Participants: Pastor Kenny Shelton (Host), Chris Shelton (Host), Mollie Steenson, C A Murray, Irma Murray
Series Code: TDYFW
Program Code: TDYFW016030A
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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 00:29 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 01:06 Hello, friends, and welcome to 3ABN's Family Worship. 01:10 I'm Chris Shelton along with my husband 01:12 Pastor Kenny Shelton. 01:14 And we have some wonderful 3ABN family members around us. 01:17 To my left is Pastor C.A 01:21 and his lovely wife Sister Irma. 01:23 Yes. 01:24 And to my right is Sister Mollie Steenson. 01:26 I know that they're no strangers to any of you, 01:30 and we're looking so forward to worship tonight with you. 01:33 Yes. 01:34 Tonight we're actually going to look at a prophet's voice 01:38 in our time, a prophet's voice in our time. 01:40 Yes. 01:41 But first we're going to sing a couple of songs 01:44 and on the piano we have Sister Marlene Howe 01:47 who will be playing for us. 01:48 Doesn't she do a wonderful job? Wow. 01:49 She does an awesome job. 01:51 We're thankful for her. 01:52 And we're going to start out with just a fun happy song 01:55 but it has a good message... 01:57 Yes it does. It has a hopeful message in it. 01:58 Yeah. 02:00 And I hope you'll sing along with us 02:01 'cause I know the words will be up on your screen. 02:03 "Soon and very soon", Sister Marlene. 02:19 Soon and very soon We're going to see the King! 02:25 I said, soon and very soon We're going to see the King! 02:32 Soon and very soon We're going to see the King! 02:37 Now Hallelujah! Hallelujah! 02:41 We're going to see the King! 02:45 Good news. 02:47 No more crying there We're going to see the King! 02:52 I said, no more crying there We're going to see the King! 02:59 No more crying there We're going to see the King! 03:04 Now Hallelujah! Hallelujah! 03:08 We're going to see the King! 03:12 Great news, now ready. 03:13 No more dying there We're going to see the king! 03:19 Amen. 03:20 No more dying there We're going to see the King! 03:27 No more dying there We're going to see the King! 03:32 Come on now. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! 03:36 We're going to see the King! 03:40 Praise the Lord. Amen. Amen. 03:42 Soon and very soon, 03:44 and I believe sooner than we can even fathom. 03:48 Awesome, and no more crying, no more dying, 03:50 no more sickness, no more worrying about, 03:53 well, which supplements have how much oil. 03:56 The Lord is going to fix it all. 03:58 It's all good. 04:00 Our prayers, those who are viewing 04:01 and watching and singing along with us, 04:03 they're preparing for the soon coming of Jesus 04:06 and we sing these songs, it makes you want to be ready. 04:08 Oh, yes. Yes. 04:10 And you know more 'cause there is so much crying, 04:11 and there is so much pain and heartache in the world, 04:13 we say it, 04:14 I've heard it ever since I can remember hearing, 04:16 you know, I hear the word come out 04:18 that these will soon pass away, and I'm thinking how wonderful, 04:21 how good, and that's something I've always hung on to, 04:23 so I pray that everybody is hanging on that promise. 04:25 Amen. 04:26 He's coming soon, and all these things will soon... 04:28 Sooner than very soon. Yes. 04:30 Sooner than very soon. We'll change it. 04:32 Heaven is real. Heaven is real. 04:33 Amen. 04:35 And while we're here on this earth 04:36 the blessings refreshes. 04:38 This song Sister Marlene that's playing, 04:40 she actually wrote the song, 04:42 and we're bringing it back as an encore, 04:44 who knows how many times we may sing it, 04:46 because this is the only song that we've ever sang, 04:49 that people are reminding and they will say 04:50 will you please send us the music. 04:52 Yes. 04:53 So we've been sending 04:55 I think we send it down to South America 04:58 and different places, 04:59 I don't remember very place now, 05:01 and I know some people wrote into 3ABN, 05:03 so that's exciting, it is exciting. 05:05 Almost everywhere you go that you bring this out, 05:07 people want the music... 05:08 People want it. 05:09 Because, I think it's simple, it's catchy and it's biblical. 05:12 And is, it is, and people sing it, 05:14 and they said, "Oh, we want to sing", 05:15 so praise God, worth playing for that song. 05:17 All right. "Blessings are refreshing." 05:30 Blessings are refreshing, 05:33 Along this pilgrim way 05:37 Blessings are refreshing, 05:41 They help us day by day God is our joy and comfort, 05:49 Such a mighty God is He! 05:52 God is he now Father, Son, and holy Ghost, 05:57 The three all live in me 06:01 Praise the Lord. 06:03 As we look back through our lives 06:07 We can plainly see 06:11 How that God has helped us through What? 06:15 Times of tragedies How He works is a mystery, 06:23 His wonders to perform 06:27 Day by day He leads the way, 06:31 From evening until morn... 06:35 Hallelujah. 06:37 Blessings are refreshing, 06:41 Along this pilgrim way 06:46 Blessings are refreshing, 06:49 They help us day by day 06:54 God is our joy and comfort, 06:57 Such a mighty God is He! 07:00 God is he now Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, 07:06 The three all live in me... 07:10 Amen. 07:12 Whatsoever things are lovely 07:16 Now, and whatsoever things are true... 07:19 What do we to do now? 07:20 Think on these, the Lord has said, 07:25 This is right for you and me 07:28 Well, the Bible tells us how to live our lives for Him 07:35 Each day Him each day now 07:37 The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost will bless us on our way... 07:44 That's a promise. 07:46 Get out the calculators. 07:47 We need to count our blessings... 07:50 Yes. 07:52 Each and every day 07:55 We'll find there are so many 07:59 He sends along the way 08:04 Friends and loved ones play a part 08:08 To make our lives complete 08:10 Life complete, oh bless the tie that binds is in... 08:15 What? 08:17 One big family... 08:20 Amen. 08:22 Blessings are refreshing... 08:26 Yes, they are. 08:27 Along this pilgrim way 08:31 Blessings are refreshing... 08:34 Yes. 08:35 They help us day by day Day by day 08:39 God is our joy and comfort, such a mighty God is He! 08:46 God is he now Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, 08:52 The three all live in me 08:58 Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, 09:02 The three all live in me 09:08 Hallelujah, praise the God. 09:13 Amen. Praise God. 09:15 Oh, I don't know how we'd be able to sing that again 09:18 without Pastor C.A and Irma, and Mollie and company, 09:21 that was beautiful. 09:22 Thank you. 09:23 I loved all the extra parts that was awesome. 09:27 A prophet's voice in our time. That's correct. 09:30 And we do need to pray. Yes. 09:32 You're right. 09:33 Let's go ahead and would you offer prayer for us, pastor? 09:34 Sure, yes, let's pray. 09:36 Merciful Father in heaven, we thank You 09:38 for the privilege of being part of the family of God, 09:40 and we thank You for loving us, 09:42 we thank You for Your longsuffering, Your grace. 09:45 Today we plea for the power thy Holy Spirit. 09:48 Lord, we reach out in the name of Jesus 09:50 for all of the 3ABN people who are watching, 09:53 those who are listening, 09:54 we pray hearts and minds will be open to receive 09:57 as we are, we're having fellowship together, 09:59 we're breaking the bread of life together, 10:01 oh, how we need the spirit of the living God 10:04 to speak to our hearts and life, 10:05 make it fresh, make it exciting. 10:07 Amen. 10:08 Make it something that we can look and say, 10:10 oh, it's attainable through Jesus Christ, 10:12 our Lord and our Savior. 10:13 Bless we pray each and every one, 10:16 bless every home, every member, every need. 10:19 Bless us around this table we pray. 10:21 Angels will love to gather around 10:23 as we worship here together. 10:25 We're going to thank you. 10:26 We're going to praise you 10:28 because we know you are here with your representative, 10:30 the Holy Spirit in Jesus' name. 10:32 Amen. Amen. 10:35 I believe if we ever needed a prophetic voice, 10:38 it is in our day. 10:39 In this time. Amen. 10:40 In this time. Yes, absolutely. 10:42 You know, this world you think back just even in 2016, 10:46 I don't want to date the program 10:48 because it may play again later, 10:50 but you know, even if you're in 2018 10:52 and you're watching this, you can think back to 2016. 10:54 That's right. 10:55 We had a lot of new things that happened, 10:57 think of the Zika virus, that is coming on the scene 11:01 that is attacking the mice and these poor little babies. 11:04 Oh. 11:06 You know, what kind of life that they're going to have. 11:08 We have terrorists, 11:10 people are concerned even here in the United States, 11:13 because we never know, 11:14 you might just be shopping in Walmart or in a mall, 11:17 we don't really understand, but ISIS has, 11:20 has somehow touched the minds and hearts of people 11:24 all over the world and they gain their sympathy. 11:27 And so you've got all these hidden cells. 11:29 And you know just recently or if you think back, 11:33 let's think back Martin Luther back in 1517 on October, what? 11:37 Thirty first. 11:39 October 31st, 11:40 he posted his 95 theses out of love 11:44 for the truth to start a conversation, 11:47 and he thought that the church would love it. 11:50 And yet now in 2016 we saw where Pope Francis, 11:54 and I'm going to look here 11:56 because I may not be able to pronounce this word, 11:59 this name correctly, 12:01 Bishop Munib Youhan or Younan maybe, 12:05 they signed an agreement. 12:07 On October 31st 499 years later and when you read about it, 12:13 they're calling that 95 theses 12:15 that Martin Luther had put up there, 12:17 they're calling it heretic... 12:20 Like a heretic. 12:22 Yes, a heresy, 12:23 saying that it was wrong and it divided the church 12:26 and you see when you begin to read some of these articles 12:29 that when they did this, 12:31 they're actually flip-flopping some of the history 12:33 that we have learned over the years 12:36 rather than the Christian church, 12:39 the Protestants being persecuted, 12:42 it looks as though we were persecuting 12:43 the Catholic Church. 12:45 Well, have mercy. 12:46 So it's interesting how truth is becoming error in our day, 12:49 and error is becoming truth. 12:50 There are so many things and you look back over 2016, 12:54 the presidential election, 12:56 the rhetoric coming from the presidential election 13:00 like we have never seen before. 13:03 Of course it's coming on the heels of even in 2015 13:08 where the Supreme Court passed moral legislation 13:11 basically against God's law. 13:13 And so if we ever needed a prophetic voice, 13:17 it's today because people are confused. 13:20 Yeah. 13:21 And they are confused even when it comes to religion, 13:25 you have... 13:27 I mean, you can get online and just look up a prophet, 13:31 you've got doctor saying that they're prophets, 13:34 there are people over in Africa, 13:36 in fact I mean there are lot of supernatural things 13:40 where people and supposedly have recorded angels 13:44 that have come into these gatherings, 13:46 so we need to understand yes, we needed a prophetic voice 13:49 but how do we know it's a voice of God? 13:51 It sounds like it, it looks like it, boy, 13:53 they're doing all kinds of wonderful things 13:55 so we're living in a time of a supreme moral decay... 13:59 Yes. 14:01 As a nation I believe we've lost our moral compass, 14:04 so is there any help? 14:06 I know that's kind of throwing it out, 14:07 I just kind of want it to set it up, 14:09 and see where we go from here, 14:11 because I know that the Lord's been speaking 14:12 to each and everyone of your hearts 14:14 as you study this and as you look at it, 14:16 because God's given us promises. 14:18 He's given us promises that we will have prophets, 14:21 people will be dreaming dreams in the last days, 14:24 but as Pastor Kenny said 14:26 when will that spirit be poured out, 14:28 so Pastor Kenny, 14:30 I think you want to start with that first paragraph 14:32 and share a little bit. 14:33 Yeah, I think, I think we just should read this first 14:35 and we have, I think it applies for right now. 14:38 You read it and because you go to the Old Testament 14:40 people say, "Oh, that's Old Testament stuff, 14:42 you know, we don't have to worry about that." 14:44 But when you read this you also, you can go to, 14:46 you know, Acts 2, so you just find fulfillment, 14:49 and the fulfillment of this verse, 14:51 I believe it's in our day, 14:53 there are signs that have taken place 14:55 or things that we can relate to, to realize 14:57 that the spirit of the living God 14:58 is speaking to his last day people... 15:01 Yeah, through prophet, he can do that, 15:03 and it's a gift that we need. 15:05 The Bible says as Joel 2:28 says, 15:07 "It shall come to pass afterward, 15:09 that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh, 15:13 and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, 15:16 your old men shall dream dreams, 15:17 and your young men shall see visions." 15:21 Automatically, Sister Mollie, sometimes this scares people. 15:24 When you, anytime you talk about a prophet 15:27 because of all the, may I say shenanigans? 15:30 There has been so much that has been heretical. 15:33 Yes. 15:34 That it makes people then very leery when the truth is, 15:37 it comes along. 15:38 That's true. Yeah. 15:41 I think it also, it's been for now for sometime 15:46 especially in the evangelical world, 15:49 that everybody becomes a prophet, you know, 15:54 in their speeches all the time as an you know, 15:57 the Lord has gave me a prophecy and we're all prophets. 16:02 In some ways it is true that we are, you know, 16:07 to talk about what the prophetic gift 16:13 is a special gift that God has given, 16:16 and like you said, we must be sure that really 16:20 what is coming to us and it's from the Lord. 16:25 Amen. 16:26 Well, we truly have been warned. 16:28 Yes. 16:30 We've been warned in Revelation that there will be these things 16:32 that are happen, that we're drunk with the wine 16:34 and the wrath of her fornication. 16:36 As a nation, as a church, people don't realize it 16:40 but as a church we are drunk with spiritual confusion, 16:46 we don't know, so how do we discern? 16:48 Is there a prophetic voice? 16:50 Is there something? 16:51 Is there hope in a hopeless situation? 16:54 And unfortunately 16:56 because the enemy we're also told 16:58 that he's going to do miraculous things, 17:00 even cause fire come down from heaven, 17:03 so there are more than one spirit 17:04 that is working in this world, 17:06 so the Bible does it talk about that, 17:09 does it not say try the spirits to see whether they're of God. 17:13 So then there must be a prophetic voice 17:17 that we can try the spirits by. 17:19 Now Pastor, there is a little discussion we can all do here 17:22 but as we read that in Joel 2, 17:25 and then we know we can go to Acts 2, 17:28 we'd read verses 16, 17, 18, 19, we realize, you know, 17:32 the parallel but we... 17:33 I believe as we study scripture and prophecy, 17:36 we can understand the prediction 17:38 that we read here is being fulfilled. 17:40 There is a time frame that most people think 17:43 well, that's times past, 17:44 if you've seen that they want to say, 17:46 well, that was times past, 17:47 but we see it that this is for what? 17:49 At the end of time that the prophecy will be fulfilled 17:53 and then God gave us a lot of signs if we remember. 17:56 These are some of the signs that you, 17:57 and when you study too that you've looked at 18:00 because he said there will be signs in the sun, 18:02 and in the moon, and in the stars, 18:04 there is three, there is actually the fourth one 18:06 because when you can look in 1840, 18:09 the fall of the Ottoman Empire, 18:10 so it's after the end, 18:11 it's after the 1,260 days of persecution 18:15 you know, they said then these things will begin to happen, 18:18 so God was just, was He not just opening up the mat for us 18:21 to so that we could be sure 18:23 that this is the prophecy of the Bible. 18:24 Amen. 18:26 You know, there are true prophetic voices. 18:27 Yes. 18:28 And then I think everyone is given in these last days, 18:31 all of us will be given, 18:33 and I think Joel speaks to this, 18:34 a level of instruction from God. 18:37 Yes. 18:39 When you talk about a prophet, 18:41 there are one, two, three, four tests of prophet, 18:43 three come to mind right away, 18:44 I've been struggling to find the fourth one Jeremiah 28:9, 18:47 if a person makes a prophecy 18:49 it has to come to pass 100 percent of the time, 18:52 not 50 percent, not 75 percent, not hit and miss. 18:54 If a person is giving a word from God, 18:57 it's going to be accurate and true 18:59 all the time 100 percent. 19:01 By their fruits you shall know them. 19:03 If I talk one way and live another, 19:05 then I'm not a voice of God, Matthew 7:20, 19:07 so you've got to examine the life of a person, 19:10 it's got to align up with the life of Jesus Christ. 19:11 John, 1 John 4:2, 19:13 the person has got to confess in Jesus, 19:15 he got to believe in Jesus, 19:17 so if they're trying to take you some place else 19:19 or move you in another direction, 19:21 then they're not coming from God. 19:22 Amos 3:7, Surely the Lord will do nothing, 19:26 except He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets. 19:28 So we know that in the last days 19:31 God is going to speak and is speaking 19:32 that will to continue to speak to guide us through 19:35 because the Lord is not trying to sneak in anything on us, 19:38 you know, God's trying to let us know, 19:39 Christ is coming soon so he wants everybody know, 19:42 he wants everyone to be prepared for that, 19:44 so he's not trying to slip something in on us, 19:46 so there will be prophetic voices, 19:48 voices who speak a word for the Lord, 19:50 we've got to test them by these things. 19:52 Mostly they've got to, 19:54 even the Holy Spirit doesn't speak of himself, 19:55 he glorifies Christ. 19:57 So if someone comes and they're taking glory to themselves. 20:00 And you really go to watch, you got to listen closely, 20:03 you know, you got to listen closely 20:04 because if they're glorifying self 20:07 or they're moving you away from the landmarks 20:09 or they've got new life 20:11 before they try to take you to another direction, 20:12 you've got to test them by this book. 20:14 That's right. 20:15 And if they come from God, 20:17 they're going to agree with this book. 20:18 So you can't get away from this book. 20:19 Well, let's go. Oh, go ahead. 20:21 And I'm thinking that right now 20:22 that the Bible also give us even physical guidelines 20:28 and to prove that if you're truly a prophet, 20:33 and that's how Sister White, you know, 20:36 Ellen White has been proven that she was a prophet, 20:41 and because she has fulfilled everything 20:44 from the spiritual to physical with the Bible guidelines. 20:50 That's true. 20:52 The definition of a prophet, 20:53 now what Sister White says is that, I'm the lesser light, 20:57 that's how she defined herself. 20:59 Definition of a prophet 21:01 one that is appointed by God Himself 21:03 to be a messenger for Him, 21:05 and I was going to read Ephesians 4:11-13. 21:08 Yes. 21:09 So where do prophets, who appoints prophets? 21:12 You don't just wake up one day and say, you know what? 21:15 I believe I will be a prophet. 21:17 Yeah. That's not how it happens. 21:19 In Ephesians 4:11-13, 21:21 "So Christ Himself gave the apostles, the prophets, 21:27 the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, 21:29 that five-fold ministry that is in the church, 21:31 effectively in the church today." 21:33 Why? Verse 12. 21:35 "To equip his people for works of service 21:39 so that the body of Christ may be built up." 21:41 Amen. 21:42 So does the body of Christ still need to be built up? 21:45 Absolutely. 21:46 Then this five-fold ministry, 21:49 these offices are still in effect today. 21:52 Verse 13, "Until we all reach unity in the faith, 21:56 " and we're not there. 21:57 "And in the knowledge of the Son of God, 21:59 and become mature, which we're not, 22:02 attaining to the whole nature of the fullness of Christ." 22:05 So if Christ Himself gave the apostle, 22:09 prophet, evangelist, pastor, and teacher 22:11 and we're talking about the prophet today. 22:13 He gave it for the perfecting of the saints 22:15 till we all mature. 22:17 What that means if we're not mature, 22:19 then these offices, there are still apostles, 22:22 prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers at work 22:25 appointed of God in the church today. 22:28 We just need to recognize, 22:29 and my concern is that 22:31 they could be sitting right there in church. 22:33 Amen. 22:34 And full of God's Holy Spirit 22:36 ready to let that blessing from God pour into our church, 22:40 but we're not receiving them. 22:42 You know, He says, He gave some apostles, 22:44 some prophets, why? 22:46 Because He gave them to some people 22:48 'cause some people won't receive them. 22:50 Well, I want to the one of the ones that receive it. 22:51 Amen. 22:52 And I think Mollie's point is so important 22:54 and that is the difference between the prophetic gift 22:57 and the pastoral gift. 22:58 They're both given by God, 23:00 but the pastoral gift is confirmed by man. 23:02 In other words, you don't get to stand up for my church, 23:04 unless someone has said, he's got the gift, 23:06 his sound, his doctrine 23:08 and but the prophet gift come directly from God. 23:10 Yeah. 23:11 So you must be even more careful, 23:15 dare I use that term in receiving the prophetic gift 23:17 because he's not confirmed by men, 23:18 he gets this directly from God. 23:20 Amen. 23:21 And when you listen to it, 23:22 you got to make sure it's coming from God 23:24 because it's not going through any filter, 23:25 it's not going through any committees, 23:26 not going through any conference, 23:28 it's coming straight from God. 23:29 So you've go to be very careful 23:30 because it allows for some slipping in of error, 23:34 if because a person is not confirmed by men, 23:37 it's coming straight from God, 23:38 so you got to listen very careful, 23:39 which presupposes 23:41 and then I'll stop, that you know your word. 23:44 You know, you've got to test everybody, 23:46 Pastor Kenny, Pastor C.A, Pastor John, 23:48 pastor everybody by the word. 23:50 And the prophetic gift must be tested by the word 23:53 which means you got to know the word, 23:54 so that you don't get fool. 23:56 Amen. 23:57 That's exactly what I wanted to go next, 23:59 because really the Bible is a prophetic voice in our time. 24:02 The problem is people don't know the word. 24:05 They're not studying the word. 24:07 They feel like it's out of date, 24:09 it's out of touch, it doesn't fit our society. 24:12 And sometime because they don't, 24:13 as pastor said it they don't know 24:15 the scripture number one. 24:16 Right. 24:18 And the first thing we would throw, 24:19 I want to throw in the pot, 24:20 you throw in the pot is Isaiah 8:20. 24:22 Come on. 24:23 Isaiah, "To the law and to the testimony, 24:25 they speak not according to this word 24:26 because there is no light in them." 24:28 Light in them, that's what I can think of. 24:29 Yeah, that's the one. Yes. 24:30 But I mean, to me that's just a supreme test. 24:33 There is no light, don't say, 24:35 well, there is 90 percent and that's fine. 24:36 It said there is no light, so you rule it out. 24:38 Yeah. 24:40 That's how, you know, you test them 24:41 and then you mentioned while ago about, 24:43 God says, before these things come to pass, 24:47 was Isaiah 42, I'll show them. 24:49 I will show them, yes. 24:50 He doesn't want us to be fooled, 24:51 he doesn't want us to be, well, somebody let us astray, 24:54 he doesn't want that, so before it happens, 24:56 I'm going to show you, I'm going to tell you. 24:58 Though he does that and praise God for that, all right. 25:01 We're going back to what you just said, 25:02 that was a text that I was going to finish too, 25:05 because that is a keynote. 25:07 Yes. 25:08 And God is the same yesterday, today and forever, 25:11 we're told that in Hebrews 13:8. 25:13 And the interesting thing is a lot of these people 25:16 that are claiming to be prophets, 25:17 are claiming to have new light. 25:20 And we are warned 25:22 there will not be new light, why? 25:23 Number one, God is the same yesterday, 25:25 today, He changes not, 25:27 He's given us everything 25:29 in the word of God that will sustain us, 25:31 and that is there for our salvation. 25:34 Everything, he changes, 25:35 so by coming in if a prophet comes in 25:39 and says for example, you know, 25:42 we have rethought the Sabbath day, 25:44 it's no longer the seventh day. 25:46 Where it is the first day it was changed, 25:49 then you know right there is a red mark, 25:51 because throughout scripture 25:52 even to the very end 25:54 of the scriptures in Revelation, 25:57 you know, he has identifying marks, 25:59 I love these two identifying marks of God's remnant church. 26:03 Number one, Revelation what is it? 26:05 12:17, let's see, I may have it written here. 26:08 Yes, 26:10 "The dragon was wroth 26:11 with the woman which is the church, 26:12 and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, 26:15 which keep the commandments of God, 26:17 and have the testimony of Jesus Christ." 26:20 It said, testimony we're talking about, 26:22 how do we know? Yeah. 26:23 Revelation 19:10, who wants to read that? 26:26 Revelation 19:10, it says, and I fell... 26:28 Go ahead you know it. 26:30 Fell at his feet. Yeah, 26:31 fell at his feet for the worship, 26:33 to worship him and then he said do it not. 26:34 Not for I'm thy fellow... 26:35 Servant. Fellow servant. 26:37 Who worship God. 26:39 And then we get into the back end 26:40 which is the testimony of Jesus, 26:41 is the Spirit of Prophecy. Yeah, 26:43 it says for the testimony of Jesus. 26:45 We're working together. 26:46 That's right. It's the Spirit of Prophecy. 26:47 I just got to the punchline. 26:49 I like that. 26:50 But that's so important because we're letting the Bible 26:53 interpret itself and so it begins to tell us, 26:56 okay, well, these are some of the identifying marks 26:59 so if they're saying something that goes 27:01 against scripture, 27:02 all of a sudden I know that that's not the right spirit. 27:05 No matter how good they sound, 27:06 no matter how much they're praising, 27:08 no matter how much they're calling 27:10 on the name of Jesus. 27:12 See in today's world, 27:14 when you've got so much internet, 27:16 so much television... Yes. 27:17 And you know, it's easy for a person 27:19 to infect the world with his doctrine, 27:22 I mean you get to inject 27:23 your poison directly into the veins 27:25 of the people who are watching on the television, 27:27 or got that computer on, 27:29 so you've got to filter this stuff through the word of God, 27:31 because there is so much access now 27:34 with the electronics and with all of the technology 27:37 that we have. 27:38 It's been said many times that oh, you know, 27:42 why do we need all these prophecies 27:44 because when you study prophecies it can be confusing, 27:47 it can be hard to understand, 27:50 because it's all of these symbols and you know that, 27:53 but we need to know the prtheophecies 27:55 because the enemy has the power 28:00 to put in our minds and he make us even feel, 28:04 the spirit is infilling and so we have to be just so careful 28:10 and so it's studying and understanding, 28:14 the prophecies are very important, 28:17 'cause when we look at the history 28:20 and where we are the things have been develop... 28:24 they are developing. 28:26 I was listening and actually 28:29 my brother-in-law has sent me a statement 28:32 that has come from the Catholic Church. 28:35 They are uniting all the evangelicals 28:38 because he says and in the 500 years 28:42 of thee reform is going to be the end 28:45 of the reform and the only one 28:49 they are protesting, the Protestant, 28:52 so Adventists are going to be the only ones 28:54 left as a protestor, 28:56 all the other religions are going to come 29:00 in line with a Catholic Church 29:03 and that's been prophesied and it will be fulfilled. 29:08 And it's about to happen apparently. 29:10 Yes, it's happening. 29:11 That's what we just referred to with the signing 29:14 with the Lutheran church of all things. 29:15 Yes. 29:16 And it wasn't an accident 29:18 that they signed that on October 31st 29:19 because they were, 29:21 they were showing this is wrong and we're going forward, 29:23 we're going to erase the past. 29:26 And yet it was the past that brought us into the future 29:29 that brought us new light, 29:31 and we still need to hold on to that, 29:34 and the interesting, I know Pastor Kenny 29:35 was referring to the prophecy, there is only one church. 29:40 We went to Revelation to those two identifying marks, 29:43 says only one church at the end of the prophecy, 29:45 you're talking about the end of the prophecy, 29:47 he was talking about that fits 29:49 those two identifying marks that they keep 29:51 all the commandments of Jesus Christ, 29:54 all ten and they had the Spirit of Prophecy. 29:58 Only one and that's the Adventist church, 30:00 the Seventh-day Adventist movement. 30:03 And so, we have been given an awesome gift 30:07 and it's not a gift that came in 30:09 and change the scriptures 30:11 but it's a gift that came in to help us get ready 30:13 and to line up with scriptures. 30:16 It was that lesser light that continues to lead us 30:19 to the greater light of the word of God. 30:21 You know, someone asked me years ago, 30:24 I was doing a meeting and said, 30:25 do I have to become a Seventh-day Adventist? 30:28 And I said, no, you know, 30:30 what you have to do is find the church 30:32 that keeps all of God's commandments. 30:34 There you go. That's it. 30:35 That's it. 30:37 Now when you find that church, 30:39 look at the name and you join that church. 30:42 Now I'm in this church, 30:43 'cause I think that name fits that pattern. 30:45 Amen. 30:46 But your job is to find a church 30:48 that teaches as much truth as they can possibly be. 30:50 And that's only one side. 30:51 And that's the door you walk in. 30:53 You got to get two, got to get both of them 30:54 because there are some other Seventh-day churches 30:56 but they don't have the second sign, 30:58 they don't have the testimony of Jesus 31:00 which is the Spirit of Prophecy. 31:02 And they don't... 31:03 It is not that the Sabbath is not kept as the Bible says. 31:06 Right. 31:07 It's, you go to church in the morning, 31:10 but then the rest of the day you do whatever you please. 31:13 Oh, yeah. 31:14 So as long as you, you know, 31:15 keep that worship on the Sabbath morning. 31:19 Yeah 'cause Pastor C.A kind of opened it up a little bit 31:22 when you think about, 31:24 if you're looking for the true church, 31:26 and I'll say this not 'cause a lot of people 31:28 who don't understand so on but many people do. 31:30 If you're looking for the real true church of God, 31:33 you go out on Saturday and you start looking. 31:36 You don't look on any other day, 31:38 you just don't do it. 31:39 If you're looking for 31:41 because remember it keep all the commandments 31:43 that's including the fourth, so if you're trying to find 31:45 God's real last day remnant church, 31:47 you begin looking for the Sabbath keepers, 31:49 that's where it really starts 31:51 and that's certainly biblically strong 31:53 and hopefully in the nice way, bless your little hearts, 31:56 somebody may be little jumping up down screen, 31:57 but that's okay, you'll get over. 31:59 But you know, we are to and this is a nice way, 32:02 agitate, agitate, agitate these last day truths. 32:06 That's simply means you just keep bringing them up, 32:08 you keep talking about it. 32:09 And some of you who do this work 32:11 in teaching and pastoring, 32:13 you realize sometime you have to bring 32:15 that point over and over and over, 32:17 and all of a sudden it hits someday to somebody, 32:20 so this, this is part of the message we're talking about 32:22 here in these last days, that God has a people 32:26 and there is things in the word of God 32:28 that we have to line up with. 32:29 I think everybody's made that little clear. 32:30 Let me ask Mollie a question, then we can talk about more, 32:33 because I think about because I hear up again 32:35 you mentioned everybody new light, 32:37 this is something that confuses a lot in Adventism. 32:40 Yes. 32:41 There's new light, there's new light, 32:43 but how can new light, when new light, 32:45 they say new light comes, 32:46 can it really be old light that's been covered up? 32:51 It's kind of a, it's not a trick you know, 32:53 trick question but lot of times... 32:55 How does that become new to somebody old light, 32:58 it's always been, truth has always been, right? 33:00 It's always been, 33:01 and then 30 years later somebody comes up to you 33:03 who has been in the church and they say, 33:05 I have got new light. 33:06 And you say, you know what? 33:08 They were teaching that 30 years ago. 33:10 Oh! It's old light. 33:11 Yes, now we're getting it. 33:13 We are to be established in present truth. 33:16 Amen. 33:17 But if you've never heard that truth... 33:19 It's new. 33:20 Even though maybe I or maybe I received it 30 years ago 33:24 or even longer, 33:26 and you're just now hearing it 33:29 that is present truth that's new. 33:30 That's right. 33:32 And it is new light to them, isn't it? 33:34 It's always been there, so that's always been good. 33:36 We have to be careful how we do it, 33:39 because I know somebody come out to me and they'll say, 33:40 well, may be righteous by faith or whatever, 33:42 and you think maybe you've learned little bit about it 33:44 and they'll say, 33:46 now if you've studied this the way I've studied it, 33:48 or if you ever would read this stuff, 33:50 you're thinking you read it 30 or 40 years ago, you know, 33:53 it's okay, but you know I like the excitement 33:55 because it's new to them, they found it, 33:57 it is new light, 33:58 but it's actually it's old light. 34:00 Yes. 34:01 And for me the exciting thing is that when you, 34:05 you have known a truth in the Bible, 34:08 then Lord never leaves you there. 34:10 It's none your truth, 34:12 but it's deeper understating of that truth. 34:15 Amen. There you go. 34:17 And once you, you should never stay on understanding like... 34:22 Good point. 34:23 Let's say that, you know, 34:24 I understand that the Sabbath is this Sabbath day, 34:27 and that's equal to a Sabbath. 34:29 But we need to go in 34:32 with the invitation of the Holy Spirit 34:35 to show you more about that Sabbath, 34:38 and it's proven then when we read a verse 34:41 and study something. 34:43 And like Mollie said, may be 30 years ago, you know, 34:47 is that have been past 30 years, 34:50 but it could be 10 years. 34:51 And then all of a sudden that is same truth... 34:56 Yes. 34:58 That you read again, it becomes much brighter, 35:02 I look at it as much brighter, 35:04 you find that a word that you read before you understood it, 35:10 but then all of a sudden... 35:12 Come on now. 35:13 Wow, that word has a bigger meaning... 35:15 That's right, yeah. Yes. 35:16 So it's not new light. 35:18 Sometimes we want to go so deep 35:24 that we got to extract something so deep 35:27 and then we go in the deep end, you know, and get out of line, 35:34 because you got to be humble to the Lord 35:37 and you have to teachable. 35:39 Let the Lord really impress you 35:43 and teach you the deepness of that mean, 35:48 you know, that truth 35:49 so we don't go in the wrong direction. 35:51 Something I've noticed too just of late 35:56 is that sometimes 35:57 Satan just recycles heresy in the church... 36:01 Yes, he does. He does. 36:02 Of light in the last few years. 36:05 Someone, you know, they came to us and said, 36:08 can you believe that there are people 36:11 that are now believing 36:13 that even Satan and his cohorts are going to be saved, 36:16 called total, total reconciliation 36:19 and Hal and I said, they went through the church, 36:21 the church that we've, 30 years ago 36:24 we called them total rest, you know, total rest. 36:29 So not only do we does present truth 36:34 that God recycles it for those 36:37 who haven't come into the knowledge of it, 36:39 but Satan will also try to use his error and recycle that... 36:44 Oh, always. 36:45 So we have to be established in God's word. 36:48 Established, that's true, very good. 36:49 I think it's awesome 36:50 because like Pastor C.A pointed out 36:52 and I mention too, 36:54 we're just bombarded with information. 36:57 And people are so confused, they're so drunk, 37:00 it's exactly what the Bible says, 37:03 they are so drunk, 37:04 so confused by all of these different teachings 37:07 and even some of these supernatural experiences 37:10 that they're having, they don't know what truth is, 37:12 and how appropriate it is that Jesus always says, 37:16 be not deceived, be not deceived. 37:17 Come on, now. 37:19 Be not deceived to the law, to the testament. 37:21 Coming back, he always is bringing us back 37:23 and I love how you pointed out, he's always repeating 37:26 because we needed and just how important is it. 37:31 The Bible teaches us that we are to worship Him 37:34 in spirit and in truth. 37:36 There is a lot of spiritism going on out there. 37:38 You bet with that one, yeah. 37:40 But at the end they would rather have the spirit 37:42 because that spirit feels good, the spirit looks good. 37:47 I mean, I've talked, I've read, 37:49 I've had a lot of friends and it's hard to pull away, 37:53 it's like a person that is hooked on cigarettes 37:57 or hooked on alcohol, 37:58 because it takes a hold of all their system. 38:01 And they don't want to let that feeling go. 38:03 That's right. 38:04 I remember years ago back when I was in college, 38:08 a man was giving his testimony 38:09 and he said every time the spirit would come, 38:11 hold up him, 38:13 he'd always feel like coming from the bottom up to the top, 38:17 that was just how he did, that mean everybody does, 38:19 I have no clue. 38:20 But he always felt it start like at his feet and come up, 38:23 and finally one day 38:24 because he was beginning to see things in scripture 38:27 that didn't fit his church, 38:29 and he finally begin to pray and prayer is so important. 38:32 Yes. 38:33 A contrite of heart is vital 'cause God is there, 38:37 He is listening and He is willing to answer your prayer. 38:39 Amen, it's good. 38:40 And he said, God, as he began to feel this come into. 38:43 He said if this is not from you, then take it away, 38:48 gone just like that. 38:49 Just like that it was gone. 38:52 We're to worship in spirit 38:54 and into just like those two identifying marks, 38:56 two identifying marks of our worship 38:59 and whether or not we're going to believe a prophet. 39:01 Did Jesus believe in prophets? 39:04 Absolutely, that those are His mouth piece, 39:06 it's because of Him that we have prophets. 39:08 What was He on that, on the road to Emmaus, 39:11 you know, and He began to expound 39:13 and talk to those and what did He do? 39:14 He want to go to the very beginning. 39:16 Yes. 39:17 And He said, He started what, at Moses and all the prophets. 39:21 Yes. 39:22 Jesus Himself said, He began in all of the prophets 39:25 because His prophets are always speaking what is truth. 39:28 The other ones will expose themselves 39:30 because they'll put little bit of err in there, 39:33 little dab of err here and there, 39:34 if you know the word of God which has been brought out 39:37 wonderfully here to be exposed. 39:39 I'm glad that you brought in that verse, 39:42 that then spirit and in truth. 39:46 Some, many years back a good friend of mine, 39:51 we were discussing some Bible passage 39:57 and she said, she didn't realize 40:00 that everything has to be in spirit and in truth. 40:05 And I never, it never struck me so clearly as then 40:10 and it's always been my, with me that do I... 40:17 Is my life in spirit and in truth, 40:20 if what I say is in spirit and in truth 40:22 because that is so to me, it seems very vital, 40:26 because we can go one way and another. 40:29 We can think that we are doing all the right things, 40:31 or saying all the right things, 40:33 but if it's not in the spirit and in truth, 40:36 it's just coming from you, 40:38 it's coming from a prideful spirit, 40:42 you know, prideful humanity and desires to look better, 40:47 or to sound better 40:49 and so it's applying to what we are talking about 40:54 also on the teachings of God and teaching... 40:59 If the Lord give us an understanding, 41:02 it's not for us to, oh, the Lord, 41:04 I'm prophesying because the Lord told me reason, 41:08 that's not the spirit whereby it doesn't explain, 41:13 or doesn't reveal what God really wants us to understand. 41:17 Yes. 41:18 We don't want to confuse the gift of prophecy 41:21 with the office of the prophet, two entirely different things. 41:24 And with the gift of prophecy 41:26 maybe there is some forthtelling 41:28 but with the office of the prophet, 41:30 when that prophet speaks, 41:32 in 2 Chronicles 24:18-19 it talks about, 41:36 the prophet and why they would speak and it says, 41:39 "Therefore they left the house of the Lord God 41:41 of their fathers, 41:43 and served wooden images and idols, 41:45 and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem 41:48 because of their trespass." 41:50 Remember when all of this was going on in the kingdoms. 41:53 Verse 19 says, "Yet He sent prophets, 41:57 God sent prophets to them, 42:00 to bring them back to the Lord." 42:01 Amen. 42:02 The purpose of the prophet is always to bring restoration. 42:06 Amen. Amen. 42:08 And he says, "And they testified against them, 42:10 but they would not listen." 42:11 And so often that's the case, you know, 42:14 when a prophet stands in our midst, 42:16 what are they going to do? 42:17 What does the prophet do? 42:19 Drops a plumb line, right? 42:20 Will track down in the middle of the church 42:22 and drops a plumb line. 42:23 The church can do one of two things, 42:26 straighten the wall, or kill the prophets. 42:28 Yeah. 42:30 I want to just build a little bit on what she said, 42:33 coming from Spirit of Prophecy, 42:35 Mrs. White wrote this, she says, 42:37 "There are those who will be glad to lull you to sleep 42:40 in your carnal security." 42:42 Many of us have security, whether it's money, houses, 42:45 lands, businesses, whatever it is. 42:48 And we feel like we're holding on to those, she says, 42:51 but I have a different work, my message is to alarm you, 42:57 to bid you to reform. 42:59 Now why would we need to reform? 43:02 Because we formed. 43:03 Huh? Reformed, so we got to reform. 43:06 Reform, reform, reform is the wrong word. 43:09 Precisely I got to reform. 43:10 Okay, exactly so we got to reform 43:11 into the image of God. 43:13 Precisely. Yes. 43:14 We have fallen from grace and so, 43:16 we need to be reformed and be fit 43:17 for the kingdom of heaven. 43:19 Amen. 43:20 She says, "Reform your lives, 43:21 and cease your rebellion against the God, 43:24 the God of the universe." 43:26 You see so many people are rebelling 43:28 and they don't even realize it many times. 43:30 Right. 43:31 And that's why 3ABN, Behold the Lamb, 43:34 all these ministries are so important. 43:37 They are vital. 43:38 It is vital that this message continues to go 43:41 out of the airways 43:42 that we can continue to come in your home 43:44 and have family worship because people are in rebellion 43:48 and many times it's because of their ignorance 43:51 and Bible says because of lack of knowledge 43:55 my people perish, 43:56 so this is a source of knowledge 43:58 and instruction and discernment. 44:00 You know, when I just pray this somehow some, 44:03 someway God will continue to work with my mind 44:05 so that all these things that He puts in 44:07 will begin to come out at the right time. 44:10 You know, one of the things that Mollie said, 44:11 I think it's so very, very important, 44:13 the prophetic office includes forthtelling 44:15 as much as foretelling. 44:17 And if you look at Isaiah, Jeremiah, 44:21 the bulk of their ministry was corrective, was remedial, 44:24 was telling kings, wrong, got to straighten that up. 44:29 And that's a tough way to earn your dollar, you now. 44:31 It's a tough way to live. 44:33 But it's a great part of that prophetic gift 44:35 because you're getting messages directly from God 44:37 for the people that are going to impact their lives now 44:39 and of course impact the future. 44:41 So a lot of that prophetic gift is just laying in on the line 44:45 and telling their people their sins, 44:46 showing them their error, 44:48 and then trying to get them to correct that error 44:50 so that they can be in right relationship with God. 44:51 Amen. Come on, go ahead now. 44:53 I was just... 44:55 Jeremiah we did a study, 44:56 the whole quarter on Jeremiah in Sabbath school 45:00 and I taught most of those lessons 45:02 and I came to the realization 45:04 that I don't want to be a prophet. 45:06 Poor Jeremiah, he, there was one time he just told God, 45:10 I'm not turning to you anymore, 45:12 but then what happened with him 45:15 is the word burned in his bones and he couldn't keep it quiet, 45:18 but being a prophet isn't an office that you want to go, 45:21 oh, yes, I can do that, because you have, 45:24 you don't just get to deliver with praying. 45:26 You have to deliver the hard word 45:31 that the Lord will bring to a church. 45:32 You're right. 45:34 I mean even, you know, John the Baptist, 45:35 you know as the prophet, I mean look what he was, 45:37 you know, confession for Satan and sin, 45:39 baptism, you know, repentance, calling, 45:41 what we should be doing today too, 45:43 and it's not popular either. 45:44 No. 45:45 It's not, you know, 45:47 sometime we want to sit down a little bit 45:48 and God will do like He did in the word, He said, 45:49 what are you doing laying down there? 45:51 Yeah. 45:52 What you're doing son, let's get up and get going, 45:54 we have a message, running with that message 45:55 because as the 2 Chronicles 20:20. 45:58 You believe the prophets, you're going to what? 45:59 Prosper. 46:01 So shall you prosper, so God is clear in His word, 46:03 believe the prophets, test them by the word of God. 46:07 If they prove faithful then follow them. 46:10 It may be different what the world is doing, 46:12 praise God, it needs to be. 46:14 You know, it may be denying of self, it has to be. 46:17 If my character need to be what it needs to be, 46:20 first of all I have to let self die. 46:22 Self has to die. 46:24 Christian character cannot be perfect 46:25 as long as self is still alive. 46:26 That's right. 46:28 And that's why Jesus said, when they came to Him, 46:30 deny self, then take up the cross, right? 46:33 That make sense and then follow Me, 46:35 because you're not about to pick up a cross. 46:37 You're not about to go to the king 46:38 and say you need to get your life right 46:40 when your heading the world, 46:41 unless you by the grace of God self is gone 46:44 and no longer was passing, 46:46 no longer I but Christ when self is really gone... 46:48 Yeah. 46:50 Was that in Galatians 2, will come to life when it says, 46:53 it's not I, but Christ who lives in me you see. 46:57 We're going to appear as it were 46:58 but it's is no longer me. 47:00 I want where it's no, it's not me, it's not you, 47:02 it's not you that are at home, it's Christ who lives in us. 47:06 When you meet somebody, Lord, have mercy on us. 47:08 Let them see Jesus pray. 47:10 No, I don't want them to see me. 47:12 Well. 47:13 I don't know if anybody's that would be, 47:14 but I don't want them to see me. 47:16 I want them to see Christ. 47:17 I can't change and have not changed anyone 47:19 in my whole life. 47:20 Right. 47:21 I cannot do it on my own, but Christ who lives in me. 47:25 Christ lives through His representative the Holy Spirit. 47:28 Where the Holy Spirit is present, there is joy, 47:30 there is peace, there is conversion, 47:32 there is conviction, there is repentance, 47:34 there is change of life. 47:35 That's what we need I believe as we're talking here we did, 47:37 yes, the gift of prophecy, 47:40 I don't know what I do without it, 47:41 it's been such a help to me in my life 47:44 since my mind is simple, I need the simple things, 47:46 I like to hear it straight, I like to know what it is, 47:49 I like to come to grips with it, 47:50 and let the Holy Spirit say now, 47:52 Kenny, you make a decision what you're going to do. 47:54 And I want to make that decision 47:55 by the grace of God. 47:57 So we live in that hour that this subject 47:59 that we're doing today is vital to God's last day people. 48:02 You said in the beginning if we ever needed help, 48:05 God have mercy, we need it now. 48:07 Need it now. 48:08 I don't want to get that, 48:09 you know, say, oh, I just want, we need help now. 48:13 We need help now in the Adventist church, 48:17 in every church. 48:18 We need the truth, 48:20 we need the spirit of the living God 48:22 to come into our hearts and minds and to listen 48:24 because the devil is taking the world... 48:26 It's deceiving. 48:28 Deceive the whole world 48:29 and all the world wandered after the beast 48:30 and there are those whose names are not written 48:32 in the Lamb's Book of Life. 48:34 I've read that when I was a young person, 48:35 I read as I got older, 48:37 and many times I wept over that verse. 48:39 I just can't get it, 48:40 I can't say that's the way it's going to be. 48:43 I keep saying no, God's great. 48:45 God's going to have His work. 48:46 When He says all wandered after beast. 48:49 And then I'm so thankful later on, 48:50 it identifies a group, you know, 48:52 they keep the commandments of God 48:54 and have a testimony of Jesus, so one for that group, 48:56 I just gave up, say, what's the use? 48:59 That makes sense, what's the use 49:00 because all of them is going to follow after beast, 49:02 their names are not written in the Lamb's Books of Life. 49:04 Oh God, have mercy on me. Amen. 49:06 And he gave us, you know, 49:07 oh, there is this little group over here, 49:09 they're going to keep all the commandments, 49:11 so I go, no we can't a do it on our own, can we pastor? 49:14 We can't do it on our own, I'm a failure. 49:16 I messed them all up. 49:18 But they says by God's grace by his strength 49:22 that we will be more than conquers though him. 49:24 Yeah. Yes, absolutely. 49:25 And we will perfect. 49:27 I have to say as those people you're not, 49:28 some of you are not listening. 49:30 Perfection of character, 49:32 it will come about in God's last day people. 49:34 There will be a people that will be like Jesus. 49:37 We've often said 49:38 when His character is fully reproduced in us... 49:41 He will come. He will come. 49:43 I've said so often oh, when the Sunday law comes, 49:45 and oh, when this coming out, 49:46 when the pope goes over here and whatever it might be 49:49 and when the Protestant do, yes, 49:50 this old prophecy is going to happen. 49:52 That's all those signs. 49:53 He's waiting on character development, 49:55 when the people, right, really living, 49:58 character is fully reproduced in us. 50:00 That means to be like Jesus, He will come and I will say, 50:03 oh, God have mercy on me, I need help. 50:06 I don't know how the people feel there, 50:07 who haven't worship together, I'll start preaching, 50:09 I'll be quiet, but that's what's on my heart. 50:12 Don't you ever be quiet what's on your heart? 50:16 You need to lead it out 50:17 because we live in such that hour right now. 50:19 People are dying because we have set, 50:21 but I've set myself, I've set back for so long, 50:24 it seem like over the years, 50:25 people have died and brother Mitch Folly said, 50:28 when he came to West Frankfort for preaching, 50:29 I was just a little guy, 50:31 I've never shouted but I wanted to, 50:32 I didn't know what shout was all about. 50:34 When he come, oh, boy, he's going to come, 50:35 he's going to get loud, he's going to, you know, 50:37 he said they died 50:38 and they went to Christless graves, 50:40 it's where I first heard then, now it's almost over, 50:42 so he's telling us to get busy. 50:45 Do what we're doing here 50:46 while there is opportunity do it 50:48 because every seconds people have died 50:50 and went to Christless graves 50:51 while we have said here and done this program. 50:52 You know, what occurred to me that one of the hardest things 50:55 and that chooses that if we're going to be 50:56 of any use in the cause of Christ, 50:59 we got to get out of the way. 51:01 And it is the hardest thing to do. 51:03 When you look at when Solomon asked the Lord for wisdom, 51:07 that Proverb says the thing pleased God, he was pleased. 51:09 You know, so he gave Solomon what he didn't ask for 51:11 he gave money, riches, 51:12 made him the smartest man ever lived. 51:13 And then Elisha asked Elijah 51:16 for a double portion of Holy Spirit. 51:18 So you'd think that would please God, 51:19 you know the answer was? 51:21 This is the hard thing, you know... 51:23 What kind of answer is that, it's a hard thing. 51:25 Oh, well. 51:26 Solomon asked for wisdom, God's happy. 51:28 My answer is this is hard thing, 51:29 that's because it is a hard thing. 51:31 Yes. It is. 51:32 It is a hard thing to get a double, 51:33 that means double waiting, double working, 51:35 double watching, double responsibility, 51:36 it's a hard thing, yet it's necessary. 51:40 Yes. 51:41 See what I want is just enough Holy Spirit 51:43 to do what God wants me to do at this point in my life. 51:44 That's what I want. Good. 51:46 Doesn't have to be double, doesn't have to be triple, 51:47 Lord just give me enough, 51:49 because if you look at the spirit 51:51 and true statement we've talking about, 51:52 the context was the woman at the well, 51:54 that's where it's in John. 51:56 She is sitting at well, she will be on garrison, 51:58 she worship on garrison, she was in Jerusalem, 52:00 you people like Jerusalem, my people like garrison, 52:02 where the Christ and Christ says, 52:05 not about place. 52:06 It's about the truth and the spirit. 52:08 Thank you. 52:10 It's about finding the truth 52:12 and what's going and the spirit, 52:13 and if you got the two together, 52:15 you'll be in a right palace. 52:16 Amen. 52:18 Just combine those two and you'll be in a right place. 52:19 And that's what we need for this day. 52:21 We need to combine the truth with the spirit, 52:24 and then we will be in the right place. 52:25 And I think it's important to mention too 52:27 that truth is not always the popular thing. 52:30 You know, there are many instances in the Bible 52:32 where we see that you know, Jesus says, 52:34 I sent you my prophets and you stoned them, 52:36 you killed them. 52:38 You know, and that prophecy and truth 52:41 is not always popular. 52:42 When Pastor Kenny was pointing his heart out, 52:44 my heart immediately went to the ones that I love that, 52:48 you know, they're just so caught up 52:50 in the things of the world that they don't want to let go, 52:52 that they don't want to let go. 52:55 Yes. Family members. 52:56 Exactly, family members. Can't help it. 52:58 I'm thinking about my children. Come on. 53:00 I'm thinking about my grandchildren, 53:02 and they don't want to hear it from momma anymore. 53:05 You know, how hard it is 53:06 when you meet people of like belief, 53:08 and you had this unity in the spirit, 53:10 and you can work together with them, 53:13 and then the ones that you love so much, 53:15 pray for them everyday, and they don't want to hear it, 53:19 you know, we just, we can't give up, 53:22 we can't give up. 53:23 Praise God for the prophet, 53:24 she says sometimes we pray one prayer too short. 53:27 So we continue to pray for conviction, 53:30 continue to pray for conversion, 53:32 and we need this prophecy, we need a prophetic voice. 53:36 The good news is, folks, you have it, 53:39 you have it at home, it's your Bible, 53:41 get it out and if you want more to read, 53:43 you can call 3ABN. 53:44 I'm sure they can direct you to many, many wonderful books, 53:47 they go right along with the scriptures. 53:49 And of course, we know there will be others that come 53:52 but it must fit the test of God's word, 53:56 He never changes. 53:57 Amen, Sister Mollie, another word of wisdom here, 54:00 we have worth little three minutes left here, 54:02 we go around the table quickly. 54:03 What, I just want to share this, 54:05 if ever this nation or this world 54:08 was in a place to where the scripture comes to mind, 54:11 what scripture would that be? 54:13 If my people who are called by my name will do something. 54:18 Humble themselves, 54:19 it's in the hands of the Christians, 54:21 it's in our hands, humble, if we will humble ourselves 54:25 and pray, do something else, 54:27 turn from my wicked ways then will we hear from heaven, 54:32 then we heal our land. 54:33 If you need healing in your land, 54:35 if you need healing in your family, 54:37 God gave us a pattern to follow. 54:39 You follow that pattern throw yourself on God's mercy. 54:42 He loves you and He'll do for you, 54:45 what nobody else can do. 54:46 That's right. That's right. Amen. Amen. 54:47 He's the only one that came here. 54:49 He is the door. Yes, He is. 54:51 Thank you, Mollie, I was thinking of the same thing 54:53 because definitely truth and change is difficult, 54:58 and sometimes it's very difficult with us, 55:02 and for experience sometimes I have gone for years, 55:07 you know, in asking the Lord 55:09 to change something in my life, 55:11 and it seems like it takes a long time, 55:14 because you got a humble, you know, 55:17 and sometimes you think you're humble 55:19 but then you're gonna pick up again those things, yes. 55:23 And we make it difficult 55:27 because of our pride and our selfishness. 55:31 That's right. 55:33 Those aren't allowed, 55:34 and we have to really ask for the Holy Spirit 55:38 because the enemy knows where to push the buttons, 55:41 the enemy knows how much he can work with us 55:46 in that pride and in that selfishness, 55:49 and so that is just so a message 55:54 that we should think, 55:56 keep presenting all the time in mind too, 55:59 to humble ourselves. 56:00 How wonderful we have such a patient physician. 56:04 Amen. 56:06 A patient work on us 56:07 because we don't do it on each other. 56:10 How sad. 56:11 And yet we're to be like Christ, 56:12 we're to be loving and caring 56:14 and patient with one another as Christ is with us. 56:16 Amen. 56:18 Brother C.A, I know you have a word to finish this up. 56:20 Well, the Bible says watch and pray. 56:22 That's right. And you got to do both. 56:23 Because if you're watching and not praying, you'll see, 56:25 you don't know what you're looking at. 56:26 And if you're praying and not watching, 56:28 you may miss it. 56:29 So you got to watch and pray to be in a right relationship. 56:31 Oh, that's beautiful. Yes. Amen. 56:34 To me it's just exciting to be able to sit around the table. 56:37 We still have that freedom for the moment in this country, 56:41 and take every opportunity that God gives us to do it. 56:44 Sometimes we say, we were busy, and we got this to do, 56:47 we got that to do, and then you just stop at certain thing, 56:49 God has given us the privilege 56:51 to be able to reach the world through 3ABN, 56:53 just put out some humble thoughts, 56:55 and just to study the word of God to get... 56:56 Where would we be? People appreciate it. 56:58 I know you get all kind of cards 57:00 and we get phone call and different letters, 57:02 we enjoyed that Friday night worship together. 57:05 We're just like we're there, we enjoy it, we study, 57:08 we pray, we sing, it's been a blessing, 57:10 it's been a blessing for us to participate. 57:12 I love the study. Where would we be? 57:15 How would we get the word out? 57:16 You can go to a church, 57:17 it may be a mega church with thousands, 57:19 but it's just thousands. 57:21 You know, Mollie, I've heard you saying 57:22 we have potential to reach billions by God's grace 57:26 as we work together church family 57:28 to give this message to the world. 57:29 Until we meet you again, 57:31 may our precious Lord continue to richly bless you and yours. 57:34 Amen. Amen. |
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