... 42:16 I don't know. 42:18 It has to be hard but at the same time, 42:19 there's got to be great peace. 42:20 You know that, because you know 42:22 like you all have been talking about is truth. 42:24 We're falling where God is asking us to do in the Bible. 42:26 And you can't go wrong with that. 42:28 So there is peace with following God, 42:29 though maybe our family or friends 42:32 maybe persecute us in a certain sense. 42:36 Do you have something, Mollie? 42:38 Well, I just recalled when Hal and I 42:41 came out of darkness and into light, 42:43 you know, we didn't just make Jesus 42:46 the Lord of our life, we got born-again, born-again. 42:48 We were headed in this direction, 42:50 all of a sudden we were headed in this direction. 42:52 Well, as long as we were headed in this direction, 42:55 in the wrong direction, we were kind of rocking along 42:57 with lot of our friends, loved ones. 43:00 And they liked us, 43:02 you know, maybe they could say it would be good 43:05 if they quit doing some of this or doing some of this. 43:07 But then when we've made the... 43:10 Not just a little change 43:11 but the 100% change 43:13 started following the Lord Jesus Christ. 43:15 Then they were... 43:18 I don't know if it brought 43:19 conviction to their what, harder heart, 43:21 but then they thought 43:23 we were just going way overboard. 43:25 There is no need for us 43:26 to have to go down to Lakeland, Florida, 43:28 and go to college and be preachers. 43:30 We were going into the ministry. 43:31 Well, why do you have to do that? 43:33 You don't have to lead. 43:35 And they had all of these reasons 43:36 coming against us, telling us 43:38 why we shouldn't do what we were doing, 43:40 but we knew we have to be obedient to God. 43:43 Give our life to the Lord. 43:44 And I've told you all this earlier, 43:47 they said, "Leave them alone. 43:49 It'll pass over." 43:52 And Hal and I at the time would laughingly say, 43:54 "Yeah, all not only did pass over, 43:56 Passover is when we got born-again." 43:58 Not only did at Pentecost, 44:00 when you receive the infilling of the Holy Spirit, 44:02 but it's going to tabernacle as well. 44:04 We are serving God with all of our heart. 44:06 Amen. Amen. 44:08 You know, I think it is... 44:10 Can I say foolish to believe that your standing for the Lord 44:14 will not occasion some separation 44:16 between you and old friends and old habits? 44:17 Yes. 44:18 That's a default setting when you're coming into Christ 44:20 that there's going to be some separation 44:23 for those who're walking in the light 44:24 from those who are walking in darkness. 44:28 And that has to be... 44:30 And we are talking about how to keep standing. 44:35 The truth is you are what you eat. 44:37 It was years ago, Mike Warnke said, 44:39 "If you eat fat, greasy food, 44:41 you're going to be a fat greasy dude." 44:42 You know, you are what you eat. 44:45 So you've got to change your appetites. 44:48 You got to change the things that you consume. 44:51 If you want to stand, 44:52 you've got to get in the Word and then get the Word in you. 44:55 Yes. That's going to help you stand. 44:57 That will give you a fortification 45:00 that you will need to fight the assault of the devil. 45:03 You need to be able to say, "The Bible says this. 45:06 This is the Word. The Word says this." 45:08 The Word needs to be your weapon, 45:10 so that means you got to spend time in the Word. 45:13 My wife and I, Irma are convicted 45:15 because we go home, we have worship together. 45:17 And then we turn on news. 45:19 We don't watch a lot of television, 45:20 but we are kind of news junkies. 45:21 News and 3ABN, that's kind of all. 45:24 So we found our self... 45:25 It was getting to be a little too much news, too much CNN, 45:28 too much MSNBC, too much nightly news, 45:30 so we had to back off of that 45:32 because it's like news, news, news, news, news. 45:34 So we said, "Too much news, we need more Jesus." 45:37 So now we go home, we have worship. 45:39 And we wait, you know, we get little news whenever. 45:42 We don't get hour after hour after hour of news like we did. 45:46 So you are what you eat. 45:47 You got to eat the Word and get the Word in you 45:50 if you're going to live by the Word. 45:51 Amen. 45:52 You said that, Pastor, it reminded me of Ephesians 6. 45:55 Standing, you know, 45:57 Paul talks about the armor of God 45:58 we are to put on. 46:00 But it's interesting because he says, 46:01 "Finally, my brethren..." 46:02 I'm in verse 10, 46:04 "Be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. 46:06 Put on the whole armor of God." And why do we wear the armor? 46:09 "That we may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil, 46:14 for we do not wrestle against flesh and blood." 46:16 You were talking about the associations, 46:18 some of those people that naturally 46:20 you're going to have to disconnect from. 46:22 We don't wrestle against flesh and blood. 46:24 "But against principalities, and powers, 46:26 and the rulers of the kingdom of this age, 46:28 against spiritual hosts of wickedness 46:30 in the heavenly places. 46:31 Therefore take up the whole armor of God 46:34 that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, 46:37 and having done all, to stand." 46:40 So God calls us to do that. 46:42 And that is the Word of God 46:43 because "Your loins are girt about with the truth." 46:46 Right? And the breastplate of righteousness and all that. 46:49 Yes, Mollie? 46:50 Well, I have a story to tell of those college students. 46:55 I thought I would read this to you so like, 46:57 Greg said so I can get it right. 46:59 "In the early 1970s, 47:00 the Iraqi government arrested a group of American students 47:03 on trumped up espionage charges. 47:06 The Iraqis wanted confessions, 47:08 and to elicit the desired admissions of guilt, 47:11 they began torturing those students. 47:14 The prisoners were told that if they confessed, 47:17 they could go free. 47:18 "Compromise the truth." "Admit the falsehoods." 47:22 The promise of freedom became irresistible. 47:25 One by one, as the pressures and the pain mounted, 47:29 every prisoner confessed to crimes he didn't commit. 47:34 Every prisoner except one. 47:37 For this one man, the torture intensified. 47:40 The loneliness of isolation became unbearable. 47:43 He came close to breaking. 47:46 Recounted his friend in a story in the Wall Street Journal, 47:50 Mark Helprin writes, 47:52 "Then they announced 47:53 that they were finished with his case 47:57 that he could simply confess or die. 48:00 A confession lay before him. 48:03 And they raised a pistol to his head, 48:06 cocked the hammer, and started the countdown. 48:10 He had heard executions from his cell. 48:14 'Sign your name' he was told and 'you will leave.' 48:17 But he refused. 48:19 He closed his eyes, grimaced, and prepared to die. 48:23 They pulled the trigger. 48:25 When he heard the click, he thought he was dead. 48:29 The gun however had not been loaded. 48:32 He was eventually released. 48:34 He discovered afterwards that every other prisoner 48:39 who had confessed albeit to trumped up charges 48:43 was hanged in the public square. 48:46 Only he survived." 48:48 And the moral of the story: 48:50 Compromise represents a greater risk than courage. 48:55 As difficult as it is to stand for truth, 48:59 it is much harder to live 49:02 with the consequences of compromise." 49:04 Wow, boy, that's powerful. 49:06 You know, I think, Mollie, of the three Hebrews. 49:08 You know, I think it's in Daniel 3, 49:11 I think it is where they stood on the plain of Dura. 49:14 I think it was in, you know, everyone else bowed down 49:18 to the golden image but the three stood. 49:20 And they saw that furnace off in the distance, 49:25 puffing all the smoke hot, hot, hot. 49:27 And they're going to be thrown into that furnace. 49:29 And they were thrown in, but who walked with them? 49:32 Jesus. Amidst in the furnace. 49:33 Like into the Son of God. 49:35 And I will guarantee you that 49:36 they just didn't all of a sudden that morning say, 49:38 "You know what, 49:39 just get a relationship with Jesus." 49:41 These people had relationship with Jesus 49:42 for who knows maybe since they were young, 49:44 growing up in their parents' homes. 49:46 But the relationship with Jesus Christ, 49:48 studying the Word, 49:49 like you were saying, Pastor, being immersed in God's Word. 49:51 It's a conscious decision everyday to talk to the Lord, 49:57 study the Bible not just read it, 49:59 but make it part of us like pastor was saying, 50:02 "Basically, what you're eating is who you become for sure." 50:05 You know, and I want to say this very quickly 50:07 because we can paint sometimes an unrealistic rosy picture. 50:11 And the Bible is full of incidences 50:13 where people stood for the Lord and were delivered. 50:16 But the truth is that is not a guarantee. 50:19 That's right. There is ultimate deliverance. 50:21 But you may have to pay for your stance with your life. 50:23 And there are millions of people 50:25 who died in the coliseum, 50:27 millions of people who died, 50:29 50, 60, 70 million people who died 50:31 during the middle ages of dark. 50:32 It is ascendancy of the church, most of the reformers, 50:36 and we talked about Luther, but Wycliffe, Zwingli, Huss, 50:41 you know, the list is almost out without of people 50:45 who sealed their decision to stand with their lives. 50:48 Now the Bible says that 50:51 there is a great reward for them. 50:52 And we've got that promise in Hebrews 13, 50:54 right along verse 40, 41, 50:56 that they without us will not be made 50:58 whole will get the reward at the same time. 51:00 But there were those who did not make it. 51:03 On this side, the reward is coming, so, 51:06 because you stand, 51:08 does not mean that things will always go well. 51:10 It means that your name is written in the kingdom 51:12 that one day there is a great reward for you 51:15 when Christ comes back, you will get the reward. 51:17 But it may not necessarily be in this life, just now. 51:21 You know, that's well said, 51:23 I was thinking actually at verse in Hebrews 11 51:24 at the end of that faith, 51:26 you know, the faith chapter that talks 51:28 about those that were stoned, they were sawn asunder, 51:30 they were tempted, they were slain. 51:32 But it talks about obviously the ultimate reward 51:34 is when Christ returns. 51:36 Yeah. Yes, for sure. 51:37 Did I say 13, I meant 11. 51:38 Okay. I think I missed it. 51:40 I meant 11. 51:41 No, no, I trust you and your Bible knowledge, Pastor. 51:42 If he said 13, we figure it's true. 51:46 But we don't know 51:47 where you are today in your walk with God. 51:49 You might be saying, 51:50 "I'm in the kingdom of darkness. 51:52 And I'm not sure yet 51:53 if I want to make a decision for Jesus." 51:56 We want to encourage you. 51:58 That's the best choice you could ever make. 52:01 Make a choice, stand with Jesus. 52:03 And as we've been talking, it might end well. 52:06 It will end well eventually ultimately in heaven. 52:09 But here on this earth, we don't know 52:11 but we have peace and assurance and rest with Jesus. 52:15 And you can't beat that. There's nothing like that. 52:18 No, that's for sure. 52:19 What we want to do right now, 52:21 our one hour is gone by quickly. 52:23 We want to go to little bit of information, 52:25 and then we will come right back. |
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