I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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Hello and welcome to
Friday night Family Worship.
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Honey, isn't this
an exciting program?
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It sure is. I'm
happy to be here.
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I'm glad that you
have joined us too.
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We just... We're excited.
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We just got started.
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The topic is
gonna be phenomenal.
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What's the topic, honey?
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It's about end time events.
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That's right,
"The Time of the End".
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And all you need is a Bible.
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If you want to have a
pen, that's up to you,
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but gather your
family around, it's Sabbath,
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it's time for family worship.
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And we have a great
panel with us today.
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Why don't you
introduce our panel?
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Sure.
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To my right, your
left, we have Donald Janelle,
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sitting right
here, and Donald Owen.
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They've been
married for how long now?
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Well, it's been what,
10? Eleven, going on eleven.
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We just celebrated 21 years.
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Hey, don't forget.
Don't mess it up now.
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Not of marriage,
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we always count our
dating anniversary too.
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So we've been together 21
but married for almost 11.
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Oh, wow. Yeah.
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Hey, you took a
long time to ask her.
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Okay.
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There is a story
there, you guys know it.
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Oh, we're glad to have you both.
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Thank you.
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Graphic
publishing, is this right?
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And Pastoral Department
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and Pastoral
Ministries for the church.
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Yup.
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And you're a
great team together.
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Glad to have you both.
Thank you for having us.
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Imagine if we said how
long we've been dating,
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date and marriage.
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Okay, that will
remain anonymous,
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nine years.
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That's how long
we've dated, nine years.
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We dated nine years.
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We were only 16, so
that was kind of like...
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You don't want to
rush and get married at 16.
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No. Yeah.
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'Cause it's not
gonna go away anytime soon.
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My childhood sweetheart.
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But now we're going on...
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Don't say it. Oh, come on.
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They're gonna
figure out our age now.
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That's right. Do not
ask us how old we are.
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Who's to your left?
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Brian Dickens, we're
so glad to have you here.
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Thank you.
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And you're the manager of...
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I'm the
Programming Manager of 3ABN.
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I've been here
for a couple of years,
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almost year and a half now.
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Two years ago,
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I probably would
have never dreamed
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that I was doing the
job that I am right now.
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To be able to work with
all the different ministries,
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to help put everything
together for it to be aired on,
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you know, throughout
the networks that we do.
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That's right.
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And it has just
been a wonderful blessing
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to be able to work for,
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you know, God's
ministry in this way.
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That's right.
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And by the way, his
position is so important.
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We do programs
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but if Brian doesn't schedule it
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correctly
digitally and then compute
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and put all the information,
it's just not gonna happen.
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And you have a
wonderful team that helps you,
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but pretty much it
falls on your shoulder.
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A great group of ladies
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that are with me right
now in that department,
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and without them,
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you know, without
them and God's guidance,
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we would not be
able to do it at all.
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That's right. Yeah.
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And he's also
Celestine's husband.
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Seeing at Celestine,
you have a beautiful wife
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and we're glad to
have you both here
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as a team in our church.
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All right.
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It's definitely a blessing
to be able to do everything
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that we can for the ministry.
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Amen. Amen.
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And over here, we
have our wonderful friend,
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my sister in the Lord, Donna,
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Donna Berg,
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but we've known
you as Donna Gantz
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when you were here.
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She's since been
married and moved on to Phoenix,
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but we're happy to
have you here today with us,
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and she's always
filled with a lot of wisdom.
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That's why I wanted Donna
to be here on our set with us.
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So thank you for
being here, Donna.
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Well, it's by the
power of the Holy Spirit
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that we have wisdom,
it's nothing of our own.
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Not at all.
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So I'm thankful to be here.
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It's a blessing. Amen.
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I'm glad to be on
the set here today.
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Oh, thank you. That's right.
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And, honey,
would you pray for us
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before we go any further?
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Sure.
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Let's bow our heads as
we approach the throne.
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Our kind and
gracious Heavenly Father,
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we bow before
Your awesome presence,
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and we are so
grateful for Jesus.
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Where would we be
without You for Calvary,
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for the ultimate sacrifice?
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Now, Father, as we about
to start this family worship,
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we invite Your Holy
Spirit here to be with us,
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to just enlighten
our minds, give us wisdom
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and understanding where we lack.
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And, Lord, those who
are watching this program,
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may they be blessed also.
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And we thank You for
what You are going to do.
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In Jesus' name, amen.
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Amen. Amen.
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Thank you, honey. Thank you.
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Once again, the topic
is "The Time of the End".
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And what's nice
about the time of the end
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is this horrible
world has to come to an end.
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Amen to that. Yes.
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I mean, all
that we've been going
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through, the
pain, the heartache.
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And the reason I titled
it "The Time of the End"
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is because there are
certain references in the Bible
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that particularly
pertain to the time of the end.
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In other words, you
wouldn't know about these things
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a hundred years ago,
two hundred years ago,
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thousand years ago,
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these were all, I'm
gonna use a big word here,
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prognosticated.
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That will happen at
the time of the end.
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That's simply a broadcast
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or a prediction of
the time of the end,
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and which means these signs
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could not appear
at any other time
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other than the time of the end.
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They're like mile markers.
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You know, if you
start a journey in Florida,
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and you hit
Texas, and you see 880,
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that means that's how many miles
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you have left in Texas.
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Those are mile markers.
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And so we're gonna talk
about some mile markers,
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some quite
eye-opening mile markers.
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And the beautiful thing
about that, in a summary,
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each one of these
mile markers point us
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to the eminent return of Jesus.
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So let's go
ahead and look at one.
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I'm gonna give each
one of you an opportunity,
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but since my lovely
wife is right to my left,
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I'm gonna ask a question
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and we're gonna look at a book
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that most people know
where to find, Habakkuk.
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Habakkuk.
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Habakkuk, that's
one of those books
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people say Habakkuk.
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I always say Habakkuk.
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Habakkuk. Habakkuk.
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Well, Habakkuk 2:3,
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and according to the
Bible, here is the question,
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according to the Bible,
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what are we told about signs
assigned to the end, honey?
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All right.
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"For the vision is
yet for an appointed time,
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but at the end, it will speak,
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and it will not lie,
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though it tarries, wait for it
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because it will surely
come, it will not tarry."
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Okay, so what do
we get out of that?
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It's gonna happen.
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The visions for
an appointed time.
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What do we get
out of that, Donald?
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I just look at this.
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Yeah, there's things
that happen in sequence
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or it's like events
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are happened in
its predicted time.
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I thought about this
just a little bit ago,
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I think about when
Jesus, if you're reading Daniel,
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He died on the cross
at an appointed time.
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That's right.
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So it's kind of
what we're talking about,
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there's appointed
times for things that happen.
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So that kind of spoke
to me an idea of tarrying,
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you know, if you
think of Revelation 14:12,
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"Here is the patience..."
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That's right.
You know what I mean?
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Patient, you have to be patient
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and they will reveal themselves.
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We were talking
earlier and I was asking him
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about the second
part of that verse.
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This says,
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"Though it tarries, wait for
it because it will surely come,
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it will not tarry."
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So it's saying it tarries,
but then it will not tarry.
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Okay.
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So I was asking him,
so what does that mean
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'cause I was actually
a little confused on it,
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but I think what that means,
it's just my understanding,
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is it'll happen
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when it's supposed to happen.
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You know, we'll see
it as it's tarrying,
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but it actually comes
when it's supposed to happen
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because it's all in God's time.
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Exactly.
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And of course, whenever it says,
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"At the end, it will
speak, and it will not lie."
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If we know the Bible so well,
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you know, when
the end time comes,
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then we will be familiar
with what's going to happen
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and that it is true,
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and it's not a lie at that time.
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You know, whenever it does come,
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we will know.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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We don't know
exactly how it's gonna come,
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but when it comes,
we know it is the time.
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Didn't Daniel talk about that?
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That's right. Yeah.
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At the time of the end,
knowledge will increase.
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Daniel 12, he
says... Everything is time.
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Everything is time.
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And when you pointed
that out, Galatians 4:4,
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"When the
fullness of time had come."
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So everything has
a timetable to it.
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And that's beautiful
because lot of times,
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Christians today...
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I recently spoke
to somebody who said,
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"Well, the coming of the
Lord could be any moment now."
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And I said, "Well,
let me encourage you,
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He's not coming tomorrow."
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Although we don't know
the day or know the hour,
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Jesus is not coming tomorrow
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because one of the
beautiful things about prophecy,
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and Habakkuk is a minor prophet,
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is there are events
that have been established,
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has a mile marker.
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It's like getting in your
car here in Illinois and say,
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"We can be in
California tomorrow."
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Yeah.
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Well, Donald, you plan on
sitting up all night long,
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it's not gonna happen.
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But though it
tarries, wait for it.
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Yeah.
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So it's on its way, be patient.
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That's what is
actually being said.
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It's coming, but
don't be in a hurry.
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And when it gets
here, it will not lie
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and it will surely come.
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You know, something you spoke
on made me think of the 1844,
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you know, they
all though that...
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And you saw around the world,
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the message was just
lighting up the world,
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they thought, "Surely
Jesus was coming then."
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But they missed the event,
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they get the message
but they missed the event.
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Event was, of course, Christ
going to the most holy place,
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but that's where it's
saying the idea of tarrying,
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they thought,
"Well, He is coming,
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He is coming."
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But yeah, it comes in His time.
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And for me, Bible
prophecy has made confirm for me
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that God's Word is
true and that, you know,
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what He says has
happened and will happen,
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and is happening actually.
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But it's just,
for me, that confirmed
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the truth of God's
Word is Bible prophecy.
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And He lets us
know what's coming next
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because He loves us.
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Yes. Amen.
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Yes.
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He reveals it to His what?
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Servants? That's right.
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Three servants. Amen.
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Three servants.
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So surely, He would do nothing
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except He reveals His
secrets through His prophets.
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Very good point.
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But also, He is saying
to us another thing is,
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right now it doesn't make sense,
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but when He comes,
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He will not lie, it
is gonna make sense.
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So there are many people today
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that are
throwing out predictions
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or pastors today are...
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Oh, secret raptures.
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Say that again.
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You're gonna be
raptured they say.
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So all of this,
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we won't be here to see
all these things happen,
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we'll be secretly raptured.
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That's another
deception, isn't it?
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And we're gonna find out about
how these things come to play.
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In fact, I was speaking to
our Jewish gentleman recently.
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Oh, yeah, sure.
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A very wonderful
conversation I had with him.
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I was at an
event and he was there,
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and I was checking
out at the cash register,
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and I said to him,
"Hey, I keep the Sabbath,
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you keep the Sabbath.
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Yeah, I don't eat unclean
foods and neither do you."
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And he says, "Why not?"
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I said, "Because
I'm a Bible believer."
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He says, "Hey, so am I."
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I said, "But I
believe the whole Bible."
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He said, "Well, I
believe the Old Testament."
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We had a wonderful
conversation about Jesus,
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about the coming of Jesus,
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and so I shared with him
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some of the things
in the New Testament.
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He said, "Well, we don't
believe in the New Testament,
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we just stick with
the Old Testament."
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And I said, "However,
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on that note,
read Daniel 9:24-27,"
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which outlines from the time
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the command goes
to rebuild Jerusalem
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under the Messiah the Prince
is a particular time frame.
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Yup. I said, "Read that."
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And he said to me, I
was surprised, he said,
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"I haven't heard that before."
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So I gave him my business card,
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I said, "Read that,
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and if want to
get in touch with me."
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He says, "But Christianity,
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Christianity is just so showbiz,
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it's just so fake."
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I said, "To a great
degree, you're right."
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He said...
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I said, "But not every
Christian is that way."
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And so I said, but...
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So there has to be
some accuracy in the Bible.
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So when these things happen,
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we will know that
it's gonna take place.
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Amen. Yeah.
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But now, with all that said,
with all those secret rapture
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and all these strange
teachings about the end time,
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how does the Bible explains
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the prevalence of these end time
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or doctrines, false doctrines?
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Let's look at the
second scripture here,
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1 Timothy 4:1,
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if anybody has
that, they can read.
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On the syllabus
number two, but...
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Donna?
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Oh, just right on the
syllabus she hasn't read.
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It's right on the paper there.
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I know it's right
on the paper, guys.
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Yeah. 1 Timothy 4:1.
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Okay, all right. I'll get to it.
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Okay. Well, maybe...
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Somebody else get to it. Yeah.
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Go ahead. Brian could read that.
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And we'll get to
Donna on another one.
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Yeah.
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"Now the Spirit expressly
says that in latter times
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some will depart from the faith,
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giving heed to deceiving spirits
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and doctrines of demons."
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Amen. Amen.
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Wow.
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Now look at that, let's just
break that down for a moment.
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A couple of
points jumped out at me.
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Yeah, a couple of
points jumped out at me was,
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"The spirit expressly
says that in the latter times
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some will
depart from the faith."
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What does that mean?
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It kind of burn out. Amen.
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Means they had to
be in the faith too.
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Okay. Say that again?
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They had to be in the
faith to depart from it.
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So it's believers. Yeah.
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Who probably didn't
have a true love for the Lord
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or why would you leave the Lord,
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why would you
leave when you know,
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you know?
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If you know the Lord,
why would you leave Him?
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Well, I think that
what he is saying is,
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maybe they didn't know,
maybe they knew about the Lord.
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Exactly.
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Some people leave
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because they know about the Lord
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but they don't know the Lord.
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Right.
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Let's use an example.
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How many of us
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know about the name
of our Vice President?
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We know about him,
but do we know him?
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Or our President, we don't know.
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We all know our
President, so do we know him?
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So are we talking about
the idea of a relationship?
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A relationship with them. Right.
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How do we have that?
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You got to have the most deep
loving relationship for Him.
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And like it says, it says,
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"Giving heed to
deceiving spirits,
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and doctrines, or demons."
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You're also, I mean,
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not only as your
love being swayed from God
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but you're being deceived
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of what you think
your love is to God.
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When you start
having your thoughts
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and expressions
being turned and,
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you know, being
taught of different doctrines
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and things.
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And then you think, you know,
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"Am I truly loving
the Lord in this way,"
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and then you start thinking,
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"Well, maybe I
should do it this way."
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It's those deceiving
spirits and everything.
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You got to look out for,
and you got to be vary of
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and make sure
that you're not being,
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you know, tempted by that,
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tempted and drawn into
that teaching, you know.
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Whole entire
doctrines of demons,
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people are lead
astray with a new doctrine,
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or another doctrine,
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and it's not
truly the Word of God.
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Satan brought one-third
of the angels out with Him.
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And so... but the
doctrine of demons,
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we know that it's not the truth.
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But what's the fault
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if you look at two
words in this entire passage,
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what two words
causes that person
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to become a
victim of what they hear?
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Giving heed. Giving heed.
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Giving heed.
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They're listening to it.
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And departing. Yes.
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Look at what happened to
Eve, what was her problem?
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Right. Giving heed.
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Yeah. Right.
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She sure did.
Why not just heed it?
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Go for it.
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He says, "Has God said..."
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At that point, she just said,
"Yes, and I'm out of here."
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Yeah. Giving heed, the moment...
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And these deceiving spirits
introduce doctrines of devils.
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Right. Yeah.
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I was just thinking, Donna,
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as you were
talking, I was thinking about
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how Satan likes to
send us on rabbit trails,
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and, you know, a
lot of the things
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even within our own church that,
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you know, come
up that, you know...
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I feel like, sometimes,
I want to be informed,
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but I don't want to
go so far to the end
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to understanding
particular things
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that Satan takes me off.
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I just want to know a general,
what's it about kind of thing
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because I feel like
Satan can just send us down
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on those rabbit
trails just like that.
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Like, "Oh, what's
the..." Curiosity, you know.
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You know that expression. Yeah.
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You made me
think of Romans 1:25,
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this is happening so prevalent,
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the exchange of
truth of God for a lie
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and they worshipped
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and served their own
reasoning in the sense.
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So they worshipped
and served the creature
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rather than the creator.
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So they end up
serving their own reasoning.
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Right, yes.
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Oh, boy.
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And what happens,
professing themselves
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to be wise,
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what happens?
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So what happens when you
turn away from what you know,
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you'd give heed
to deceiving spirits
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and then all of a sudden,
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these doctrines and
this is a powerful word,
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they use...
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Paul uses the word doctrines
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because here's
some people that say,
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"Oh, I don't
believe in doctrines."
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Well, you know
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why you don't
believe in doctrines
00:18:26.10\00:18:27.44
because those are
doctrines of demons.
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They say, they think the
word doctrine is the problem.
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Oh, I don't
believe in doctrines,
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I don't want it,
I'll just worship the God,
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I don't take doctrines.
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Now if it's in the
Bible, anything in the Bible,
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the word doctrine simply is
the Greek word for teaching.
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Yeah.
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What is the Bible teaching
about a particular topic?
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So if we say, "I
don't want that doctrine,"
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you're rejecting what
the Bible is teaching.
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So if you reject
what the Bible is teaching
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because you think that
what you're being taught
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may say, well,
00:18:52.53\00:18:53.86
it differs from what
somebody else teaches,
00:18:53.90\00:18:56.00
then you're wide open as...
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What's the saying, Donna?
00:18:58.10\00:18:59.43
If you don't
stand for something,
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you'll fall for...
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Everything.
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You have a point I see.
00:19:04.71\00:19:06.04
Want to make a
point on this one?
00:19:06.07\00:19:07.41
Well, I've done that.
00:19:07.44\00:19:09.74
I've been there, I've done that.
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And, you know,
00:19:11.45\00:19:13.31
when I came into the
truth, I was in awe, you know,
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John the Revelator was in awe
00:19:19.62\00:19:21.92
at times of what he
saw, the deceptions.
00:19:21.96\00:19:25.56
I was in awe of the
deceptions that I had not known
00:19:25.59\00:19:29.46
that I was in.
00:19:29.50\00:19:30.83
Yeah.
00:19:30.87\00:19:32.20
So when you come into the truth,
00:19:32.23\00:19:33.57
you can truly
celebrate that and embrace that.
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Amen. So...
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And this table
is made up of people
00:19:37.94\00:19:40.34
that didn't know the
truth right here, you know.
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Amen.
00:19:42.51\00:19:43.85
Even if you saw us
before in the spirit realm,
00:19:43.88\00:19:47.15
we would be as
hobos on the street
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who knew nothing,
nothing, but God came,
00:19:50.55\00:19:53.76
and He
straightened out the picture,
00:19:53.79\00:19:55.59
and He made things right.
00:19:55.62\00:19:57.29
You know, there's
something that we touched on,
00:19:57.33\00:19:58.66
the idea of doctrine.
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Even in the Bible said that
00:20:00.06\00:20:01.40
all these people
listening to Jesus,
00:20:01.43\00:20:02.76
they're
astonished as a doctrine.
00:20:02.80\00:20:04.33
I think that's important,
people don't realize, you know,
00:20:04.37\00:20:06.53
like you mentioned the
teaching 'cause He was teaching
00:20:06.57\00:20:08.50
something that was
bringing them healing.
00:20:08.54\00:20:10.97
So He was bringing
healing, setting them free
00:20:11.01\00:20:12.47
from these
demons, demonic force.
00:20:12.51\00:20:15.41
So I think that's a really
powerful thought, you know.
00:20:15.44\00:20:18.41
Also, if we look
at 2 Thessalonians,
00:20:18.45\00:20:19.91
the very next
verse, the very next text,
00:20:19.95\00:20:24.02
it tells you why
they were deceived.
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And here is a point that
you have to keep in mind,
00:20:26.62\00:20:28.72
you don't just get deceived
00:20:28.76\00:20:30.29
because you want to be deceived.
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I don't know think there are...
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I don't know if any Christian
that says, "Please deceive me."
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No. I don't...
00:20:39.40\00:20:40.74
I mean, that's just...
00:20:40.77\00:20:42.10
that's kind of ludicrous to say,
00:20:42.14\00:20:44.07
"You're a Christian and
you want to be deceived."
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You had a story,
honey, you want to share.
00:20:47.44\00:20:48.78
Oh, I do.
00:20:48.81\00:20:50.15
Okay, I see, go
ahead and share with us.
00:20:50.18\00:20:51.51
You know the story of
Little Red Riding Hood?
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Okay. Okay. Yeah.
00:20:55.12\00:20:56.45
You know, she went to...
00:20:56.48\00:20:57.82
This is the
Grimms and Paris version.
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And, you know,
00:21:00.39\00:21:01.99
she had her red cape,
00:21:02.02\00:21:03.49
and her hoodie, and everything,
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and she walked through the woods
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to deliver food to
her sickly grandmother.
00:21:07.60\00:21:11.73
And in the Grimms version,
00:21:11.77\00:21:13.50
her mother ordered
that she stay on the path,
00:21:13.54\00:21:16.91
do not leave the path.
00:21:16.94\00:21:18.91
And the big bad wolf
wants to eat the little girl
00:21:18.94\00:21:22.04
and the food in the basket.
00:21:22.08\00:21:24.15
So he secretly stalks her
00:21:24.18\00:21:26.48
behind the
bushes and the shrubs,
00:21:26.51\00:21:29.22
and he unpatches
of little tall grass
00:21:29.25\00:21:31.35
as he approaches
Little, reminds me of Satan,
00:21:31.39\00:21:33.89
he approaches
Little Red Riding Hood
00:21:33.92\00:21:36.22
who naively tells
him where she is going.
00:21:36.26\00:21:39.43
He suggests that the
girl pick some flowers
00:21:39.46\00:21:42.23
as a present
for her grandmother,
00:21:42.26\00:21:44.27
which she does.
00:21:44.30\00:21:45.63
In the meantime, he goes
to the grandmother's house,
00:21:45.67\00:21:48.54
gains entry by
pretending to be the girl,
00:21:48.57\00:21:52.04
the little girl.
00:21:52.07\00:21:53.41
He swallows the
grandmother whole.
00:21:53.44\00:21:56.34
Yeah.
00:21:56.38\00:21:57.71
And in some stories,
00:21:57.75\00:21:59.08
he locks her in
the closet, okay.
00:21:59.11\00:22:00.62
And when the girl arrives,
00:22:00.65\00:22:03.39
she noticed that her grandmother
00:22:03.42\00:22:05.05
looks very strange.
00:22:05.09\00:22:06.79
And what did Little
Red Riding Hood say?
00:22:06.82\00:22:09.96
"What a deep voice you have!"
00:22:09.99\00:22:12.29
"'The better to greet you with,'
00:22:12.33\00:22:13.66
responds the wolf."
00:22:13.70\00:22:15.03
"Goodness, what
big eyes you have."
00:22:15.06\00:22:16.40
"The better to see you with."
00:22:16.43\00:22:17.77
"And what big hands you have."
00:22:17.80\00:22:19.13
"'The better to
grab and eat you with,
00:22:19.17\00:22:21.34
' responds the wolf."
00:22:21.37\00:22:22.70
At that point, the
wolf jumps out of the bed
00:22:22.74\00:22:24.77
and eats her up too.
00:22:24.81\00:22:26.54
Then he falls asleep.
00:22:26.57\00:22:28.71
And so the moral
of the story is...
00:22:28.74\00:22:33.48
the moral of the story is,
00:22:33.52\00:22:35.15
don't leave the path.
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Amen.
00:22:36.55\00:22:37.89
If she didn't leave the path,
00:22:37.92\00:22:39.59
she would not have seen him.
00:22:39.62\00:22:41.12
She wouldn't have been deceived.
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And read this. Okay.
00:22:42.52\00:22:44.53
This is from Last Day Events.
00:22:44.56\00:22:46.70
It says, "We are approaching,"
Last Day Events, page 155.
00:22:46.73\00:22:50.13
"We are approaching the
end of this earth's history,
00:22:50.17\00:22:52.47
and Satan is
working as never before.
00:22:52.50\00:22:55.20
He is striving
to act as director
00:22:55.24\00:22:58.47
of the Christian world
00:22:58.51\00:22:59.97
with an intensity
that is marvelous.
00:23:00.01\00:23:01.84
He is working
with his lying wonders.
00:23:01.88\00:23:04.51
Satan is represented as
walking about as a roaring lion,
00:23:04.55\00:23:08.58
seeking whom he may devour,"
00:23:08.62\00:23:10.19
kind of like the
wolf in the story.
00:23:10.22\00:23:12.92
"He desires to
embrace the whole world
00:23:12.95\00:23:15.72
in his confederacy.
00:23:15.76\00:23:17.79
Hiding his deformity
under the garb of Christianity,
00:23:17.83\00:23:22.96
he assumes the
attributes of a Christian
00:23:23.00\00:23:25.90
and claims to
be Christ Himself."
00:23:25.93\00:23:29.47
But it says, "The Word declares
00:23:29.50\00:23:32.84
that when it suits
the enemy's purpose,
00:23:32.87\00:23:37.21
he will through his
agencies manifest a great power
00:23:37.25\00:23:41.48
under a pretense of Christianity
00:23:41.52\00:23:45.05
that if it were possible,
00:23:45.09\00:23:46.86
he will deceive even the elect."
00:23:46.89\00:23:48.39
But he won't be able
to deceive the elect.
00:23:48.42\00:23:50.53
So it's not possible.
00:23:50.56\00:23:51.89
Praise God for that. Amen.
00:23:51.93\00:23:53.26
You know, something
that was touching me
00:23:53.29\00:23:54.63
is I watched movies
as a kid I remember,
00:23:54.66\00:23:56.00
Rudolph the
Red-Nosed Reindeer, claymation.
00:23:56.03\00:23:58.17
Anyways, I did this in a sermon
00:23:58.20\00:23:59.53
once in a blue people awareness,
00:23:59.57\00:24:00.90
the Lord brought
this to my remembrance.
00:24:00.94\00:24:02.27
So there was a
scene where these Rudolf,
00:24:02.30\00:24:04.37
Yukon in the Reindeer and
the Island of Misfit Toys,
00:24:04.41\00:24:07.41
and then they take
them to see the king,
00:24:07.44\00:24:09.28
the misfits take
them to the king,
00:24:09.31\00:24:10.71
and it's a lion
sitting on a white throne
00:24:10.75\00:24:13.72
in its white sanctuary,
whatever you want to call.
00:24:13.75\00:24:16.18
He's got wings on
either side and a golden crown.
00:24:16.22\00:24:19.32
I said, "Now you
remember anybody in the Bible,
00:24:19.35\00:24:21.02
it was a lion with wings.
00:24:21.06\00:24:22.69
Do you remember what
that was?" That's right.
00:24:22.72\00:24:24.36
And they said, "Oh,
my, are you kidding me.
00:24:24.39\00:24:26.06
I didn't know that."
00:24:26.09\00:24:27.43
So, you know, the
enemy is so sober.
00:24:27.46\00:24:28.83
He's claiming all
of the misfits are his.
00:24:28.86\00:24:33.10
I take care of you.
00:24:33.13\00:24:35.20
Presenting a picture
that doesn't help us at all.
00:24:35.24\00:24:38.44
But an answer to the
question, why do people,
00:24:38.47\00:24:40.51
how do people get to see.
00:24:40.54\00:24:41.88
If you look at 2
Thessalonians 2:10,
00:24:41.91\00:24:43.81
it's the third
text on our syllabus.
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Donna has it this time.
00:24:47.32\00:24:48.65
I have it this time. Okay.
00:24:48.68\00:24:50.99
This is my first time
here, I'm a little nervous.
00:24:51.02\00:24:53.89
You're doing well. Okay. Okay.
00:24:53.92\00:24:56.12
2 Thessalonians 2:10,
00:24:56.16\00:24:58.46
"And with all deceivableness
of unrighteousness in them
00:24:58.49\00:25:03.70
that perish
because they received
00:25:03.73\00:25:06.70
not the love of the truth,
that they might be saved."
00:25:06.74\00:25:10.34
Okay.
00:25:10.37\00:25:11.71
So notice, the deception is
00:25:11.74\00:25:13.07
because they don't
receive a love of the truth
00:25:13.11\00:25:16.04
that they might be saved.
00:25:16.08\00:25:17.81
So if I tell somebody something,
00:25:17.85\00:25:19.45
and they say, "Okay,
00:25:19.48\00:25:22.65
I don't want that."
00:25:22.68\00:25:24.45
About the Sabbath?
00:25:24.49\00:25:25.89
I don't want that. Yeah.
00:25:25.92\00:25:27.29
Some way you die, you rest in?
00:25:27.32\00:25:29.16
I don't want that.
00:25:29.19\00:25:31.03
Tell you that hell is
not eternally burning.
00:25:31.06\00:25:32.69
I don't want that.
00:25:32.73\00:25:34.06
You know,
unclean food? Well, no.
00:25:34.10\00:25:35.83
Peter had a vision and
that changed everything.
00:25:35.86\00:25:37.33
I don't want that. Yeah.
00:25:37.37\00:25:38.70
They all take everything.
They're in cafeteria.
00:25:38.73\00:25:41.67
They're going through cafeteria
00:25:41.70\00:25:43.04
and just take
taking what they want.
00:25:43.07\00:25:44.41
Yeah.
00:25:44.44\00:25:45.77
And what happens is,
00:25:45.81\00:25:47.14
so when you don't
receive the love of the truth,
00:25:47.18\00:25:48.61
what happens easily?
00:25:48.64\00:25:50.01
Believe a lie.
00:25:50.05\00:25:51.38
You believe a lie. Yeah.
00:25:51.41\00:25:52.88
You believe a lie. Yeah.
00:25:52.91\00:25:54.25
So the truth is
presented to them
00:25:54.28\00:25:55.62
and they just
didn't accept it basically.
00:25:55.65\00:25:58.75
So there's no
excuse if you think,
00:25:58.79\00:26:01.56
present it with the
truth and you don't accept it.
00:26:01.59\00:26:04.03
Yeah.
00:26:04.06\00:26:05.39
There was a movie
with Pilgrim's Progress,
00:26:05.43\00:26:06.76
I remember when
Christian went to the room
00:26:06.80\00:26:08.43
of the interpreter.
00:26:08.46\00:26:09.93
And it showed that
it was already the end,
00:26:09.96\00:26:11.30
everything had done,
00:26:11.33\00:26:12.67
and so the lady
was in the bedroom,
00:26:12.70\00:26:14.04
he showed her
the vision, she said,
00:26:14.07\00:26:15.67
"I had all this opportunity,
00:26:15.70\00:26:17.04
people kept telling me
this, but I didn't listen.
00:26:17.07\00:26:19.87
Now it's too late, I'm done."
00:26:19.91\00:26:21.71
This is just a sad
tragedy, she ignored it.
00:26:21.74\00:26:25.18
And then she lost her life.
00:26:25.21\00:26:26.55
And we know that every person's
gonna be given an opportunity,
00:26:26.58\00:26:29.58
I mean, we know
that's gonna happen
00:26:29.62\00:26:31.55
in the last days that, you know,
00:26:31.59\00:26:33.42
God's gonna give
everyone an opportunity
00:26:33.46\00:26:35.82
to have information
about Him, you know?
00:26:35.86\00:26:38.99
And our part is
to take, you know,
00:26:39.03\00:26:42.06
to share that,
00:26:42.10\00:26:43.60
but He will give
people an opportunity.
00:26:43.63\00:26:46.50
I think this will
rather finish over verse 12,
00:26:46.53\00:26:48.60
you know, in this same chapter.
00:26:48.64\00:26:50.21
"That they all might be damned
who believed not the truth,
00:26:50.24\00:26:52.51
but had pleasure
in unrighteousness."
00:26:52.54\00:26:54.28
Right.
00:26:54.31\00:26:55.64
And the word
damned, that mean condemned
00:26:55.68\00:26:58.11
because they don't
have pleasure in truth,
00:26:58.15\00:26:59.91
they have pleasure
in unrighteousness.
00:26:59.95\00:27:02.08
They don't want the truth,
they want unrighteousness.
00:27:02.12\00:27:06.86
And I've read in the Bible,
00:27:06.89\00:27:09.72
it says, "From those who persist
00:27:09.76\00:27:11.73
and turn in from these warnings,
00:27:11.76\00:27:14.03
God withdraws His spirit
00:27:14.06\00:27:16.56
leaving them to the
deceptions that they love."
00:27:16.60\00:27:20.77
Wow.
00:27:20.80\00:27:22.14
Anything on that one, Brian?
00:27:22.17\00:27:23.51
Oh, it's just, I know
it throughout my life.
00:27:23.54\00:27:26.88
Yes.
00:27:26.91\00:27:28.48
And all the things that I did,
00:27:28.51\00:27:29.94
you know, all
the jobs that I had,
00:27:29.98\00:27:31.75
all the times
going out with friends,
00:27:31.78\00:27:33.75
and, you know,
00:27:33.78\00:27:35.12
the parties and
things like that.
00:27:35.15\00:27:37.25
Talk about leading
a life of deceptions,
00:27:37.29\00:27:39.69
you know, and as
you said, you know,
00:27:39.72\00:27:42.22
Rudolph is like one
of my favorite shows,
00:27:42.26\00:27:44.46
you know, and to think that,
00:27:44.49\00:27:47.53
you know, the
lion with the wings,
00:27:47.56\00:27:48.96
with the crown, you
know, was the savior of me
00:27:49.00\00:27:54.74
being a misfit toy, you know.
00:27:54.77\00:27:57.27
And it just kind of
like, it opens your eyes,
00:27:57.31\00:28:00.48
you know, when you
finally see the world
00:28:00.51\00:28:02.01
and when you
start to finally realize
00:28:02.04\00:28:04.61
where God's love is for you,
00:28:04.65\00:28:08.25
you know, and
how He protects you,
00:28:08.28\00:28:09.95
and how He tries to teach you,
00:28:09.98\00:28:12.15
everything about the
end times that are coming,
00:28:12.19\00:28:14.52
and what you have
to do to prepare for,
00:28:14.56\00:28:16.39
and the love that He
gives you, and the love that,
00:28:16.42\00:28:20.00
you know, once the
Holy Spirit is in you,
00:28:20.03\00:28:22.36
it just overwhelms you,
00:28:22.40\00:28:23.83
and it fills you back up,
00:28:23.87\00:28:25.23
and then brings
you back toward Him.
00:28:25.27\00:28:27.57
That's right.
00:28:27.60\00:28:29.24
You know, when you know
00:28:29.27\00:28:30.74
that you can be
deceived for so long
00:28:30.77\00:28:32.64
and yet you can be
saved by the Holy Spirit.
00:28:32.67\00:28:35.51
Right. You know?
00:28:35.54\00:28:36.88
And finally, bringing you back
00:28:36.91\00:28:38.48
is just a
wonderful blessing from God.
00:28:38.51\00:28:40.68
Amen.
00:28:40.72\00:28:42.05
Donna wants to
say something. Donna?
00:28:42.08\00:28:43.85
Well, I'm agreeing with Brian.
00:28:43.89\00:28:46.15
I wasn't out in
the world in deception,
00:28:46.19\00:28:49.19
I was in the
church of deception.
00:28:49.22\00:28:51.86
And I didn't even realize it.
00:28:51.89\00:28:54.40
And there came a time
00:28:54.43\00:28:56.46
when I began to read Psalm 51,
00:28:56.50\00:29:02.40
what David was
praying. Oh, yeah.
00:29:02.44\00:29:05.14
You know, cleanse my
heart, created me a clean heart.
00:29:05.17\00:29:08.88
You know, if there's
anything wrong in me,
00:29:08.91\00:29:11.38
please, you know, fix all that.
00:29:11.41\00:29:13.62
You know,
whatever it is, it says,
00:29:13.65\00:29:15.55
and it wasn't
long, and I believed that
00:29:15.58\00:29:18.92
even the Holy Spirit Himself
put that in me to pray that.
00:29:18.95\00:29:24.59
You know, I was in deception,
00:29:24.63\00:29:27.60
so He put that
in me to pray that
00:29:27.63\00:29:29.46
at a specific time in my life,
00:29:29.50\00:29:31.93
when He knew I had
a lot of frustrations.
00:29:31.97\00:29:35.10
And so I prayed that prayer
and the Holy Spirit took me
00:29:35.14\00:29:41.04
on a journey
00:29:41.08\00:29:45.81
to where He was putting me
on that straight and narrow
00:29:45.85\00:29:50.05
that I thought I was already on.
00:29:50.09\00:29:52.62
But I was on a wide path,
00:29:52.65\00:29:55.36
but the straight and
narrow is definitely there,
00:29:55.39\00:29:57.86
and anybody can pray
that Psalm or one like it.
00:29:57.89\00:30:02.46
And the Holy Spirit will
come and He will begin to work
00:30:02.50\00:30:05.40
and do what needs
to be done to take the,
00:30:05.43\00:30:09.80
you know, sav on the eyes.
00:30:09.84\00:30:13.84
Yeah.
00:30:13.88\00:30:15.21
And cause us to finally realize.
00:30:15.24\00:30:17.25
And there I was and
all again, you know.
00:30:17.28\00:30:20.32
Remember your dream, Donna?
00:30:20.35\00:30:21.68
Oh, yeah. Which one?
00:30:21.72\00:30:23.49
Oh, an old picture
dream. The color of carpet.
00:30:23.52\00:30:25.09
The carpet.
00:30:25.12\00:30:26.45
Oh, the color
of the carpet. Yes.
00:30:26.49\00:30:28.19
In a dream, and when
after I prayed that prayer,
00:30:28.22\00:30:31.99
God gave me a dream
00:30:32.03\00:30:33.36
where I was out at the ocean
00:30:33.40\00:30:34.73
and I was at the end of
a long pier at the ocean,
00:30:34.76\00:30:39.13
and waves kept coming over me.
00:30:39.17\00:30:41.87
And they would stand,
they had looked like 50 feet
00:30:41.90\00:30:44.77
above my head and I
thought, "I'm gonna be killed.
00:30:44.81\00:30:47.14
I'm gonna die."
00:30:47.18\00:30:48.51
And I would just
shake on the inside,
00:30:48.54\00:30:50.51
but it would subside
00:30:50.55\00:30:51.88
and then another wave would come
00:30:51.91\00:30:53.45
and it would subside.
00:30:53.48\00:30:54.82
And the third wave that came,
it came and crashed over me.
00:30:54.85\00:30:58.39
But I was still standing.
00:30:58.42\00:31:00.36
And the Lord
spoke to me and said,
00:31:00.39\00:31:02.22
"Turn around and run.
00:31:02.26\00:31:04.36
And you see that
building over there,
00:31:04.39\00:31:05.86
run into that building."
00:31:05.89\00:31:07.83
And I did in the dream,
I ran into the building.
00:31:07.86\00:31:11.07
And in that
building, I was running,
00:31:11.10\00:31:12.87
I didn't know where I was.
00:31:12.90\00:31:14.40
It was a nice new building.
00:31:14.44\00:31:16.04
And it had an unusual carpet
00:31:16.07\00:31:18.04
and I looked
down as I was running,
00:31:18.07\00:31:20.48
"Oh, that
carpets awfully pretty."
00:31:20.51\00:31:22.91
And as, you
know, in the dream...
00:31:22.94\00:31:26.72
Two years later,
00:31:26.75\00:31:28.15
it took two years
for me to go through,
00:31:28.18\00:31:30.85
more and more confusion,
00:31:30.89\00:31:32.25
yet learning a little
here and a little there,
00:31:32.29\00:31:35.06
and still begging,
"God, God, show me,
00:31:35.09\00:31:37.66
please show me.
00:31:37.69\00:31:39.03
Show me what I need to do."
00:31:39.06\00:31:40.50
And I would go to my pastor
in the church and I would say,
00:31:40.53\00:31:43.30
"Something's not right.
00:31:43.33\00:31:44.93
I don't know what it is."
00:31:44.97\00:31:46.30
And the pastor would say,
00:31:46.33\00:31:47.67
"Oh, Donna,
everything's just fine."
00:31:47.70\00:31:49.84
And I just was
too uneasy, you know.
00:31:49.87\00:31:52.97
But one day, somebody invited me
00:31:53.01\00:31:56.41
to a
Seventh-day Adventist Church
00:31:56.44\00:31:59.65
in Thompsonville, Illinois
00:31:59.68\00:32:01.12
because I lived in Benton
and I had never been there.
00:32:01.15\00:32:04.99
I thought, "Oh,
a Saturday church?
00:32:05.02\00:32:08.06
Okay, okay."
00:32:08.09\00:32:10.23
She said, "You'll be blessed."
00:32:10.26\00:32:12.63
Okay.
00:32:12.66\00:32:14.46
Came to the church,
00:32:14.50\00:32:15.83
walked in on
the Sabbath morning.
00:32:15.86\00:32:18.03
John Hauser said,
00:32:18.07\00:32:19.67
the first time
anybody had ever said
00:32:19.70\00:32:21.37
Happy Sabbath to
me was John Hauser,
00:32:21.40\00:32:25.14
and a member of the church.
00:32:25.17\00:32:27.38
But he said that
and I looked down
00:32:27.41\00:32:30.05
and there was that carpet.
00:32:30.08\00:32:31.51
Wow! From the dream.
00:32:31.55\00:32:33.18
Two years later,
there was that carpet.
00:32:33.21\00:32:35.68
And I could go on and say,
00:32:35.72\00:32:38.29
"Truly that church
hadn't even been built yet."
00:32:38.32\00:32:41.52
That's timing. Wow!
00:32:41.56\00:32:42.89
You know, God shows
you things ahead of time
00:32:42.92\00:32:45.49
so that when the time
comes, you're gonna know it.
00:32:45.53\00:32:48.13
Amen. Wow!
00:32:48.16\00:32:49.50
Your mouth must have
dropped, like, "What?
00:32:49.53\00:32:51.23
This is my dream."
There was the carpet.
00:32:51.27\00:32:53.37
You know what? I never left.
00:32:53.40\00:32:56.00
And I think the reason why
because the Lord knew that,
00:32:56.04\00:32:58.81
you know, the Bible talks about
00:32:58.84\00:33:00.18
one of the work
of the Holy Spirit,
00:33:00.21\00:33:01.54
one of the aspects,
00:33:01.58\00:33:02.91
He will lead you and
guide you into all the truth.
00:33:02.94\00:33:05.31
He will only lead you
if you want to be led,
00:33:05.35\00:33:08.35
He'll only guide you
if you wanna be guided.
00:33:08.38\00:33:11.35
1 John 4:1, that's
why this is important.
00:33:11.39\00:33:14.09
It says...
00:33:14.12\00:33:15.46
Because there are so many
spirits in the world today
00:33:15.49\00:33:17.53
and these spirits
that we talked about this,
00:33:17.56\00:33:19.56
deceiving spirits,
00:33:19.59\00:33:21.33
but listen to what the
Bible says in 1 John 4:1.
00:33:21.36\00:33:23.57
It's on the syllabus also. Okay.
00:33:23.60\00:33:26.37
It's on the
syllabus, dear, number...
00:33:26.40\00:33:28.14
Right above
number three, it's says,
00:33:28.17\00:33:30.17
"Beloved, do not
believe every spirit
00:33:30.21\00:33:33.74
but test the spirits,
00:33:33.78\00:33:35.44
whether they are of God
00:33:35.48\00:33:37.21
because many false prophets
have gone out into the world."
00:33:37.25\00:33:41.58
And that's what we're
dealing with nowadays.
00:33:41.62\00:33:43.92
Question is how do you
test the spirit though.
00:33:43.95\00:33:46.96
Go to 1 John 2...
00:33:46.99\00:33:49.32
Well, you have it. 8:20.
00:33:49.36\00:33:50.83
Okay. The law.
00:33:50.86\00:33:52.19
To the law and to the testimony,
00:33:52.23\00:33:53.56
they speak not
according to these words
00:33:53.60\00:33:54.93
because there is
no light in them.
00:33:54.96\00:33:56.30
And you in 1 John, right? Yeah.
00:33:56.33\00:33:57.67
Read 1 John 2:3-4.
00:33:57.70\00:34:00.90
Three and four? Yeah.
00:34:00.94\00:34:03.04
1 John 2:3-4.
00:34:03.07\00:34:04.41
"And hereby we do
know that we know Him
00:34:04.44\00:34:07.34
if we keep His commandments."
00:34:07.38\00:34:09.64
Verse 4.
00:34:09.68\00:34:11.01
"He that saith, I know him
00:34:11.05\00:34:12.38
and keepeth not his
commandments is a liar
00:34:12.41\00:34:14.38
and the truth is not in him."
00:34:14.42\00:34:16.85
So if somebody
says, "I know the Lord,"
00:34:16.89\00:34:18.82
but they're not
honoring His commandments,
00:34:18.85\00:34:23.32
the Bible says, "My
truth is not in him."
00:34:23.36\00:34:27.73
And a strange that
we have that approach,
00:34:27.76\00:34:30.90
when I've read that text
before, people have said,
00:34:30.93\00:34:33.10
"You know, that's not nice.
00:34:33.13\00:34:34.87
Why would you say that?"
00:34:34.90\00:34:36.24
I said, "You know
what, I didn't say that.
00:34:36.27\00:34:38.07
The Bible said that.
00:34:38.11\00:34:40.74
Right, Brian? I know.
00:34:40.78\00:34:42.11
I didn't say
it, it's right here.
00:34:42.14\00:34:44.01
Yeah.
00:34:44.05\00:34:45.38
It's in the Bible. Yeah, yeah.
00:34:45.41\00:34:48.22
And you know what,
there's Ten Commandments.
00:34:48.25\00:34:50.55
A lot of people keep a
lot of the commandments,
00:34:50.59\00:34:52.75
but do they keep them all?
00:34:52.79\00:34:54.76
And when you keep them all,
00:34:54.79\00:34:56.12
you've got more
truth coming at you.
00:34:56.16\00:34:58.09
Well, sad thing. I
think you just said that.
00:34:58.13\00:35:00.16
So now I would assume that
00:35:00.20\00:35:01.70
person must think
that God is not nice.
00:35:01.73\00:35:03.90
Yeah. Yeah.
00:35:03.93\00:35:05.27
You say that wasn't nice
and apparently God's not nice,
00:35:05.30\00:35:07.17
but look what He's making me do.
00:35:07.20\00:35:08.54
Yeah.
00:35:08.57\00:35:09.90
Well, "People will speak
lightly of the Word of God,"
00:35:09.94\00:35:11.74
it says, "and set
their impressions,
00:35:11.77\00:35:13.64
feelings, and exercises
above the divine standard."
00:35:13.68\00:35:18.21
"We may know that they
have no light in them."
00:35:18.25\00:35:20.82
Oh.
00:35:20.85\00:35:22.38
That's what it says from
00:35:22.42\00:35:24.32
Mount of Blessing's page 146.
00:35:24.35\00:35:26.42
And one of the reasons why
this topic is so important,
00:35:26.45\00:35:28.32
if you notice when
I talk about nations,
00:35:28.36\00:35:29.92
fighting, and wars, and all that
00:35:29.96\00:35:31.36
because that's
always a focal point.
00:35:31.39\00:35:34.13
The focus of the study is,
00:35:34.16\00:35:36.16
when the Lord is
trying to reveal truth to you,
00:35:36.20\00:35:38.27
you are in terrible danger.
00:35:38.30\00:35:41.00
If you decide,
"I'm happy with...
00:35:41.04\00:35:44.14
I'm happy with my religion.
00:35:44.17\00:35:46.57
I'm just
comfortable where I am,"
00:35:46.61\00:35:49.21
and the Lord is saying,
00:35:49.24\00:35:50.58
"I want to lead you
and I want to guide you."
00:35:50.61\00:35:52.51
Matter of fact, John 14:15.
00:35:52.55\00:35:56.79
Anybody, read that, John
14:15. We know what it says.
00:35:56.82\00:35:59.42
Yeah. Yeah.
00:35:59.45\00:36:00.79
We know what it says. If you...
00:36:00.82\00:36:02.16
It says, "If you love
me, keep my commandments."
00:36:02.19\00:36:03.53
My commands. You have it, Honey?
00:36:03.56\00:36:04.89
Right here. Read John 14:15-16.
00:36:04.93\00:36:07.50
"If you love me,
keep my commandments.
00:36:07.53\00:36:10.20
And I will pray the Father,
00:36:10.23\00:36:12.70
and He will give
you another helper
00:36:12.73\00:36:15.07
that He may have
abide with you forever."
00:36:15.10\00:36:18.14
Okay, then you got to help us.
00:36:18.17\00:36:19.51
So if you keep the commandments,
00:36:19.54\00:36:20.88
you have to help.
00:36:20.91\00:36:22.24
And now look at
John 16:13, right here.
00:36:22.28\00:36:23.98
What's that helper gonna do?
00:36:24.01\00:36:25.35
"However, when He the
spirit of truth has come,
00:36:25.38\00:36:28.35
He will guide you into all truth
00:36:28.38\00:36:31.42
for He will not
speak on His own authority,
00:36:31.45\00:36:33.69
but whatever He
hears, He will speak
00:36:33.72\00:36:36.26
and He will tell
you things to come."
00:36:36.29\00:36:38.76
So whenever we
link the Holy Spirit
00:36:38.79\00:36:40.76
to the fact that we
don't need the truth,
00:36:40.80\00:36:42.80
it's not scriptural.
00:36:42.83\00:36:44.40
Some people say, "I know
the Holy Spirit's leading me,"
00:36:44.43\00:36:46.30
but the Holy
Spirit can be leading you
00:36:46.33\00:36:49.80
if you say he
led me into darkness.
00:36:49.84\00:36:53.04
The Holy Spirit...
00:36:53.07\00:36:54.41
Or you know, I
feel this is right.
00:36:54.44\00:36:56.95
Say it again. Go by feelings.
00:36:56.98\00:36:59.01
I hear that so many
times in the Christian world.
00:36:59.05\00:37:01.65
Yeah, I feel this
is just fine for me.
00:37:01.68\00:37:03.85
Well, who told you that?
00:37:03.89\00:37:05.22
Do you get on a plane,
Brian, based on how you feel?
00:37:05.25\00:37:07.42
Oh, no.
00:37:07.46\00:37:08.79
What do you get
on? What do you choose?
00:37:08.82\00:37:10.59
Oh, I choose
whether or not to, you know,
00:37:10.63\00:37:13.70
to lay down in bed
00:37:13.73\00:37:15.06
or just to get up
in the day, you know?
00:37:15.10\00:37:17.03
Well, no, I mean, if
you get on an airplane...
00:37:17.07\00:37:18.63
Oh, yeah.
00:37:18.67\00:37:20.00
If you get on an
airplane based on what you...
00:37:20.04\00:37:21.37
I feel this is the right plane.
00:37:21.40\00:37:22.80
Oh, yeah. Okay.
00:37:22.84\00:37:24.47
I've never done that.
00:37:24.51\00:37:26.74
Usually, I have to
have a destination.
00:37:26.78\00:37:28.94
You know, I don't
just get on a plane
00:37:28.98\00:37:31.71
and get a feeling.
00:37:31.75\00:37:33.08
Now I've been on a
plane, sometimes it's like,
00:37:33.11\00:37:35.78
"Shall I really be
going to this place?"
00:37:35.82\00:37:37.69
But you might see...
00:37:37.72\00:37:39.05
But to get on there,
00:37:39.09\00:37:40.42
you have to have
the right airport.
00:37:40.46\00:37:41.79
Yeah. Yes.
00:37:41.82\00:37:43.16
The right itinerary,
00:37:43.19\00:37:44.53
the right gate,
the right plane number,
00:37:44.56\00:37:47.66
and the right destination.
00:37:47.70\00:37:49.20
And that takes a
little study, doesn't it?
00:37:49.23\00:37:50.97
Oh, yeah.
00:37:51.00\00:37:52.93
It does. You got to prepare.
00:37:52.97\00:37:54.74
And just like people...
00:37:54.77\00:37:56.10
Everyone's on their own journey.
00:37:56.14\00:37:57.51
And just like, you know,
00:37:57.54\00:37:58.87
we've all
experienced along in our lives
00:37:58.91\00:38:01.68
and like you're
saying, you know,
00:38:01.71\00:38:03.04
it was a journey that
00:38:03.08\00:38:04.41
God was showing you things
00:38:04.45\00:38:06.28
as His Holy Spirit
was speaking to you
00:38:06.31\00:38:07.95
and you were searching,
00:38:07.98\00:38:09.38
and there are
some that are out there
00:38:09.42\00:38:11.15
that maybe don't
understand things,
00:38:11.19\00:38:13.25
but they're just still
trying to learn and, you know,
00:38:13.29\00:38:15.86
I think that's
what God looks at is,
00:38:15.89\00:38:17.49
you know, a willing heart,
00:38:17.53\00:38:18.86
a teachable spirit
00:38:18.89\00:38:20.80
that maybe they don't
understand of the Bible yet,
00:38:20.83\00:38:25.23
just like, you know,
00:38:25.27\00:38:26.60
we'll be learning
through eternity, you know?
00:38:26.63\00:38:28.80
But it's the idea that
00:38:28.84\00:38:30.44
when people might not
understand a lot of the truth,
00:38:30.47\00:38:35.54
God takes them where they're at.
00:38:35.58\00:38:36.98
And even if they died,
00:38:37.01\00:38:38.51
you know, He judges their heart.
00:38:38.55\00:38:39.95
So maybe they don't understand
all of our doctrines or,
00:38:39.98\00:38:44.62
you know, whatever yet,
00:38:44.65\00:38:46.15
but God takes
them where they're at.
00:38:46.19\00:38:47.62
And that's,
00:38:47.66\00:38:48.99
you know, we can
leave the results with Him.
00:38:49.02\00:38:50.36
And the key is
this. This is the key.
00:38:50.39\00:38:51.86
And I totally
support what you're saying.
00:38:51.89\00:38:53.26
But the key is this.
00:38:53.29\00:38:55.23
If the
opportunity never came to you,
00:38:55.26\00:39:00.04
but if it comes to
you and you pass on,
00:39:00.07\00:39:02.34
there's a
difference all together.
00:39:02.37\00:39:03.91
If this is all you have
00:39:03.94\00:39:05.41
and you respond
according to what you have...
00:39:05.44\00:39:07.98
The light that you have, yeah.
00:39:08.01\00:39:09.34
Live to the light you
have, but if light comes,
00:39:09.38\00:39:11.41
as the Bible
says, John 3, verse...
00:39:11.45\00:39:14.78
Not John 3:16.
00:39:14.82\00:39:16.52
I think it's John
3:12, I believe it is,
00:39:16.55\00:39:19.09
but check it out.
00:39:19.12\00:39:20.46
John chapter 3 and
bring up the text for me.
00:39:20.49\00:39:22.96
The Lord says, "And
this is the condemnation
00:39:22.99\00:39:26.96
that light has
come into the world."
00:39:27.00\00:39:29.16
1 John 3 or John 3?
00:39:29.20\00:39:30.53
It's John chapter 3.
00:39:30.57\00:39:31.90
"The light has
come into the world,
00:39:31.93\00:39:33.27
but men loved
darkness rather than light
00:39:33.30\00:39:36.04
because their deeds are evil."
00:39:36.07\00:39:38.51
Just look it up. You'll find it.
00:39:38.54\00:39:40.34
That's what...
00:39:40.38\00:39:41.71
search your
scripture is all about.
00:39:41.74\00:39:43.08
Yeah. Well, this
is the condemnation.
00:39:43.11\00:39:45.41
That light is
coming to... Oh, verse 19.
00:39:45.45\00:39:46.82
Verse 19?
00:39:46.85\00:39:48.18
Okay, yeah. Yeah.
00:39:48.22\00:39:49.55
Okay, there it is.
00:39:49.58\00:39:50.92
"This is the condemnation
00:39:50.95\00:39:52.62
that light is
coming to the world
00:39:52.65\00:39:53.99
and men loved
darkness rather than light
00:39:54.02\00:39:55.96
because their deeds were evil."
00:39:55.99\00:39:57.36
Okay, so there you go.
00:39:57.39\00:39:58.86
And Hosea 4:6.
00:39:58.89\00:40:00.36
Okay, do you
have it? Okay, got it.
00:40:00.40\00:40:03.70
Hosea 4:6.
00:40:03.73\00:40:05.97
"My people are destroyed
for the lack of knowledge
00:40:06.00\00:40:09.97
because that has
rejected knowledge.
00:40:10.01\00:40:12.61
I will..."
00:40:12.64\00:40:13.98
I hate to even say it,
00:40:14.01\00:40:15.34
"I will also reject thee
00:40:15.38\00:40:17.15
that thou shalt
be no priests to me,
00:40:17.18\00:40:20.08
saying that has
forgotten the law of thy God,
00:40:20.12\00:40:22.65
I will also have to
forget the children."
00:40:22.68\00:40:26.65
Wow. Isn't that...
00:40:26.69\00:40:28.22
And this is her
commentary. Oh, Donna.
00:40:28.26\00:40:29.89
They reject what?
00:40:29.92\00:40:31.29
What are they
rejecting? Knowledge.
00:40:31.33\00:40:32.66
And they're rejecting knowledge.
00:40:32.69\00:40:34.06
And if you reject
knowledge, who you rejecting?
00:40:34.10\00:40:35.96
The one that... God.
00:40:36.00\00:40:37.67
The one that
gives you knowledge.
00:40:37.70\00:40:39.03
We don't have to
reject knowledge.
00:40:39.07\00:40:41.70
It's given to us freely. Yeah.
00:40:41.74\00:40:44.04
Something that the
Lord put upon my mind,
00:40:44.07\00:40:45.97
He said to me, "Your feelings
will destroy your faith."
00:40:46.01\00:40:50.01
Your feelings will
destroy your faith.
00:40:50.05\00:40:51.38
The SDA commentary said this
00:40:51.41\00:40:52.75
and I thought was
interesting and said that
00:40:52.78\00:40:54.38
love is a
principle and not an emotion.
00:40:54.42\00:40:56.62
I really liked that.
00:40:56.65\00:40:57.99
Love is a
principle, not an emotion
00:40:58.02\00:40:59.35
'cause so many people
go about what they feel
00:40:59.39\00:41:01.39
and they get lost
00:41:01.42\00:41:02.76
and all this
confusion by your feelings
00:41:02.79\00:41:04.86
can lead you anywhere like that.
00:41:04.89\00:41:06.39
You don't know,
you're on the path,
00:41:06.43\00:41:08.30
riding here, you know,
00:41:08.33\00:41:09.66
"Oh, look at the
beautiful flowers!"
00:41:09.70\00:41:11.03
and you're going...
00:41:11.07\00:41:12.40
Distracted. Uh-oh.
00:41:12.43\00:41:14.30
Well, there is a plaque
00:41:14.34\00:41:16.74
that's seems like
every time I turn around,
00:41:16.77\00:41:19.44
I see it, and I
just don't like it.
00:41:19.47\00:41:21.51
And it's a cute
little plaque and it says,
00:41:21.54\00:41:23.14
"Live, laugh, love."
00:41:23.18\00:41:24.68
Oh, yeah! And
it's not that easy.
00:41:24.71\00:41:27.55
It's not that easy. No.
00:41:27.58\00:41:29.48
You know, reminds me of
the constitutional phrase,
00:41:29.52\00:41:32.09
Life, Liberty and
the pursuit of Happiness,
00:41:32.12\00:41:34.22
which is
nothing wrong with that.
00:41:34.26\00:41:35.79
Obviously, it's a
constitutional content.
00:41:35.82\00:41:38.56
But if all it is Life, Liberty,
00:41:38.59\00:41:41.23
and the pursuit of Happiness,
it reminds me of Noah's day.
00:41:41.26\00:41:44.07
You know, they ate, they drank,
00:41:44.10\00:41:45.57
they gave in marriage,
00:41:45.60\00:41:46.94
but they didn't even
know anything was coming
00:41:46.97\00:41:48.84
and the flood came
and took them all away.
00:41:48.87\00:41:50.97
And there are so
many people today
00:41:51.01\00:41:52.34
that just involved
in the rounds of life.
00:41:52.37\00:41:54.48
I asked somebody
recently, "You know,
00:41:54.51\00:41:57.45
where's your life going?
00:41:57.48\00:41:58.81
Where's it headed?"
00:41:58.85\00:42:00.18
And this person...
00:42:00.22\00:42:01.55
I was telling
my wife about that.
00:42:01.58\00:42:02.98
This person said, "Well,
I'm looking for my next job,
00:42:03.02\00:42:06.12
I lived here.
00:42:06.15\00:42:07.49
Now I don't know
where I'm going."
00:42:07.52\00:42:08.86
I said, "Now,
let me ask you again.
00:42:08.89\00:42:10.23
Where is your life headed?"
00:42:10.26\00:42:11.83
And this person didn't know.
00:42:11.86\00:42:13.53
I said, "Here's my card.
00:42:13.56\00:42:15.56
This ministry can help you
know where your life is headed."
00:42:15.60\00:42:19.70
There's so many people
that are that way today.
00:42:19.73\00:42:21.20
They're just
living for the moment.
00:42:21.24\00:42:23.10
They're pursuing everything
that brings happiness,
00:42:23.14\00:42:25.17
which is
nothing wrong with that,
00:42:25.21\00:42:26.54
but don't pursue happiness
00:42:26.57\00:42:28.48
when the biggest part
of happiness is in Christ.
00:42:28.51\00:42:31.91
Not without Jesus. You know?
00:42:31.95\00:42:33.78
Yeah, exactly.
00:42:33.82\00:42:35.15
I mean, all this
kind of reminds me
00:42:35.18\00:42:36.52
and takes me to 2
Timothy chapter 3,
00:42:36.55\00:42:39.02
where it talks
about perilous times
00:42:39.05\00:42:40.62
and perilous men.
00:42:40.66\00:42:42.32
It says in 2 Timothy 3:1,
00:42:42.36\00:42:45.26
"But know this,
that in the last days,
00:42:45.29\00:42:48.13
perilous times will come,
00:42:48.16\00:42:49.90
for men will be
lovers of themselves,
00:42:49.93\00:42:52.17
lovers of money,
boasters, proud, blasphemers,
00:42:52.20\00:42:55.84
disobedient to parents,
unthankful, unholy, unloving,
00:42:55.87\00:42:59.47
unforgiving, slanderers,
without self-control,
00:42:59.51\00:43:03.31
brutal, despisers of good,
00:43:03.35\00:43:05.48
traitors, headstrong, haughty,
00:43:05.51\00:43:07.98
lovers of pleasure
00:43:08.02\00:43:09.38
rather than
lovers of God and mercy,
00:43:09.42\00:43:12.52
having a form of
godliness but denying its power.
00:43:12.55\00:43:15.89
And from such people turn away!"
00:43:15.92\00:43:18.83
You know the scary part of that,
00:43:18.86\00:43:20.76
having a form of godliness...
00:43:20.80\00:43:22.16
These are people
in the church. Yes.
00:43:22.20\00:43:23.73
It's talking to a person,
00:43:23.77\00:43:25.10
talking about
people in the world.
00:43:25.13\00:43:26.47
That's scary.
00:43:26.50\00:43:27.84
Exactly what we were
talking about earlier,
00:43:27.87\00:43:29.37
people that were falling
away, being deceived, you know?
00:43:29.40\00:43:33.58
And in 2 Timothy,
go to chapter 4 now.
00:43:33.61\00:43:36.54
Okay.
00:43:36.58\00:43:37.91
And look at
this 2 Timothy 4:3-4.
00:43:37.95\00:43:40.02
This is...
00:43:40.05\00:43:41.38
I want to walk
through this really
00:43:41.42\00:43:42.75
and just squeezed the
orange here, look at this.
00:43:42.78\00:43:44.92
2 Timothy 4:3-4.
00:43:44.95\00:43:46.29
It's on the syllabus, Donna.
00:43:46.32\00:43:47.66
It will help you save some time.
00:43:47.69\00:43:49.02
Yeah, I know.
00:43:49.06\00:43:50.39
There it says,
"For the time will come
00:43:50.43\00:43:51.89
when they will not
endure sound doctrine,"
00:43:51.93\00:43:54.83
I was talking about this,
00:43:54.86\00:43:56.20
the word sound there in
the Greek means uncorrupted,
00:43:56.23\00:43:59.07
means truth, means
safe, it means whole,
00:43:59.10\00:44:01.67
it means complete.
00:44:01.70\00:44:03.04
They will not endure
complete, whole, safe,
00:44:03.07\00:44:05.97
uncorrupted doctrine.
00:44:06.01\00:44:07.68
"But according to
their own desires,"
00:44:07.71\00:44:09.64
and this is one
of the problems here.
00:44:09.68\00:44:11.15
They say, "Okay,
that's not right.
00:44:11.18\00:44:12.51
That's not what I want.
00:44:12.55\00:44:13.88
I want this, not that."
00:44:13.92\00:44:16.45
They have a
precursor to what they want.
00:44:16.48\00:44:19.35
And if the Bible is giving
them what they don't want,
00:44:19.39\00:44:22.26
they don't want
what the Bible is giving.
00:44:22.29\00:44:24.53
It says, "According
to their own desires,"
00:44:24.56\00:44:27.26
and then it goes on and says,
00:44:27.30\00:44:28.63
"because they
have itching ears,"
00:44:28.66\00:44:31.57
meaning I don't
like what I'm hearing.
00:44:31.60\00:44:33.44
What do they do?
00:44:33.47\00:44:34.80
"They will heap up
for themselves teachers."
00:44:34.84\00:44:36.74
They pick teachers.
00:44:36.77\00:44:38.11
So if I'm saying, "Remember
the Sabbath to keep it holy,"
00:44:38.14\00:44:41.28
and Donald's saying,
"Oh, pick any day you want."
00:44:41.31\00:44:44.25
Let's say I like
what Donald said.
00:44:44.28\00:44:46.92
Wednesday works
good. You know, huh?
00:44:46.95\00:44:48.62
Wednesday works good. Yeah.
00:44:48.65\00:44:49.98
Wednesday works good.
00:44:50.02\00:44:51.35
If somebody else
says, "Well, you know,
00:44:51.39\00:44:53.56
when the Bible says,
you die in you're sleeping."
00:44:53.59\00:44:55.92
Well, no, no I like it...
00:44:55.96\00:44:57.53
My mom died and went to heaven.
00:44:57.56\00:44:59.09
So they pick a
different teacher.
00:44:59.13\00:45:00.83
When the Bible is
saying, what it's saying,
00:45:00.86\00:45:02.90
don't look for
teachers that match
00:45:02.93\00:45:05.20
what you want to hear.
00:45:05.23\00:45:06.57
That's what is being said.
00:45:06.60\00:45:07.94
And look at what
will happen as a result.
00:45:07.97\00:45:10.41
2 Timothy 4:4,
00:45:10.44\00:45:11.77
"And they will turn
their ears away from the truth
00:45:11.81\00:45:16.04
and be turned aside to fables."
00:45:16.08\00:45:18.41
Isn't that amazing? Wow!
00:45:18.45\00:45:19.78
So it's not that
they're not being
00:45:19.81\00:45:21.15
presented with the truth
00:45:21.18\00:45:22.52
is that they have designed
their own approach to Jesus.
00:45:22.55\00:45:25.65
And...
00:45:25.69\00:45:27.02
Well, really, you
know what that speaks to me
00:45:27.06\00:45:28.39
is they put God in a
box, they're limiting.
00:45:28.42\00:45:30.39
They totally limit who He is,
00:45:30.43\00:45:31.76
and that's why we were talking
about the idea of complete,
00:45:31.79\00:45:34.26
missing the complete package...
00:45:34.30\00:45:36.16
For making God in our
image instead of allowing Him...
00:45:36.20\00:45:39.77
Basically. To
make us in His image.
00:45:39.80\00:45:41.84
We want to make God in our image
00:45:41.87\00:45:43.44
so He fits what we want.
00:45:43.47\00:45:45.61
Does it have to do
with the seven women saying,
00:45:45.64\00:45:49.04
"I need the name of one
male, I want that name..."
00:45:49.08\00:45:50.75
Okay. Isaiah 4:1.
00:45:50.78\00:45:53.08
Isaiah 4... Oh, is it...
00:45:53.11\00:45:54.68
Yes, right. Look
at numbers, number 6.
00:45:54.72\00:45:56.99
Read it right there. Okay.
00:45:57.02\00:45:58.35
Go on. Where are we at?
00:45:58.39\00:45:59.72
Yeah, right beneath it.
00:45:59.75\00:46:01.09
I know it, okay. Number six.
00:46:01.12\00:46:02.46
"And in that day seven women
shall take hold of one man,"
00:46:02.49\00:46:06.63
I wonder who that
one man is, "saying,
00:46:06.66\00:46:09.70
'We will eat our own
food, wear our own apparel,
00:46:09.73\00:46:13.70
only let us be
called by your name,
00:46:13.74\00:46:16.30
to take away our reproach.'
00:46:16.34\00:46:18.57
" That one man's name.
00:46:18.61\00:46:19.94
That's Jesus. Jesus.
00:46:19.97\00:46:21.31
That's why it says
many will come in My name.
00:46:21.34\00:46:23.38
Yes.
00:46:23.41\00:46:24.75
Many will come
on My name. Oh, wow!
00:46:24.78\00:46:26.45
And I wrote what that meant.
00:46:26.48\00:46:27.82
I mean, these points
are so strong for me.
00:46:27.85\00:46:31.02
Read that, you
know, at number 12.
00:46:31.05\00:46:33.25
Read that right
there for me, Donald.
00:46:33.29\00:46:34.62
"Many Christians
will be comfortable
00:46:34.66\00:46:36.93
with just the name,
00:46:36.96\00:46:38.79
they will have
our own food, bread,
00:46:38.83\00:46:41.56
their preferred
teachings in their own apparel,
00:46:41.60\00:46:44.50
their own
standard of righteousness,
00:46:44.53\00:46:47.04
their religion will be surface.
00:46:47.07\00:46:50.11
Christianity will look genuine
00:46:50.14\00:46:51.47
but after
examining it by the Bible,
00:46:51.51\00:46:53.31
it's true
condition will appear."
00:46:53.34\00:46:55.84
Right.
00:46:55.88\00:46:57.25
So they'll say,
"We want our own food."
00:46:57.28\00:47:00.22
Wow.
00:47:00.25\00:47:01.58
That's your
food. This is our food.
00:47:01.62\00:47:03.82
A pastor once told me, he said,
00:47:03.85\00:47:05.35
"You have your scriptures
to back up what you believe,
00:47:05.39\00:47:08.22
I have my scriptures to
back up what I believe."
00:47:08.26\00:47:10.36
I said, "Excuse me, pastor,
00:47:10.39\00:47:12.49
I don't have any
scriptures and neither do you.
00:47:12.53\00:47:15.40
And the Bible doesn't
back up two opposing views."
00:47:15.43\00:47:18.43
But, you know,
what the problem is
00:47:21.90\00:47:24.14
not the Bible,
00:47:24.17\00:47:25.51
the problem is the human heart.
00:47:25.54\00:47:27.51
And in the kind of Christianity
existing in the world today is,
00:47:27.54\00:47:31.51
"This is what I want.
00:47:31.55\00:47:32.91
This is my kind of Christianity.
00:47:32.95\00:47:34.72
I'm happy right
here." My comfort zone.
00:47:34.75\00:47:37.35
Customized Christianity.
00:47:37.39\00:47:38.72
And the Bible said,
"Yeah, they just want the name."
00:47:38.75\00:47:41.36
Yes, Donna.
00:47:41.39\00:47:42.72
I was just, you
know, you... Go, Donna.
00:47:42.76\00:47:44.13
Imagine being
the marriage supper
00:47:44.16\00:47:48.00
in the wrong garment.
00:47:48.03\00:47:50.03
Now I know the Bible
says that he was speechless.
00:47:50.07\00:47:54.27
He was speechless. He was...
00:47:54.30\00:47:56.04
I believe he was
very upset with himself.
00:47:56.07\00:48:00.18
But it was too late.
00:48:00.21\00:48:01.54
He was extremely
upset with himself.
00:48:01.58\00:48:04.18
But he couldn't say anything.
00:48:04.21\00:48:05.55
It was too late.
00:48:05.58\00:48:07.28
So if we don't want
to have that experience,
00:48:07.32\00:48:11.55
it says not too late.
00:48:11.59\00:48:13.92
Not right now.
00:48:13.96\00:48:15.29
Exactly. Yeah.
00:48:15.32\00:48:16.66
Excellent point.
00:48:16.69\00:48:18.03
Good point. Wow.
00:48:18.06\00:48:19.39
I was thinking too and it says,
00:48:19.43\00:48:20.76
we will eat our own food,
00:48:20.80\00:48:22.13
really what they're
doing is starving themselves,
00:48:22.16\00:48:24.47
literally starving themselves.
00:48:24.50\00:48:26.33
As God, you know... Junk food.
00:48:26.37\00:48:28.20
Really, this is...
Oh, what a sermon title!
00:48:28.24\00:48:30.61
Oh, I know it.
00:48:30.64\00:48:32.07
Y'all didn't hear it.
00:48:32.11\00:48:33.44
Junk food.
00:48:33.48\00:48:34.81
Good one, Donna.
00:48:34.84\00:48:36.81
See that's her wisdom.
00:48:36.85\00:48:38.25
Right, exactly.
00:48:38.28\00:48:40.15
Pastors, don't write that down.
00:48:40.18\00:48:41.52
That's my sermon title.
This whole thing, this whole...
00:48:41.55\00:48:43.75
Everything we've
been talking about is,
00:48:43.79\00:48:46.35
well, it's all
for us as Christians,
00:48:46.39\00:48:49.52
you know, to not
to take it for granted
00:48:49.56\00:48:53.93
when God wants to show
us something and give us,
00:48:53.96\00:48:56.53
you know, more of His life
and to keep seeking because
00:48:56.56\00:49:01.10
we can always
continually learn more about Him
00:49:01.14\00:49:03.64
and it's for us
to not be content
00:49:03.67\00:49:05.74
and get too
comfortable in our condition.
00:49:05.77\00:49:12.05
And it's all for Christians.
00:49:12.08\00:49:14.35
All of these
things we're talking
00:49:14.38\00:49:15.72
about are all for Christians.
00:49:15.75\00:49:17.09
That's the pattern here
as we're keep saying is,
00:49:17.12\00:49:19.49
you know, this is,
00:49:19.52\00:49:20.86
you know, judgment
begins at the house of God,
00:49:20.89\00:49:22.49
I forget where
that's at in the Bible.
00:49:22.52\00:49:23.86
1 Peter 4:17.
00:49:23.89\00:49:25.23
And so it's, you know,
00:49:25.26\00:49:26.59
if the church is
not following God,
00:49:26.63\00:49:29.16
how can we expect
the world to want the God
00:49:29.20\00:49:32.47
that we portray?
00:49:32.50\00:49:35.20
We kind of anchor ourselves down
00:49:35.24\00:49:36.81
on what we want.
00:49:36.84\00:49:38.47
And instead of saying,
"Lord, what do you want?"
00:49:38.51\00:49:40.08
Yeah. Amen.
00:49:40.11\00:49:41.44
And even Jesus, you
know, in His humanity,
00:49:41.48\00:49:42.81
didn't He struggle
with that in His humanity?
00:49:42.84\00:49:45.05
My will... What did he say?
00:49:45.08\00:49:46.55
Not My will, but
Thy will be done.
00:49:46.58\00:49:49.45
Okay, let me throw it
out to all of you now.
00:49:49.48\00:49:50.85
So what are we
getting out of this?
00:49:50.89\00:49:52.25
What's happening?
00:49:52.29\00:49:53.62
What's taking place amongst us?
00:49:53.66\00:49:55.92
Well, there's delusions.
00:49:55.96\00:49:58.53
And I think about delusions,
strong delusions, like a drug.
00:49:58.56\00:50:03.53
So it would be delusions
00:50:03.57\00:50:07.34
that Satan sense
would be our drug of choice.
00:50:07.37\00:50:11.01
Do we want the truth or
do we want a drug of choice
00:50:11.04\00:50:13.88
to be diluted?
00:50:13.91\00:50:15.61
And, you know, so
that's my thought.
00:50:15.64\00:50:17.71
I think too...
00:50:17.75\00:50:19.55
You know, let's not
run past that 'cause
00:50:19.58\00:50:21.22
that is the drug of choice.
00:50:21.25\00:50:23.72
Choice.
00:50:23.75\00:50:25.09
I didn't make that up. No.
00:50:25.12\00:50:26.45
My cousin said that to me
00:50:26.49\00:50:27.82
when I was
explaining to her truth.
00:50:27.86\00:50:30.39
And she said to
me, and I was like,
00:50:30.43\00:50:32.46
"Wow, that's good."
00:50:32.49\00:50:33.93
And she said, "Well,
00:50:33.96\00:50:35.30
that would be
like a drug of choice
00:50:35.33\00:50:37.13
if you choose
something that's not the truth."
00:50:37.17\00:50:41.44
Just to be happy, you know,
00:50:41.47\00:50:44.37
to have feelings of wonderful,
00:50:44.41\00:50:46.71
ooey-gooey feelings,
00:50:46.74\00:50:48.84
you know, it's a drug of choice.
00:50:48.88\00:50:51.58
Well, the feelings get you.
00:50:51.61\00:50:53.01
They get you.
It's not the truth.
00:50:53.05\00:50:54.58
Yeah.
00:50:54.62\00:50:55.95
Everything that
popped in my head
00:50:55.98\00:50:57.32
and this makes me
think of King David.
00:50:57.35\00:50:58.69
He had it all together.
00:50:58.72\00:51:00.06
He had this
kingdom, beautiful kingdom.
00:51:00.09\00:51:01.42
Something happened,
00:51:01.46\00:51:02.79
he decided to
stay back from war,
00:51:02.82\00:51:04.16
he became idol or
idol and complacent,
00:51:04.19\00:51:06.96
that's when the
enemy picks us off,
00:51:07.00\00:51:08.86
it's that idleness.
00:51:08.90\00:51:10.23
So I think about that,
00:51:10.27\00:51:11.60
being idol was a big one for me.
00:51:11.63\00:51:12.97
I'm not being vigilant than you.
00:51:13.00\00:51:15.80
Well, when I read our
subject matter is like,
00:51:15.84\00:51:20.28
that's kind of
tough for a Friday night.
00:51:20.31\00:51:22.84
Whose gonna go
to sleep after this?
00:51:22.88\00:51:26.05
Yeah.
00:51:26.08\00:51:27.52
It's the truth.
But it's the truth.
00:51:27.55\00:51:28.92
It's the truth, right?
00:51:28.95\00:51:30.72
Well, with the
everything from the junk food
00:51:30.75\00:51:33.59
that we were talking
about and everything else,
00:51:33.62\00:51:35.32
we're not getting the
true nourishment that we need,
00:51:35.36\00:51:37.63
you know,
00:51:37.66\00:51:38.99
because of the
deceptions and everything else.
00:51:39.03\00:51:40.83
But if you look in the Bible
00:51:40.86\00:51:44.17
and take in the
actual Word of God
00:51:44.20\00:51:48.57
and not be deceived,
00:51:48.60\00:51:50.41
especially that we are
so close to the end times,
00:51:50.44\00:51:53.38
you know, there is
hope for every single one.
00:51:53.41\00:51:55.98
Amen.
00:51:56.01\00:51:57.35
And in John 6:51,
00:51:57.38\00:52:01.15
you know, going
back to the junk food,
00:52:01.18\00:52:03.02
here it says,
00:52:03.05\00:52:04.65
"I am the living bread,
00:52:04.69\00:52:06.35
which came down from heaven.
00:52:06.39\00:52:07.86
If anyone eats of this
bread, he will live forever.
00:52:07.89\00:52:11.89
And the bread that I
shall give is My flesh,
00:52:11.93\00:52:15.30
which I shall give for
the life of the world."
00:52:15.33\00:52:19.70
Yeah.
00:52:19.73\00:52:21.07
So it is not just for,
00:52:21.10\00:52:23.10
you know, our
little section of Illinois.
00:52:23.14\00:52:26.64
That's right.
00:52:26.68\00:52:28.01
You know, it's
not for just some area
00:52:28.04\00:52:30.51
in Great Britain.
00:52:30.55\00:52:31.95
It's all over the world.
00:52:31.98\00:52:33.38
It is for every single one of us
00:52:33.42\00:52:35.65
to be able to take
in the Word of God,
00:52:35.68\00:52:38.35
to understand God's love for us
00:52:38.39\00:52:41.66
as a whole people,
00:52:41.69\00:52:43.49
and not just for
a race of people,
00:52:43.53\00:52:45.36
not just for, you know,
00:52:45.39\00:52:47.50
not just for the Jews or
Gentiles or anything else,
00:52:47.53\00:52:50.13
to all the world, you know,
00:52:50.17\00:52:53.27
for every Jew and every Gentile,
00:52:53.30\00:52:55.00
everybody, you know?
00:52:55.04\00:52:56.37
That's right.
00:52:56.40\00:52:57.74
It's just, you know,
it's a wonderful gift that
00:52:57.77\00:52:59.11
He has given to
us, especially now
00:52:59.14\00:53:01.58
that we are looking at things
00:53:01.61\00:53:03.95
that seem to be so
close to the end times,
00:53:03.98\00:53:06.92
even though there's things
that still haven't happened yet,
00:53:06.95\00:53:09.98
but it's getting closer.
00:53:10.02\00:53:11.35
That's right.
00:53:11.39\00:53:12.72
And whenever it does happen,
00:53:12.75\00:53:14.09
the Word will help us understand
00:53:14.12\00:53:15.72
when it is our
time and when it's here.
00:53:15.76\00:53:19.09
Oh, yeah.
00:53:19.13\00:53:20.46
Because if you
look at one of the...
00:53:20.50\00:53:21.90
I'm glad you brought
that up about the hunger.
00:53:21.93\00:53:24.90
Donna, that's a
great title junk food
00:53:24.93\00:53:26.94
and then emphasizing
Jesus is the real bread of life.
00:53:26.97\00:53:30.67
In Matthew 5:6, says,
"Blessed are those who hunger
00:53:30.71\00:53:33.58
and thirst for righteousness,
for they will be filled."
00:53:33.61\00:53:37.71
Amen.
00:53:37.75\00:53:39.08
And Jesus says,
"Why spend money for that
00:53:39.11\00:53:40.45
which is not bread?"
00:53:40.48\00:53:41.98
There are people
today that are, you know,
00:53:42.02\00:53:43.79
they're willing to
pay anything they want to.
00:53:43.82\00:53:46.96
They have this brand
of righteousness that
00:53:46.99\00:53:49.36
it feels attractive
00:53:49.39\00:53:50.73
and they'll be
willing to support it
00:53:50.76\00:53:52.09
and give their donations
and give their offerings
00:53:52.13\00:53:55.33
at church week to week,
00:53:55.36\00:53:56.87
but it's like you're
paying for junk food.
00:53:56.90\00:53:59.90
And the Lord, in
essence, is saying,
00:53:59.93\00:54:02.00
"But you're not hungering
00:54:02.04\00:54:03.37
and you're not
thirsting for righteousness.
00:54:03.41\00:54:06.61
So you will not be filled."
00:54:06.64\00:54:08.58
You reminded me of
something I told you about...
00:54:08.61\00:54:12.35
Well, a family member I
have, I'm gonna be vague.
00:54:12.38\00:54:15.15
Yeah. Be vague, yeah.
00:54:15.18\00:54:16.65
I was just thinking of that too.
00:54:16.69\00:54:18.02
You know, you want to say it?
00:54:18.05\00:54:19.55
No, you say it. Okay.
00:54:19.59\00:54:21.16
We have a family
member that just...
00:54:21.19\00:54:23.99
That person's whole
life is just consumed
00:54:24.03\00:54:26.39
in fun and pleasure
00:54:26.43\00:54:28.56
and keep coming up empty
00:54:28.60\00:54:30.37
over and over and over
and over and over again.
00:54:30.40\00:54:32.00
And we said, if they
only would try God's way,
00:54:32.03\00:54:35.70
they won't ever
be frustrated again.
00:54:35.74\00:54:38.97
But this, you
know, that's the problem.
00:54:39.01\00:54:40.34
Searching.
00:54:40.38\00:54:41.71
They're just are
searching for love
00:54:41.74\00:54:43.08
in all the wrong place.
00:54:43.11\00:54:44.45
Yeah, yeah.
00:54:44.48\00:54:45.81
The person was talking about,
00:54:45.85\00:54:47.18
they're not
happy and not content.
00:54:47.22\00:54:49.18
Not content.
00:54:49.22\00:54:50.55
Just do it the Lord's way,
00:54:50.59\00:54:51.92
you'll make a
difference in your life.
00:54:51.95\00:54:53.42
It's funny sometimes,
you know, we love our misery,
00:54:53.46\00:54:56.73
like we love to be miserable.
00:54:56.76\00:54:58.09
But why would you
want to stay miserable
00:54:58.13\00:54:59.66
when you can
have so much pleasure
00:54:59.69\00:55:02.06
and so much, yeah, joy.
00:55:02.10\00:55:03.87
And it's only
comes from the Lord.
00:55:03.90\00:55:05.23
You know, I talk to
people on prayer line,
00:55:05.27\00:55:06.97
and I try to encourage them,
00:55:07.00\00:55:09.14
"Look, you know," like
this one young man said,
00:55:09.17\00:55:11.14
"How do I defeat Satan?
00:55:11.17\00:55:12.81
How do I take him out?"
00:55:12.84\00:55:14.18
I said, "Well,
prayer, reading God's Word."
00:55:14.21\00:55:17.48
"No, I don't want to hear that.
00:55:17.51\00:55:18.85
I don't want to hear
that." And it's like...
00:55:18.88\00:55:20.45
That's the only
strategy we have,
00:55:20.48\00:55:22.78
reading and
living in God's Word.
00:55:22.82\00:55:24.15
I mean, you can't...
00:55:24.19\00:55:25.52
Tell him this. He
can't take the devil out.
00:55:25.55\00:55:26.89
No, I said.
00:55:26.92\00:55:29.02
He can't take him out.
00:55:29.06\00:55:31.03
Well, that's the
thing is we don't want that.
00:55:31.06\00:55:32.39
We don't want those
things that are gonna secure us
00:55:32.43\00:55:34.23
and give us that hope and
that comfort and that joy,
00:55:34.26\00:55:36.73
we want something else.
00:55:36.77\00:55:38.63
Donna, I see you have
your finger on a text there.
00:55:38.67\00:55:41.00
Oh, I don't know, I...
00:55:41.04\00:55:44.71
But if you look
at... Do I say...
00:55:44.74\00:55:46.07
This in the last stage of...
00:55:46.11\00:55:49.41
"And it shall come to
pass in the last days,
00:55:49.44\00:55:53.55
saith God,
00:55:53.58\00:55:54.92
I will pour out my
spirit upon all flesh,
00:55:54.95\00:55:58.05
and your sons and your
daughters shall prophesy,
00:55:58.09\00:56:01.06
your young men
shall see visions,
00:56:01.09\00:56:02.76
your old men
shall dream dreams."
00:56:02.79\00:56:04.76
You know, and as we pray,
00:56:04.79\00:56:06.66
and as the Holy Spirit is
alive and well on this earth,
00:56:06.70\00:56:10.97
He is totally alive and well.
00:56:11.00\00:56:13.74
And He's here to
help us, you know?
00:56:13.77\00:56:18.34
And we're not alone. No.
00:56:18.37\00:56:20.28
We're not at all alone.
00:56:20.31\00:56:21.64
So even though we're
saying these hard things and,
00:56:21.68\00:56:24.45
you know, it
looks pretty gloomy,
00:56:24.48\00:56:26.61
we got answers.
00:56:26.65\00:56:27.98
We got answers
in the Word of God.
00:56:28.02\00:56:29.35
Amen. And here's the good news.
00:56:29.38\00:56:30.72
Let me give you a
bright part of the end times.
00:56:30.75\00:56:32.55
Matthew 24:14
00:56:32.59\00:56:34.26
and this gospel of the kingdom
00:56:34.29\00:56:37.43
will be preached
in all the world,
00:56:37.46\00:56:41.30
for a witness to all nations,
and then the end will come.
00:56:41.33\00:56:45.17
The Lord wants to
restore our hearts.
00:56:45.20\00:56:48.10
He wants to restore our lives.
00:56:48.14\00:56:50.51
But in order for us to get
00:56:50.54\00:56:53.17
to where the
Lord wants us to be,
00:56:53.21\00:56:55.34
we have to allow His
Word to be our guide,
00:56:55.38\00:56:58.75
and His Holy Spirit
who will never tell us
00:56:58.78\00:57:02.38
what is not in God's Word.
00:57:02.42\00:57:04.35
That's important.
00:57:04.39\00:57:05.72
Don't ever say the
Holy Spirit told me this,
00:57:05.75\00:57:07.76
what you can't find in Bible.
00:57:07.79\00:57:10.33
The Holy Spirit
will never lead you
00:57:10.36\00:57:12.06
and guide you into
falsity, but always into truth.
00:57:12.09\00:57:14.60
Amen.
00:57:14.63\00:57:15.96
The one thing that
the Holy Spirit will...
00:57:16.00\00:57:19.23
Well, I look at it this way.
00:57:19.27\00:57:24.57
Now I know what
not to do. Exactly.
00:57:24.61\00:57:28.38
On that note, friends,
00:57:28.41\00:57:29.84
we have to say
may the Lord bless you
00:57:29.88\00:57:31.38
until we see you again.
00:57:31.41\00:57:32.75
Be in God's Word
00:57:32.78\00:57:34.12
and you will
always be led right.
00:57:34.15\00:57:35.85
God bless you
until we see you again.
00:57:35.88\00:57:37.49
Amen.
00:57:37.52\00:57:38.85