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 once
again to 3ABN Family Worship.
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It's so good
that you've joined us.
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You know, I really like this,
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sometime we
travel different places,
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people say we make that a habit,
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we always join
the family worship
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and we think that's good.
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So have your
Bible, pencil and paper,
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we got a subject that you
really wouldn't want to miss
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and you want to be a part of it,
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and we thank you that you are.
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We're gonna be talking
about restitution of all things.
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I look forward to that
and I'm sure each one here
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around the table
looks forward to God
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restoring all things
and putting them back.
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But before we do
that, I want to make sure
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we introduce
everyone that's here.
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We'll start down here
on my right with Don Owen.
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Nice to have you.
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Thank you, thank
you for having me.
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Yeah. It's been a blessing.
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I enjoy Family Worship,
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we get a lot of
comments of people
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just really
drawn to this program.
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Spoken now,
especially in pastoral
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I hear it all the time,
oh, they want to spoke to us,
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seen on TV, so
it just touches...
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People are being blessed.
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Holy Spirit is blessing. Amen.
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You have your lovely
wife Janelle with us.
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Glad to have you
with us. Thank you.
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Thank you for
asking us to be here,
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it's a privilege.
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It's always a joy and it's a joy
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even before the program,
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we get to talk about
things and share things,
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you know, that's wonderful.
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Have some laugh.
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My name's Kenny
and my wife Christine.
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Hi. I'm glad to be here too.
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Oh, I'm glad to be here too.
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I don't know what I'd
do if you wasn't, honey,
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thank you.
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He would be fine.
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That's a blessing
to have good helpmeet.
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Thank God for that. Amen.
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On your left
there, what do we have?
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This beautiful lady.
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You go ahead,
you're gonna give it.
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What am I supposed to say,
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my sister-in-law, Sister Yvonne.
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Yes.
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Sister Yvonne Lewis-Shelton.
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Yeah.
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So good to be here with you.
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Family Worship is special.
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That's right. Isn't it special?
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It is very
special. It's special.
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Yeah, did you
bring somebody with you?
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I did.
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I brought my wonderful
husband, Danny Shelton.
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Privilege to be
here with you all.
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Thank you for inviting me.
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We know you. We appreciate you.
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Well, no, I love
it and its greatest,
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one of the programs I
really when I get time
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to watch 3ABN we're all so busy,
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we like that,
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of course the Sabbath School
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and there's a
lot of other things,
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but there's some
that I'm like you,
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everywhere we
travel, people say,
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well, I really
liked Family Worship,
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and Sabbath School,
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and they'll start
naming their other programs,
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but these are
always part of that.
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I think it's a great
way to bring in the Sabbath.
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It is. Thanks God.
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Well, would you
have our opening prayer,
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and then after that,
you can announce a song
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that we're going
to singing today.
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Oh, okay. All right.
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Dear Lord, we thank You
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for Your blessings and Your love
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and we thank You
for the beginning
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of another Sabbath day
then You set aside for us
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Your holy day
that we feel blessed
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that we can be a part of it
and that You literally will.
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As we submit and
commit our lives to You,
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You will rule and reign
and supreme in our lives.
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Thank You for this day.
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Now we thank You
for the opportunity
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to study Your Word.
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Amen.
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And today we're
asking for the anointing
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of Your Holy Spirit
upon each person here,
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upon each person at
home those that are viewing,
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those that are watching,
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those that are
listening around the world
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and then we pray
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that You would literally
work in the hearts and minds
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of each one of us
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to realize of
ourselves we can't do nothing,
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but through You we
can accomplish all things.
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Amen. That's right.
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And thank you
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for the great plan of salvation.
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They were humbled,
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and yet we feel
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just tremendous
excitement, happiness,
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knowing that Your
coming is very soon
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in the clouds of glory.
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Thank you, in
Jesus' name we pray.
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Amen. Amen.
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Who we have on
the piano before...
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Well, we have
Brother Tim Parton.
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Hey, Tim. Yay!
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And so we're so
glad that he's here
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because without him, we
may not sound that great,
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without him we
would sound worse.
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So I could promise that.
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So I think we're
gonna do trust and obey
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and so those of you at home,
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we want you to sing with us.
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We're gonna do the
first and last stanza,
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when we walk with the Lord
in the light of His Word, okay?
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Amen. All right, let's do it.
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When we walk with the Lord
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In the light of His Word
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What a glory He sheds on our way
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While we do His good will
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He abides with us still
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And with all who
will trust and obey
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Trust and obey
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For there's no other way
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To be happy in Jesus
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But to trust and obey
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Then in fellowship sweet
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Then in fellowship sweet
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We will sit at His feet
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Or we'll walk by
His side in the way
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What He says we will do
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Where He sends, we will go
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Never fear, only trust and obey
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Trust and obey
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For there's no other way
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To be happy in Jesus
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But to trust and obey
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Amen. Praise the Lord.
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That's a beautiful song.
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Thank you so much, Brother Tim.
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Takes me back a long time,
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and Kenny and I, we
were singing one time,
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my mother always had to
sing in with our brothers,
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so we had Tom
maybe even play and sing,
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and Ronnie, and
Kenny and me and so,
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Kenny usually sang the melody
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but this particular time he
was going to do the harmony.
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And so we said,
okay, so we were singing
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and all of a sudden I
heard somebody on my part.
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And so for my part
that I was singing,
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supposed to be tenor.
I'm not really tenor singer,
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but singing the tenor part.
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And I heard
somebody, my partner was Kenny
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and it took me a couple
seconds and he didn't go back.
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So I switched
and went to his part.
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After it's over, I
said, I said, hey, brother,
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I said, what you
were doing on my part?
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And I said, you just hung there.
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He said, listen, I
don't have that good ears,
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so when I get a part, he said,
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when I get on a part
no matter what it is,
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I'm standing there,
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you can jump part
three if you need so,
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from now on when we're together,
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If I switch part he
said, if I switch part,
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you just go with it.
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That is so funny. I love it.
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And so we did but today,
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I started off with melody
and he went to the tenor so
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and he did it all
the way through so...
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Wow! It reminds me of Yvonne.
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I was jumping all
around trying to find my name.
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He was solid
today. I was jumping.
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No, no, no.
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Kenny was solid
today, I like it.
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It's a good
start to our program.
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Amen.
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Trust and obey, for
there's no other way.
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That's right.
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Again we hope
you have your Bible
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and pencil and paper
and jot some things down
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because there's so much here,
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I'm almost sure
that we won't get done.
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May not.
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But, you know,
again, why rush it.
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That's right.
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This is such an
important subject.
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So let's take our time.
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Each one just jump
in when you feel like
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the Holy Spirit is
telling you to jump,
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go ahead and do this
is, to me it's worship is,
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is talking back and forth
and not somebody just taken.
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You may say something
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that gets me right
quick and I'm saying,
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you know, it's
not trying to bud in,
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it's just we're trying to add.
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Bounce of...
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Bounce off, maybe
asking the question.
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And, you know what they study,
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I know that you're
putting it together,
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there was something
that really stuck out.
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You've read this passage before
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because you
gonna turn your Bible,
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Acts 3:19-21.
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That's beautiful.
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This passage has
always been precious to me,
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as well as probably
every one of you at home
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and each one of us here.
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But as you were reading
through this right here,
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there was something
that stuck out in your mind.
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Maybe you'll give us
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a little bit of
background on that?
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Well, when I was studying
through the Book of Acts
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and I came to Chapter 3
and once I heard part of 21
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which I'll just read
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the whole thing 19
through 21 for everybody.
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It says, "Repent ye
therefore and be converted,
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that your sins
may be blotted out,
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when the times of refreshing
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shall come from the
presence of the Lord,
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and he shall send Jesus Christ,
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which before was
preached unto you."
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So right there, it's
telling us that prophecy said,
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Christ was coming, right?
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"Whom the heaven must receive."
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That was interesting
too because after He came,
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after He made His sacrifice
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and did what He
did on the earth,
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then the
heavens must receive Him
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and then reading on
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"until the times of
restitution of all things."
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And that's what
really stuck out,
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the restitution of all things.
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Because how many
times have we heard
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everything was
done at the cross?
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It all ended at the cross.
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Now my version says
times of restoration.
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Yeah.
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It tell us...
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I'm gonna tell you
because that is a synonym...
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Yes.
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Which God has spoken
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by the mouth of
all His holy prophets
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since the world began.
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Yes. And so I went to Google.
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Google. We love Google, right?
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Yeah.
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I don't know how I
ever studied without Google.
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I mean, you know,
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we had this Strong's
and all these things,
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but they took so much longer.
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But the synonym, which is
what your Bible is presenting,
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return,
restoration, handing back,
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replacement,
surrender, yielding, recovery.
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It defines restitution
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as the
restoration of something lost.
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Listen to this, it's exciting.
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The restoration
of something lost
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or stolen to its proper owner.
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Okay.
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So, yes, and the example
of this is the claims were
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for restitution
of land of alleged...
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Can't even
speak... It's all right.
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Allegedly seized
by the occupying power
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and with that clarity of mind
through the great controversy,
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we know that the
enemy of souls did what?
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He came and seized this world.
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He took it, he
claimed it as his...
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He claimed God's property.
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Exactly. Exactly.
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He stole it as it were
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and so Christ is
restoring all things.
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Yeah, actually
looked up in the Concordance
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and it talked about this word,
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and it meant to
reconstitute your health,
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your home, and organization,
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that's powerful to
the aspect of our health,
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you know, even you know,
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the enemy is solely
stealing our health,
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take away our homes,
he's breaking down the family.
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Oh, absolutely.
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And our
organization, our churches,
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our people and all that
stuff so as to reclaim them.
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Where it really starts to
is, you know, at the home,
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as you saying with our
health, our home, our family,
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this where it
really all started.
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Exactly.
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Absolutely. Exactly.
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And we're just barely
going to touch the surface.
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Because as when he sees this
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and he began to
occupy this world
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that was his area
of power, you know...
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How do we know that
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from Scripture,
isn't that right?
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We know that,
even Jesus after sin
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recognized that the enemy
was the prince of this world.
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He was the owner.
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Jesus knew He was the
owner because man had sinned.
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Had sinned. Right?
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We fell under his
occupation. Creation.
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Right. God made man.
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He gave the world,
right, earth to man,
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man forfeited that
because of sin, the enemy...
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I must read John
14:30 and then you go on
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'cause this is
Jesus speaking here.
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He says,
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"Hereafter I will
not talk much with you."
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Interesting Jesus saying,
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I'm not gonna
talk much with you,
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why?
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"For the prince of
this world cometh,"
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ooh, I love this, "and
he hath nothing in me."
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Amen.
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That's why I said, you know,
strive about the grace of God
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to say when the
enemy comes against,
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he has nothing in me,
nothing that we are aware of,
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right, that we are aware of.
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We're always growing in Christ,
but he has nothing in me.
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And that's such a great point
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because when you think about it,
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you know, you
don't want to think that
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the Lord Jesus is
not subject to Satan.
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Satan is still a creature,
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he is still subject to
God and to Jesus Christ.
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So that is a great
verse because it reminds us
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of the
sovereignty of Jesus Christ.
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So even though Satan is
the prince of this world,
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Jesus is the King of kings.
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Come on.
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And it's because he
had no power over Christ
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that Christ was
able to gain this world
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back from him,
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to restore it back and
he's still in that process.
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But you think
about Lucifer in heaven
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was a covering cherub.
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What did he
cover? What did he cover?
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The mercy seat which contained
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the
commandments, the law of God,
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so every sense
iniquity was found in his heart.
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You know, he's been trying
to destroy God's character
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in all these different aspects.
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The Bible says that
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"Thy way, O God is
through the sanctuary."
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And I loved Pastor Ivor Myers.
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He calls it the blueprint.
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And if you ever
watched the Blueprint?
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I mean, you can see
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just different pieces of history
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that go through
that sanctuary message.
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And what we're going
to focus on here today
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are just some of those examples.
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Lot of times I
mentioned earlier,
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when we're doing an
evangelistic series,
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we go through
all the dispensations
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of Christian history
and how a certain message,
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a certain truth for
that time was restored.
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Because God had to
restore everything back,
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and in a sense
it's actually restoring
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part of the sanctuary.
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So today we're going
to look at the restoration
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of the altar of showbread,
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the altar of sacrifice,
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the altar of incense, the laver,
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the seven branch candlestick,
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if we get this far,
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and finally, finally,
the ark of the covenant.
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Was it
mentioned there is a Psalm
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that you touched on.
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I mean, there's a Psalm,
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a lot of people
don't even recognize.
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Psalm 68:24 says,
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"They have seen
thy goings, Oh, God,
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even the goings
of my God, my King,
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in his sanctuary."
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In the sanctuary,
so they're watching
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what his God or
King is doing this thing.
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Oh, yes. In the sanctuary, yes.
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Amen. That's a powerful thought.
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Could you think about apostasy?
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You know what we're tracing it
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during the
reformation time and, you know,
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the truth that's
covered up is being,
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I mean, this is real
topic of being uncovered...
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Amen.
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God has people
here in these last days
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that are going to
uncover these beautiful truths
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that the enemy has covered over.
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But if you think about
even the time of the apostles
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until the time
of the reformation,
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the truths were being attacked.
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Were being attacked,
that Jesus walked this earth
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it was attacked, you
know, after, you know,
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the first century,
the second century.
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I jotted down five, I
thought was interesting.
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Always been
attacked, always been attacked
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is the authority of God's Word.
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And we find that in reformation,
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we find it was being
attacked even in Jesus,
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you remember, the
authority of God words
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and then the scriptures
are always being attacked.
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You know, are they
really real, are they really,
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you know, Holy Spirit really,
you know, the scriptures.
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And then they
tried to put in tradition
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in the place of the
authority of scripture.
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Yes.
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We find that's
always been a fight
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that's going on
even the days of Christ.
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And then
naturally, everywhere you go,
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any phase of time the
Sabbath has been attacked.
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It's always attacked.
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So the Sabbath issue and
the law of God was attacked
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because we know
where it was attacked first
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and then down here.
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And then we find
out the coming together
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to compromise unity
of church and state.
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That's kind of off
the wall, throw that back.
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Everything
you're talking about is,
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it is covered in
the great controversy.
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I love that book,
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it mixes prophecy
and history together.
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And, you know, anyone that maybe
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isn't interested
in religious things,
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at least there's
the history part there,
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maybe will draw them
to the more, you know,
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the religious side of it.
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But it's a love
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that when we
give that to people,
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we explain that that
book is mixture of history
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and prophecy, Bible prophecy.
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And if they're interested
in history, then, you know,
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they tend to
more want to read it.
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And really that's
what Acts 3:21 is depicting
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is the great controversy,
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that Christ our Messiah,
our Redeemer would be sent
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that, you know, He would make,
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He actually continue to
go through the sanctuary.
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He would make
that great sacrifice
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for each and every one of us.
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And then heaven had
to receive him back.
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And I don't remember
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if we talked about
it on air, off air,
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but we mentioned earlier
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that a lot of people believe
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that at the cross
everything was done away with.
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And before I even understood
parts of this message,
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I always wonder if it
was done, if it's completed,
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then what are we doing here?
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Why are we still here?
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Because Christ had
to restore all things
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that the enemy
and think about it,
00:17:49.93\00:17:52.40
that was his job
as covering cherub.
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He was covering the
law of God. Lucifer.
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Yeah, Lucifer in heaven,
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and everything that
was a part of his being
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he now began to turn against.
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And He's divided,
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he's breaking it apart
and deceiving the people
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so that we cannot see
clearly who God really is.
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That leads us into
our first question.
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I think it very well
that we already talked about
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because this, we spend
a lot of time on this one.
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Question number one,
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if you have the one that
says the blueprint on it,
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number one, it says,
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"Why was the
translation of the Bible
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into the common language
of the people so important?"
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You know, it's
something for us to think, why.
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Remember if we had a Bible,
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and it was in a
different language
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that we couldn't tell,
what good would it do us?
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Right.
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You know, and again,
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why did the people
need the Bible translated
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into a language that
they could understand.
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To me that's very interesting
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because we're
talking about restoration
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of the altar of showbread.
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When you go in the
sanctuary, on the right,
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you have the table of what?
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Showbread.
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And so what does that represent?
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That opens up a bunch
of questions and thoughts
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and comments about
that table of showbread
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because what has the devil done.
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Just what
everybody's been saying here,
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he's tried to
steal the Word of God
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out of our hand.
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He tried doing it,
he tried burning it,
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tried to killing
people over the ages
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that hasn't worked.
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So he's tried to
change the wording
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of different translations
and so on and so forth.
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And then try and
take it out of our hands
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where we don't study it anymore.
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Right.
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So God said one thing,
we've got to get back is faith
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in the Word of God.
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That's right. Restore the Word.
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So what does that really
mean when you think about these?
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Go ahead.
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Well, there's nothing like
reading the Word for yourself.
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You know, you can have
someone give you the information
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or you can go to
the Word yourself.
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God wanted to make it
00:19:41.61\00:19:43.38
so that we can go
to the word ourselves
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and not hear it
through another person,
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not hear their interpretation,
00:19:48.82\00:19:50.75
not hear what
they're saying about,
00:19:50.79\00:19:52.95
no, what is God
saying to my heart directly.
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So I think that's
one of the reasons
00:19:55.96\00:19:57.29
why it was important to
have the Word translated
00:19:57.33\00:20:00.96
into our own language
00:20:01.00\00:20:03.06
so that I don't have to go
00:20:03.10\00:20:04.43
to someone who's
reading it let say in Latin.
00:20:04.47\00:20:07.27
I don't speak Latin. No.
00:20:07.30\00:20:08.84
You know, I mean, what?
00:20:08.87\00:20:10.21
Plus and we wouldn't be
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not reading the language at all,
00:20:11.61\00:20:12.94
just reading what they want.
00:20:12.97\00:20:14.31
That's right. Exactly.
00:20:14.34\00:20:15.68
So you're getting that,
you don't know any different.
00:20:15.71\00:20:17.21
Exactly. Yeah.
00:20:17.25\00:20:18.91
I think the power
of the Word though,
00:20:18.95\00:20:20.42
why do we want the Word.
00:20:20.45\00:20:21.78
And Isaiah 58
put it really well.
00:20:21.82\00:20:23.99
He said to loose
the bands of wickedness,
00:20:24.02\00:20:26.55
to undo the heavy burdens,
to let the oppressed go free
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and to break
every enslaving yoke.
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Amen.
00:20:31.13\00:20:32.46
Think about they're
under heavy oppression
00:20:32.49\00:20:34.73
and then when the Word comes in,
00:20:34.76\00:20:36.40
it gives you that abiding peace.
00:20:36.43\00:20:38.53
I'm gonna set you free,
00:20:38.57\00:20:39.90
and that's to me, you know,
00:20:39.93\00:20:41.27
that's what
Jesus said, you know,
00:20:41.30\00:20:42.64
the thief came in to
steal, kill and destroy.
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But Jesus came to
give us an abundant life
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and through His Word...
00:20:46.11\00:20:47.48
That's where you
get that abundant life.
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Amen.
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And if you roll the scroll back,
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go back to the fourth century,
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go back to even the 14th century
00:20:53.68\00:20:55.92
when John
Wycliffe came on the scene.
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You know because God
put that burden in his heart
00:20:58.69\00:21:01.86
to begin to translate the Bible.
00:21:01.89\00:21:03.83
But really,
there weren't Bibles.
00:21:03.86\00:21:05.79
We didn't have Bibles
in every room of our home.
00:21:05.83\00:21:09.00
They were collecting dust,
00:21:09.03\00:21:10.40
you might find one chained
to a monastery somewhere.
00:21:10.43\00:21:13.13
Yeah. Right.
00:21:13.17\00:21:14.50
And it was in Latin,
00:21:14.54\00:21:15.87
and very few people had
access to the Word of God.
00:21:15.90\00:21:18.74
That's right.
00:21:18.77\00:21:20.11
So if they wanted to
draw close to Christ,
00:21:20.14\00:21:21.48
what did they do?
00:21:21.51\00:21:22.84
They went to the
church and they relied
00:21:22.88\00:21:25.35
on what the
priest would tell them
00:21:25.38\00:21:27.32
and most often,
00:21:27.35\00:21:28.82
they were still
speaking in a language
00:21:28.85\00:21:30.62
that they did not understand.
00:21:30.65\00:21:32.85
So John Wycliffe,
00:21:32.89\00:21:34.49
he wanted to translate the Bible
00:21:34.52\00:21:36.79
into a language that
the common people spoke.
00:21:36.83\00:21:41.46
That's why we relate,
you know, a lot of times,
00:21:41.50\00:21:44.40
even our children,
00:21:44.43\00:21:45.77
they have
trouble with King James,
00:21:45.80\00:21:47.14
you know, so they might go
to New King James or whatever.
00:21:47.17\00:21:49.67
But eventually, you
know, we like to go back.
00:21:49.70\00:21:52.21
I kind of do that,
00:21:52.24\00:21:53.58
just because it's
easier to remember one
00:21:53.61\00:21:54.98
that I'm reading all the time.
00:21:55.01\00:21:56.68
But you know you choose
one that you can understand.
00:21:56.71\00:21:59.05
Right.
00:21:59.08\00:22:00.42
But there are
times, there are times
00:22:00.45\00:22:01.78
like Danny said in the beginning
00:22:01.82\00:22:03.15
with restoration,
and what's the word?
00:22:03.18\00:22:06.22
Restitution, you know,
00:22:06.25\00:22:07.82
'cause that's a
synonym of restitution.
00:22:07.86\00:22:11.63
But it's the
different translations,
00:22:11.66\00:22:15.46
we want one that we
can understand that.
00:22:15.50\00:22:17.30
That's right.
00:22:17.33\00:22:19.57
I mean, she's going back.
00:22:19.60\00:22:20.94
You talk about the 1300s
00:22:20.97\00:22:23.14
was the time when John
Wycliffe here was in operation.
00:22:23.17\00:22:26.27
What he did how
God had called him.
00:22:26.31\00:22:28.31
And you know,
even 200 years later,
00:22:28.34\00:22:30.18
220 or 30 was when
Luther came into being,
00:22:30.21\00:22:33.68
didn't have the
printing and all that
00:22:33.72\00:22:35.05
to where he is interesting.
00:22:35.08\00:22:36.62
He went to the library.
00:22:36.65\00:22:38.45
I was reading about
him, he went to the library
00:22:38.49\00:22:40.22
and found the whole Bible.
00:22:40.26\00:22:42.59
Yes.
00:22:42.62\00:22:43.96
As being what
he was, the priest,
00:22:43.99\00:22:45.69
doing what he was doing.
00:22:45.73\00:22:47.06
He was only allowed
00:22:47.10\00:22:48.43
to have certain
portions of the gospel.
00:22:48.46\00:22:50.87
Oh, wow! He had never seen.
00:22:50.90\00:22:53.57
I mean, it almost makes
your heart kind of hurt.
00:22:53.60\00:22:55.27
Oh, it does.
00:22:55.30\00:22:56.64
He had never
seen and he had long
00:22:56.67\00:22:58.27
for the whole
Bible, for the whole Bible,
00:22:58.31\00:23:00.58
and he had never had
it till he seen it there.
00:23:00.61\00:23:02.61
And then he certainly
couldn't take that one
00:23:02.64\00:23:04.18
and so he began to read the one
that was chained to the walls.
00:23:04.21\00:23:09.08
You see, in the
convent, there in monastery.
00:23:09.12\00:23:11.42
He started reading that
and there he found Christ.
00:23:11.45\00:23:14.16
So, I mean to me when
I see that right there.
00:23:14.19\00:23:16.59
Why we asked the question here.
00:23:16.62\00:23:18.59
Why was it that the
enemy wanted to cover
00:23:18.63\00:23:21.83
the table of
showbread, take it out?
00:23:21.86\00:23:24.03
Why was he wanted
to take the bread?
00:23:24.07\00:23:25.40
Who does the bread represent?
00:23:25.43\00:23:27.44
Jesus. Christ.
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Thank you.
00:23:28.84\00:23:31.44
Trying to be
quiet, something to say.
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John Chapter 6, right?
00:23:34.38\00:23:36.24
Went to John
Chapter 6, you read it.
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He said, he's
the bread of, what?
00:23:38.38\00:23:40.52
Life. He's the bread of life.
00:23:40.55\00:23:42.62
And then he talks about
00:23:42.65\00:23:43.99
there are
several places in there,
00:23:44.02\00:23:45.35
6:41, He said,
00:23:45.39\00:23:46.72
"I'm the bread that
came down from heaven."
00:23:46.76\00:23:49.72
In John 6:51, He said,
"We have to eat this bread."
00:23:49.76\00:23:52.86
Yes. So He is the bread of life.
00:23:52.89\00:23:54.90
The devil says, man, if
I can get rid of the bread.
00:23:54.93\00:23:56.73
Right.
00:23:56.77\00:23:58.10
Get rid of all the people,
if I can mix up the bread.
00:23:58.13\00:24:00.47
I was kind of shocked
00:24:00.50\00:24:01.84
when I read a little
bit about those the cakes,
00:24:01.87\00:24:03.77
you know, the
loaves, there's 12 of them.
00:24:03.81\00:24:06.27
And I was thinking,
now somebody can correct me
00:24:06.31\00:24:07.94
if somebody will probably on it.
00:24:07.98\00:24:09.54
But I was thinking
each one of those cake,
00:24:09.58\00:24:11.45
I was thinking,
careful, pancake thickness.
00:24:11.48\00:24:16.05
I mean, I don't know why.
Something to compare it to.
00:24:16.08\00:24:17.92
Yeah, something I can.
00:24:17.95\00:24:19.62
I understand that
there was four quarts
00:24:19.65\00:24:23.12
of flours that were...
00:24:23.16\00:24:24.49
I think it's
flour used in one cake.
00:24:24.53\00:24:26.59
Wow!
00:24:26.63\00:24:27.96
Now, how big are those babies?
00:24:28.00\00:24:29.90
I mean, think about this.
00:24:29.93\00:24:31.83
How big and then they
were stacked into six.
00:24:31.87\00:24:34.47
Four quarts,
that's a gallon each.
00:24:34.50\00:24:36.40
Yeah. That's a big.
00:24:36.44\00:24:38.24
So it's either
two or maybe four.
00:24:38.27\00:24:40.14
I said, that is such a lot.
00:24:40.18\00:24:41.61
Now we have to
think birthday cake.
00:24:41.64\00:24:43.45
There you go.
00:24:43.48\00:24:46.21
Wedding cakes.
00:24:46.25\00:24:47.58
Have to be able to stack over.
00:24:47.62\00:24:48.95
Yeah, the Word of
God is supposed to be,
00:24:48.98\00:24:50.85
I want to call this is heavy.
00:24:50.89\00:24:52.32
You know, it is heavy. Yeah.
00:24:52.35\00:24:54.06
That is dense, the
meat of the word in Psalm.
00:24:54.09\00:24:56.02
Oh, yeah.
00:24:56.06\00:24:57.39
But, you know,
what you're saying is
00:24:57.43\00:24:58.86
what all of us are saying is
00:24:58.89\00:25:00.33
if the enemy could
stamp out the Bible,
00:25:00.36\00:25:03.30
keep the Bible from the people,
then they don't have the light.
00:25:03.33\00:25:07.50
They're in darkness,
00:25:07.54\00:25:08.87
they don't have
a way of salvation.
00:25:08.90\00:25:10.67
He's trying to cut them up
because he wants their homage.
00:25:10.71\00:25:14.81
He wants them to worship him.
00:25:14.84\00:25:16.41
Got something in Daniel
12:3, I'll go really quick.
00:25:16.44\00:25:18.48
Okay.
00:25:18.51\00:25:19.85
It says, "They that be wise
00:25:19.88\00:25:21.22
shall shine as the
brightness of the firmament,
00:25:21.25\00:25:22.62
and they that turn
many to righteousness
00:25:22.65\00:25:26.29
as the stars forever."
00:25:26.32\00:25:27.66
Amen.
00:25:27.69\00:25:29.02
We were talking about
Bibles and how profound that,
00:25:29.06\00:25:32.36
you know, when these
before you see the Bible
00:25:32.39\00:25:34.66
for the very first time.
00:25:34.70\00:25:36.40
You know, these
reformers and it reminded me
00:25:36.43\00:25:38.60
that Elder John
Carter gave Yvonne and I,
00:25:38.63\00:25:41.17
in fact I think we have
two pages front and back.
00:25:41.20\00:25:44.24
A 1611 edition, I
think is what was it?
00:25:44.27\00:25:46.78
Second edition of translation,
00:25:46.81\00:25:50.15
I think, it's the
Wycliffe rendition.
00:25:50.18\00:25:52.45
It's one of those.
00:25:52.48\00:25:54.02
But when you actually see it
and this is what people read,
00:25:54.05\00:25:57.32
it takes you back to the 1600s.
00:25:57.35\00:25:59.55
Just the way it was written,
00:25:59.59\00:26:00.92
the wording, the way they spoke,
00:26:00.96\00:26:03.02
and it really is amazing.
00:26:03.06\00:26:04.49
So you can go
back and it's like,
00:26:04.53\00:26:06.66
the verse, the song,
that in the love of God.
00:26:06.70\00:26:11.07
The story goes,
00:26:11.10\00:26:12.43
I don't know who
can really say for sure,
00:26:12.47\00:26:14.77
but the story goes that
00:26:14.80\00:26:16.44
that it was found inscribed
on a mental institution
00:26:16.47\00:26:21.14
their words that they
used is the second verse
00:26:21.18\00:26:23.75
of the love of God.
00:26:23.78\00:26:25.35
And it says, it says if
we with ink the ocean fill,
00:26:25.38\00:26:30.35
and all the skies
of parchment made,
00:26:30.39\00:26:32.65
you hear that
language of the 1600s.
00:26:32.69\00:26:37.73
If we would with
ink the ocean fill
00:26:37.76\00:26:39.86
and all the
skies of parchment made
00:26:39.89\00:26:41.76
and every stalk
on earth a quill,
00:26:41.80\00:26:44.47
and every man a scribe by trade,
00:26:44.50\00:26:46.27
to write the love of God
above would drain the ocean dry.
00:26:46.30\00:26:50.77
Get this?
00:26:50.81\00:26:52.14
And though it says,
00:26:52.17\00:26:53.51
it was
stretched from sky to sky,
00:26:53.54\00:26:55.74
love of God, how great,
00:26:55.78\00:26:57.75
you know, it's
an incredible verse.
00:26:57.78\00:27:00.42
And apparently,
00:27:00.45\00:27:02.48
someone who'd become a Christian
00:27:02.52\00:27:03.89
during the Dark Ages,
00:27:03.92\00:27:05.35
had put them in a
mental institution
00:27:05.39\00:27:07.12
if they didn't kill him
or burn him at the stake.
00:27:07.16\00:27:09.32
But all of that
kind of brings us back
00:27:09.36\00:27:11.26
into reading
these 1611 versions,
00:27:11.29\00:27:13.80
you know, what a
time to be living.
00:27:13.83\00:27:16.20
And we're looking
back at all of that.
00:27:16.23\00:27:18.13
If they could
be alive right now,
00:27:18.17\00:27:19.97
they would probably say
00:27:20.00\00:27:21.34
what a time to be living, right?
00:27:21.37\00:27:23.00
At the closing
moments of earth's history.
00:27:23.04\00:27:24.81
How exciting? Yeah.
00:27:24.84\00:27:26.37
When you think about
00:27:26.41\00:27:27.84
how much more
people appreciated the Word
00:27:27.88\00:27:29.44
when they first bought it
00:27:29.48\00:27:30.81
because they knew what
was like to not have it.
00:27:30.85\00:27:32.81
Right.
00:27:32.85\00:27:34.18
But now we've have so
many forms of the Bible
00:27:34.22\00:27:36.48
that Satan has
brought so many distractions
00:27:36.52\00:27:39.22
and that's kind of like
the Dark Ages of our time
00:27:39.25\00:27:42.59
is this distraction
to where we just don't,
00:27:42.62\00:27:45.23
we've got so much
other stuff going on
00:27:45.26\00:27:47.80
that we just don't
focus as much as we need to,
00:27:47.83\00:27:50.37
at least for myself, you
know, on studying in God's Word.
00:27:50.40\00:27:53.67
And, you know,
00:27:53.70\00:27:55.04
it's just the kind of
like that interesting thought,
00:27:55.07\00:27:58.01
like, wow, look
at what they had,
00:27:58.04\00:28:00.68
what they when
they first got it,
00:28:00.71\00:28:02.04
like how much
they appreciated it.
00:28:02.08\00:28:03.55
Yes.
00:28:03.58\00:28:05.08
Well, a closer to our time
00:28:05.11\00:28:07.92
we might spend when we
were in Russia with you.
00:28:07.95\00:28:09.88
Right.
00:28:09.92\00:28:11.25
And they were telling the story
00:28:11.29\00:28:12.92
of when you and John
Carter had been there
00:28:12.95\00:28:15.52
and see they didn't have,
the Bible had been shut out.
00:28:15.56\00:28:18.79
And I loved what you
were saying in that song,
00:28:18.83\00:28:20.90
the love of God.
00:28:20.93\00:28:22.26
Because that's
really what the devil did
00:28:22.30\00:28:23.87
by hiding the Bible.
00:28:23.90\00:28:25.40
He was really
hiding the love of God.
00:28:25.43\00:28:28.34
That's right.
00:28:28.37\00:28:30.01
And the people you were
giving away free Bibles,
00:28:30.04\00:28:32.61
and one man...
00:28:32.64\00:28:33.98
One man...
00:28:34.01\00:28:35.34
That went down
and sat on the grass,
00:28:35.38\00:28:36.98
and began to read
00:28:37.01\00:28:38.35
'cause he had
believed in evolution.
00:28:38.38\00:28:40.28
And in the beginning God,
00:28:40.32\00:28:42.72
right then just
broke down in tears.
00:28:42.75\00:28:45.15
The Holy Spirit was so
strong in the beginning, God.
00:28:45.19\00:28:48.72
That's what he was looking for.
00:28:48.76\00:28:50.09
1992 right after
fall of communism
00:28:50.13\00:28:53.09
what you were talking about.
00:28:53.13\00:28:54.76
These people had
never seen a Bible.
00:28:54.80\00:28:56.16
There were
pastors who were preaching
00:28:56.20\00:28:57.90
who'd never had a whole Bible.
00:28:57.93\00:28:59.57
Wow!
00:28:59.60\00:29:00.94
And so think about that Yes.
00:29:00.97\00:29:03.61
It's a long
ago, either. Exactly.
00:29:03.64\00:29:05.51
Twenty seven years
ago, twenty eight years ago.
00:29:05.54\00:29:08.64
But when we gave
out these Bibles,
00:29:08.68\00:29:10.95
we gave several thousands.
00:29:10.98\00:29:12.98
We get to the big sports arena,
00:29:13.01\00:29:14.95
people would literally grab them
00:29:14.98\00:29:16.85
instead of taking them home.
00:29:16.89\00:29:18.45
They would just go
right on the concrete
00:29:18.49\00:29:20.26
and start reading,
00:29:20.29\00:29:21.62
run over to a little shade tree.
00:29:21.66\00:29:23.22
They were reading
immediately, crying with tears.
00:29:23.26\00:29:25.56
Well, absolutely. Yes.
00:29:25.59\00:29:27.23
Wow!
00:29:27.26\00:29:28.60
They would clutch
the Bible to their chest.
00:29:28.63\00:29:30.17
Wow.
00:29:30.20\00:29:31.53
And the pastors holded
Bibles for the first time.
00:29:31.57\00:29:34.70
We had 100,000 Bibles.
00:29:34.74\00:29:36.20
We were able to
thanks to our viewers,
00:29:36.24\00:29:38.27
we were able to
send those to Russia.
00:29:38.31\00:29:41.48
But now there's
a big difference.
00:29:41.51\00:29:42.94
You go there, we'll
be going in a few weeks.
00:29:42.98\00:29:45.61
You go there.
00:29:45.65\00:29:46.98
It looks a lot
more like America.
00:29:47.02\00:29:48.62
There's all the shopping malls,
00:29:48.65\00:29:49.98
all the things,
and people are busy.
00:29:50.02\00:29:52.62
And back then you could
go when we first started,
00:29:52.65\00:29:55.76
they allowed our young students
00:29:55.79\00:29:57.16
to go teach
English in their schools
00:29:57.19\00:29:59.73
and teach the Bible.
00:29:59.76\00:30:01.20
And so, now,
it's changing so much
00:30:01.23\00:30:04.10
that people aren't
nearly as interested in hearing
00:30:04.13\00:30:06.77
because they have
so many distractions.
00:30:06.80\00:30:09.37
So, you got to do it
00:30:09.40\00:30:10.74
while the sun is shining, right?
00:30:10.77\00:30:13.34
Oh, absolutely.
00:30:13.38\00:30:14.71
Absolutely, I think that's,
you know, I think about is,
00:30:14.74\00:30:17.38
why at this point in
time, you know, about 1300s.
00:30:17.41\00:30:20.92
John Wycliffe do what
he did it, translates it.
00:30:20.95\00:30:23.89
Because I think it was a
time in the history of the world
00:30:23.92\00:30:27.16
that God was
leading a people away
00:30:27.19\00:30:29.22
from Rome and He's
wanting to have the truth,
00:30:29.26\00:30:32.36
so what a time to write it down
00:30:32.39\00:30:34.33
into their
language because if you...
00:30:34.36\00:30:36.80
As I was reading
about this stuff,
00:30:36.83\00:30:38.17
I thought that
was, the Bible was
00:30:38.20\00:30:40.44
the most important
weapon against Rome.
00:30:40.47\00:30:44.24
Wow.
00:30:44.27\00:30:45.61
It was a weapon
against Rome. Yeah.
00:30:45.64\00:30:47.98
And so people begin to read it,
00:30:48.01\00:30:49.44
they begin to say, man,
it's like we've been cheated.
00:30:49.48\00:30:52.18
Yes. You know,
we've been cheated.
00:30:52.21\00:30:53.98
We wanted this,
I've heard people say,
00:30:54.02\00:30:55.58
I want this all my life,
00:30:55.62\00:30:56.95
when they
finally found the truth,
00:30:56.99\00:30:58.32
I want this all my life,
why it was taken so long.
00:30:58.35\00:31:00.36
And what did it do?
00:31:00.39\00:31:01.72
What this translation do?
00:31:01.76\00:31:03.09
It broke, it broke the chains,
00:31:03.12\00:31:05.39
it broke the
fetters and what was it,
00:31:05.43\00:31:07.90
great controversy says
the ignorance and we mean,
00:31:07.93\00:31:10.50
they were not educated.
00:31:10.53\00:31:12.47
As you're saying that,
I'm just thinking about how,
00:31:12.50\00:31:14.30
you know, I was
reading in something
00:31:14.34\00:31:15.67
about how when the Bible
and the gospel are coming
00:31:15.70\00:31:18.51
into different areas
of different countries
00:31:18.54\00:31:21.38
that people
become more educated,
00:31:21.41\00:31:23.01
they become more
health conscious.
00:31:23.04\00:31:25.28
And it's like,
it's amazing, you know,
00:31:25.31\00:31:27.25
what happens is
they're not ignorant anymore.
00:31:27.28\00:31:29.48
They become educated
and knowledge is power,
00:31:29.52\00:31:32.35
knowledge of God is
power and it's like,
00:31:32.39\00:31:35.32
you know, that's,
you see this oppression.
00:31:35.36\00:31:38.23
In those Dark Ages,
00:31:38.26\00:31:39.59
they didn't want
the people to have that,
00:31:39.63\00:31:41.10
you know, any of those things.
00:31:41.13\00:31:42.66
But, you know, they had it.
00:31:42.70\00:31:44.03
So the Bible was
being, you know, transcribed,
00:31:44.07\00:31:45.73
it's being put out there.
00:31:45.77\00:31:47.10
So what, there was no
laws against reading the Bible
00:31:47.14\00:31:49.87
before the Bible came out
00:31:49.90\00:31:51.24
to where people
could have access to it.
00:31:51.27\00:31:53.17
But after the
Bible began to come out,
00:31:53.21\00:31:55.04
what did Rome do?
00:31:55.08\00:31:56.41
But let's be honest,
history bears factor,
00:31:56.44\00:31:57.78
they passed laws that
it was against the law
00:31:57.81\00:32:00.58
to be caught
reading the Word of God.
00:32:00.62\00:32:02.82
Then you were fined,
00:32:02.85\00:32:04.19
imprisoned or
burned at the stake,
00:32:04.22\00:32:05.55
but several of our reformers
I thought was so interesting,
00:32:05.59\00:32:07.86
that as they went into town,
00:32:07.89\00:32:09.29
one of them
we'll talk about more
00:32:09.32\00:32:10.66
if we have time, went into town,
00:32:10.69\00:32:12.03
and while he
was going into town,
00:32:12.06\00:32:13.40
the public square,
00:32:13.43\00:32:14.76
one of the reformers was
being burned at the stake.
00:32:14.80\00:32:16.46
Oh, have mercy.
00:32:16.50\00:32:17.83
And he looked at those
00:32:17.87\00:32:19.43
'cause he was dead on
to his church, you know,
00:32:19.47\00:32:22.57
Roman church and so he looked
and he saw that, and he said,
00:32:22.60\00:32:25.41
I saw such peace, and such love,
00:32:25.44\00:32:28.91
I saw such contentment.
00:32:28.94\00:32:30.85
And I said, how can this be?
00:32:30.88\00:32:32.31
Because he was condemned to
die because he was a heretic.
00:32:32.35\00:32:36.69
That's what they called them.
00:32:36.72\00:32:38.05
Heretic because, you know,
00:32:38.09\00:32:39.42
but he started
reading the Word of God.
00:32:39.45\00:32:41.32
So he was a heretic now
00:32:41.36\00:32:42.69
because he read the Word of God.
00:32:42.72\00:32:44.06
And he said and that
what I saw on his face
00:32:44.09\00:32:47.76
made me go get a Bible
00:32:47.80\00:32:50.37
and begin to read it,
and it changed my whole life.
00:32:50.40\00:32:52.90
Praise the Lord.
00:32:52.93\00:32:54.27
It was like when
Stephen was stoned.
00:32:54.30\00:32:55.64
So they will try
new things, right?
00:32:55.67\00:32:57.01
To stop it. But
what does God do?
00:32:57.04\00:32:58.37
Multiples. Yes.
00:32:58.41\00:32:59.74
He multiplies it. He
works all things together.
00:32:59.77\00:33:01.84
Exactly.
00:33:01.88\00:33:03.21
You know, and the truth
'cause the Bible is truth.
00:33:03.24\00:33:04.95
The Bible also says,
the truth shall set you free
00:33:04.98\00:33:08.28
and see that the
church at that time
00:33:08.32\00:33:10.45
was holding people in
bondage, in bondage of error,
00:33:10.49\00:33:13.79
and only through the Word of God
00:33:13.82\00:33:15.36
could the people
rightly see what the truth was.
00:33:15.39\00:33:18.43
And I think it's Corinthians,
00:33:18.46\00:33:19.79
it says, you can do nothing
against the gospel but for it.
00:33:19.83\00:33:22.76
So when Rome
persecuted millions of people,
00:33:22.80\00:33:25.93
they wanted to put an
end to it and what did it do?
00:33:25.97\00:33:28.34
It caused people to spread
00:33:28.37\00:33:30.21
and to come to the
United States of America
00:33:30.24\00:33:32.97
and other places of the world
and with them came the light.
00:33:33.01\00:33:35.84
Amen.
00:33:35.88\00:33:37.21
So the persecution ended up
00:33:37.25\00:33:39.31
being spreading the
gospel to the world.
00:33:39.35\00:33:41.65
So the devil can't,
the devil is a loser.
00:33:41.68\00:33:44.32
Right.
00:33:44.35\00:33:45.69
And from the
beginning, he will never win,
00:33:45.72\00:33:47.06
no matter what happens,
00:33:47.09\00:33:48.72
the gospel is going
to go into all the world.
00:33:48.76\00:33:50.43
Amen.
00:33:50.46\00:33:51.79
What a privilege that we have
00:33:51.83\00:33:53.16
living in the closing
moments of earth's history
00:33:53.19\00:33:55.43
that we can be a part of it.
00:33:55.46\00:33:56.97
Little point I just have to say
00:33:57.00\00:33:58.37
just when you're
talking about this
00:33:58.40\00:33:59.73
and my mind is just, you
know, it's like all the things.
00:33:59.77\00:34:02.20
Because I think
of John Wycliffe,
00:34:02.24\00:34:04.27
what a man of God.
00:34:04.31\00:34:05.64
Wasn't just the
man we're looking at,
00:34:05.67\00:34:07.01
we're looking the
spirit was within him.
00:34:07.04\00:34:08.38
Yes. He did.
00:34:08.41\00:34:09.74
Did he attain it?
00:34:09.78\00:34:11.11
Did he reached all these,
00:34:11.15\00:34:12.48
uncover all these
truths that were written?
00:34:12.51\00:34:13.85
No.
00:34:13.88\00:34:15.22
But God had maybe
one specific thing
00:34:15.25\00:34:16.58
that these reformers to do.
00:34:16.62\00:34:18.15
If they were faithful,
they would be faithful.
00:34:18.19\00:34:19.75
Right.
00:34:19.79\00:34:21.12
But Rome hated him so much
00:34:21.16\00:34:23.09
because of translating the Bible
00:34:23.12\00:34:25.19
or putting that in English.
00:34:25.23\00:34:27.66
That when he died, and
like three or four days,
00:34:27.70\00:34:30.10
four days after his death,
00:34:30.13\00:34:31.47
they buried him
and then they said,
00:34:31.50\00:34:33.23
Ha, that's not enough,
it's what this guy is done.
00:34:33.27\00:34:36.14
And so they
made it, passed a law
00:34:36.17\00:34:37.81
that we're going
to dig his body up
00:34:37.84\00:34:39.51
and we're going to burn it.
00:34:39.54\00:34:40.88
Yeah.
00:34:40.91\00:34:42.24
It took him 12 years.
00:34:42.28\00:34:43.61
Twelve or 13 years,
00:34:43.65\00:34:44.98
12 years after the
man who was in the grave,
00:34:45.01\00:34:47.12
for 12 years
they dug up his bones
00:34:47.15\00:34:50.05
and they set him on
fire and they burned him
00:34:50.09\00:34:52.25
and then they
threw him into the river.
00:34:52.29\00:34:54.22
The haters still existed
00:34:54.26\00:34:55.59
to make doing
what God wanted to,
00:34:55.62\00:34:57.33
we need to be wide awake
of the hour in which we live.
00:34:57.36\00:34:59.19
Yes.
00:34:59.23\00:35:00.56
That hate would
still exist today.
00:35:00.60\00:35:02.80
It may be covered
up in our own community
00:35:02.83\00:35:04.77
in different places,
you know what I mean,
00:35:04.80\00:35:06.50
but the hatred is there,
00:35:06.53\00:35:07.87
people look to
you, say one thing
00:35:07.90\00:35:09.24
but their eyes are
saying something else.
00:35:09.27\00:35:10.84
We need to be
ready, we need to do,
00:35:10.87\00:35:12.67
brother mentioned while ago,
00:35:12.71\00:35:14.04
do what we can
while there's light.
00:35:14.08\00:35:15.41
Yeah.
00:35:15.44\00:35:16.78
Well, 3ABN is in
operation and will go strong
00:35:16.81\00:35:18.18
all into the world.
00:35:18.21\00:35:19.55
Might lest, people listen,
00:35:19.58\00:35:20.92
let's get into our
pockets, let's dig.
00:35:20.95\00:35:22.28
You know, want to say,
00:35:22.32\00:35:23.65
let's give to
the cause of Christ,
00:35:23.69\00:35:25.02
get this message out.
00:35:25.05\00:35:26.39
Yes.
00:35:26.42\00:35:27.76
Because time is coming
when you will be in fined
00:35:27.79\00:35:29.12
and in prison for
just reading Word of God.
00:35:29.16\00:35:31.43
I may be quiet for a
while, I'm getting excited.
00:35:31.46\00:35:32.93
No, no. Get excited.
00:35:32.96\00:35:34.73
It's interesting to me how
the perception of the Bible
00:35:34.76\00:35:38.77
and people who read the Bible
has changed over the years.
00:35:38.80\00:35:42.40
Years ago in our country
here in the United States,
00:35:42.44\00:35:46.98
when you talked about
the Bible you got respect
00:35:47.01\00:35:49.84
because, you know, the Bible,
00:35:49.88\00:35:51.88
you're trying to live your
life according to the Bible.
00:35:51.91\00:35:54.32
That's people respected you.
00:35:54.35\00:35:56.38
Now... Oh, boy.
00:35:56.42\00:35:57.75
In these times if you say,
00:35:57.79\00:35:59.29
you try to live
according to the Bible.
00:35:59.32\00:36:01.06
Whoa!
00:36:01.09\00:36:02.42
Like you are
every kind of phobic,
00:36:02.46\00:36:04.23
every kind of
bigot, everything kind of,
00:36:04.26\00:36:06.13
everything that you can think of
00:36:06.16\00:36:08.60
and so, the
Bible is it is a sword.
00:36:08.63\00:36:12.50
Yes.
00:36:12.53\00:36:13.97
It is living, it is a sword
00:36:14.00\00:36:16.24
and honestly if
you're trying to live
00:36:16.27\00:36:19.24
in accordance with its precepts,
00:36:19.27\00:36:21.61
that's your...
00:36:21.64\00:36:22.98
It's a no, no. Yes.
00:36:23.01\00:36:24.35
So now the whole perception
of the Bible has changed.
00:36:24.38\00:36:28.28
Yes, well, it's
making a full circle
00:36:28.32\00:36:30.75
because people have
already been put in jail
00:36:30.79\00:36:33.12
because of their
faith in God's Word.
00:36:33.15\00:36:35.29
They've already been
fined and we realized
00:36:35.32\00:36:38.36
through prophecy is
going to wax worse and worse,
00:36:38.39\00:36:41.20
so you just hit on a
hot topic, hot topic.
00:36:41.23\00:36:44.60
There's a
saying, the Word tells us
00:36:44.63\00:36:45.97
that many are
called but few are chose.
00:36:46.00\00:36:47.47
Yes.
00:36:47.50\00:36:48.84
You know we're
gonna be kind of outcasts,
00:36:48.87\00:36:50.21
we're gonna be small number.
00:36:50.24\00:36:52.54
It really means
few are choosing.
00:36:52.57\00:36:54.74
Yes.
00:36:54.78\00:36:56.11
Few are choosing
to walk in the light.
00:36:56.14\00:36:57.48
Yes.
00:36:57.51\00:36:58.85
You know, we have to go
back just as Christ did.
00:36:58.88\00:37:02.25
It is written. That's right.
00:37:02.28\00:37:04.09
Because everything around
us looks like we're wrong,
00:37:04.12\00:37:06.76
especially in today's society
00:37:06.79\00:37:08.82
when you hear the pope now
00:37:08.86\00:37:10.63
talking about
for the common good.
00:37:10.66\00:37:13.09
You know, we need to do,
we need to have a Sunday,
00:37:13.13\00:37:16.26
a family day, we
need to do the Sunday
00:37:16.30\00:37:18.90
for the world
economy for the world
00:37:18.93\00:37:22.97
because of all the pollution
00:37:23.00\00:37:24.54
it cuts down on
all these things.
00:37:24.57\00:37:26.14
So if we close on
Sunday, the families are better,
00:37:26.17\00:37:29.61
you know, we save lots of money
00:37:29.64\00:37:31.41
and by shutting
down all the businesses
00:37:31.45\00:37:34.35
and look you've got Poland,
you've got different ones
00:37:34.38\00:37:36.45
that are already passing
00:37:36.48\00:37:37.82
and already have
established Sunday laws.
00:37:37.85\00:37:40.72
There's an island
which I don't remember
00:37:40.76\00:37:42.26
what the island is called
00:37:42.29\00:37:44.03
but on that island
you can be put in jail
00:37:44.06\00:37:47.10
if you are caught
working on Sunday.
00:37:47.13\00:37:50.30
You know, so it's coming back.
00:37:50.33\00:37:52.00
It's right on our
doorsteps. It's here.
00:37:52.03\00:37:54.14
What does that
compelled us to do
00:37:54.17\00:37:55.74
or what should it
compelled us to do.
00:37:55.77\00:37:57.51
That mean do we see
these things happening,
00:37:57.54\00:38:00.68
you know, we are to
wage war against the enemy.
00:38:00.71\00:38:03.75
We're not to await
him to come to the attack,
00:38:03.78\00:38:05.38
we're to wait,
we're to be on the offense
00:38:05.41\00:38:08.22
not just the defense.
00:38:08.25\00:38:09.58
We had to move out
00:38:09.62\00:38:10.95
and do everything
possible right now.
00:38:10.99\00:38:12.65
And to me that just means
a little bit more, you know,
00:38:12.69\00:38:14.82
a little more
fire in our message,
00:38:14.86\00:38:17.49
in the fire of the Holy Spirit.
00:38:17.53\00:38:19.36
And words will be
said that will cut,
00:38:19.39\00:38:22.33
you know, to the quit,
00:38:22.36\00:38:23.70
and no one here
wants to cut somebody else.
00:38:23.73\00:38:25.27
You talk to some,
nobody here wants to hurt,
00:38:25.30\00:38:27.14
nobody's trying
to drive anybody off.
00:38:27.17\00:38:29.54
Let me just say
this. Well, go ahead.
00:38:29.57\00:38:31.97
My daddy always said,
00:38:32.01\00:38:33.34
if you don't let go over here
it will be burned off of you.
00:38:33.38\00:38:35.74
Yeah. So we
want to cut sin away.
00:38:35.78\00:38:38.08
Can I just add to
what you were saying?
00:38:38.11\00:38:40.08
And, Kenny, you
had said a verse early
00:38:40.12\00:38:41.88
for I think from John,
00:38:41.92\00:38:43.62
it reminded me of
00:38:43.65\00:38:45.02
right before the
three angels' message
00:38:45.05\00:38:46.69
in Chapter 14 of Revelation
verse 5 it says there,
00:38:46.72\00:38:50.63
"In their mouth
was found no guile,
00:38:50.66\00:38:52.86
they are without fault
before the throne of God."
00:38:52.89\00:38:55.53
And that's right before giving
the three angels' message.
00:38:55.56\00:38:58.87
And so it's like this,
00:38:58.90\00:39:00.37
what you're
talking about, it's like,
00:39:00.40\00:39:02.20
if God can't do a work in us,
00:39:02.24\00:39:05.11
how can we be fit
to give that message
00:39:05.14\00:39:06.98
that needs to be given?
00:39:07.01\00:39:08.51
So it's, you know,
00:39:08.54\00:39:09.88
personal we need to allow him...
00:39:09.91\00:39:13.35
It occurred to me.
00:39:13.38\00:39:15.08
Okay.
00:39:15.12\00:39:16.45
You were talking about
people being burned at the stake
00:39:16.48\00:39:18.52
and all the
terrible persecution.
00:39:18.55\00:39:20.02
Yes.
00:39:20.06\00:39:21.39
Satan has found a
better tool, a better way
00:39:21.42\00:39:23.79
to stamp out the gospel today.
00:39:23.83\00:39:25.76
Come on. Complacency.
00:39:25.79\00:39:27.96
In other words,
00:39:28.00\00:39:29.33
we don't go try
to kill everybody
00:39:29.36\00:39:31.57
who's reading the
Bible, who's a Christian.
00:39:31.60\00:39:33.54
The laws won't allow that.
00:39:33.57\00:39:35.47
So what does he do?
00:39:35.50\00:39:36.91
He comes in the church
00:39:36.94\00:39:38.67
and you know it may
be the choir director,
00:39:38.71\00:39:41.01
the pastor, you
know, Sunday school,
00:39:41.04\00:39:43.24
Sabbath School
teacher, whatever,
00:39:43.28\00:39:45.01
he comes within
the church, sits down
00:39:45.05\00:39:47.28
and not only the
gossip and all that
00:39:47.32\00:39:50.22
but complacency
that everything's okay.
00:39:50.25\00:39:52.39
That's right.
00:39:52.42\00:39:53.76
Go to church
and rest of the week
00:39:53.79\00:39:55.29
I do my things.
00:39:55.32\00:39:56.66
I'm amazed that
how many people say,
00:39:56.69\00:39:58.46
man I love 3ABN, I
watch it on Sabbath.
00:39:58.49\00:40:01.40
Oh, wait a minute. Exactly.
00:40:01.43\00:40:03.10
So you don't watch it any
other time during the week?
00:40:03.13\00:40:05.57
Oh, we're too
busy during the week,
00:40:05.60\00:40:07.14
but when Sabbath and I
can't do anything else,
00:40:07.17\00:40:09.94
we watch television.
00:40:09.97\00:40:11.81
We always watch, you
know, we always watch 3ABN,
00:40:11.84\00:40:15.61
but I'm not
saying that, you know,
00:40:15.64\00:40:17.51
too much into that
but I'm just saying
00:40:17.55\00:40:19.38
complacency is one
of the greatest tools
00:40:19.41\00:40:22.55
that Satan is using
to put the church asleep
00:40:22.58\00:40:26.92
in the Laodicea state.
00:40:26.96\00:40:29.06
But that's about
to end. Come on now.
00:40:29.09\00:40:31.99
If we do our part,
a loud cry goes out,
00:40:32.03\00:40:35.43
there will be
revival and reformation,
00:40:35.46\00:40:38.00
and we're gonna be
back to the persecution
00:40:38.03\00:40:40.84
that we saw back long time ago.
00:40:40.87\00:40:43.61
It's on our heels, right.
00:40:43.64\00:40:44.97
Absolutely because in his
fury he won't stop at anything.
00:40:45.01\00:40:47.51
That's right.
00:40:47.54\00:40:48.88
You know, Isaiah tell us,
00:40:48.91\00:40:50.25
you're kind of
hitting on Isaiah 60 says,
00:40:50.28\00:40:51.61
we need to arise and shine.
00:40:51.65\00:40:53.08
Yeah.
00:40:53.11\00:40:54.45
Light is coming
and the glory of Lord,
00:40:54.48\00:40:55.82
as the person it
talks about verse 4,
00:40:55.85\00:40:57.52
"Lift up thine eyes
round about, and see:
00:40:57.55\00:40:59.05
all they gather
themselves together,
00:40:59.09\00:41:00.42
they come to thee: thy
sons shall come from far,
00:41:00.46\00:41:03.12
and thy daughters
shall be nursed at thy side."
00:41:03.16\00:41:04.56
So there's people out
there hungering and thirsting,
00:41:04.59\00:41:06.59
we know if we're
being complacent,
00:41:06.63\00:41:08.86
then are we
really giving our talents
00:41:08.90\00:41:11.80
and gifts to the Lord.
00:41:11.83\00:41:14.17
Robbing God. He's
missing part of his body.
00:41:14.20\00:41:16.10
He's looking for them.
00:41:16.14\00:41:17.47
And we can't rise
and shine on our own.
00:41:17.51\00:41:19.51
We have to be filled
with the Holy Spirit.
00:41:19.54\00:41:22.91
And you can't be filled
00:41:22.94\00:41:24.28
unless you're
studying God's Word.
00:41:24.31\00:41:26.08
Unless you're praying every day,
00:41:26.11\00:41:27.45
you're studying every day.
00:41:27.48\00:41:28.82
You said you
wouldn't talk much about it.
00:41:28.85\00:41:30.45
But I've often
said some of the most,
00:41:30.49\00:41:32.59
the most godly
people that I have met
00:41:32.62\00:41:35.42
that you can sense the
power of the Holy Spirit
00:41:35.46\00:41:37.76
in their lives
and in their heart
00:41:37.79\00:41:39.53
are those who
come up to me and say,
00:41:39.56\00:41:41.20
we never turn 3ABN off.
00:41:41.23\00:41:43.60
We have it on in our home 24x7.
00:41:43.63\00:41:48.00
You know why?
00:41:48.04\00:41:49.37
Because they're
eating and they're drinking,
00:41:49.40\00:41:50.94
if they don't have it
physically in their hand
00:41:50.97\00:41:53.04
it's going in.
00:41:53.07\00:41:54.41
Even if you're
not just, you know,
00:41:54.44\00:41:56.51
consciously
thinking about every word,
00:41:56.54\00:41:59.05
you're subconsciously
picking up on this.
00:41:59.08\00:42:01.78
And you're not saying
they're just sitting there
00:42:01.82\00:42:03.25
watching all the time.
00:42:03.28\00:42:04.62
No, but they are hearing it.
00:42:04.65\00:42:06.19
That's right.
00:42:06.22\00:42:07.82
Even they say,
while we're sleeping
00:42:07.86\00:42:09.19
as she just
mentioned right here.
00:42:09.22\00:42:10.56
So we're going about,
we're doing our housework
00:42:10.59\00:42:12.36
if it's a house mom
or whatever, you know,
00:42:12.39\00:42:14.56
all things were done.
00:42:14.60\00:42:15.93
It's there in
the ear all the time
00:42:15.96\00:42:17.47
and the Bible said faith
cometh by hearing and hearing
00:42:17.50\00:42:20.47
by the word of God.
00:42:20.50\00:42:21.84
We're talking righteousness
by faith in Christ.
00:42:21.87\00:42:25.71
We've covered to make
it 13 and if it's more,
00:42:25.74\00:42:27.71
we go to the 14th and
15th centuries in here
00:42:27.74\00:42:31.25
and you find Martin
Luther comes on the scene.
00:42:31.28\00:42:33.18
I think it's
good to talk about him
00:42:33.21\00:42:34.55
because we see the restoration
of the altar of sacrifice.
00:42:34.58\00:42:38.95
I get goose bumps talking
about the altar of sacrifice.
00:42:38.99\00:42:42.29
We remember where the
altar of sacrifice was at
00:42:42.32\00:42:44.33
when we study the
earthly sanctuary.
00:42:44.36\00:42:47.70
It's the first
thing when you come in.
00:42:47.73\00:42:50.73
Now remember,
00:42:50.77\00:42:52.10
how many ways could
you get into the sanctuary?
00:42:52.13\00:42:53.97
One way. Only one way.
00:42:54.00\00:42:55.74
Jesus says, well, I
am the way, the truth.
00:42:55.77\00:42:58.11
He says, I'm the door. Yes.
00:42:58.14\00:43:00.11
No man comes to Me, you know.
00:43:00.14\00:43:02.08
No man that comes to Me,
00:43:02.11\00:43:03.45
He said, he's not
going to cast out.
00:43:03.48\00:43:04.88
So first of all,
in the sanctuary,
00:43:04.91\00:43:06.35
there's a door, four
pillar, you came to Him.
00:43:06.38\00:43:09.82
And as you came to Him,
00:43:09.85\00:43:11.19
then that means
you're willing to do what?
00:43:11.22\00:43:13.19
The sacrifice, the
altar of sacrifice.
00:43:13.22\00:43:15.49
I thought that was good
00:43:15.52\00:43:16.89
and that fire I thought was when
00:43:16.93\00:43:18.63
that fire would never go out.
00:43:18.66\00:43:21.66
The fire on the altar of
sacrifice never went out.
00:43:21.70\00:43:24.63
And I got thinking
about the sacrifice.
00:43:24.67\00:43:26.77
Because let's just
say they brought a lamb.
00:43:26.80\00:43:28.14
They brought a lot of things in,
00:43:28.17\00:43:29.60
you know, during the
week, and so on and so forth
00:43:29.64\00:43:31.27
for different things.
00:43:31.31\00:43:32.64
But say the lamb,
00:43:32.67\00:43:34.01
they put wood on
the altar of sacrifice.
00:43:34.04\00:43:37.15
And then they
placed the lamb on the wood
00:43:37.18\00:43:43.02
and consumed it.
00:43:43.05\00:43:45.45
And then who is it?
00:43:45.49\00:43:48.02
The Lamb of God
was placed where?
00:43:48.06\00:43:51.83
On wood, on the
cross He gave His life,
00:43:51.86\00:43:55.93
just like that lamb
represent that lamb,
00:43:55.96\00:43:57.77
I thought how
interesting that is
00:43:57.80\00:44:01.17
because first of
all, we come to the...
00:44:01.20\00:44:03.64
In the sanctuary
as you look at it,
00:44:03.67\00:44:05.67
it's made as a cross
you can see out there.
00:44:05.71\00:44:08.11
The first part is the earthly.
00:44:08.14\00:44:10.21
The second is the heavenly.
00:44:10.25\00:44:12.21
But in the earthly,
00:44:12.25\00:44:13.58
I mean you look at
that part right there.
00:44:13.62\00:44:15.48
I thought, man, that
is the bottom as it were
00:44:15.52\00:44:18.55
the foot of the cross.
00:44:18.59\00:44:20.09
So how do I start my
relationship with Christ?
00:44:20.12\00:44:22.09
At the foot of the cross.
00:44:22.12\00:44:23.73
Oh, have mercy.
00:44:23.76\00:44:25.13
At the foot of the
cross where I first...
00:44:25.16\00:44:28.06
Saw the light. Saw the light.
00:44:28.10\00:44:29.86
There's a beautiful thing
00:44:29.90\00:44:31.23
that just came out
the digital version
00:44:31.27\00:44:32.63
of the Pilgrims Progress.
00:44:32.67\00:44:34.84
They show Christian,
00:44:34.87\00:44:36.20
he said he's
got a fork in a row,
00:44:36.24\00:44:37.57
he goes, I'm not
really sure what to do here.
00:44:37.61\00:44:39.57
But he saw then he looked
down, it says King's Highway.
00:44:39.61\00:44:42.14
Why I've been told
it's in King's Highway.
00:44:42.18\00:44:44.21
So he goes into King's
Highway, it's real steep slope,
00:44:44.25\00:44:46.38
it's real narrow,
and it's really rugged.
00:44:46.41\00:44:48.68
And as he's going up,
00:44:48.72\00:44:50.05
he's got this big
giant burden on his back.
00:44:50.09\00:44:51.89
As he gets
closer on, this sunlight
00:44:51.92\00:44:53.25
just penetrates, hits him,
00:44:53.29\00:44:54.62
and this whole
strap disintegrates,
00:44:54.66\00:44:56.02
and it all disintegrates.
00:44:56.06\00:44:57.59
Also he keeps coming up,
it just fall off his back
00:44:57.63\00:45:00.00
and as it rolls in this video
actually rolls in the tomb,
00:45:00.03\00:45:03.67
that burden rolled
right into the tomb
00:45:03.70\00:45:05.03
as they called,
it was so powerful.
00:45:05.07\00:45:07.44
That burden rolled into tomb.
00:45:07.47\00:45:08.80
That's right.
00:45:08.84\00:45:10.17
Wow! That just spoke to me.
00:45:10.21\00:45:11.54
And on that cross is
right there before him,
00:45:11.57\00:45:12.91
that light was just hitting him,
00:45:12.94\00:45:14.28
it's powerful.
00:45:14.31\00:45:15.64
It does because
you know in this life,
00:45:15.68\00:45:17.01
we carry so many burdens.
00:45:17.05\00:45:19.68
But the beautiful thing is
00:45:19.71\00:45:21.05
there's nothing
too great for our God.
00:45:21.08\00:45:23.35
That's right.
00:45:23.39\00:45:24.72
There's nothing
that will burden Him,
00:45:24.75\00:45:26.69
nothing that
will weigh Him down.
00:45:26.72\00:45:28.09
We can give Him everything
and as we give him everything
00:45:28.12\00:45:31.83
and we're
walking, as you're saying,
00:45:31.86\00:45:33.40
looking up the cross
walking through the sanctuary,
00:45:33.43\00:45:35.96
these burdens begin to roll off.
00:45:36.00\00:45:38.20
That's why I'm saying, we
can do nothing of our own.
00:45:38.23\00:45:40.97
That's right.
00:45:41.00\00:45:42.34
It's only through the
power of the Holy Spirit
00:45:42.37\00:45:44.57
and the grace of God
that we are able to stand.
00:45:44.61\00:45:48.01
You know, because
it's just gonna worse.
00:45:48.04\00:45:50.75
Think about it.
00:45:50.78\00:45:52.11
I can't even imagine walking in
00:45:52.15\00:45:53.78
and seeing someone
burning at the stake.
00:45:53.82\00:45:55.95
Oh, my... But
you know that piece.
00:45:55.98\00:45:57.92
I had a touch
of these years ago.
00:45:57.95\00:45:59.85
And I know I've
shared this before.
00:45:59.89\00:46:02.06
But I might as well just say
I was going through childbirth.
00:46:02.09\00:46:07.33
And they used to tell you
00:46:07.36\00:46:08.76
to focus on a
little dot on the wall.
00:46:08.80\00:46:12.00
And instead I
would close my eyes
00:46:12.03\00:46:16.04
and every time I closed my eyes,
00:46:16.07\00:46:17.67
I was singing
praises to the Lord
00:46:17.71\00:46:19.87
and I can see
Him in the sanctuary.
00:46:19.91\00:46:22.58
And that was
through every contraction
00:46:22.61\00:46:24.78
and finally it got so
bad and I remember saying,
00:46:24.81\00:46:27.78
Lord, I can't see You anymore.
00:46:27.82\00:46:29.82
I can't concentrate
on the song anymore.
00:46:29.85\00:46:32.92
And I told the
nurses I said the baby,
00:46:32.95\00:46:35.09
well, no, this
was little bit later.
00:46:35.12\00:46:37.09
And anyway, the moment I
said I cannot concentrate,
00:46:37.13\00:46:39.89
my mother was sitting by my bed.
00:46:39.93\00:46:42.53
And the moment
I could no longer,
00:46:42.56\00:46:44.10
no one knew hours,
00:46:44.13\00:46:46.00
18 hours no one knew I
was singing in my head.
00:46:46.03\00:46:48.97
No one did.
00:46:49.00\00:46:50.34
And she began to sing.
00:46:50.37\00:46:53.68
And I fell asleep, for
10 minutes I fell asleep.
00:46:53.71\00:46:58.01
And I woke up and I
said the baby is here
00:46:58.05\00:47:00.82
and they said oh, no Honey,
00:47:00.85\00:47:02.18
you're just now
going into transition.
00:47:02.22\00:47:04.02
I said the baby is here.
00:47:04.05\00:47:05.95
And they couldn't believe it.
00:47:05.99\00:47:07.56
But it's because I
kept my eyes on Jesus.
00:47:07.59\00:47:11.59
And my heart was
singing hymns to Him.
00:47:11.63\00:47:14.53
And so when the
pain was too great,
00:47:14.56\00:47:16.40
what did he do?
00:47:16.43\00:47:18.03
He took it, He took it
00:47:18.07\00:47:20.64
and that helped me to understand
00:47:20.67\00:47:22.67
when the martyrs
went to their death,
00:47:22.70\00:47:25.47
when Stephen was stoned,
00:47:25.51\00:47:27.74
others were stoned
and they said even Christ,
00:47:27.78\00:47:30.65
He said, Father forgive them
00:47:30.68\00:47:32.91
for they know not what they do.
00:47:32.95\00:47:35.38
They were praying for others,
00:47:35.42\00:47:36.75
they were singing
as they were burning
00:47:36.79\00:47:38.89
'cause when we can't take it
00:47:38.92\00:47:41.16
God comes in and He
takes it, that gives me hope.
00:47:41.19\00:47:44.03
Amen. That gives me hope.
00:47:44.06\00:47:45.46
And the burden on
my heart rolled away.
00:47:45.49\00:47:48.20
Amen. Shut down, right?
00:47:48.23\00:47:49.56
Yes. Come on, sing it.
00:47:49.60\00:47:51.40
It was there by
faith, I received my sight.
00:47:51.43\00:47:57.54
And now I am happy all the day.
00:47:57.57\00:48:02.51
Amen.
00:48:02.54\00:48:03.88
He was at the cross.
00:48:03.91\00:48:05.25
That's right, at the cross.
00:48:05.28\00:48:06.61
At the cross is
where it's all at.
00:48:06.65\00:48:07.98
At the cross.
00:48:08.02\00:48:09.35
Question number
two, we'll just start on,
00:48:09.38\00:48:10.72
what we got 9
or 10 minutes left.
00:48:10.75\00:48:12.09
Here I thought was,
explain righteousness by faith
00:48:12.12\00:48:16.09
because this is what...
00:48:16.12\00:48:17.93
Isn't it what all the reformers
00:48:17.96\00:48:19.59
and what they
found there was something
00:48:19.63\00:48:21.76
they had never
experienced before.
00:48:21.80\00:48:24.27
They always had
to go to someone,
00:48:24.30\00:48:26.33
they always had
to have a mediator
00:48:26.37\00:48:28.40
as it were illness or
somebody to forgive sins
00:48:28.44\00:48:30.84
and they didn't understand
00:48:30.87\00:48:32.21
what it is to be
righteous by faith.
00:48:32.24\00:48:34.84
They thought that the
more that they would do
00:48:34.88\00:48:36.91
and that's what they say
about Adventist sometime,
00:48:36.95\00:48:38.61
you work your way into heaven.
00:48:38.65\00:48:39.98
You can't work
your way into heaven.
00:48:40.02\00:48:41.35
No.
00:48:41.38\00:48:42.72
You can't work it,
00:48:42.75\00:48:44.09
no matter how
about 24/7 for Christ,
00:48:44.12\00:48:45.45
you can't work
your way into heaven.
00:48:45.49\00:48:46.82
You know, it's by grace.
00:48:46.86\00:48:48.69
We received our
sight, we talked about,
00:48:48.72\00:48:50.33
so they found that
and they were so overjoyed
00:48:50.36\00:48:54.43
that Christ had paid it off.
00:48:54.46\00:48:55.80
So what is
righteousness really by faith?
00:48:55.83\00:48:58.93
Is it what it says it is here?
00:48:58.97\00:49:01.20
Anybody wants to discuss that?
00:49:01.24\00:49:02.57
What is righteousness by faith?
00:49:02.60\00:49:05.14
We have no righteousness.
00:49:05.17\00:49:06.71
Thank you.
00:49:06.74\00:49:08.08
So there is nothing we
can do to be right with God
00:49:08.11\00:49:12.91
except to accept Jesus
00:49:12.95\00:49:14.95
and His
righteousness is given to us.
00:49:14.98\00:49:18.42
That's the only thing
that's why with that song,
00:49:18.45\00:49:22.62
you know, when we
walk with the Lord
00:49:22.66\00:49:24.33
in the light of
His Word with a glory,
00:49:24.36\00:49:26.66
He sheds on our way.
00:49:26.70\00:49:28.46
It's not us.
00:49:28.50\00:49:30.27
We can't do it,
we're not good enough.
00:49:30.30\00:49:32.90
So and there's so many people
who feel like you know what?
00:49:32.93\00:49:35.84
I just can't do it.
00:49:35.87\00:49:37.27
I just can't be saved.
00:49:37.31\00:49:38.64
No, you can't do
it, but Jesus did it.
00:49:38.67\00:49:42.98
Jesus has already done it,
all we have to do is claim Him
00:49:43.01\00:49:47.88
and His
righteousness is imparted to us
00:49:47.92\00:49:50.99
and acquitted to us.
00:49:51.02\00:49:52.55
And that's the faith
part. That's the faith.
00:49:52.59\00:49:55.12
Zachariah 3:6,
00:49:55.16\00:49:56.49
it's a beautiful word picture
of you ever study it out,
00:49:56.52\00:49:58.86
showing that God on
this throne judging in,
00:49:58.89\00:50:01.36
of course, Joshua was in
there with filthy garments,
00:50:01.40\00:50:03.03
and we're all with
filthy garments, right?
00:50:03.06\00:50:04.40
We're all like
filthy garments with.
00:50:04.43\00:50:06.60
And Satan our accuser
comes in and he accuses us
00:50:06.63\00:50:09.00
before the throne day and night.
00:50:09.04\00:50:11.04
And so someone
else steps in the scene,
00:50:11.07\00:50:12.47
I always tell
people is on the phones,
00:50:12.51\00:50:13.84
I'm doing a prayer line
when people are struggling.
00:50:13.88\00:50:15.98
I said someone
else steps in the scene.
00:50:16.01\00:50:17.35
His name is angel
or it's actually Jesus,
00:50:17.38\00:50:19.55
He comes in on your behalf.
00:50:19.58\00:50:21.45
And He said, is not this,
a brand plucked by the fire.
00:50:21.48\00:50:26.09
And so what I
believe he means is that
00:50:26.12\00:50:27.46
you see this nail
pierced hand here.
00:50:27.49\00:50:28.82
Go on.
00:50:28.86\00:50:30.19
I died on the cross
for this my blood and die,
00:50:30.23\00:50:31.56
for I've
purchased him with my blood.
00:50:31.59\00:50:32.93
I own him now, he's
mine, he's no longer your.
00:50:32.96\00:50:35.63
I see you remember
those filthy garments
00:50:35.66\00:50:37.00
you're wearing in that picture.
00:50:37.03\00:50:38.37
Well, guess what he does?
00:50:38.40\00:50:39.73
He said, I'm gonna take
those filthy garments off
00:50:39.77\00:50:41.10
and I'm gonna put my
robe of righteousness.
00:50:41.14\00:50:43.61
And I'm going
little further and add,
00:50:43.64\00:50:44.97
I'm gonna put my
golden crown on your head
00:50:45.01\00:50:46.47
and call you the son of God.
00:50:46.51\00:50:47.84
Yeah.
00:50:47.88\00:50:49.21
Son or daughter,
you know, I mean,
00:50:49.24\00:50:50.58
people will break
down the phone start crying
00:50:50.61\00:50:51.95
'cause they realize
their identities now
00:50:51.98\00:50:53.78
as a son or daughter in Christ.
00:50:53.82\00:50:55.15
That's right.
00:50:55.18\00:50:56.52
So Satan hates the truth
of righteousness by faith.
00:50:56.55\00:50:59.92
Yes, he does.
00:50:59.95\00:51:01.29
So much so that he
tries to get you fall out
00:51:01.32\00:51:02.72
of the boat one side or
the other, Yvonne, right?
00:51:02.76\00:51:04.69
Right.
00:51:04.73\00:51:06.06
Because, oh, well, you
know now because of that,
00:51:06.09\00:51:08.13
people say, I don't
have to do anything.
00:51:08.16\00:51:09.73
I don't have to
keep the commandments,
00:51:09.76\00:51:11.37
I don't have to keep Sabbath,
00:51:11.40\00:51:12.97
I don't have to do anything,
00:51:13.00\00:51:14.34
I'm just saved
by grace, you know,
00:51:14.37\00:51:16.71
and then others,
well, look at them,
00:51:16.74\00:51:18.07
they're trying to work
their way these Adventists
00:51:18.11\00:51:20.08
because they keep
the Commandments of God,
00:51:20.11\00:51:22.18
you know, they...
00:51:22.21\00:51:23.55
It so the devil hates that
00:51:23.58\00:51:25.58
and that's why he's
working so hard today
00:51:25.61\00:51:27.65
to do away with the law of God
00:51:27.68\00:51:30.12
and do away because
00:51:30.15\00:51:31.59
where we finally can understand,
00:51:31.62\00:51:33.69
that is Christ
in His righteousness
00:51:33.72\00:51:35.76
as you said, nothing of our own.
00:51:35.79\00:51:38.59
And now that when we submit
and commit our lives to Jesus,
00:51:38.63\00:51:41.96
then He is our substitute.
00:51:42.00\00:51:44.20
He stands
before God, the Father.
00:51:44.23\00:51:46.84
And says, I shed
My blood for Yvonne,
00:51:46.87\00:51:49.64
I shed My blood for you.
00:51:49.67\00:51:52.54
And now what I do,
see, so now it doesn't mean
00:51:52.57\00:51:55.51
oh, I don't do anything.
00:51:55.54\00:51:56.88
Right.
00:51:56.91\00:51:58.25
No, what do you do,
if you love so, He says,
00:51:58.28\00:52:00.32
"If you love Me,
keep My commandments."
00:52:00.35\00:52:01.98
That's right. That's right.
00:52:02.02\00:52:03.35
There's some
doing, and that's right.
00:52:03.39\00:52:04.72
Praise the Lord.
00:52:04.75\00:52:06.09
Yeah, where you
were touching on,
00:52:06.12\00:52:07.46
once saved, always saved.
00:52:07.49\00:52:08.82
I can remember years
ago, people tell me, I'm fine.
00:52:08.86\00:52:12.19
They believe that they're
saved in a saving relationship.
00:52:12.23\00:52:14.83
Yet they never read the
Bible, they never prayed,
00:52:14.86\00:52:17.10
they never went to church.
00:52:17.13\00:52:18.93
Well, I accepted and I believe.
00:52:18.97\00:52:20.84
There's so much
more, so praise God.
00:52:20.87\00:52:23.81
And you know, you
talked about the burdens.
00:52:23.84\00:52:25.91
You think about
00:52:25.94\00:52:27.28
when Martin
Luther came on the scene,
00:52:27.31\00:52:29.24
what a burden it was to
find forgiveness of our sins
00:52:29.28\00:52:33.01
because the common
practice was penance.
00:52:33.05\00:52:35.75
They might, they might
tear the skin off their back.
00:52:35.78\00:52:37.95
They were maligned many times.
00:52:37.99\00:52:40.76
Many of them were crippled
00:52:40.79\00:52:42.12
going up and down steps
over and over on their knees.
00:52:42.16\00:52:45.13
You know, shedding,
00:52:45.16\00:52:46.49
they were trying
to find forgiveness.
00:52:46.53\00:52:49.16
What a burden to
feel the heaviness.
00:52:49.20\00:52:51.47
You felt it. I'm
sure all of you felt it.
00:52:51.50\00:52:54.30
When you didn't feel like
your sins had been forgiven.
00:52:54.34\00:52:57.44
And you were separated from God
00:52:57.47\00:52:59.11
and that's what he anguished
over was that separation.
00:52:59.14\00:53:03.11
So once he got the
Bible, as you mentioned earlier,
00:53:03.14\00:53:06.18
and he began to
read and find out
00:53:06.21\00:53:08.72
about the
righteousness by faith,
00:53:08.75\00:53:11.45
that he could
pray and be forgiven.
00:53:11.49\00:53:13.56
You know He had a hard time
00:53:13.59\00:53:17.16
understanding
righteousness by faith.
00:53:17.19\00:53:19.19
I didn't realized, I
was studying the book
00:53:19.23\00:53:21.90
about the Reformation,
00:53:21.93\00:53:23.37
the history of
Reformation by Diarmaid.
00:53:23.40\00:53:26.74
I don't remember.
Yeah, I was reading on that.
00:53:26.77\00:53:29.24
And it said a
friend, see God has friends
00:53:29.27\00:53:32.64
and come to us,
sometimes helps us.
00:53:32.67\00:53:34.64
A friend came to him,
00:53:34.68\00:53:36.44
and was talking about
00:53:36.48\00:53:37.81
this
righteousness by faith to him,
00:53:37.85\00:53:39.71
and I thought it was interesting
00:53:39.75\00:53:41.42
what he said to him.
00:53:41.45\00:53:42.78
He said, he told
him to trust in Christ.
00:53:42.82\00:53:45.25
What you would just say,
00:53:45.29\00:53:46.62
trust in Christ's righteousness.
00:53:46.65\00:53:48.92
And then he said,
00:53:48.96\00:53:50.29
and love Him
that loved you first.
00:53:50.33\00:53:53.60
Amen.
00:53:53.63\00:53:54.96
I thought how
interesting that is?
00:53:55.00\00:53:56.33
Wow!
00:53:56.36\00:53:57.70
Trust in Christ, and
certainly in His merits,
00:53:57.73\00:54:01.10
and then love the
one that loved you first.
00:54:01.14\00:54:04.41
Man, I thought,
that's beautiful.
00:54:04.44\00:54:05.77
That's what we should be doing.
00:54:05.81\00:54:07.31
It's so counterculture
too, because, you know, like,
00:54:07.34\00:54:10.11
our culture tells us
that we must be independent.
00:54:10.15\00:54:14.15
Right.
00:54:14.18\00:54:15.52
And be, you know,
especially as women,
00:54:15.55\00:54:16.89
I think even more now is like,
00:54:16.92\00:54:18.25
you know, the culture
says to be independent.
00:54:18.29\00:54:19.82
And so for me for a long
time, that was tough, you know,
00:54:19.85\00:54:23.26
to depend on God,
just to be honest about it.
00:54:23.29\00:54:26.29
Because the culture
kind of lifts that up,
00:54:26.33\00:54:28.90
and, you know,
it'll makes us feel like,
00:54:28.93\00:54:31.53
oh, well, the more
independent you are,
00:54:31.57\00:54:34.00
the better you are, you
know, the better off you are.
00:54:34.04\00:54:36.60
And I think our
culture even does that.
00:54:36.64\00:54:40.51
Just as a whole,
because, you know,
00:54:40.54\00:54:42.88
if we take it all on ourselves,
00:54:42.91\00:54:44.71
then the burden
gets even heavier.
00:54:44.75\00:54:48.15
And then, you
know, Satan's winning,
00:54:48.18\00:54:50.75
you know, the whole time,
00:54:50.79\00:54:52.12
because we're trying
to do it all on our own,
00:54:52.15\00:54:54.62
you know, on our own strength.
00:54:54.66\00:54:56.99
Right. Yeah.
00:54:57.03\00:54:58.36
You know, isn't it what
we talked about while ago,
00:54:58.39\00:54:59.86
the table of showbread.
00:54:59.89\00:55:02.10
That right there,
the two, you know,
00:55:02.13\00:55:03.73
talking about the
showbread to understand
00:55:03.77\00:55:05.23
that we are to depend totally,
00:55:05.27\00:55:08.20
all the time upon Christ
00:55:08.24\00:55:10.31
for our physical
and our spiritual food.
00:55:10.34\00:55:14.08
Two different sets of cake.
00:55:14.11\00:55:15.44
So He's taking
care of us physically,
00:55:15.48\00:55:16.98
He's taking care
of us spiritually.
00:55:17.01\00:55:19.35
And we need to realize
that's what He wants us to.
00:55:19.38\00:55:22.22
I depend, it's
nothing wrong with saying,
00:55:22.25\00:55:23.92
I'm depending on
something, someone.
00:55:23.95\00:55:25.29
Right. There is nothing...
00:55:25.32\00:55:26.65
I depend upon Christ.
00:55:26.69\00:55:28.12
I depend upon Him
to stand in for me.
00:55:28.16\00:55:30.33
I was just thinking about,
you said about Martin Luther
00:55:30.36\00:55:31.76
and how he actually
feared God with trembling.
00:55:31.79\00:55:35.60
And I think '99 is that came
with that movie, Martin Luther,
00:55:35.63\00:55:38.33
and showed him like
running through the,
00:55:38.37\00:55:40.37
I guess there's some
kind of woods or some,
00:55:40.40\00:55:41.74
anyways lightning
is crashing all around,
00:55:41.77\00:55:43.10
it's hitting him real closely.
00:55:43.14\00:55:44.47
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
00:55:44.51\00:55:45.84
He thought the Lord's gonna
strike him dead, he thought,
00:55:45.87\00:55:47.38
that's how much fear
he had about the Lord.
00:55:47.41\00:55:48.74
Yeah, and that's
kind of goes back
00:55:48.78\00:55:50.48
to the what we feel
about the character of God.
00:55:50.51\00:55:53.21
What is...
00:55:53.25\00:55:54.58
How would we
describe God to someone,
00:55:54.62\00:55:56.58
and that's really what
we're doing is trying to bring,
00:55:56.62\00:55:59.65
you know, God's
character in its right place
00:55:59.69\00:56:01.86
and to show people what
His character really is.
00:56:01.89\00:56:05.13
Amen. Praise God.
00:56:05.16\00:56:06.76
And He wants to
recreate His mind into our mind.
00:56:06.80\00:56:11.37
You know, but
He will never force
00:56:11.40\00:56:13.13
any of these things
00:56:13.17\00:56:14.50
that we are
talking about upon us.
00:56:14.54\00:56:16.47
It is our choice.
00:56:16.50\00:56:18.67
It is your choice.
00:56:18.71\00:56:20.08
Those of you who
are listening at home,
00:56:20.11\00:56:22.24
it is your choice
to get on your knees,
00:56:22.28\00:56:24.51
it is your choice to pray,
it is your choice to study.
00:56:24.55\00:56:27.98
And as you mentioned,
00:56:28.02\00:56:29.35
we need to do it now
while we had the light is here,
00:56:29.38\00:56:32.85
we need to keep this
station on more often.
00:56:32.89\00:56:36.02
I love it because, you know,
00:56:36.06\00:56:38.09
even if you
don't have the station,
00:56:38.13\00:56:40.83
you can get it
through the internet.
00:56:40.86\00:56:43.30
And a lot of
times, I'm in another room
00:56:43.33\00:56:44.97
and I've got this
little, I don't know,
00:56:45.00\00:56:46.87
it's a little
monitor that I can.
00:56:46.90\00:56:48.50
It's like an Android system
00:56:48.54\00:56:49.90
and I can hook
up if I want music.
00:56:49.94\00:56:52.34
I've got several
stations of music, you know,
00:56:52.37\00:56:54.78
if I want preaching,
00:56:54.81\00:56:56.21
I've got several
stations of preaching,
00:56:56.24\00:56:58.25
all because of what God has done
00:56:58.28\00:57:00.42
through this movement as it were
00:57:00.45\00:57:03.22
to help bring
about the restitution
00:57:03.25\00:57:06.32
here in the last days.
00:57:06.35\00:57:07.69
Because we're talking
about righteous by faith.
00:57:07.72\00:57:09.92
Is that not the
third angels' message
00:57:09.96\00:57:12.19
in verity we're told.
00:57:12.23\00:57:14.53
You know, it's a
very important part
00:57:14.56\00:57:16.26
of the movement
arising by faith.
00:57:16.30\00:57:17.70
We need to be
getting them out to the world
00:57:17.73\00:57:19.63
and by the grace of God
has been a blessing to you.
00:57:19.67\00:57:21.74
It has been.
00:57:21.77\00:57:23.10
We so enjoyed this time together
00:57:23.14\00:57:24.47
studying the Word of
God and we sure enjoyed
00:57:24.51\00:57:25.87
spending this time with you.
00:57:25.91\00:57:27.24
Until next time, God bless you.
00:57:27.28\00:57:28.61
We'll see you then.
00:57:28.64\00:57:29.98