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Series Code: TDYFW
Program Code: TDYFW190023A
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00:02 I want to spend my life
00:07 Mending broken people 00:12 I want to spend my life 00:19 Removing pain 00:24 Lord, let my words 00:30 Heal a heart that hurts 00:35 I want to spend my life 00:40 Mending broken people 00:46 I want to spend my life 00:51 Mending broken people 01:10 Hello and welcome once again to 3ABN Family Worship. 01:13 It's so good that you've joined us. 01:15 You know, I really like this, 01:16 sometime we travel different places, 01:18 people say we make that a habit, 01:20 we always join the family worship 01:22 and we think that's good. 01:23 So have your Bible, pencil and paper, 01:24 we got a subject that you really wouldn't want to miss 01:27 and you want to be a part of it, 01:28 and we thank you that you are. 01:30 We're gonna be talking about restitution of all things. 01:33 I look forward to that and I'm sure each one here 01:36 around the table looks forward to God 01:38 restoring all things and putting them back. 01:40 But before we do that, I want to make sure 01:42 we introduce everyone that's here. 01:44 We'll start down here on my right with Don Owen. 01:46 Nice to have you. 01:47 Thank you, thank you for having me. 01:49 Yeah. It's been a blessing. 01:50 I enjoy Family Worship, 01:52 we get a lot of comments of people 01:53 just really drawn to this program. 01:54 Spoken now, especially in pastoral 01:56 I hear it all the time, oh, they want to spoke to us, 01:57 seen on TV, so it just touches... 02:00 People are being blessed. 02:02 Holy Spirit is blessing. Amen. 02:03 You have your lovely wife Janelle with us. 02:05 Glad to have you with us. Thank you. 02:07 Thank you for asking us to be here, 02:08 it's a privilege. 02:09 It's always a joy and it's a joy 02:11 even before the program, 02:12 we get to talk about things and share things, 02:13 you know, that's wonderful. 02:15 Have some laugh. 02:16 My name's Kenny and my wife Christine. 02:18 Hi. I'm glad to be here too. 02:19 Oh, I'm glad to be here too. 02:20 I don't know what I'd do if you wasn't, honey, 02:22 thank you. 02:23 He would be fine. 02:25 That's a blessing to have good helpmeet. 02:26 Thank God for that. Amen. 02:28 On your left there, what do we have? 02:30 This beautiful lady. 02:32 You go ahead, you're gonna give it. 02:33 What am I supposed to say, 02:34 my sister-in-law, Sister Yvonne. 02:36 Yes. 02:37 Sister Yvonne Lewis-Shelton. 02:38 Yeah. 02:40 So good to be here with you. 02:41 Family Worship is special. 02:43 That's right. Isn't it special? 02:44 It is very special. It's special. 02:45 Yeah, did you bring somebody with you? 02:47 I did. 02:48 I brought my wonderful husband, Danny Shelton. 02:50 Privilege to be here with you all. 02:52 Thank you for inviting me. 02:54 We know you. We appreciate you. 02:56 Well, no, I love it and its greatest, 02:58 one of the programs I really when I get time 03:01 to watch 3ABN we're all so busy, 03:03 we like that, 03:04 of course the Sabbath School 03:06 and there's a lot of other things, 03:07 but there's some that I'm like you, 03:08 everywhere we travel, people say, 03:10 well, I really liked Family Worship, 03:13 and Sabbath School, 03:14 and they'll start naming their other programs, 03:16 but these are always part of that. 03:18 I think it's a great way to bring in the Sabbath. 03:20 It is. Thanks God. 03:22 Well, would you have our opening prayer, 03:23 and then after that, you can announce a song 03:25 that we're going to singing today. 03:27 Oh, okay. All right. 03:28 Dear Lord, we thank You 03:29 for Your blessings and Your love 03:31 and we thank You for the beginning 03:32 of another Sabbath day then You set aside for us 03:35 Your holy day that we feel blessed 03:37 that we can be a part of it and that You literally will. 03:41 As we submit and commit our lives to You, 03:43 You will rule and reign and supreme in our lives. 03:46 Thank You for this day. 03:47 Now we thank You for the opportunity 03:49 to study Your Word. 03:50 Amen. 03:52 And today we're asking for the anointing 03:53 of Your Holy Spirit upon each person here, 03:55 upon each person at home those that are viewing, 03:58 those that are watching, 03:59 those that are listening around the world 04:01 and then we pray 04:02 that You would literally work in the hearts and minds 04:05 of each one of us 04:06 to realize of ourselves we can't do nothing, 04:09 but through You we can accomplish all things. 04:11 Amen. That's right. 04:12 And thank you 04:14 for the great plan of salvation. 04:16 They were humbled, 04:17 and yet we feel 04:19 just tremendous excitement, happiness, 04:22 knowing that Your coming is very soon 04:25 in the clouds of glory. 04:26 Thank you, in Jesus' name we pray. 04:28 Amen. Amen. 04:30 Who we have on the piano before... 04:31 Well, we have Brother Tim Parton. 04:33 Hey, Tim. Yay! 04:35 And so we're so glad that he's here 04:37 because without him, we may not sound that great, 04:39 without him we would sound worse. 04:41 So I could promise that. 04:44 So I think we're gonna do trust and obey 04:46 and so those of you at home, 04:48 we want you to sing with us. 04:49 We're gonna do the first and last stanza, 04:51 when we walk with the Lord in the light of His Word, okay? 04:54 Amen. All right, let's do it. 05:01 When we walk with the Lord 05:04 In the light of His Word 05:08 What a glory He sheds on our way 05:14 While we do His good will 05:18 He abides with us still 05:21 And with all who will trust and obey 05:28 Trust and obey 05:30 For there's no other way 05:34 To be happy in Jesus 05:38 But to trust and obey 05:42 Then in fellowship sweet 05:44 Then in fellowship sweet 05:48 We will sit at His feet 05:52 Or we'll walk by His side in the way 05:58 What He says we will do 06:02 Where He sends, we will go 06:05 Never fear, only trust and obey 06:12 Trust and obey 06:15 For there's no other way 06:19 To be happy in Jesus 06:24 But to trust and obey 06:30 Amen. Praise the Lord. 06:32 That's a beautiful song. 06:34 Thank you so much, Brother Tim. 06:35 Takes me back a long time, 06:36 and Kenny and I, we were singing one time, 06:38 my mother always had to sing in with our brothers, 06:41 so we had Tom maybe even play and sing, 06:43 and Ronnie, and Kenny and me and so, 06:46 Kenny usually sang the melody 06:48 but this particular time he was going to do the harmony. 06:52 And so we said, okay, so we were singing 06:54 and all of a sudden I heard somebody on my part. 06:57 And so for my part that I was singing, 07:01 supposed to be tenor. I'm not really tenor singer, 07:03 but singing the tenor part. 07:05 And I heard somebody, my partner was Kenny 07:07 and it took me a couple seconds and he didn't go back. 07:09 So I switched and went to his part. 07:12 After it's over, I said, I said, hey, brother, 07:15 I said, what you were doing on my part? 07:18 And I said, you just hung there. 07:19 He said, listen, I don't have that good ears, 07:21 so when I get a part, he said, 07:23 when I get on a part no matter what it is, 07:25 I'm standing there, 07:26 you can jump part three if you need so, 07:28 from now on when we're together, 07:30 If I switch part he said, if I switch part, 07:33 you just go with it. 07:34 That is so funny. I love it. 07:35 And so we did but today, 07:37 I started off with melody and he went to the tenor so 07:39 and he did it all the way through so... 07:41 Wow! It reminds me of Yvonne. 07:43 I was jumping all around trying to find my name. 07:47 He was solid today. I was jumping. 07:48 No, no, no. 07:50 Kenny was solid today, I like it. 07:51 It's a good start to our program. 07:53 Amen. 07:55 Trust and obey, for there's no other way. 07:56 That's right. 07:58 Again we hope you have your Bible 07:59 and pencil and paper and jot some things down 08:00 because there's so much here, 08:02 I'm almost sure that we won't get done. 08:04 May not. 08:06 But, you know, again, why rush it. 08:07 That's right. 08:08 This is such an important subject. 08:10 So let's take our time. 08:11 Each one just jump in when you feel like 08:13 the Holy Spirit is telling you to jump, 08:14 go ahead and do this is, to me it's worship is, 08:17 is talking back and forth and not somebody just taken. 08:20 You may say something 08:21 that gets me right quick and I'm saying, 08:23 you know, it's not trying to bud in, 08:24 it's just we're trying to add. 08:25 Bounce of... 08:27 Bounce off, maybe asking the question. 08:28 And, you know what they study, 08:29 I know that you're putting it together, 08:31 there was something that really stuck out. 08:34 You've read this passage before 08:35 because you gonna turn your Bible, 08:37 Acts 3:19-21. 08:40 That's beautiful. 08:41 This passage has always been precious to me, 08:43 as well as probably every one of you at home 08:45 and each one of us here. 08:46 But as you were reading through this right here, 08:48 there was something that stuck out in your mind. 08:50 Maybe you'll give us 08:52 a little bit of background on that? 08:53 Well, when I was studying through the Book of Acts 08:56 and I came to Chapter 3 and once I heard part of 21 09:00 which I'll just read 09:02 the whole thing 19 through 21 for everybody. 09:04 It says, "Repent ye therefore and be converted, 09:07 that your sins may be blotted out, 09:10 when the times of refreshing 09:11 shall come from the presence of the Lord, 09:14 and he shall send Jesus Christ, 09:16 which before was preached unto you." 09:18 So right there, it's telling us that prophecy said, 09:21 Christ was coming, right? 09:23 "Whom the heaven must receive." 09:26 That was interesting too because after He came, 09:29 after He made His sacrifice 09:32 and did what He did on the earth, 09:33 then the heavens must receive Him 09:36 and then reading on 09:37 "until the times of restitution of all things." 09:42 And that's what really stuck out, 09:45 the restitution of all things. 09:46 Because how many times have we heard 09:48 everything was done at the cross? 09:50 It all ended at the cross. 09:51 Now my version says times of restoration. 09:53 Yeah. 09:55 It tell us... 09:56 I'm gonna tell you because that is a synonym... 09:58 Yes. 09:59 Which God has spoken 10:01 by the mouth of all His holy prophets 10:03 since the world began. 10:04 Yes. And so I went to Google. 10:07 Google. We love Google, right? 10:08 Yeah. 10:10 I don't know how I ever studied without Google. 10:12 I mean, you know, 10:14 we had this Strong's and all these things, 10:16 but they took so much longer. 10:17 But the synonym, which is what your Bible is presenting, 10:21 return, restoration, handing back, 10:24 replacement, surrender, yielding, recovery. 10:28 It defines restitution 10:30 as the restoration of something lost. 10:32 Listen to this, it's exciting. 10:36 The restoration of something lost 10:38 or stolen to its proper owner. 10:42 Okay. 10:43 So, yes, and the example of this is the claims were 10:48 for restitution of land of alleged... 10:52 Can't even speak... It's all right. 10:53 Allegedly seized by the occupying power 10:57 and with that clarity of mind through the great controversy, 11:00 we know that the enemy of souls did what? 11:04 He came and seized this world. 11:07 He took it, he claimed it as his... 11:11 He claimed God's property. 11:12 Exactly. Exactly. 11:15 He stole it as it were 11:17 and so Christ is restoring all things. 11:20 Yeah, actually looked up in the Concordance 11:23 and it talked about this word, 11:24 and it meant to reconstitute your health, 11:27 your home, and organization, 11:28 that's powerful to the aspect of our health, 11:31 you know, even you know, 11:32 the enemy is solely stealing our health, 11:34 take away our homes, he's breaking down the family. 11:36 Oh, absolutely. 11:37 And our organization, our churches, 11:39 our people and all that stuff so as to reclaim them. 11:41 Where it really starts to is, you know, at the home, 11:44 as you saying with our health, our home, our family, 11:48 this where it really all started. 11:49 Exactly. 11:51 Absolutely. Exactly. 11:52 And we're just barely going to touch the surface. 11:55 Because as when he sees this 11:57 and he began to occupy this world 12:00 that was his area of power, you know... 12:04 How do we know that 12:06 from Scripture, isn't that right? 12:07 We know that, even Jesus after sin 12:11 recognized that the enemy was the prince of this world. 12:16 He was the owner. 12:17 Jesus knew He was the owner because man had sinned. 12:19 Had sinned. Right? 12:21 We fell under his occupation. Creation. 12:22 Right. God made man. 12:24 He gave the world, right, earth to man, 12:26 man forfeited that because of sin, the enemy... 12:29 I must read John 14:30 and then you go on 12:32 'cause this is Jesus speaking here. 12:33 He says, 12:35 "Hereafter I will not talk much with you." 12:37 Interesting Jesus saying, 12:39 I'm not gonna talk much with you, 12:40 why? 12:41 "For the prince of this world cometh," 12:44 ooh, I love this, "and he hath nothing in me." 12:47 Amen. 12:48 That's why I said, you know, strive about the grace of God 12:51 to say when the enemy comes against, 12:53 he has nothing in me, nothing that we are aware of, 12:56 right, that we are aware of. 12:57 We're always growing in Christ, but he has nothing in me. 13:01 And that's such a great point 13:02 because when you think about it, 13:04 you know, you don't want to think that 13:07 the Lord Jesus is not subject to Satan. 13:11 Satan is still a creature, 13:13 he is still subject to God and to Jesus Christ. 13:17 So that is a great verse because it reminds us 13:19 of the sovereignty of Jesus Christ. 13:22 So even though Satan is the prince of this world, 13:26 Jesus is the King of kings. 13:27 Come on. 13:29 And it's because he had no power over Christ 13:32 that Christ was able to gain this world 13:34 back from him, 13:36 to restore it back and he's still in that process. 13:38 But you think about Lucifer in heaven 13:42 was a covering cherub. 13:43 What did he cover? What did he cover? 13:46 The mercy seat which contained 13:47 the commandments, the law of God, 13:49 so every sense iniquity was found in his heart. 13:53 You know, he's been trying to destroy God's character 13:56 in all these different aspects. 13:58 The Bible says that 14:00 "Thy way, O God is through the sanctuary." 14:02 And I loved Pastor Ivor Myers. 14:04 He calls it the blueprint. 14:06 And if you ever watched the Blueprint? 14:07 I mean, you can see 14:09 just different pieces of history 14:11 that go through that sanctuary message. 14:13 And what we're going to focus on here today 14:15 are just some of those examples. 14:17 Lot of times I mentioned earlier, 14:19 when we're doing an evangelistic series, 14:21 we go through all the dispensations 14:23 of Christian history and how a certain message, 14:27 a certain truth for that time was restored. 14:31 Because God had to restore everything back, 14:33 and in a sense it's actually restoring 14:36 part of the sanctuary. 14:38 So today we're going to look at the restoration 14:42 of the altar of showbread, 14:44 the altar of sacrifice, 14:45 the altar of incense, the laver, 14:47 the seven branch candlestick, 14:49 if we get this far, 14:51 and finally, finally, the ark of the covenant. 14:55 Was it mentioned there is a Psalm 14:57 that you touched on. 14:58 I mean, there's a Psalm, 14:59 a lot of people don't even recognize. 15:01 Psalm 68:24 says, 15:02 "They have seen thy goings, Oh, God, 15:04 even the goings of my God, my King, 15:06 in his sanctuary." 15:07 In the sanctuary, so they're watching 15:09 what his God or King is doing this thing. 15:10 Oh, yes. In the sanctuary, yes. 15:11 Amen. That's a powerful thought. 15:13 Could you think about apostasy? 15:15 You know what we're tracing it 15:16 during the reformation time and, you know, 15:19 the truth that's covered up is being, 15:21 I mean, this is real topic of being uncovered... 15:24 Amen. 15:25 God has people here in these last days 15:26 that are going to uncover these beautiful truths 15:29 that the enemy has covered over. 15:31 But if you think about even the time of the apostles 15:34 until the time of the reformation, 15:37 the truths were being attacked. 15:39 Were being attacked, that Jesus walked this earth 15:42 it was attacked, you know, after, you know, 15:43 the first century, the second century. 15:45 I jotted down five, I thought was interesting. 15:48 Always been attacked, always been attacked 15:50 is the authority of God's Word. 15:53 And we find that in reformation, 15:54 we find it was being attacked even in Jesus, 15:57 you remember, the authority of God words 15:59 and then the scriptures are always being attacked. 16:02 You know, are they really real, are they really, 16:04 you know, Holy Spirit really, you know, the scriptures. 16:07 And then they tried to put in tradition 16:10 in the place of the authority of scripture. 16:12 Yes. 16:14 We find that's always been a fight 16:15 that's going on even the days of Christ. 16:16 And then naturally, everywhere you go, 16:19 any phase of time the Sabbath has been attacked. 16:23 It's always attacked. 16:25 So the Sabbath issue and the law of God was attacked 16:28 because we know where it was attacked first 16:29 and then down here. 16:30 And then we find out the coming together 16:33 to compromise unity of church and state. 16:36 That's kind of off the wall, throw that back. 16:38 Everything you're talking about is, 16:40 it is covered in the great controversy. 16:42 I love that book, 16:43 it mixes prophecy and history together. 16:47 And, you know, anyone that maybe 16:48 isn't interested in religious things, 16:50 at least there's the history part there, 16:52 maybe will draw them to the more, you know, 16:54 the religious side of it. 16:55 But it's a love 16:57 that when we give that to people, 16:58 we explain that that book is mixture of history 17:01 and prophecy, Bible prophecy. 17:03 And if they're interested in history, then, you know, 17:05 they tend to more want to read it. 17:08 And really that's what Acts 3:21 is depicting 17:12 is the great controversy, 17:14 that Christ our Messiah, our Redeemer would be sent 17:17 that, you know, He would make, 17:19 He actually continue to go through the sanctuary. 17:22 He would make that great sacrifice 17:24 for each and every one of us. 17:26 And then heaven had to receive him back. 17:28 And I don't remember 17:30 if we talked about it on air, off air, 17:31 but we mentioned earlier 17:33 that a lot of people believe 17:34 that at the cross everything was done away with. 17:37 And before I even understood parts of this message, 17:41 I always wonder if it was done, if it's completed, 17:43 then what are we doing here? 17:45 Why are we still here? 17:46 Because Christ had to restore all things 17:49 that the enemy and think about it, 17:52 that was his job as covering cherub. 17:55 He was covering the law of God. Lucifer. 17:58 Yeah, Lucifer in heaven, 18:00 and everything that was a part of his being 18:03 he now began to turn against. 18:05 And He's divided, 18:07 he's breaking it apart and deceiving the people 18:10 so that we cannot see clearly who God really is. 18:14 That leads us into our first question. 18:16 I think it very well that we already talked about 18:18 because this, we spend a lot of time on this one. 18:21 Question number one, 18:22 if you have the one that says the blueprint on it, 18:23 number one, it says, 18:25 "Why was the translation of the Bible 18:27 into the common language of the people so important?" 18:31 You know, it's something for us to think, why. 18:33 Remember if we had a Bible, 18:36 and it was in a different language 18:37 that we couldn't tell, what good would it do us? 18:38 Right. 18:40 You know, and again, 18:41 why did the people need the Bible translated 18:43 into a language that they could understand. 18:47 To me that's very interesting 18:48 because we're talking about restoration 18:51 of the altar of showbread. 18:53 When you go in the sanctuary, on the right, 18:55 you have the table of what? 18:57 Showbread. 18:58 And so what does that represent? 18:59 That opens up a bunch of questions and thoughts 19:02 and comments about that table of showbread 19:04 because what has the devil done. 19:05 Just what everybody's been saying here, 19:07 he's tried to steal the Word of God 19:09 out of our hand. 19:10 He tried doing it, he tried burning it, 19:12 tried to killing people over the ages 19:13 that hasn't worked. 19:15 So he's tried to change the wording 19:16 of different translations and so on and so forth. 19:19 And then try and take it out of our hands 19:20 where we don't study it anymore. 19:22 Right. 19:23 So God said one thing, we've got to get back is faith 19:25 in the Word of God. 19:26 That's right. Restore the Word. 19:29 So what does that really mean when you think about these? 19:31 Go ahead. 19:32 Well, there's nothing like reading the Word for yourself. 19:34 You know, you can have someone give you the information 19:39 or you can go to the Word yourself. 19:41 God wanted to make it 19:43 so that we can go to the word ourselves 19:46 and not hear it through another person, 19:48 not hear their interpretation, 19:50 not hear what they're saying about, 19:52 no, what is God saying to my heart directly. 19:55 So I think that's one of the reasons 19:57 why it was important to have the Word translated 20:01 into our own language 20:03 so that I don't have to go 20:04 to someone who's reading it let say in Latin. 20:07 I don't speak Latin. No. 20:08 You know, I mean, what? 20:10 Plus and we wouldn't be 20:11 not reading the language at all, 20:12 just reading what they want. 20:14 That's right. Exactly. 20:15 So you're getting that, you don't know any different. 20:17 Exactly. Yeah. 20:18 I think the power of the Word though, 20:20 why do we want the Word. 20:21 And Isaiah 58 put it really well. 20:24 He said to loose the bands of wickedness, 20:26 to undo the heavy burdens, to let the oppressed go free 20:29 and to break every enslaving yoke. 20:31 Amen. 20:32 Think about they're under heavy oppression 20:34 and then when the Word comes in, 20:36 it gives you that abiding peace. 20:38 I'm gonna set you free, 20:39 and that's to me, you know, 20:41 that's what Jesus said, you know, 20:42 the thief came in to steal, kill and destroy. 20:44 But Jesus came to give us an abundant life 20:46 and through His Word... 20:47 That's where you get that abundant life. 20:48 Amen. 20:50 And if you roll the scroll back, 20:51 go back to the fourth century, 20:53 go back to even the 14th century 20:55 when John Wycliffe came on the scene. 20:58 You know because God put that burden in his heart 21:01 to begin to translate the Bible. 21:03 But really, there weren't Bibles. 21:05 We didn't have Bibles in every room of our home. 21:09 They were collecting dust, 21:10 you might find one chained to a monastery somewhere. 21:13 Yeah. Right. 21:14 And it was in Latin, 21:15 and very few people had access to the Word of God. 21:18 That's right. 21:20 So if they wanted to draw close to Christ, 21:21 what did they do? 21:22 They went to the church and they relied 21:25 on what the priest would tell them 21:27 and most often, 21:28 they were still speaking in a language 21:30 that they did not understand. 21:32 So John Wycliffe, 21:34 he wanted to translate the Bible 21:36 into a language that the common people spoke. 21:41 That's why we relate, you know, a lot of times, 21:44 even our children, 21:45 they have trouble with King James, 21:47 you know, so they might go to New King James or whatever. 21:49 But eventually, you know, we like to go back. 21:52 I kind of do that, 21:53 just because it's easier to remember one 21:55 that I'm reading all the time. 21:56 But you know you choose one that you can understand. 21:59 Right. 22:00 But there are times, there are times 22:01 like Danny said in the beginning 22:03 with restoration, and what's the word? 22:06 Restitution, you know, 22:07 'cause that's a synonym of restitution. 22:11 But it's the different translations, 22:15 we want one that we can understand that. 22:17 That's right. 22:19 I mean, she's going back. 22:20 You talk about the 1300s 22:23 was the time when John Wycliffe here was in operation. 22:26 What he did how God had called him. 22:28 And you know, even 200 years later, 22:30 220 or 30 was when Luther came into being, 22:33 didn't have the printing and all that 22:35 to where he is interesting. 22:36 He went to the library. 22:38 I was reading about him, he went to the library 22:40 and found the whole Bible. 22:42 Yes. 22:43 As being what he was, the priest, 22:45 doing what he was doing. 22:47 He was only allowed 22:48 to have certain portions of the gospel. 22:50 Oh, wow! He had never seen. 22:53 I mean, it almost makes your heart kind of hurt. 22:55 Oh, it does. 22:56 He had never seen and he had long 22:58 for the whole Bible, for the whole Bible, 23:00 and he had never had it till he seen it there. 23:02 And then he certainly couldn't take that one 23:04 and so he began to read the one that was chained to the walls. 23:09 You see, in the convent, there in monastery. 23:11 He started reading that and there he found Christ. 23:14 So, I mean to me when I see that right there. 23:16 Why we asked the question here. 23:18 Why was it that the enemy wanted to cover 23:21 the table of showbread, take it out? 23:24 Why was he wanted to take the bread? 23:25 Who does the bread represent? 23:27 Jesus. Christ. 23:28 Thank you. 23:31 Trying to be quiet, something to say. 23:34 John Chapter 6, right? 23:36 Went to John Chapter 6, you read it. 23:38 He said, he's the bread of, what? 23:40 Life. He's the bread of life. 23:42 And then he talks about 23:44 there are several places in there, 23:45 6:41, He said, 23:46 "I'm the bread that came down from heaven." 23:49 In John 6:51, He said, "We have to eat this bread." 23:52 Yes. So He is the bread of life. 23:54 The devil says, man, if I can get rid of the bread. 23:56 Right. 23:58 Get rid of all the people, if I can mix up the bread. 24:00 I was kind of shocked 24:01 when I read a little bit about those the cakes, 24:03 you know, the loaves, there's 12 of them. 24:06 And I was thinking, now somebody can correct me 24:07 if somebody will probably on it. 24:09 But I was thinking each one of those cake, 24:11 I was thinking, careful, pancake thickness. 24:16 I mean, I don't know why. Something to compare it to. 24:17 Yeah, something I can. 24:19 I understand that there was four quarts 24:23 of flours that were... 24:24 I think it's flour used in one cake. 24:26 Wow! 24:28 Now, how big are those babies? 24:29 I mean, think about this. 24:31 How big and then they were stacked into six. 24:34 Four quarts, that's a gallon each. 24:36 Yeah. That's a big. 24:38 So it's either two or maybe four. 24:40 I said, that is such a lot. 24:41 Now we have to think birthday cake. 24:43 There you go. 24:46 Wedding cakes. 24:47 Have to be able to stack over. 24:48 Yeah, the Word of God is supposed to be, 24:50 I want to call this is heavy. 24:52 You know, it is heavy. Yeah. 24:54 That is dense, the meat of the word in Psalm. 24:56 Oh, yeah. 24:57 But, you know, what you're saying is 24:58 what all of us are saying is 25:00 if the enemy could stamp out the Bible, 25:03 keep the Bible from the people, then they don't have the light. 25:07 They're in darkness, 25:08 they don't have a way of salvation. 25:10 He's trying to cut them up because he wants their homage. 25:14 He wants them to worship him. 25:16 Got something in Daniel 12:3, I'll go really quick. 25:18 Okay. 25:19 It says, "They that be wise 25:21 shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, 25:22 and they that turn many to righteousness 25:26 as the stars forever." 25:27 Amen. 25:29 We were talking about Bibles and how profound that, 25:32 you know, when these before you see the Bible 25:34 for the very first time. 25:36 You know, these reformers and it reminded me 25:38 that Elder John Carter gave Yvonne and I, 25:41 in fact I think we have two pages front and back. 25:44 A 1611 edition, I think is what was it? 25:46 Second edition of translation, 25:50 I think, it's the Wycliffe rendition. 25:52 It's one of those. 25:54 But when you actually see it and this is what people read, 25:57 it takes you back to the 1600s. 25:59 Just the way it was written, 26:00 the wording, the way they spoke, 26:03 and it really is amazing. 26:04 So you can go back and it's like, 26:06 the verse, the song, that in the love of God. 26:11 The story goes, 26:12 I don't know who can really say for sure, 26:14 but the story goes that 26:16 that it was found inscribed on a mental institution 26:21 their words that they used is the second verse 26:23 of the love of God. 26:25 And it says, it says if we with ink the ocean fill, 26:30 and all the skies of parchment made, 26:32 you hear that language of the 1600s. 26:37 If we would with ink the ocean fill 26:39 and all the skies of parchment made 26:41 and every stalk on earth a quill, 26:44 and every man a scribe by trade, 26:46 to write the love of God above would drain the ocean dry. 26:50 Get this? 26:52 And though it says, 26:53 it was stretched from sky to sky, 26:55 love of God, how great, 26:57 you know, it's an incredible verse. 27:00 And apparently, 27:02 someone who'd become a Christian 27:03 during the Dark Ages, 27:05 had put them in a mental institution 27:07 if they didn't kill him or burn him at the stake. 27:09 But all of that kind of brings us back 27:11 into reading these 1611 versions, 27:13 you know, what a time to be living. 27:16 And we're looking back at all of that. 27:18 If they could be alive right now, 27:20 they would probably say 27:21 what a time to be living, right? 27:23 At the closing moments of earth's history. 27:24 How exciting? Yeah. 27:26 When you think about 27:27 how much more people appreciated the Word 27:29 when they first bought it 27:30 because they knew what was like to not have it. 27:32 Right. 27:34 But now we've have so many forms of the Bible 27:36 that Satan has brought so many distractions 27:39 and that's kind of like the Dark Ages of our time 27:42 is this distraction to where we just don't, 27:45 we've got so much other stuff going on 27:47 that we just don't focus as much as we need to, 27:50 at least for myself, you know, on studying in God's Word. 27:53 And, you know, 27:55 it's just the kind of like that interesting thought, 27:58 like, wow, look at what they had, 28:00 what they when they first got it, 28:02 like how much they appreciated it. 28:03 Yes. 28:05 Well, a closer to our time 28:07 we might spend when we were in Russia with you. 28:09 Right. 28:11 And they were telling the story 28:12 of when you and John Carter had been there 28:15 and see they didn't have, the Bible had been shut out. 28:18 And I loved what you were saying in that song, 28:20 the love of God. 28:22 Because that's really what the devil did 28:23 by hiding the Bible. 28:25 He was really hiding the love of God. 28:28 That's right. 28:30 And the people you were giving away free Bibles, 28:32 and one man... 28:34 One man... 28:35 That went down and sat on the grass, 28:37 and began to read 28:38 'cause he had believed in evolution. 28:40 And in the beginning God, 28:42 right then just broke down in tears. 28:45 The Holy Spirit was so strong in the beginning, God. 28:48 That's what he was looking for. 28:50 1992 right after fall of communism 28:53 what you were talking about. 28:54 These people had never seen a Bible. 28:56 There were pastors who were preaching 28:57 who'd never had a whole Bible. 28:59 Wow! 29:00 And so think about that Yes. 29:03 It's a long ago, either. Exactly. 29:05 Twenty seven years ago, twenty eight years ago. 29:08 But when we gave out these Bibles, 29:10 we gave several thousands. 29:13 We get to the big sports arena, 29:14 people would literally grab them 29:16 instead of taking them home. 29:18 They would just go right on the concrete 29:20 and start reading, 29:21 run over to a little shade tree. 29:23 They were reading immediately, crying with tears. 29:25 Well, absolutely. Yes. 29:27 Wow! 29:28 They would clutch the Bible to their chest. 29:30 Wow. 29:31 And the pastors holded Bibles for the first time. 29:34 We had 100,000 Bibles. 29:36 We were able to thanks to our viewers, 29:38 we were able to send those to Russia. 29:41 But now there's a big difference. 29:42 You go there, we'll be going in a few weeks. 29:45 You go there. 29:47 It looks a lot more like America. 29:48 There's all the shopping malls, 29:50 all the things, and people are busy. 29:52 And back then you could go when we first started, 29:55 they allowed our young students 29:57 to go teach English in their schools 29:59 and teach the Bible. 30:01 And so, now, it's changing so much 30:04 that people aren't nearly as interested in hearing 30:06 because they have so many distractions. 30:09 So, you got to do it 30:10 while the sun is shining, right? 30:13 Oh, absolutely. 30:14 Absolutely, I think that's, you know, I think about is, 30:17 why at this point in time, you know, about 1300s. 30:20 John Wycliffe do what he did it, translates it. 30:23 Because I think it was a time in the history of the world 30:27 that God was leading a people away 30:29 from Rome and He's wanting to have the truth, 30:32 so what a time to write it down 30:34 into their language because if you... 30:36 As I was reading about this stuff, 30:38 I thought that was, the Bible was 30:40 the most important weapon against Rome. 30:44 Wow. 30:45 It was a weapon against Rome. Yeah. 30:48 And so people begin to read it, 30:49 they begin to say, man, it's like we've been cheated. 30:52 Yes. You know, we've been cheated. 30:54 We wanted this, I've heard people say, 30:55 I want this all my life, 30:56 when they finally found the truth, 30:58 I want this all my life, why it was taken so long. 31:00 And what did it do? 31:01 What this translation do? 31:03 It broke, it broke the chains, 31:05 it broke the fetters and what was it, 31:07 great controversy says the ignorance and we mean, 31:10 they were not educated. 31:12 As you're saying that, I'm just thinking about how, 31:14 you know, I was reading in something 31:15 about how when the Bible and the gospel are coming 31:18 into different areas of different countries 31:21 that people become more educated, 31:23 they become more health conscious. 31:25 And it's like, it's amazing, you know, 31:27 what happens is they're not ignorant anymore. 31:29 They become educated and knowledge is power, 31:32 knowledge of God is power and it's like, 31:35 you know, that's, you see this oppression. 31:38 In those Dark Ages, 31:39 they didn't want the people to have that, 31:41 you know, any of those things. 31:42 But, you know, they had it. 31:44 So the Bible was being, you know, transcribed, 31:45 it's being put out there. 31:47 So what, there was no laws against reading the Bible 31:49 before the Bible came out 31:51 to where people could have access to it. 31:53 But after the Bible began to come out, 31:55 what did Rome do? 31:56 But let's be honest, history bears factor, 31:57 they passed laws that it was against the law 32:00 to be caught reading the Word of God. 32:02 Then you were fined, 32:04 imprisoned or burned at the stake, 32:05 but several of our reformers I thought was so interesting, 32:07 that as they went into town, 32:09 one of them we'll talk about more 32:10 if we have time, went into town, 32:12 and while he was going into town, 32:13 the public square, 32:14 one of the reformers was being burned at the stake. 32:16 Oh, have mercy. 32:17 And he looked at those 32:19 'cause he was dead on to his church, you know, 32:22 Roman church and so he looked and he saw that, and he said, 32:25 I saw such peace, and such love, 32:28 I saw such contentment. 32:30 And I said, how can this be? 32:32 Because he was condemned to die because he was a heretic. 32:36 That's what they called them. 32:38 Heretic because, you know, 32:39 but he started reading the Word of God. 32:41 So he was a heretic now 32:42 because he read the Word of God. 32:44 And he said and that what I saw on his face 32:47 made me go get a Bible 32:50 and begin to read it, and it changed my whole life. 32:52 Praise the Lord. 32:54 It was like when Stephen was stoned. 32:55 So they will try new things, right? 32:57 To stop it. But what does God do? 32:58 Multiples. Yes. 32:59 He multiplies it. He works all things together. 33:01 Exactly. 33:03 You know, and the truth 'cause the Bible is truth. 33:04 The Bible also says, the truth shall set you free 33:08 and see that the church at that time 33:10 was holding people in bondage, in bondage of error, 33:13 and only through the Word of God 33:15 could the people rightly see what the truth was. 33:18 And I think it's Corinthians, 33:19 it says, you can do nothing against the gospel but for it. 33:22 So when Rome persecuted millions of people, 33:25 they wanted to put an end to it and what did it do? 33:28 It caused people to spread 33:30 and to come to the United States of America 33:33 and other places of the world and with them came the light. 33:35 Amen. 33:37 So the persecution ended up 33:39 being spreading the gospel to the world. 33:41 So the devil can't, the devil is a loser. 33:44 Right. 33:45 And from the beginning, he will never win, 33:47 no matter what happens, 33:48 the gospel is going to go into all the world. 33:50 Amen. 33:51 What a privilege that we have 33:53 living in the closing moments of earth's history 33:55 that we can be a part of it. 33:57 Little point I just have to say 33:58 just when you're talking about this 33:59 and my mind is just, you know, it's like all the things. 34:02 Because I think of John Wycliffe, 34:04 what a man of God. 34:05 Wasn't just the man we're looking at, 34:07 we're looking the spirit was within him. 34:08 Yes. He did. 34:09 Did he attain it? 34:11 Did he reached all these, 34:12 uncover all these truths that were written? 34:13 No. 34:15 But God had maybe one specific thing 34:16 that these reformers to do. 34:18 If they were faithful, they would be faithful. 34:19 Right. 34:21 But Rome hated him so much 34:23 because of translating the Bible 34:25 or putting that in English. 34:27 That when he died, and like three or four days, 34:30 four days after his death, 34:31 they buried him and then they said, 34:33 Ha, that's not enough, it's what this guy is done. 34:36 And so they made it, passed a law 34:37 that we're going to dig his body up 34:39 and we're going to burn it. 34:40 Yeah. 34:42 It took him 12 years. 34:43 Twelve or 13 years, 34:45 12 years after the man who was in the grave, 34:47 for 12 years they dug up his bones 34:50 and they set him on fire and they burned him 34:52 and then they threw him into the river. 34:54 The haters still existed 34:55 to make doing what God wanted to, 34:57 we need to be wide awake of the hour in which we live. 34:59 Yes. 35:00 That hate would still exist today. 35:02 It may be covered up in our own community 35:04 in different places, you know what I mean, 35:06 but the hatred is there, 35:07 people look to you, say one thing 35:09 but their eyes are saying something else. 35:10 We need to be ready, we need to do, 35:12 brother mentioned while ago, 35:14 do what we can while there's light. 35:15 Yeah. 35:16 Well, 3ABN is in operation and will go strong 35:18 all into the world. 35:19 Might lest, people listen, 35:20 let's get into our pockets, let's dig. 35:22 You know, want to say, 35:23 let's give to the cause of Christ, 35:25 get this message out. 35:26 Yes. 35:27 Because time is coming when you will be in fined 35:29 and in prison for just reading Word of God. 35:31 I may be quiet for a while, I'm getting excited. 35:32 No, no. Get excited. 35:34 It's interesting to me how the perception of the Bible 35:38 and people who read the Bible has changed over the years. 35:42 Years ago in our country here in the United States, 35:47 when you talked about the Bible you got respect 35:49 because, you know, the Bible, 35:51 you're trying to live your life according to the Bible. 35:54 That's people respected you. 35:56 Now... Oh, boy. 35:57 In these times if you say, 35:59 you try to live according to the Bible. 36:01 Whoa! 36:02 Like you are every kind of phobic, 36:04 every kind of bigot, everything kind of, 36:06 everything that you can think of 36:08 and so, the Bible is it is a sword. 36:12 Yes. 36:14 It is living, it is a sword 36:16 and honestly if you're trying to live 36:19 in accordance with its precepts, 36:21 that's your... 36:23 It's a no, no. Yes. 36:24 So now the whole perception of the Bible has changed. 36:28 Yes, well, it's making a full circle 36:30 because people have already been put in jail 36:33 because of their faith in God's Word. 36:35 They've already been fined and we realized 36:38 through prophecy is going to wax worse and worse, 36:41 so you just hit on a hot topic, hot topic. 36:44 There's a saying, the Word tells us 36:46 that many are called but few are chose. 36:47 Yes. 36:48 You know we're gonna be kind of outcasts, 36:50 we're gonna be small number. 36:52 It really means few are choosing. 36:54 Yes. 36:56 Few are choosing to walk in the light. 36:57 Yes. 36:58 You know, we have to go back just as Christ did. 37:02 It is written. That's right. 37:04 Because everything around us looks like we're wrong, 37:06 especially in today's society 37:08 when you hear the pope now 37:10 talking about for the common good. 37:13 You know, we need to do, we need to have a Sunday, 37:16 a family day, we need to do the Sunday 37:18 for the world economy for the world 37:23 because of all the pollution 37:24 it cuts down on all these things. 37:26 So if we close on Sunday, the families are better, 37:29 you know, we save lots of money 37:31 and by shutting down all the businesses 37:34 and look you've got Poland, you've got different ones 37:36 that are already passing 37:37 and already have established Sunday laws. 37:40 There's an island which I don't remember 37:42 what the island is called 37:44 but on that island you can be put in jail 37:47 if you are caught working on Sunday. 37:50 You know, so it's coming back. 37:52 It's right on our doorsteps. It's here. 37:54 What does that compelled us to do 37:55 or what should it compelled us to do. 37:57 That mean do we see these things happening, 38:00 you know, we are to wage war against the enemy. 38:03 We're not to await him to come to the attack, 38:05 we're to wait, we're to be on the offense 38:08 not just the defense. 38:09 We had to move out 38:10 and do everything possible right now. 38:12 And to me that just means a little bit more, you know, 38:14 a little more fire in our message, 38:17 in the fire of the Holy Spirit. 38:19 And words will be said that will cut, 38:22 you know, to the quit, 38:23 and no one here wants to cut somebody else. 38:25 You talk to some, nobody here wants to hurt, 38:27 nobody's trying to drive anybody off. 38:29 Let me just say this. Well, go ahead. 38:32 My daddy always said, 38:33 if you don't let go over here it will be burned off of you. 38:35 Yeah. So we want to cut sin away. 38:38 Can I just add to what you were saying? 38:40 And, Kenny, you had said a verse early 38:41 for I think from John, 38:43 it reminded me of 38:45 right before the three angels' message 38:46 in Chapter 14 of Revelation verse 5 it says there, 38:50 "In their mouth was found no guile, 38:52 they are without fault before the throne of God." 38:55 And that's right before giving the three angels' message. 38:58 And so it's like this, 39:00 what you're talking about, it's like, 39:02 if God can't do a work in us, 39:05 how can we be fit to give that message 39:07 that needs to be given? 39:08 So it's, you know, 39:09 personal we need to allow him... 39:13 It occurred to me. 39:15 Okay. 39:16 You were talking about people being burned at the stake 39:18 and all the terrible persecution. 39:20 Yes. 39:21 Satan has found a better tool, a better way 39:23 to stamp out the gospel today. 39:25 Come on. Complacency. 39:28 In other words, 39:29 we don't go try to kill everybody 39:31 who's reading the Bible, who's a Christian. 39:33 The laws won't allow that. 39:35 So what does he do? 39:36 He comes in the church 39:38 and you know it may be the choir director, 39:41 the pastor, you know, Sunday school, 39:43 Sabbath School teacher, whatever, 39:45 he comes within the church, sits down 39:47 and not only the gossip and all that 39:50 but complacency that everything's okay. 39:52 That's right. 39:53 Go to church and rest of the week 39:55 I do my things. 39:56 I'm amazed that how many people say, 39:58 man I love 3ABN, I watch it on Sabbath. 40:01 Oh, wait a minute. Exactly. 40:03 So you don't watch it any other time during the week? 40:05 Oh, we're too busy during the week, 40:07 but when Sabbath and I can't do anything else, 40:09 we watch television. 40:11 We always watch, you know, we always watch 3ABN, 40:15 but I'm not saying that, you know, 40:17 too much into that but I'm just saying 40:19 complacency is one of the greatest tools 40:22 that Satan is using to put the church asleep 40:26 in the Laodicea state. 40:29 But that's about to end. Come on now. 40:32 If we do our part, a loud cry goes out, 40:35 there will be revival and reformation, 40:38 and we're gonna be back to the persecution 40:40 that we saw back long time ago. 40:43 It's on our heels, right. 40:45 Absolutely because in his fury he won't stop at anything. 40:47 That's right. 40:48 You know, Isaiah tell us, 40:50 you're kind of hitting on Isaiah 60 says, 40:51 we need to arise and shine. 40:53 Yeah. 40:54 Light is coming and the glory of Lord, 40:55 as the person it talks about verse 4, 40:57 "Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: 40:59 all they gather themselves together, 41:00 they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, 41:03 and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side." 41:04 So there's people out there hungering and thirsting, 41:06 we know if we're being complacent, 41:08 then are we really giving our talents 41:11 and gifts to the Lord. 41:14 Robbing God. He's missing part of his body. 41:16 He's looking for them. 41:17 And we can't rise and shine on our own. 41:19 We have to be filled with the Holy Spirit. 41:22 And you can't be filled 41:24 unless you're studying God's Word. 41:26 Unless you're praying every day, 41:27 you're studying every day. 41:28 You said you wouldn't talk much about it. 41:30 But I've often said some of the most, 41:32 the most godly people that I have met 41:35 that you can sense the power of the Holy Spirit 41:37 in their lives and in their heart 41:39 are those who come up to me and say, 41:41 we never turn 3ABN off. 41:43 We have it on in our home 24x7. 41:48 You know why? 41:49 Because they're eating and they're drinking, 41:50 if they don't have it physically in their hand 41:53 it's going in. 41:54 Even if you're not just, you know, 41:56 consciously thinking about every word, 41:59 you're subconsciously picking up on this. 42:01 And you're not saying they're just sitting there 42:03 watching all the time. 42:04 No, but they are hearing it. 42:06 That's right. 42:07 Even they say, while we're sleeping 42:09 as she just mentioned right here. 42:10 So we're going about, we're doing our housework 42:12 if it's a house mom or whatever, you know, 42:14 all things were done. 42:15 It's there in the ear all the time 42:17 and the Bible said faith cometh by hearing and hearing 42:20 by the word of God. 42:21 We're talking righteousness by faith in Christ. 42:25 We've covered to make it 13 and if it's more, 42:27 we go to the 14th and 15th centuries in here 42:31 and you find Martin Luther comes on the scene. 42:33 I think it's good to talk about him 42:34 because we see the restoration of the altar of sacrifice. 42:38 I get goose bumps talking about the altar of sacrifice. 42:42 We remember where the altar of sacrifice was at 42:44 when we study the earthly sanctuary. 42:47 It's the first thing when you come in. 42:50 Now remember, 42:52 how many ways could you get into the sanctuary? 42:54 One way. Only one way. 42:55 Jesus says, well, I am the way, the truth. 42:58 He says, I'm the door. Yes. 43:00 No man comes to Me, you know. 43:02 No man that comes to Me, 43:03 He said, he's not going to cast out. 43:04 So first of all, in the sanctuary, 43:06 there's a door, four pillar, you came to Him. 43:09 And as you came to Him, 43:11 then that means you're willing to do what? 43:13 The sacrifice, the altar of sacrifice. 43:15 I thought that was good 43:16 and that fire I thought was when 43:18 that fire would never go out. 43:21 The fire on the altar of sacrifice never went out. 43:24 And I got thinking about the sacrifice. 43:26 Because let's just say they brought a lamb. 43:28 They brought a lot of things in, 43:29 you know, during the week, and so on and so forth 43:31 for different things. 43:32 But say the lamb, 43:34 they put wood on the altar of sacrifice. 43:37 And then they placed the lamb on the wood 43:43 and consumed it. 43:45 And then who is it? 43:48 The Lamb of God was placed where? 43:51 On wood, on the cross He gave His life, 43:55 just like that lamb represent that lamb, 43:57 I thought how interesting that is 44:01 because first of all, we come to the... 44:03 In the sanctuary as you look at it, 44:05 it's made as a cross you can see out there. 44:08 The first part is the earthly. 44:10 The second is the heavenly. 44:12 But in the earthly, 44:13 I mean you look at that part right there. 44:15 I thought, man, that is the bottom as it were 44:18 the foot of the cross. 44:20 So how do I start my relationship with Christ? 44:22 At the foot of the cross. 44:23 Oh, have mercy. 44:25 At the foot of the cross where I first... 44:28 Saw the light. Saw the light. 44:29 There's a beautiful thing 44:31 that just came out the digital version 44:32 of the Pilgrims Progress. 44:34 They show Christian, 44:36 he said he's got a fork in a row, 44:37 he goes, I'm not really sure what to do here. 44:39 But he saw then he looked down, it says King's Highway. 44:42 Why I've been told it's in King's Highway. 44:44 So he goes into King's Highway, it's real steep slope, 44:46 it's real narrow, and it's really rugged. 44:48 And as he's going up, 44:50 he's got this big giant burden on his back. 44:51 As he gets closer on, this sunlight 44:53 just penetrates, hits him, 44:54 and this whole strap disintegrates, 44:56 and it all disintegrates. 44:57 Also he keeps coming up, it just fall off his back 45:00 and as it rolls in this video actually rolls in the tomb, 45:03 that burden rolled right into the tomb 45:05 as they called, it was so powerful. 45:07 That burden rolled into tomb. 45:08 That's right. 45:10 Wow! That just spoke to me. 45:11 And on that cross is right there before him, 45:12 that light was just hitting him, 45:14 it's powerful. 45:15 It does because you know in this life, 45:17 we carry so many burdens. 45:19 But the beautiful thing is 45:21 there's nothing too great for our God. 45:23 That's right. 45:24 There's nothing that will burden Him, 45:26 nothing that will weigh Him down. 45:28 We can give Him everything and as we give him everything 45:31 and we're walking, as you're saying, 45:33 looking up the cross walking through the sanctuary, 45:36 these burdens begin to roll off. 45:38 That's why I'm saying, we can do nothing of our own. 45:41 That's right. 45:42 It's only through the power of the Holy Spirit 45:44 and the grace of God that we are able to stand. 45:48 You know, because it's just gonna worse. 45:50 Think about it. 45:52 I can't even imagine walking in 45:53 and seeing someone burning at the stake. 45:55 Oh, my... But you know that piece. 45:57 I had a touch of these years ago. 45:59 And I know I've shared this before. 46:02 But I might as well just say I was going through childbirth. 46:07 And they used to tell you 46:08 to focus on a little dot on the wall. 46:12 And instead I would close my eyes 46:16 and every time I closed my eyes, 46:17 I was singing praises to the Lord 46:19 and I can see Him in the sanctuary. 46:22 And that was through every contraction 46:24 and finally it got so bad and I remember saying, 46:27 Lord, I can't see You anymore. 46:29 I can't concentrate on the song anymore. 46:32 And I told the nurses I said the baby, 46:35 well, no, this was little bit later. 46:37 And anyway, the moment I said I cannot concentrate, 46:39 my mother was sitting by my bed. 46:42 And the moment I could no longer, 46:44 no one knew hours, 46:46 18 hours no one knew I was singing in my head. 46:49 No one did. 46:50 And she began to sing. 46:53 And I fell asleep, for 10 minutes I fell asleep. 46:58 And I woke up and I said the baby is here 47:00 and they said oh, no Honey, 47:02 you're just now going into transition. 47:04 I said the baby is here. 47:05 And they couldn't believe it. 47:07 But it's because I kept my eyes on Jesus. 47:11 And my heart was singing hymns to Him. 47:14 And so when the pain was too great, 47:16 what did he do? 47:18 He took it, He took it 47:20 and that helped me to understand 47:22 when the martyrs went to their death, 47:25 when Stephen was stoned, 47:27 others were stoned and they said even Christ, 47:30 He said, Father forgive them 47:32 for they know not what they do. 47:35 They were praying for others, 47:36 they were singing as they were burning 47:38 'cause when we can't take it 47:41 God comes in and He takes it, that gives me hope. 47:44 Amen. That gives me hope. 47:45 And the burden on my heart rolled away. 47:48 Amen. Shut down, right? 47:49 Yes. Come on, sing it. 47:51 It was there by faith, I received my sight. 47:57 And now I am happy all the day. 48:02 Amen. 48:03 He was at the cross. 48:05 That's right, at the cross. 48:06 At the cross is where it's all at. 48:08 At the cross. 48:09 Question number two, we'll just start on, 48:10 what we got 9 or 10 minutes left. 48:12 Here I thought was, explain righteousness by faith 48:16 because this is what... 48:17 Isn't it what all the reformers 48:19 and what they found there was something 48:21 they had never experienced before. 48:24 They always had to go to someone, 48:26 they always had to have a mediator 48:28 as it were illness or somebody to forgive sins 48:30 and they didn't understand 48:32 what it is to be righteous by faith. 48:34 They thought that the more that they would do 48:36 and that's what they say about Adventist sometime, 48:38 you work your way into heaven. 48:40 You can't work your way into heaven. 48:41 No. 48:42 You can't work it, 48:44 no matter how about 24/7 for Christ, 48:45 you can't work your way into heaven. 48:46 You know, it's by grace. 48:48 We received our sight, we talked about, 48:50 so they found that and they were so overjoyed 48:54 that Christ had paid it off. 48:55 So what is righteousness really by faith? 48:58 Is it what it says it is here? 49:01 Anybody wants to discuss that? 49:02 What is righteousness by faith? 49:05 We have no righteousness. 49:06 Thank you. 49:08 So there is nothing we can do to be right with God 49:12 except to accept Jesus 49:14 and His righteousness is given to us. 49:18 That's the only thing that's why with that song, 49:22 you know, when we walk with the Lord 49:24 in the light of His Word with a glory, 49:26 He sheds on our way. 49:28 It's not us. 49:30 We can't do it, we're not good enough. 49:32 So and there's so many people who feel like you know what? 49:35 I just can't do it. 49:37 I just can't be saved. 49:38 No, you can't do it, but Jesus did it. 49:43 Jesus has already done it, all we have to do is claim Him 49:47 and His righteousness is imparted to us 49:51 and acquitted to us. 49:52 And that's the faith part. That's the faith. 49:55 Zachariah 3:6, 49:56 it's a beautiful word picture of you ever study it out, 49:58 showing that God on this throne judging in, 50:01 of course, Joshua was in there with filthy garments, 50:03 and we're all with filthy garments, right? 50:04 We're all like filthy garments with. 50:06 And Satan our accuser comes in and he accuses us 50:09 before the throne day and night. 50:11 And so someone else steps in the scene, 50:12 I always tell people is on the phones, 50:13 I'm doing a prayer line when people are struggling. 50:16 I said someone else steps in the scene. 50:17 His name is angel or it's actually Jesus, 50:19 He comes in on your behalf. 50:21 And He said, is not this, a brand plucked by the fire. 50:26 And so what I believe he means is that 50:27 you see this nail pierced hand here. 50:28 Go on. 50:30 I died on the cross for this my blood and die, 50:31 for I've purchased him with my blood. 50:32 I own him now, he's mine, he's no longer your. 50:35 I see you remember those filthy garments 50:37 you're wearing in that picture. 50:38 Well, guess what he does? 50:39 He said, I'm gonna take those filthy garments off 50:41 and I'm gonna put my robe of righteousness. 50:43 And I'm going little further and add, 50:45 I'm gonna put my golden crown on your head 50:46 and call you the son of God. 50:47 Yeah. 50:49 Son or daughter, you know, I mean, 50:50 people will break down the phone start crying 50:51 'cause they realize their identities now 50:53 as a son or daughter in Christ. 50:55 That's right. 50:56 So Satan hates the truth of righteousness by faith. 50:59 Yes, he does. 51:01 So much so that he tries to get you fall out 51:02 of the boat one side or the other, Yvonne, right? 51:04 Right. 51:06 Because, oh, well, you know now because of that, 51:08 people say, I don't have to do anything. 51:09 I don't have to keep the commandments, 51:11 I don't have to keep Sabbath, 51:13 I don't have to do anything, 51:14 I'm just saved by grace, you know, 51:16 and then others, well, look at them, 51:18 they're trying to work their way these Adventists 51:20 because they keep the Commandments of God, 51:22 you know, they... 51:23 It so the devil hates that 51:25 and that's why he's working so hard today 51:27 to do away with the law of God 51:30 and do away because 51:31 where we finally can understand, 51:33 that is Christ in His righteousness 51:35 as you said, nothing of our own. 51:38 And now that when we submit and commit our lives to Jesus, 51:42 then He is our substitute. 51:44 He stands before God, the Father. 51:46 And says, I shed My blood for Yvonne, 51:49 I shed My blood for you. 51:52 And now what I do, see, so now it doesn't mean 51:55 oh, I don't do anything. 51:56 Right. 51:58 No, what do you do, if you love so, He says, 52:00 "If you love Me, keep My commandments." 52:02 That's right. That's right. 52:03 There's some doing, and that's right. 52:04 Praise the Lord. 52:06 Yeah, where you were touching on, 52:07 once saved, always saved. 52:08 I can remember years ago, people tell me, I'm fine. 52:12 They believe that they're saved in a saving relationship. 52:14 Yet they never read the Bible, they never prayed, 52:17 they never went to church. 52:18 Well, I accepted and I believe. 52:20 There's so much more, so praise God. 52:23 And you know, you talked about the burdens. 52:25 You think about 52:27 when Martin Luther came on the scene, 52:29 what a burden it was to find forgiveness of our sins 52:33 because the common practice was penance. 52:35 They might, they might tear the skin off their back. 52:37 They were maligned many times. 52:40 Many of them were crippled 52:42 going up and down steps over and over on their knees. 52:45 You know, shedding, 52:46 they were trying to find forgiveness. 52:49 What a burden to feel the heaviness. 52:51 You felt it. I'm sure all of you felt it. 52:54 When you didn't feel like your sins had been forgiven. 52:57 And you were separated from God 52:59 and that's what he anguished over was that separation. 53:03 So once he got the Bible, as you mentioned earlier, 53:06 and he began to read and find out 53:08 about the righteousness by faith, 53:11 that he could pray and be forgiven. 53:13 You know He had a hard time 53:17 understanding righteousness by faith. 53:19 I didn't realized, I was studying the book 53:21 about the Reformation, 53:23 the history of Reformation by Diarmaid. 53:26 I don't remember. Yeah, I was reading on that. 53:29 And it said a friend, see God has friends 53:32 and come to us, sometimes helps us. 53:34 A friend came to him, 53:36 and was talking about 53:37 this righteousness by faith to him, 53:39 and I thought it was interesting 53:41 what he said to him. 53:42 He said, he told him to trust in Christ. 53:45 What you would just say, 53:46 trust in Christ's righteousness. 53:48 And then he said, 53:50 and love Him that loved you first. 53:53 Amen. 53:55 I thought how interesting that is? 53:56 Wow! 53:57 Trust in Christ, and certainly in His merits, 54:01 and then love the one that loved you first. 54:04 Man, I thought, that's beautiful. 54:05 That's what we should be doing. 54:07 It's so counterculture too, because, you know, like, 54:10 our culture tells us that we must be independent. 54:14 Right. 54:15 And be, you know, especially as women, 54:16 I think even more now is like, 54:18 you know, the culture says to be independent. 54:19 And so for me for a long time, that was tough, you know, 54:23 to depend on God, just to be honest about it. 54:26 Because the culture kind of lifts that up, 54:28 and, you know, it'll makes us feel like, 54:31 oh, well, the more independent you are, 54:34 the better you are, you know, the better off you are. 54:36 And I think our culture even does that. 54:40 Just as a whole, because, you know, 54:42 if we take it all on ourselves, 54:44 then the burden gets even heavier. 54:48 And then, you know, Satan's winning, 54:50 you know, the whole time, 54:52 because we're trying to do it all on our own, 54:54 you know, on our own strength. 54:57 Right. Yeah. 54:58 You know, isn't it what we talked about while ago, 54:59 the table of showbread. 55:02 That right there, the two, you know, 55:03 talking about the showbread to understand 55:05 that we are to depend totally, 55:08 all the time upon Christ 55:10 for our physical and our spiritual food. 55:14 Two different sets of cake. 55:15 So He's taking care of us physically, 55:17 He's taking care of us spiritually. 55:19 And we need to realize that's what He wants us to. 55:22 I depend, it's nothing wrong with saying, 55:23 I'm depending on something, someone. 55:25 Right. There is nothing... 55:26 I depend upon Christ. 55:28 I depend upon Him to stand in for me. 55:30 I was just thinking about, you said about Martin Luther 55:31 and how he actually feared God with trembling. 55:35 And I think '99 is that came with that movie, Martin Luther, 55:38 and showed him like running through the, 55:40 I guess there's some kind of woods or some, 55:41 anyways lightning is crashing all around, 55:43 it's hitting him real closely. 55:44 I'm sorry, I'm sorry. 55:45 He thought the Lord's gonna strike him dead, he thought, 55:47 that's how much fear he had about the Lord. 55:48 Yeah, and that's kind of goes back 55:50 to the what we feel about the character of God. 55:53 What is... 55:54 How would we describe God to someone, 55:56 and that's really what we're doing is trying to bring, 55:59 you know, God's character in its right place 56:01 and to show people what His character really is. 56:05 Amen. Praise God. 56:06 And He wants to recreate His mind into our mind. 56:11 You know, but He will never force 56:13 any of these things 56:14 that we are talking about upon us. 56:16 It is our choice. 56:18 It is your choice. 56:20 Those of you who are listening at home, 56:22 it is your choice to get on your knees, 56:24 it is your choice to pray, it is your choice to study. 56:28 And as you mentioned, 56:29 we need to do it now while we had the light is here, 56:32 we need to keep this station on more often. 56:36 I love it because, you know, 56:38 even if you don't have the station, 56:40 you can get it through the internet. 56:43 And a lot of times, I'm in another room 56:45 and I've got this little, I don't know, 56:46 it's a little monitor that I can. 56:48 It's like an Android system 56:49 and I can hook up if I want music. 56:52 I've got several stations of music, you know, 56:54 if I want preaching, 56:56 I've got several stations of preaching, 56:58 all because of what God has done 57:00 through this movement as it were 57:03 to help bring about the restitution 57:06 here in the last days. 57:07 Because we're talking about righteous by faith. 57:09 Is that not the third angels' message 57:12 in verity we're told. 57:14 You know, it's a very important part 57:16 of the movement arising by faith. 57:17 We need to be getting them out to the world 57:19 and by the grace of God has been a blessing to you. 57:21 It has been. 57:23 We so enjoyed this time together 57:24 studying the Word of God and we sure enjoyed 57:25 spending this time with you. 57:27 Until next time, God bless you. 57:28 We'll see you then. |
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