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Series Code: TDYFW
Program Code: TDYFW018005A
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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 00:30 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 01:09 Hello and welcome to Family Worship 01:12 and happy Sabbath, huh, Yvonne? 01:13 Happy, Sabbath! 01:14 Oh, we're gonna have a great time in the Lord. 01:16 Don't you love Sabbath? Oh, I do. I do. 01:19 You know, it just feels as though 01:20 the body just naturally winds down, 01:24 and it just looks forward to that Sabbath rest, 01:27 it's a blessing. 01:28 I just heard a preacher this last week, 01:31 and he was talking about, studies have been done 01:34 and here in America 01:36 and Seventh-day Adventist Christians 01:39 in general live longer than the regular population. 01:43 Some say 10 years to 11 years, and he said, 01:46 they all want to attribute that to the way we eat. 01:50 But when you really look at it, lot of folk may not become 01:53 a Seventh-day Adventist Christian, 01:54 and they maybe have smoked, drank alcohol, whatever, 01:58 so he said, "I don't believe it's what causes the longevity, 02:02 it's not just the health." 02:04 He said, "The reason I say that is 02:06 I have seen how some of you eat." 02:08 And so he said, "But I believe it's the Sabbath. 02:11 Because the stress is taken away 02:13 when that's the day of rest that 02:17 everything else goes out the window, 02:18 and you're able to just spend time with you and God, 02:21 and relax from a busy, busy world." 02:22 So, I think there is some truth to that. 02:24 Absolutely, you know, if we would just... 02:27 If we didn't have the Sabbath, 02:29 we just work and work and work and work. 02:31 I mean, that's just your normal thing, 02:34 you just push through. 02:36 And what, but the Sabbath causes you to just, 02:38 just pull back. 02:40 And it really is, it's life giving. 02:43 It's a great, great time of the week 02:47 to spend extra time with the Lord. 02:49 Well, we have some guests today. 02:51 Do you know all these folk? I do, I think so. 02:53 All right. 02:54 Brother Kenny and Chris Shelton, 02:56 it's good to have you all here today. 02:58 Love to be here, thank you. 02:59 And he is brother but today, 03:01 he may have on his pastor clothes, 03:02 so we may have to say Pastor Shelton. 03:06 Sister Chris, and then over to the right, 03:09 you know this young man? 03:10 You know, he looks vaguely familiar. 03:12 Yeah, I think this is Jason Bradley, 03:15 and you two know each other very well, 03:17 for how many years now, Jay? 03:19 31, going on 32. 03:21 Since the day you were born, right? 03:22 That's right. 03:23 I don't want to cause any trouble to your mother 03:25 but I heard that you got a spanking 03:26 as soon as you were born. 03:28 I did, I did. 03:30 And she promoted that. 03:31 And she allowed it and promoted it. 03:33 Well, anyway, this is time 03:35 to come together, not to have... 03:36 Don't be bitter. 03:38 Yeah, don't be bitter that you got spanked 03:40 when you were born. 03:41 Most of us did. 03:42 But then next to you is Brother Tim Parton. 03:45 Brother Tim, it's good to have you here. 03:46 It's wonderful to be with you all. 03:48 I love spending a Sabbath with you. 03:50 Oh, it's a great time for all of us. 03:54 And I hope those of you at home, 03:56 we always say, "Call your friends, 03:57 your enemies, everybody. 03:59 Tell them, 'Tune in to 3ABN 04:01 and let's spend this little time together 04:04 in God's Sabbath.'" 04:05 We're gonna be talking about, 04:07 today our special message is the Three Angels' Messages. 04:11 And the reason we're talking about 04:13 the Three Angels' Messages 04:14 and we're putting so much emphasis on it 04:16 is because I think a lot of people either don't know 04:19 or seem to have forgotten. 04:21 And so I think the time 04:23 in which we're living, Brother Kenny, 04:25 is if we ever needed to know the Three Angels' Messages 04:30 and what they mean to planet earth 04:33 in the closing moments of earth's history is today. 04:35 Yes. Don't you agree? 04:37 I agree. 04:38 Absolutely, no doubt because the situation, 04:40 things going on in the world 04:42 tells us the soon return of Jesus 04:43 and how we need to be ready. 04:45 And really the Three Angels' Message 04:46 is a preparation message for the coming of Jesus 04:49 and the whole world is going to hear it. 04:50 So that's beautiful. All right. 04:52 Well, we're going to be talking more about it in just a moment 04:55 but Tim has slipped over to the piano, 04:59 and what we're gonna be doing is, 05:01 we're gonna sing a song, we want you to sing with us. 05:03 I'm sure you know it, "When we all get to heaven". 05:07 Sing loud so you can drown 05:09 the sad a little bit, all right? 05:19 Sing the wondrous love of Jesus 05:23 Sing His mercy and His grace 05:27 In the mansions bright and blessed 05:31 He'll prepare for us a place 05:34 When we all get to heaven 05:38 What a day of rejoicing that will be! 05:42 When we all see Jesus 05:46 We'll sing and shout the victory! 05:51 Onward to the prize before us 05:55 Soon His beauty we'll behold 05:59 Soon the pearly gates will open 06:03 We shall tread the streets of gold 06:06 When we all get to heaven 06:10 What a day of rejoicing that will be! 06:14 When we all see Jesus 06:19 We'll sing and shout the victory! 06:24 I think we better... 06:25 Tim, I think we better do that chorus one more time. 06:28 When we all get to heaven 06:32 What a day of rejoicing that will be! 06:36 When we all see Jesus 06:40 We'll sing and shout the victory! 06:47 Yay! Amen. 06:48 I love that song. 06:50 Isn't that a great song? 06:51 It's so happy and it goes along with what we're doing. 06:55 Amen. 06:56 We're talking about planet earth, 06:59 living in a closing moments of earth's history, 07:01 and how do we prepare for the second coming? 07:04 And that's why it's so important, 07:06 and I don't really know any other church 07:08 that teaches the Three Angels' Messages. 07:11 You're right, Brother Danny, very few people. 07:13 In fact, there is no one that I really know of, 07:15 in any denomination that's really preaching 07:17 the Three Angels' Message like Seventh-day Adventist. 07:20 It's a message that's based upon, 07:22 certainly we can look at Daniel and Revelation, 07:24 you know, the two books 07:25 that we really should be studying here 07:27 in the last days of earth's history. 07:29 Lot of pastors put jinx on those. 07:31 They'll say, "You know what, Daniel, 07:32 we really can't understand," 07:34 but Daniel has always been an open book. 07:36 And Revelation, it was been a sealed book 07:38 until the time of the end. 07:40 We believe we're in the time of the end. 07:42 So the book is certainly opened, 07:44 we compare those two books together. 07:46 Daniel and Revelation and what a message! 07:49 You know, it really just covers from the beginning, 07:51 we talk about Babylon which we will be talking about 07:54 maybe in the day a little bit, 07:55 and then right to the time that Jesus comes. 07:57 So to me, it's exciting because it is preparation. 08:01 And I found this out in my own studies, my own life. 08:04 And I thought, "You know, what a message this is. 08:07 It's called The Everlasting Gospel." 08:09 So there's not going to be another gospel, this is it. 08:12 That's right. That's right. 08:13 And it is a testing message to go into all the world 08:17 before Jesus comes. 08:18 Every person is going to be tested, 08:20 that's a life that would be tested on this message. 08:23 And we are going to have to make a decision on this. 08:27 So today is a good topic 08:29 because it is a life in this situation, 08:32 but the thing that kind of plagues me just a little bit, 08:34 bothers me a little bit, 08:36 I think you mentioned a while ago, 08:37 is basically the world doesn't realize it. 08:39 But we're grateful for 3ABN 08:41 and for the years it's been going out, 08:43 more and more people is coming to the realization 08:45 that this is the hour of God's judgment. 08:48 Amen. Yes. 08:49 He is coming, we have to be warned 08:50 against the mark of the beast, 08:52 we have to give a call to come out. 08:53 So it's a wonderful loving message, 08:55 it's a love letter, I see, 08:57 that God writes to His people and say, 08:59 "Oh, I love you so much." 09:01 As to you, He's telling you He loves you. 09:02 But, you know, we've got to get into the Word 09:04 because none of us need to be surprised about the events 09:07 that are taking place and will take place. 09:09 But the majority of the people still will. 09:11 I read this the other night. 09:12 I thought it was interesting, you know, 09:14 I'll be quite a minute. 09:15 No, that's all right. 09:17 Again, most of the people don't realize what's taking place, 09:19 just as the days of Jesus. 09:22 He sat and He talk, 09:24 blessed His heart to His disciples. 09:26 You know, He embraced them, He loved them, 09:28 and they were just together day and night. 09:30 And He told them exactly what was going to take place, 09:33 how He would be taken, how He'd be crucified, 09:35 how He'd be resurrected. 09:37 And they did not get it 09:39 because they didn't want to get it 09:41 as the majority of the world 09:42 does not want to get this beautiful love letter, 09:45 three messages that God gives to His people. 09:47 So I think it's imperative that we talk about it. 09:49 Amen. 09:50 I'm glad you're presenting it like that 09:51 as opposed to something that's scary and negative. 09:56 Because I think a lot of people have a misperception 09:59 of the Three Angels' Messages as being negative or scary. 10:03 But this is part of God's love letter to us. 10:07 He always lets us know what's gonna happen 10:10 so that we can be prepared, 10:12 so that we've read the back of the book. 10:13 Absolutely, absolutely. 10:15 What we need is somebody to read, 10:17 why don't we 'cause we're talking to our audience, 10:19 and maybe they don't know, Revelation 14. 10:22 If you're at home, you have your Bibles, 10:24 turn to Revelation 14 and we'll read, 10:27 start with verses 6 and maybe one of us... 10:30 Yvonne's got her glasses on, why don't you read 10:33 through the Three Angels' Messages for us? 10:34 Sure. 10:35 "Then I saw another angel flying in the midst of heaven, 10:38 having the everlasting gospel to preach 10:41 to those who dwell on the earth, 10:42 to every nation, tribe, tongue, and people. 10:45 Saying with a loud voice, 'Fear God and give glory to Him 10:49 for the hour of His judgment has come. 10:52 And worship Him who made heaven and earth, 10:54 the sea and springs of water.' 10:56 And another angel followed saying, 10:58 'Babylon has fallen, has fallen, that great city, 11:01 because she's made all nations 11:03 drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.' 11:07 Then the third angel followed them 11:08 saying with a loud voice, 11:10 'If anyone worships the beast and his image 11:12 and receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand, 11:16 he himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God 11:20 which is poured out full strength 11:22 until the cup of his indignation. 11:24 He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone 11:27 in the presence of the Holy Angels 11:28 and in the presence of the Lamb. 11:30 And the smoke of it to torment ascends for ever and ever. 11:34 And they have no rest day or night 11:36 who worship the beast and his image, 11:38 and who ever receives the mark of his name. 11:41 Here is the patience of the saints, 11:43 here are those who keep the commandments of God 11:46 and the faith of Jesus.'" 11:48 Amen. Praise God. 11:49 All right. Wow. 11:50 Now it's wonderful. 11:52 So it sounds pretty deep when you hear it. 11:54 And you say, "Man, what does all of this mean? 11:57 If I don't, it sounds like I'm gonna burn." 12:00 It's another whole conversation to go, 12:02 and the smoke of the torment shall arise forever. 12:04 We will get into that one today. 12:06 But forever is the time, 12:07 it has the time on it until it's gone. 12:10 So we're told that when we do a study 12:13 but we'll do that study another day. 12:15 But let's talk about these Three Angels' Messages 12:19 and, Chris, you were getting ready to comment a while ago. 12:21 I was about to comment 12:23 on what she was saying about it being scary. 12:25 And I think for most of us, and even for myself, 12:28 I begin to grieve many times 12:30 because I look at people and even myself at times 12:34 that have not lived up to this love letter. 12:37 Because that's what it is, 12:39 God is giving us the end of the book as it were, 12:42 He's telling us what's going to happen. 12:44 Here it is, here's the time we're at in the prophecies. 12:47 We're in the time of judgment, we need to get ready. 12:50 Babylon is fallen and He tells... 12:52 And as we begin to dig, 12:54 we begin to see what Babylon is. 12:57 And then He tells us, 12:58 you know, but those who don't heed this wording, 13:00 those who refuse to study... 13:03 Really it comes down to love. 13:06 "Refuse to love me, 13:08 they are gonna have a part in that like a fire." 13:12 So it's beautiful that He tells us both sides. 13:14 What if we were in this world and we had no direction? 13:18 You know, we tell the children, "Don't touch the stove 13:21 'cause you'll burn your hand," because we love them. 13:25 So you know, that's when it's really heavy. 13:28 And we see Satan's snares. 13:29 Just one more quick thing, we see Satan snares, 13:32 his delusions to take the scripture to twist it 13:36 and make it seem something that it really isn't. 13:38 That's why we go back to, 13:40 it is written just as Christ did. 13:42 Absolutely. 13:43 I know the Lord, Tim, wanted us 13:44 to teach the Three Angels' Messages 13:47 because in 1984, when I was impressed 13:50 to build a television station to reach the world, 13:52 I didn't have a name. 13:54 We didn't have any idea, 13:56 what would you name this TV station? 13:59 Now this is only a few days old since the impression was, 14:03 to build the television station to reach the world. 14:05 So I'm sleeping one night and have a dream. 14:08 And I look out, and all I see is stars. 14:12 And one of them seemed to get closer and closer and closer. 14:16 And when it did, I could see the color, 14:18 it was planet earth. 14:20 And I knew it was planet earth, 14:21 and then I saw these angels flying, circling the earth. 14:26 And then in my dream, 14:28 I saw Three Angels Broadcasting, 14:31 and it was almost like these angels 14:34 were blowing the trumpet, you know, Three Angels. 14:37 There's this Three Angels' Messages, 14:39 but I said Three Angels Broadcasting, 14:41 that's what we'll name this television network. 14:45 Now I have to tell you the truth, 14:46 I had to really study it back then. 14:49 I grew up in kind of a legalistic home. 14:51 I knew the message, I could argue with you 14:53 about the Sabbath or state of the dead, 14:55 or any of these things but I really didn't... 14:59 Growing up, I guess, and Kenny, probably the same thing. 15:03 We didn't really have that love relationship 15:06 with the Lord till many years later. 15:08 'Cause you do what you do, 15:09 and you know, what you talk and this is the way it is. 15:13 But each one of us have to accept Jesus 15:15 in our own personal way we understand, 15:17 it's not our knowledge that saves us, 15:19 it's our humility to realize 15:22 we're all sinners saved by grace 15:23 when we come to the foot of the cross. 15:25 And so, this when I began to do that, 15:28 I said, "I really need to really study 15:30 and make sure I understand these Three Angels 15:33 and why it's so important. 15:34 And if it's important, why don't churches teach it?" 15:38 And so what it is, it sounds 15:40 when you talk about the mark of the beast, 15:43 all of this not popular to define 15:45 who has this beast power 15:46 and who is the beast image, especially today, 15:50 because you can't say anything about anything just about. 15:53 And people say, "Oh, they're haters", 15:55 you know, that's the hate message 15:57 on radio, on television. 15:58 In a number of countries, 16:02 you can't even preach against sin, 16:03 basically because if it's something you disagree with, 16:08 they'll say, "Oh, you shouldn't be, 16:09 you know, you're outing someone else." 16:11 So the times in which we're living, 16:14 we need to understand. 16:16 And it was like you with your boys, 16:18 I'm sure you have these talks with your boys 16:21 of what you have been there. 16:24 You're the dad, you've been there. 16:25 You've made the mistakes. 16:27 We've all made the mistakes, so when we tell our kids, 16:29 and our parents did it with us, 16:31 but we weren't always listening. 16:33 So, I hate to tell you this, 16:34 your boys probably aren't always listening. 16:36 There are things, you know, "Dad's kind of an old folk, 16:38 he is a sulk guy. 16:40 And, dad, we'd we appreciate what you're saying, 16:42 but he just couldn't know 16:43 what it's like to be young like us." 16:46 So the Lord is saying to us, "Look, I know what's happening. 16:50 I'm the creator of the universe," 16:51 as she read, you know, in first angel's message. 16:55 You know, He created, He's our creator. 16:57 So He's saying, "If you don't want to be deceived, 17:01 and you want to be ready, and you are living 17:03 in the closing moments of earth's history, 17:04 and many churches teach this, 17:07 then let me give you a message that's been sealed." 17:09 Kenny, why was revelation sealed? 17:11 You said Daniel's open but Revelation was sealed, 17:14 why was it sealed? 17:16 Why wasn't it always been able to understand it? 17:18 Well, you know, it pertain to the time 17:20 in which it was written 17:22 but I really believe that it pertains more to our time 17:25 because it's said in the Revelation 17:26 that it'd be unsealed as it were opened 17:29 at the end of time. 17:30 And of course, there's Bible students 17:32 also would be studying the Word. 17:33 We believe that there is a specific time. 17:35 We are gonna have to after 1798, 17:37 you know, if we look at some of the Bible prophecies, 17:39 we come to that, we've been living in the time of the end. 17:42 And then we had the falling of the stars, 17:44 we had all these things, 17:45 you know, and the earthquakes and things 17:47 that would lead us up to what you're talking about 17:49 the judgment hour, really, the judgment hour, 17:52 1844, we've been in the judgment hour. 17:54 So to me, it's still love letters, 17:56 still God, in His love, is reaching out, 17:58 He warned us years before the judgment would begin 18:02 of how it would be prepared 18:03 and that would lead up to the second coming of Jesus. 18:06 But why would He put anything, and I've had people say this, 18:09 "We just can't understand it. 18:11 Preachers are saying, 'Oh, just don't read it.'" 18:14 Lord, have mercy, you know, really on that 18:16 because that's sad, this is the book. 18:18 Number one, just read 18:19 the first verse of Revelation 1:1, 18:21 it's a revealing of revelation of Jesus Christ 18:24 and the things that are to come 18:25 and how it was given from the Father to Jesus, 18:28 to the angels, and then to mankind. 18:30 I think how wonderful that is. God just... 18:32 He had it all lined out 18:34 and He said, "Oh, my children are gonna be 18:37 destroyed for lack of knowledge, 18:38 because they're not reading, they're not studying, 18:39 they're not gonna know... 18:41 And if you're like I am, 18:42 I kind of like to know things in advance, 18:45 you know, like a warning sometimes. 18:46 If you're going to do a program, 18:48 something you know if I have to tell you, 18:49 "Hey you need to do that." 18:50 This is what we're going to have... 18:52 This way we aren't going to waste anything. 18:53 We really did do to these folk around me. 18:55 I guess I shouldn't have really brought that up but... 18:59 Hello, I'm right here. 19:00 The point we all taken but... 19:02 You know, why is because we should be studying 19:04 the Word of God, should have an idea of this. 19:07 And I think it's a fantastic subject. 19:09 And I get emotional about it because of... 19:13 You mention the balance, I liked it, 19:15 'cause you bringing it, we're bringing in a balance. 19:17 The love that He has for us that I'm not gonna... 19:20 Unless He reveals it to His servants or prophets first, 19:22 it's not going to happen, He is going to reveal it to us. 19:24 And then the other part 19:26 is we have to look it realistically. 19:27 This is the testing truth like it always was. 19:30 You know, at the time of flood, testing truth was, do, what? 19:33 "If you want to be saved, you get in the ark." 19:35 It's just that simple. 19:37 "Just get in there, if you want to be saved." 19:38 So a same thing today, 19:40 Sodom and Gomorrah always gonna go, 19:41 you need to get out. 19:42 Nineveh, you need to be careful. 19:44 You know, so these things down through the ages, 19:45 we just look at and say, "Okay, look. 19:47 God has warned us. 19:49 He's preparing us, and then this message is going 19:52 to be a life and death issue." 19:53 Yes. So it's not something simple. 19:55 It's not like some of the other messages that's good, 19:58 and you know, leads us to Christ. 19:59 This year it led me to Christ, 20:01 really staying in the Book of Daniel and Revelation. 20:03 I was just awed at. 20:05 You mentioned at a younger age, 20:07 we didn't really understand it, we weren't... 20:09 I don't want to blame anybody, 20:10 we just didn't really pick it up. 20:12 But once the conversion 20:13 and once this experience of what God wanted to get 20:15 to the world through 3ABN, 20:17 it drove us to look deep into the Word of God, 20:19 the best at least that we could 20:21 and it just absolutely changed my heart and life, 20:23 and that's what this message is supposed to do. 20:26 It's when it's brought in and received. 20:29 And one part of it and I'll hush again, 20:31 'cause I love, I just love this messages of the Three Angels, 20:35 I absolutely just love it. 20:37 It's how do we give Him glory? 20:39 It says, "Go back, give Him glory." 20:41 Everybody can touch on this later. 20:43 How do we give Him glory? 20:44 One way we can give Him glory 20:46 is let His character be perfectly reproduced in us, 20:50 so that others will see Jesus in us. 20:52 And anytime Jesus is revealed in us, 20:55 anytime God is revealed in us, we give Him glory. 20:58 Amen. That's part of it. 20:59 Amen. Oh, it's good. 21:01 Well, for Jay, I know, you were raised in church, 21:04 you left for a number of years. 21:06 Tim, you were never around the Seventh-day Adventist, 21:09 so this is probably new to you. 21:10 Right. 21:12 And the purpose of this, and we ask them, 21:16 Kenny, out of this little bit for not giving a motive. 21:20 We've been traveling, we just got in. 21:22 So we asked Tim to play the piano, 21:24 but, hey, sit here anyway, Tim. 21:26 Maybe you have questions, or comments of what it's about. 21:29 But briefly, first angel, 21:30 "Fear God and give glory to Him, 21:32 for the hour of His judgment has come," that saying, 21:34 "Okay, this end times message for end times people." 21:37 The second angel, Babylon has fallen. 21:41 When we go over to Revelation 18, it says, 21:43 "And the earth was lightened with the glory of God." 21:46 But it says, "Come out of her, My people." 21:48 So Babylon is confusion, 21:50 it always has been when you look back. 21:52 And so God is calling a last-day generation people 21:56 to come out of religious confusion. 21:59 Yes. 22:00 And then the third angel's message 22:02 talks about the mark of the beast. 22:04 And we find the identifying marks of a beast power 22:08 that is a religious power, right? 22:09 Yes, absolutely. It's a religious power. 22:12 And so it's not like people get together and say, "Let me see. 22:14 Let's see who is the beast power and who isn't." 22:17 Let's let the Bible identify, 22:21 you know, do what it... define it itself. 22:24 And it will identify what power on earth 22:27 claims to forgive sins, what religious power. 22:30 You can go what law, 22:31 what power will think to change Daniel 7:25. 22:36 It says the beast power will think to change times and laws, 22:39 God's commandments including the fourth commandment. 22:43 So when you start working your way down, 22:45 who forgives for the sins, 22:47 what power that says, Revelation 13, 22:49 "All the world wandered after the beast." 22:52 So, the third angel's message is really centering in 22:57 on all the way up now to the beast power. 22:59 So it says, "When all the world wandered," 23:02 it doesn't say all the world except, 23:04 "all the world wandered," 23:06 so if we're in religious confusion, 23:08 if we're in Babylon, we're not gonna see any sign, 23:11 we're just gonna go with the whole world, 23:13 whichever way they're blowing. 23:15 And so without trying to get into too deep, 23:18 lead to this today, we're saying... 23:21 God is saying, "Come out of her, My people." 23:24 And don't follow this power that mesmerizes people, 23:29 that literally, it's like, I'm going to use 23:31 the word magic on this, it's almost like magic 23:34 because it really is not, it's not divine. 23:37 And so we want you to come apart. 23:40 And here are they that keep the commandments of God 23:42 and the faith of Jesus. 23:43 So what God is calling us to do, 23:46 the Ten Commandment law 23:47 is a transcript of God's own character. 23:51 So when people say, "Oh, that old law, I tell you, 23:53 we can't keep that old law. 23:55 It's tough that old cold law of stone." 23:58 I like to look at it that it says, 24:00 "If you love me," 24:01 Jesus says, "if you serve Me, I promise you, 24:04 you won't want to kill anybody." 24:06 Right. 24:08 This is the message of love. Yes. 24:10 "A promise, I promise you, you won't steal. 24:13 I promise you, you won't want to commit adultery. 24:16 I promise you, I'll give you victory 24:18 over all these things in life 24:19 because this is who I am," the commandment. 24:22 So preachers nowadays in churches, teach, 24:26 "Oh, that old law, it's terrible, it's bad." 24:28 God is saying, "Wait, if it's a transcript 24:32 of His character, how can it be bad?" 24:35 It has to be good, so what He is saying is, 24:37 "I can give you victory over all of these things." 24:41 So we don't just set Him aside, we throw Him away. 24:44 It's, "Lord, give me victory, 24:46 so that I can look at this as a mirror 24:49 to reflect when I've done wrong." 24:51 And God, now I come to Him and I confess my sins. 24:54 He says, "I'm faithful and just to forgive you from your sins 24:57 and to cleanse you." 24:59 He'll cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 25:01 So this message, "Fear God and give glory to Him." 25:05 And what happens is, the devil doesn't care 25:07 which side of the boat 25:09 we'd fall out just long as we fall out. 25:10 That's right. 25:12 Rick Odle of Assembly of God pastor for many years 25:14 who became Seventh-day Adventist Christian. 25:17 When he first joined our church, 25:18 he would go to churches, 25:20 and it seemed like everybody just sat quietly 25:22 and would hardly even amen, 25:23 and the preacher would preach. 25:25 And he said, "I don't know how you can do it. 25:26 I just got to say praise the Lord, glory, hallelujah." 25:29 So he said, "It seems like, 25:31 you know, the Lord says we should worship 25:33 in spirit and in truth. 25:34 So, you know, you all are worshipping in truth 25:37 and I'm trying to worship in spirit. 25:38 It seems like we need to get together. 25:40 So if it is true, we ought to be excited 25:42 and not afraid to raise our hand 25:43 and say praise the Lord, glory, hallelujah. 25:46 Thank you, Jesus, for what you're doing in our life." 25:51 So, Jay, the Three Angels' Messages, 25:54 you probably never really studied it as a child, 25:56 and you weren't open to it, 25:57 so you are just now getting into it. 25:59 What are you... 26:01 Tell us your thoughts? 26:02 So from my understanding, 26:04 it's an end times message to an end times people. 26:08 And with all the things that we see going on today 26:12 with the senseless killings, the violence, 26:14 the trampling on God's love 26:17 by government and everybody, well, people. 26:23 It just goes to show the importance 26:26 and the sense of urgency as we're approaching the end. 26:32 And one of things I was looking at, 26:33 I did some research. 26:35 Because I'm not... On your short notice. 26:37 As familiar, yes, yes, on my short notice. 26:41 So, I really like this from Councils for the Church, 26:44 and I'll try and read it quickly here. 26:47 "God has called His church in this day, 26:50 as He called ancient Israel, 26:52 to stand as a light in the earth. 26:54 By the mighty cleaver of truth, 26:56 the messages of the first, second, and third angels, 26:59 He has separated them from the churches 27:01 and from the world to bring them 27:03 into a sacred nearness to Himself. 27:06 He has made them the depositaries of His law 27:09 and has committed to them 27:10 the great truths of prophecy for this time. 27:14 Like the holy oracles committed to ancient Israel, 27:18 these are a sacred trust to be communicated to the world. 27:22 The Three Angels of Revelation 14 27:24 represent the people who accept the light of God's messages 27:27 and go forth as His agents to sound the warning 27:30 throughout the length and breadth of the earth. 27:33 Christ declares to His followers, 27:34 "Ye are the light of the world." 27:38 To every soul that accepts Jesus 27:40 the cross of Calvary speaks, "Behold the worth of the soul, 27:44 'Go ye into all the world, 27:46 and preach the gospel to every creature.' 27:48 Nothing is to be permitted to hinder this work. 27:52 It is the all-important work for time, 27:55 it is to be far-reaching as eternity. 27:58 The love that Jesus manifested 27:59 for the souls of men in the sacrifice 28:01 which He made for their redemption 28:03 will actuate all His followers. 28:07 Christ accepts, oh, so gladly, 28:10 every human agency that is surrendered to Him. 28:13 He brings the human into union with the divine, 28:16 that He may communicate to the world 28:18 the mysteries of incarnate love. 28:21 Talk it, pray it, sing it, 28:23 fill the world with the message of His truth, 28:25 and keep pressing on into the regions beyond.'" 28:29 So the Three Angels' Messages in such a time as this, 28:33 you know, with the sense of urgency, 28:35 with us being Christ followers, basically, to me, it's saying, 28:41 you can't be quiet about it. 28:43 You know, Christ died for us publicly 28:46 not so that we could keep his gospel private... 28:49 Come on, now, preach. 28:52 His good news private 28:54 but that we could share it with the world. 28:56 You know, when you love people, you don't allow them to... 29:00 You don't want to see them get hurt. 29:02 You don't want to see them go into harm's way. 29:05 So if you know something, you have to share it, 29:08 you have to tell it. 29:09 So that's what it is. Beautiful. 29:12 You know, I'm getting... 29:14 Oh, my goodness! Oh, boy. 29:15 She gets teary in the moment. Absolutely. 29:18 It sounds like, Jay and I was at the service the other day, 29:22 and it was a funeral actually, but a preacher was preaching, 29:26 and one of the guys who was listening stood up 29:29 and said, "There is a doctor in the house. 29:30 Now keep going, preach it to us, all right." 29:33 Soon we were saying, "Get it, Doc." 29:34 He was saying, he's a doctor. 29:36 And so you were a doctor until you were preaching, 29:39 you were teaching. 29:40 And Mom's getting teary-eyed. 29:41 Yes, what a blessing it is to see 29:44 what God has done and is doing. 29:46 You know when the message is going like this 29:48 and you are taking it in, each one of us take it in, 29:51 it does change your life. 29:52 It does fill you with excitement. 29:54 I mean, when you just sit in the privacy of your own home 29:57 or your own study, you know, there is some time you just, 30:00 you feel your heart rate even going up. 30:03 The anticipation of what God has said in His Word 30:06 and you know as you sit there that it's truth, 30:09 because you went over and over in different areas, 30:11 different aspects, you went back to the Old Testament, 30:13 you went, clear it with New Testament. 30:14 And you're saying 30:16 all these things are just before us. 30:17 But now, the question comes to our mind is, why now? 30:21 Why is it so important that we give this message right now? 30:24 And then you mentioned Revelation 18. 30:27 Remember, when you talk about second angel's message, 30:29 you know, "Come out of her, My people," 30:31 that's just partial, Three Angels... 30:33 And we know it comes to completion 30:35 in Revelation 18:1 through 5, so why? 30:39 It says here, we look at Spirit of Prophecy, it says, 30:40 "Because all the churches have become corrupt, 30:44 had become corrupt with," what? 30:45 "Drinking the fault, the wine, 30:47 the false teaching and so on in the church." 30:49 And God will raise the people up 30:51 to counteract the counterfeit. 30:53 And they will present this truth 30:55 but the time is prefect, 30:56 and the third angel's message is perfect. 30:59 Because I know, for years and years and years, 31:01 people have been preaching the Three Angels' Message 31:04 but we've yet... 31:06 It's my opinion that we've yet to see the power 31:08 of that will accompany the third angel's message 31:11 until after we see the agitation of the Sunday law. 31:16 Don't get too deep here but as... 31:18 I never get deep but I just want you to know, 31:20 'cause sometimes people never heard it. 31:21 So that's deep if you never heard it. 31:23 But when that question is agitated and there begins... 31:26 If you look at that point, Psalms tells you vivid, 31:29 we made void the law of God. 31:31 We know that's gonna take place, 31:32 then it's not gonna be so much by argument of man 31:36 but it's gonna be by power of the Holy Spirit 31:38 that people will set up 31:40 and take note of the third angels' message. 31:42 And they're gonna, "Come out of her, My people." 31:44 The majority of those who will be saved 31:46 in God's kingdom in the last days 31:48 are still in Babylon and they're going to come out. 31:51 Isn't that beautiful to know? 31:52 He has good people everywhere but He's gonna make the call 31:54 because He's gonna call us on the truth, testing message. 31:58 So which says we're not saved 31:59 by the name of the doorpost over a church, 32:02 it's individual thing, 32:04 so it's not one church name, 32:06 everybody is saved and everybody else is lost. 32:08 There'll be people 32:09 from all walks of life, all churches, 32:11 maybe some of them never been to church. 32:13 It will take eternity to be able to meet people and say, 32:15 "How did you get here?" 32:17 Through the blood of Jesus will be the way, 32:19 that preacher said the other day, Jay, only one way. 32:22 It will be true, through the blood of Jesus is one way. 32:24 So, Tim, some of these stuff is kind of new to you. 32:29 How is it affecting you? 32:31 You know, unfortunately, 32:33 I was just very, prophecy, Daniel, 32:37 Revelation was just... 32:40 We didn't preach on it whenever I was a kid 32:43 and then growing up in the denomination that I was in. 32:46 And so this is just... 32:48 I'm really like soaking this all up. 32:50 Wow. Amen. 32:52 But, it's like learning I have to be a doctor, you know, 32:56 there is terminology and stuff that is so foreign to me 33:01 that I'm just having to familiarize myself with, 33:04 you know, vernacular of Revelation, of Daniel. 33:08 But it just has me really studying it 33:11 and watching, I'd mentioned to you, 33:14 watching like the YouTube channels that, 33:16 you know, just googling 33:17 anything on the Three Angels' Message. 33:19 It really is totally intriguing. 33:21 And the fact that it's backed with God's love is to say like, 33:26 you know, He's signed a check. 33:29 Now I just need to go, you know, cash it, and just, 33:33 you know, claim it as mine. 33:34 And I just do want to make a mention 33:37 about the Spring Camp Meeting that, 33:40 I understand that the messages 33:42 are going to be all on the Three Angels, 33:44 so I'm gonna go out and sit, 33:45 and be sure I'm on the front row. 33:47 Right after we're through here, 33:48 I'm gonna go sit and maybe a little early for that. 33:51 Yeah, you'll be a little early. 33:53 But truly, I'm excited to just glean everything 33:56 I can about this message. 33:57 One of the things that Tim and I are working on, 34:01 and we're just really began but it's a whole project, 34:05 a music project on the Three Angels' Messages. 34:09 Now, to me, I've worked on dozens, 34:11 if not hundreds of projects since late '79 to '81 34:16 when I first started going to studios, 34:18 but I don't think I've ever worked on a project 34:19 it would seem more difficult to write about 34:22 and to be involve songs with Revelation, 34:26 because of some of the vernacular, the terminology, 34:29 you are saying, "Now what does this mean? 34:31 How do I get this to the person, 34:33 the lay person that will understand this?" 34:35 And so we've been praying about it, 34:37 so Tim and I are gonna produce, 34:39 we're co-producing a new project. 34:42 And we've got people Lanny Wolfe that is co-writing, 34:47 he and I are co-writing, 34:48 and we're going directly by the Bible. 34:51 So we've got David Huntsinger, 34:53 who is actually writing right now. 34:56 And he told me, I talked to him the other night and he said, 34:58 "This is so beautiful, you know, 35:00 this Three Angels' Messages and Revelation." 35:04 And even we started Revelation 14:6, he said, 35:07 "Look at 1 through 5. 35:09 How beautiful, what a picture it paints of the Lamb of God." 35:12 And he says, you know, I'm writing about this. 35:14 So what we're doing with Lanny, people say, 35:18 "Well, I don't know that he's a baptized 35:20 Seventh-day Adventist Christian." 35:22 You don't have to be. You just go by the Bible. 35:23 But what he is doing is studying every bit of this, 35:26 and we've got from what he would, maybe, 35:28 normally have written to now centered in. 35:30 I'll give you little, little sample here. 35:33 It's absolutely anointed 35:35 of the Holy Spirit as we worked together. 35:37 Years ago, I wrote a song called "Give Him glory." 35:39 Yes. Give him glory, give him glory. 35:43 And it was just chorus 35:44 and then I did two or three or four choruses in a row. 35:48 But I gave it to Lanny, and I said, 35:49 "This is the first angel's messages, 35:51 'Fear God and give glory to Him.' 35:53 I want you to pray about it." 35:55 And so he studied a literally for weeks, 35:57 everything he can read, just like David Huntsinger did 36:00 on the Pillars Project when he was able to write 36:02 "I've fixed my mind," you know, 36:04 "Remember the Sabbath" and all of these things. 36:07 And so he is excited again. 36:09 He told me the other night 36:11 to help contribute on this project. 36:14 And so Lanny is really studying, I'm really studying. 36:18 And so here's what we've come up with so far. 36:21 I will give you one of the songs that 36:23 "Give Him glory." 36:24 And the chorus that I'd written, 36:27 we changed a little bit on it. 36:29 Give him glory, give him glory 36:30 Humbly bow before His Majesty 36:33 Worship cries the Lord 36:35 For He is worthy 36:36 He alone is worthy 36:37 The Lamb slain from the foundation 36:39 Is worthy of our praise. 36:41 I had the music and words. 36:42 "But Lanny," I said, 36:43 "See what you can do with that." 36:45 And here's what he's done 36:46 after much study, and much prayer. 36:48 Before that long awaited day when Christ shall come again, 36:52 an angel in the heavens will give a loud command. 36:56 To all who dwell upon the earth, every nation, 36:58 tribe, and tongue to fear God, give glory to Him. 37:02 The hour of His judgment has come." 37:04 Then, of course, give him glory, verse 2. 37:07 "Soon the saints from all the ages 37:09 and all the streets of gold, 37:11 will sing a new song only they can sing. 37:14 It's the song of the redeemed. 37:16 And angel strumming harps of gold 37:18 make the symphony complete 37:20 as the foreign 20 elders cast their crowns at Jesus' feet." 37:24 Oh, yes. Beautiful. Wow. 37:26 Isn't that beautiful? 37:27 Then you go back to give Him glory, give Him glory, right? 37:31 Now third verse, "Like the voice of many waters, 37:33 like a thunder's mighty roar, 37:35 redemption song 37:37 will fill the skies with praise unto the Lord. 37:39 Angelic choirs will stand in all 37:42 as the Lamb of God is crowned, 37:44 King of kings and Lord of lords, 37:46 all heaven will bow down." 37:47 Amen, yes. Yeah. 37:49 Give Him glory, give Him glory. 37:52 Sing it now, all right. 37:53 You know, when you put that together... 37:54 Humbly bow before His Majesty 37:58 Worship Christ the Lord 38:00 For He is worthy, He alone is worthy 38:06 The Lamb slain from the foundation 38:09 Oh, it's hard to sing. Yeah, yeah. 38:12 He's worthy of our praise 38:14 Yeah. Yes. He's worthy. 38:17 So, this is one of the songs. Yes. 38:19 Now we have one that he wrote on our last project 38:22 on Calvary that you sang, "Praise His Holy name." 38:26 Now he's co-writing with Buck again, Tim. 38:28 Right. Beethoven. 38:30 Beethoven, I'm sorry, Beethoven, he's co-writing. 38:33 But the song, it's absolutely fabulous, 38:36 and it's "Lord, we praise Your name". 38:38 And this, a totally Biblical write down, 38:41 and he's taken it directly out of Revelation, 38:44 you know, Daniel, Revelation. 38:45 And it's amazing. 38:47 And so we're seeing a number of songs being put together, 38:50 so at the camp meeting, we're gonna have 14, 38:53 I think 14 or 16 sermons 38:55 all on the Three Angels' Messages. 38:57 You want to come to 3ABN, 38:59 then we're gonna have a choir 39:00 that's singing all of these songs 39:03 as we began to put them all together, 39:05 so that's what Tim and I are gonna be doing. 39:07 And I suspect we'll learn more as we delve into this, Tim. 39:11 And these songs and the messages, 39:13 of course, they all... 39:15 The pictures that they paint... 39:17 I sometimes learn so much from pictures, you know, 39:22 when I can't understand the words. 39:23 So I think that's gonna... 39:25 What an awesome witnessing tool, 39:27 sharing tool that we can spread the message. 39:30 Yes, sure. Excited. 39:31 You know, my mother, she was a singer. 39:34 And she always said that music sometimes 39:36 can touch the heart as nothing else can. 39:39 And this is so beautiful, so powerful 39:42 because the Three Angels' Message 39:44 is kind of like the last piece of the puzzles. 39:47 You know, throughout all the ages of the churches, 39:50 there have been teachings in God's word 39:52 that were forgotten and done away with. 39:54 So God would raise up a people to put it back 39:56 whether it was baptism or what have you. 39:59 And now it's His law, it's the Sabbath. 40:03 It's putting it back, it's so powerful. 40:05 This is the last message. 40:07 And I loved when Danny said the angels with the trumpet, 40:11 you know, that's what used to be on 3ABN, 40:13 you'd see those angels with the trumpet 40:15 and it's still blowing. 40:17 You know, sometimes we say, we get letters saying, 40:19 "Where are those angels?" 40:21 But even now you see the stripes, 40:22 it's the angels are still blowing the trumpet, 40:25 that music is blowing the trumpet, 40:28 these messages are blowing the trumpet. 40:31 And it's up to us as God's people, 40:33 it's up to you at home to whether or not 40:35 you're gonna study, whether or not 40:37 you're gonna allow the Bible to interpret itself, 40:39 and make a commitment. 40:42 We are not gonna get to heaven, 40:44 you're not gonna get to heaven on somebody else's shoestrings. 40:46 I'm not gonna get to heaven on his shoe. 40:48 It's my relationship with Jesus. 40:51 It's your relationship with Jesus Christ. 40:54 And we have to be studiers of the Word. 40:56 We have to be so, which reminded me 40:59 when he was reading those words, 41:01 so in love with Christ. 41:04 Because as the winds of strife, 41:06 as the Holy Spirit's being repressed from this earth, 41:10 the winds of strife are increasing. 41:12 Yes, we'll see miracles. Yes, we'll see people healed. 41:16 But as we see the miracles amongst God's people, 41:18 the miracles that enemy will be producing many miracles 41:23 as in so much as fire coming down from heaven, 41:25 so that he may deceive the very elective possible. 41:28 The only sure foundation we have is on the Word of God. 41:34 And we challenge all those things that we see, 41:37 we talk about what we see. 41:39 Isaiah 8:20, "To the law and the testimony, 41:41 they speak not according to this, 41:43 because there is no light." 41:44 Don't say, "Well, there is 95%, or there's 50%." 41:47 Either is or not. 41:48 Jesus said, "He who is not with me, is against me." 41:51 And I thought about this, and some of you may be... 41:53 I've heard people say, "Don't tell me about it. 41:56 I don't want to know about it." 41:57 They're kind of, 41:58 "If we don't hear, we're not accountable." 42:00 But, you know, "There is no excuse," 42:02 Great Controversy brings out in the Bible, 42:03 clearly brings out, 42:05 "There is no excuse for ignorance 42:07 when it comes to sin or error." 42:09 It's interesting. 42:11 It says, "When there is every opportunity 42:13 to know what the will of God is." 42:15 So if there is an opportunity to learn what truth is, 42:20 there is no excuse for our ignorance. 42:22 Or we say, "Well, we didn't know." 42:23 You've had an opportunity, 42:25 somebody has knocked at our door, 42:26 somebody has give you a pamphlet, 42:28 you are around different people, you hear. 42:29 At least, I'm begging you, at least, listen, listen. 42:32 "Study to show thyself approved unto God." 42:34 You know, I'll tell you, God's going to do 42:36 great, great things here. 42:38 I mean, I'm looking at the stirring. 42:39 I'm looking, you know, thinking of the latter rain, 42:41 I'm thinking of the early rain, 42:42 and what He is going to do for His people, 42:44 how is He going to stir us to new heights, 42:46 you know, excitement in the gospel, 42:48 but the truth that come out would just be... 42:50 And I know you've talked to people. 42:52 and I've talked to people sometimes 42:54 when the Holy Spirit is so present 42:56 that they may want to live, 42:58 they may want to go get that loaf of bread, 43:00 they may want to go... 43:01 But it's almost like they're compelled 43:02 by the Spirit to at least listen. 43:05 That's all you has to put. 43:07 At least listen to the word of God, 43:08 this warning of the Three Angels' Message. 43:10 And if we're willing to do that, 43:12 God's gonna reveal some great things. 43:13 You know, that is so true. 43:17 The thing that we have to remind ourselves 43:19 of is that there's nothing we can do to save ourselves. 43:24 We can't save ourselves. 43:26 We're not saved by keeping a law, we're not... 43:28 We are saved by grace through faith. 43:31 Does that mean that we then may void the law? 43:33 No, we establish the law. Thank you. 43:36 Yes. Romans 3:31. 43:37 Yes, yes. 43:41 All we can do is give God time. 43:45 We separate time for God and then He works in us. 43:49 Amen. That's all we can do. 43:52 If we just give God His time, just sometime. 43:58 The other thing that I wanted to say is that, you know, 44:02 when it says fear God and give glory to Him, 44:06 for the hour of His judgment has come. 44:08 I love this, I got to read this first. 44:11 Isaiah... 44:12 I mean, Jeremiah because when we were recently, 44:16 by the ocean... 44:18 Jason even mentioned that it wasn't coming up on the earth. 44:23 You know, it doesn't come up, it's held there. 44:26 Yes. And God says... 44:28 I love these verses in Jeremiah. 44:31 Where He says, 44:32 "'Do you not fear Me?' says the Lord. 44:34 'Will you not tremble at My presence, 44:36 who have placed the sand as the bound of the sea, 44:40 by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass beyond it? 44:44 And though its waves toss to and fro, 44:47 yet they cannot prevail. 44:49 Though they roar, yet they cannot pass over it." 44:53 I mean, he's saying, "Don't you fear me? 44:55 Do you not know who I am? I set this in place." 44:59 I'm God, so here where it says, 45:01 "Fear God and give glory to Him. 45:03 Honor Him, He made everything. 45:05 And He set up things by perpetual decree." 45:09 Things are in motion, things are law that that... 45:15 You know, the oceans not coming upon on the earth. 45:18 To me, it's all about who are we gonna worship. 45:23 Amen. Yes. 45:24 Who deserves our worship, that's what it boils down to. 45:29 Does God deserve our worship? 45:31 Do we have to give our worship to God or Satan? 45:35 Well, that's right, one or the other. 45:37 One or the other. It comes down to worship. 45:40 And God says fear Him and worship Him, 45:45 for the hour of His judgment has come. 45:47 It's time for us to turn our lives over, over to Jesus. 45:53 By not choosing, you've made your choice. 45:55 That's right. 45:57 You have to make a decision, you have to decide it, 45:58 you have to be intentional about it, 46:00 because if you don't choose, 46:02 then you made your choice on who you're gonna serve. 46:04 That's right. 46:06 Do you remember, Danny, the lawyer that came, 46:07 just a quick take, a lawyer came to Jesus. 46:10 And he said, you know, talked about being saved here. 46:12 He said, "What shall I do that I inherit eternal life?" 46:15 Jesus just looked... 46:16 Here's the king of the universe. 46:18 He just looks at him. 46:19 It's awesome to me to think that His feet trod this earth 46:21 that He cares so much for us. 46:23 He put on humanity, came down here 46:24 with the possibility of never going back. 46:26 I mean, that just blows your mind. 46:28 Like, "Oh, what love He has for us!" 46:30 What did He tell this man when a man came and say, 46:32 "What must I do here? 46:34 What shall I do to inherit eternal life?" 46:37 And Jesus said, "What does the scripture say?" 46:40 And He said, "What does it say in the law?" 46:43 Interesting, what does it say in the law, 46:45 and how readest thou? 46:48 So what did Jesus point him to? 46:50 "I want eternal life," He point him to the law of God 46:53 written with the finger of God, 46:55 just like so special when you think about that. 46:57 It's like when you go back, 46:59 and once in a while I pull out a card 47:00 or something that she's written for birthday 47:02 or something on there. 47:03 And that has special meaning because she wrote it 47:05 with her own finger which says, "Honey, I love you." 47:07 Oh, nice. Yeah. 47:08 It's not like somebody else did it now, she did it. 47:11 So it's very special, and you want to keep that. 47:14 That's why people keep those cards. 47:17 Like wedding vows. Thank you, yes. 47:19 You can either throw your wedding vows out the window, 47:23 and your marriage is gonna go out the window too. 47:25 Or you can honor those vows and have a happy marriage. 47:30 Absolutely. 47:32 I'm thankful for God's mercy and His long suffering. 47:36 And I'll tell you why, none of us are perfect. 47:39 But when I was impressed, Tim, 47:41 to build a television station that will reach the world 47:45 with an undiluted Three Angels' Messages, 47:47 one that would counteract the counterfeit, 47:49 I really didn't know what that meant. 47:51 And I'm only learning now because most churches 47:53 weren't teaching the Three Angels' Messages. 47:55 So what's this mean one that would counteract 47:59 the counterfeit? 48:01 And it's really just been hitting me 48:02 in the last few years is simply this that, 48:06 as Pastor Odle have said, 48:08 you know, some worship in spirit and some in truth. 48:12 The Three Angels' Messages, 48:14 a lot of us think that we're gonna be saved 48:15 because we know the message. 48:17 We will not be saved because we know the 48:20 "Thus saith the Lord", 48:21 we will be saved because we know the Lord. 48:24 And that will affect our relationship 48:26 not only with Him, 48:28 but everybody we come in contact with. 48:30 So what happens is, I believe, 48:34 the latter rain would be much farther long 48:37 if the people who know this message 48:40 represented the message, but instead, 48:43 all you have to do is go on social media 48:46 and Facebook and Twitter and these others, 48:48 and people who know the message are quick to condemn those 48:51 who don't and say, "Well, why are you?" 48:53 I've had people calling 48:55 some of the folks that helping us here 48:57 that are not Seventh-day Adventist baptized members, 49:00 yet they're learning the truth and working, 49:02 calling them and saying, 49:03 "What are you doing working there? 49:05 You don't even believe the same way as they do." 49:07 And it discourages people. 49:09 So what God is looking for is the people 49:13 that would reflect His character 49:16 in our lives so that people will see Jesus in us. 49:21 And He says, "I, if I be lifted up from this earth 49:23 will draw all men unto Me." 49:26 So He's coming back for a purified church, 49:28 a purified bride, so the devil doesn't care. 49:30 You can know 49:32 the Three Angels' Message inside out. 49:34 You can memorize Daniel 49:35 and Revelation, and still be lost. 49:37 I hate to tell you that at the end of the program, 49:40 'cause I don't want anybody 49:41 go away sad or mad or upset, Tim. 49:44 But you can know the entire Bible 49:47 and be lost if you don't know Jesus. 49:50 When you really know Jesus, don't know about Him, 49:53 but know Jesus, it will affect 49:55 how you treat others around you. 49:58 Do you treat people with love? 50:00 We have no right to point fingers at anyone else, 50:03 because some of those were condemning 50:05 will be the Eleventh Hour people 50:07 who get it right at the last and say, 50:09 "Lord, I see it. 50:11 I understand it, and I accept You, 50:13 and I will follow You wherever You lead me." 50:18 And so many of us in here, so busy worrying about, 50:21 "Well, you don't live like us. 50:22 You don't eat like me, you know, 50:24 you don't keep the Sabbath, you don't do these things." 50:26 We've got ourselves in such a jam 50:28 that we don't even understand. 50:31 We're as, I'm gonna use the word ignorant of truth 50:34 as people we think are ignorant of truth. 50:36 So I may have said too much already. 50:39 No. No, it's all good. 50:40 That's a good word because the Lord 50:42 wants us to reflect His character. 50:45 It's not about what you know. 50:47 It's not about some intellectual ascent 50:49 to this information. 50:51 No, it's who you know. 50:52 Yeah, but who doesn't want to know? 50:54 We just were on a trip. 50:56 And who doesn't want to know how to get there on that trip? 50:59 It's a one way. 51:01 It's one way. It's a direction. 51:04 I'm ashamed to say that the other night, 51:06 I've come back from St. Louis, 51:08 probably hundreds of times but we were talking about 51:11 the Three Angels' Messages, you know, 51:15 on the way there. 51:16 And I came across the bridge and ended up on 5570 51:20 and where's that gonna take me? 51:21 It's gonna take me to Chicago, right, 51:23 that's the last place I want to go 51:25 when I'm tired after being gone 11 days, 51:28 and I'm never done that in all those years. 51:30 But you did it with an honest heart, Brother, 51:32 what's the difference there, right? 51:34 I did it with an honest heart. 51:36 I sincerely believed 51:38 that I was coming right down 64 51:40 and gonna head south of Mount Vernon 51:42 coming to West Frankfurt. 51:43 I believe that. And I was talking the truth. 51:48 We were talking about the three Ms actually last night. 51:50 Come on, I love it, I love it. 51:52 This last night, we were talking about 51:53 the Three Angels' Messages and about this program today, 51:57 Jay and Yvonne and me. 51:58 And so we were talking about truth. 52:00 And Jay was saying, 52:02 we were kind of going over this one way. 52:04 And here, I'm on a road... I've never done that. 52:08 And probably nobody here has. 52:10 You've been here not too long, 52:12 but you probably always take the right road. 52:14 I'm headed and finally, I look at this. 52:16 And I say, "I'm going out." 52:17 Thankfully, we're only like 52:19 five, or six, seven, eight miles out of the away, 52:21 but I still was out of the way. 52:22 Had I kept going, we'd been doing this program, 52:25 if we had the cameras, there from Chicago. 52:28 And I'm go glad that we weren't. 52:30 But though my intentions were good, 52:32 I really thought I was sincere, I mean, I was sincere, 52:36 I still would have been lost. 52:37 'Cause what we found is West Frankfurt, 52:39 that's where I wanted to be which is here, 52:41 but I'm gonna be lost. 52:42 That's the way so many of us are. 52:44 Because you know this truth... 52:46 I watch and I cringe on some of my own pages. 52:50 I discuss on Facebook 52:51 some of these things, and I cringe. 52:54 And I'm embarrassed how some of the folk 52:57 who maybe believe the same way 52:59 I do treat others who don't, 53:01 who are simply asking questions or disagree with you. 53:04 One person said, "How can people be so mean?" 53:07 I just talk to someone yesterday, 53:08 very well known person said, "Why are people mean? 53:12 If they have this truth, why are they mean?' 53:13 So to love Jesus, that's the most important thing 53:17 we can do is to surrender, 53:20 submit, and commit our life to Him. 53:22 So therefore, when we rightly represent Jesus, 53:25 that's really what it's all about. 53:27 None of us have any advantage over the other. 53:29 I mean, it's almost like, in those instances, like, 53:32 you want to ask them, you know, 53:34 "Have you been studying the life of the Pharisees? 53:36 Are you trying to emulate that? Are you trying to copy that? 53:39 Or are you gonna make that transition 53:42 and shift into following Christ and His example?" 53:46 'Cause the Pharisees were law, law, law, law, law, 53:50 and totally missed the love. 53:52 Right. Yeah. 53:54 Absolutely. 53:55 You know, Christ showed us the love 53:56 all the way through to the cross. 53:58 Amen. Yes. 54:00 The fortitude of Christ when they were beating Him, 54:02 they poked crown of thorns into His scalp. 54:07 He never got mad, He never got angry. 54:09 He never said, "Why don't you know the truth? 54:11 Why didn't you study Isaiah?" 54:14 You know, He never cursed, 54:16 you know until they started to nail 54:19 His hands and His feet, and He began to say, 54:21 "Father, forgive them." 54:23 That's the fortitude of Christ. 54:25 What you've been describing is the enemy, is the enemy, 54:30 the accuser of the brethren. 54:32 We've got to learn the difference. 54:34 I think we ought to have a prayer together here. 54:37 And really ask... 54:39 Maybe, no matter you might be a pastor, an elder, 54:42 or Sabbath School teacher, Sunday School teacher, 54:44 whatever, and say, 54:46 "Lord, let me really see myself for who I am. 54:50 I don't want to see... 54:52 I've got this facade that I think what I'm not. 54:54 Let me see myself of what I really am." 54:56 Because when we do, 54:58 we're gonna go to the foot of the cross, 55:00 if we're gonna realize that we have nothing 55:02 to bring that is good to the Savior or to the world. 55:07 And all we can ask to be as Jesus says, 55:10 "Go ye into all the world." 55:11 Our asset is our greatest... 55:13 Our testimony is our greatest asset that we have today. 55:17 And if the testimony is null and void, 55:19 then we're null and void. 55:21 So why don't we take this time. 55:22 And I'm gonna ask you, Yvonne, to pray 55:24 that we will ask Jesus into our hearts in our lives, 55:28 and will totally accept Him and do His will. 55:31 Sure, and just before we do that, 55:33 I just want to remind the viewers 55:35 that if you want to further study in Revelation, 55:37 go to our Dare to Dream YouTube Channel 55:39 and watch Salvation in Symbols and Signs. 55:42 We have 72 programs on the Book of Revelation. 55:46 Great, okay. You pray. Yes. 55:48 Father God, we just thank You so much. 55:51 We thank You for the presence of Your Holy Spirit 55:54 in our midst, Lord. 55:55 We love You, and we are so grateful for Your Son, 55:58 Jesus Christ who came and gave His life for us 56:01 that we might have eternal life. 56:03 Revelation is a revelation of Him, 56:06 and so we just thank You for revealing Christ 56:10 through these words. 56:11 And we just pray that our characters 56:13 will be conformed to His, and that one day soon, 56:17 we will able to say, "Lo, this is our God. 56:20 We've waited for Him and He will save us." 56:22 Thank you so much, Lord. 56:24 We just praise You and bless Your name. 56:26 In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. 56:29 Wow, we only have a few seconds left in the program 56:32 but I hope that you're enjoying the Sabbath 56:35 and this is such a special time of the week. 56:37 God is with us all the time. 56:39 But on this day 56:41 that He's willing to draw closer to us. 56:43 People say to me all the time, 56:45 "Well, you know, I keep everyday holy." 56:47 No, you don't, you wouldn't work if you did. 56:48 You wouldn't do... 56:50 As the Lord tells us what to do, 56:51 come aside from our work, 56:53 but the reason is that is so that we're not lost. 56:56 That's right. 56:57 And God could have made us 56:58 where we didn't need physical rest 57:00 but He allows us to because we're dependent upon Him. 57:03 And when we come apart from our worldly cares, 57:07 we're gonna focus on Jesus and the cross of Calvary. 57:10 And it helps get us back on track. 57:12 Sometimes we get off track, we need to get back on. 57:14 Well, our time is all gone for today. 57:17 So until we see you next time, 57:18 may the Lord richly bless you 57:19 abundantly more than you could ever ask or think. 57:22 Happy Sabbath! |
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