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 just a
great big welcome.
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We're glad you joined
us 3ABN Family Worship.
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This is a time
to get the family,
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get everybody,
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you know, get around
you say your family altar,
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get your Bible, pencil and paper
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and be able to take some notes
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and be able to study
the Word of God together.
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This is quite a delight.
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It's quite a joy,
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to be able to
come into your home.
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We love to do you,
you are friends, you are,
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you are our neighbors,
you're part of family of God.
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And so we're so glad that
you decided to take this time
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to study with us today.
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We're going to be doing,
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this is actually
a third part of it.
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I'm going to call it a series,
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is that okay to call it a series
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that we've been doing?
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We actually meant
for it to be one part.
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But, boy, I tell you,
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the Holy Spirit
was giving information
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to those who were here.
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And it was just a real blessing.
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We're going to be talking
about primitive godliness.
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Now remember, just those words,
don't let them frighten you,
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primitive godliness.
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What does it mean?
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We're going to give
just a little backdrop
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in just a few moments here
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after we introduce
everyone that's here,
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and that will
bring you up-to-date.
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We're going to be starting
on question number three.
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And so I'm going to
just introduce our guest,
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and then we're
going to have prayer
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and then we're going to get
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right into the
study of God's Word.
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And I know you will be
blessed if you've been coming.
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You've been seeking,
you shall be blessed.
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To my right, sweetie,
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it's always good to
have you with, always.
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It's good to be here.
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I don't know if you
told them who you were.
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Somebody might not know,
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they may be tuning
in for the first time.
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Yeah. Pastor Kenny Shelton.
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Thank you, honey, that's right.
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And I'm Chris
Shelton. Yes, thank you, honey.
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All right, very good.
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Anyway, we're glad you're here.
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And you're always a
help and a blessing.
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And it's good to be able to,
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be able to study the
Word of God together.
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It is always. Yes.
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And to my right
is Brother Don Owen.
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Don Owen works up
in pastoral, I believe.
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I know, sometimes I see
you on the floor out here.
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So, yeah.
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Yeah, I'm kind of have
to pass different positions.
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Wherever you're
needed, I'm sure.
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But I know that you,
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as you mentioned
about someone else
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a little while ago,
you're a man of the Word.
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You love the Word of God
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and you write it in
your heart and your mind,
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and it's always good to
have you on the program.
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I'm very blessed, you know,
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how God can use
such simple instruments
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to reach people,
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and I'm very thankful to God.
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To my right is general
manager of 3ABN Latino.
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We have Pastor John Dinzey,
it's good to have you on here.
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And I guess you
were on last series,
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weren't your last time?
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Yes, it's a blessing to be here.
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I remember the last
part we were together.
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Yes.
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It's been a blessing.
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It really is how the Lord leads
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as we look at
the different points
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that are outlined.
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Yes.
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And revival of
primitive godliness
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is desperately needed.
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Amen. Yes, I agree too.
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We always open with prayer.
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I mean, how can we
understand the Word of God
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unless we invite the
Holy Spirit to be with us?
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So, Pastor John, how about you?
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Would you open
with prayer please?
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Sure.
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Our loving Heavenly Father,
we want to thank You, Lord.
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We thank You
because we have the honor,
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the privilege
to call You Father.
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And we come before
Your throne of grace
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in the name of our
Savior, Jesus Christ.
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We pray that You will be with us
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as we study together.
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We pray that You
will guide this study
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in such a way
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that our hearts
will burn within us.
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And also, with all those, Lord,
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that join us in
the different means
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that they can join
us through the internet,
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and television
channels, cable companies,
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satellite dishes,
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we pray that You
will reach the world
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with this message that is needed
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of primitive godliness.
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We ask for your
blessing upon all
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and we ask for these things
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in the name of our Lord
and Savior, Jesus Christ.
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Amen. Amen.
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Praise the Lord.
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You know, we've invited
the Holy Spirit to come in,
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to take control of our hearts
and our minds and our thoughts,
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you know, so
that we can, you know,
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bring these beautiful
truths back to God's people,
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because I think
as we discussed this,
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we're going to find out that
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lot of the beautiful
truths that God has given,
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we've kind of laid them aside.
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And God's wanting us
to get back to the way
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that He set it up.
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So if you don't
mind, we'll just go over.
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Some of you be the first time
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that you've
joined us on this study,
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and we'll take just minute
and a half just to go over
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and just kind of set the
stage for the program for today.
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And then we'll get right
into question number three.
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Primitive godliness,
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that's a word that
maybe not too many people,
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I've heard of churches,
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you know,
primitive this or that.
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And they're talking about
going back to maybe again,
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a beginning relating to
or denoting or notice this,
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preserving the character,
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notice, of an early stage
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in the historical
development of something.
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So that's what
we're doing going back,
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it's looking at its
relating to or denoting what,
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you know, something
that we're doing it from,
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you know, the beginning,
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we're going to go back the
way that God has set it up.
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And sometime we get away,
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we've been
getting away from that.
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So we go back to Scripture,
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we see how God
set up the church,
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a New Testament Church.
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We've done that on
questions, I think one and two.
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And, in fact, in New Testament,
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it was the purest
form in the church.
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And so I don't think
that any of us can go wrong
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if we go back to the
way that God set it up,
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and see how it was
pure and right and clean.
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But you know, I read something
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the other day
was very interesting.
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It was just in the, you know,
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you talked about
the first century
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that was the church was
set up, everything's cool.
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But in the first
century, before it was over,
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apostasy had already
come in to the church.
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The enemy wasted no time...
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Wow, yes.
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To cover up
these beautiful truths
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that had transformed the world.
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Lives were changed,
people were being baptized,
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the Holy Ghost
was being poured out.
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The devil just said, "Uh-ah,"
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today we're
seeing the same thing.
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He's saying,
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"Uh-ah, don't want this gospel.
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I don't want this
message to go to all the world."
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So I read at one time
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in 1 Selected
Messages 121, it said,
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"A revival of
primitive godliness
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is our greatest need."
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Yes. So what?
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A revival of primitive godliness
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is our greatest need.
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That tells me that maybe
I'm not trying to be judgmental
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or condemned.
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But maybe we've lost
it just a little bit.
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To me, a revival
means we have to go back,
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that means maybe
we've lost something.
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And so that's
going to be in our study.
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What are the
fruits of godliness?
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You think about
that? Wrote it down.
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What are the
fruits of godliness?
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Or how can we know
that we have fruit?
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That was a part of our questions
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that we went on.
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1 Testimonies 405 says,
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notice this, right, very simple,
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"Right actions
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are no unmistakable
fruits of godliness."
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Think about it.
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There's going to be
more than talk here.
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There's more than
I am or profession,
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there's going to be, you know,
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people ask this question
all the time, how do I know?
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How to know if the
Holy Spirit lives in me?
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Right actions, right choices.
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Now, to every,
everything has a place we know
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and the enemy,
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he comes in, he said his places,
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I'm going to stop this.
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I'm going to try to destroy,
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you know, naturally
of getting the gospel
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preached into all the world.
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No, he said,
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"I'm not going to have it.
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I'm going to cause a
little bit of a problem."
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What was his plan?
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We're going to look at the
plan and go to question three.
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The enemy has a plan.
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So we need to unmask
it as we continue on.
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Great Controversy 4:64,
in introducing a counterfeit.
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Was it devil's plan always,
introducing a counterfeit?
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And the way I've looked
at it, and over the years,
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the counterfeit
comes before what?
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A genuine or true, doesn't it?
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Because it fools
people then, notice it,
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he will appear, notice it,
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God's special
blessings are poured out
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under religious guys.
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Satan will seek, notice,
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to extend him in his influence
over the Christian world.
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So he's doing
what he's always done.
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He's in a disguise.
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He's going to try to
influence the world as it were,
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he's going to
introduce a counterfeit.
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Many, we're talking
of Christians today.
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And this is kind of hard subject
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to discuss and to go through
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because, you
know, everybody said,
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"We're right.
We've got the truth,
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we've got the message,
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you know, so we feel
no need of a change."
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But we know that he's
introduced a counterfeit.
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Many people are looking at
the counterfeit and saying,
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"This is the real."
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So we have to
discuss I believe here today
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of how do we know
if it's real or not?
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What is the real,
what is the counterfeit
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since he says
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he's going to throw
the counterfeit out at us.
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And so the
influence, notice this,
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it says he
influences the whole world.
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Man, that's heavy duty
as far as I'm concerned.
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Let's go to question three,
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so that gives us
a little background
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of what we want to
discuss and cover today.
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Honey, you have the
question number three,
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read it to us and then we'll,
we'll begin to discuss it.
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Question number three, it says,
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"The last great delusion
is soon to open before us.
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Antichrist is to perform
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his marvelous
works in our sight.
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So closely with the
counterfeit resemble the true,
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by what means
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may we not be fooled
by the devil's deception
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of marvelous
supernatural miracle."
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I think, you know, we
need to kind of set up
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what some of the delusion is
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what this
marvelous works of miracles
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and the Antichrist
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that is going to be
so close to the true
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will happen before Christ
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can come in also talk
about how can we not be fooled?
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Yes.
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You know, the Revelation
talks about he uses sorcery,
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and it's deep.
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It's very deep.
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You know, all the ramifications
that the enemy uses us
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to keep us from understanding
and accepting truth.
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He keeps our minds numb,
the numb as it were, you know.
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I think another thing
too, and you've touched on that
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just made me think about
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he really wants to
rewrite our identity.
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Yes.
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He wants to
destroy our identity.
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Ultimately, I think
that's his real goal.
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So we don't realize that
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we are sons and
daughters of God.
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So he tries to
separate us from that.
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And I think that his,
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I see that he's
like, a, an enemy of fear.
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Like he just fears
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because he knows his
time is short, right?
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He's trying to grab as
many as he can to deceive them.
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So, tell you what?
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John 10:10 says,
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"A thief comes to
steal, kill and destroy."
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And that's, that's why
he's out to take our identity,
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because if we're standing
for our Heavenly Father,
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he wants our worship,
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he wants to sit on
the side of the North,
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which is kind of a play on words
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when you're talking
about prophecy there,
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because it's going to
appear as though he does,
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you know, he's
working both sides,
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I believe the
north and the south
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when we're talking about Daniel,
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but, but he wants our worship.
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And all of this delusion,
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delusion is to get us to worship
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and to believe in him
and to be lost for eternity.
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Because he knows
the end of the book
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just the same as
we do, if not better.
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Oh, Mercy. If not better.
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Yeah, yeah.
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So it says so closely
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will the
counterfeit resemble the true,
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Pastor John.
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When we think about that,
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it's not going to be just some
little miracle here and there.
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What?
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Matthew 24:24,
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if it's
possible, what will happen?
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Even the very
elect would be deceived.
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So this is something
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we're going to have to
deal with more and more,
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isn't it right?
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In the coming of Jesus.
We know He's coming soon.
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Enemy is going to be working,
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and how we're going to
know the difference here
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because everybody
says, we've got it.
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We've got the truth, we got...
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You know, that
is very interesting.
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I was thinking about that today.
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And the time will come.
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Like you said,
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the devil is always
trying to deceive people.
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You mentioned this also.
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But the time will come
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when the deceptions
will be so incredible that,
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as you said in Matthew 24:24,
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to deceive, if
possible, the very elect.
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Now, how can it be
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that we can protect
ourselves from being deceived?
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And so the interesting thing is,
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the thought that
came to my mind is,
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you know, we're going
to have to make a decision
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whether we're going to
believe our eyes and our ears,
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instead of what the Bible says.
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Right.
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See the Holy Scriptures
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give us the light that
will help us understand
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what is truth and what is a lie.
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But you're going
to be seeing things
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and hearing things
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that you're going to say,
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"Well, this must be
of God, look at this."
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But the scriptures are the guide
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that we can trust.
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This is a safe
guideline for us, a safeguard.
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You know, when we
first put this together,
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my mind went back to
Matthew 4 to the temptation,
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you know, in the wilderness with
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where the enemy
came as an angel of light
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to deceive Jesus,
if it were possible.
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And he told Him, he said,
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"You know, if thou
will be the Son of God,
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command these
stones to be made bread."
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And one thing
that you, he mentioned,
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Pastor Kenny
mentioned in a sermon years ago,
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he probably not
only saw the Son,
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it's possible,
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he could even have
smelled the fragrance,
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you know, anything
to get Him to weaken.
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He hadn't eaten in 40 days,
you know, so can you imagine,
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especially if he
produced that smell
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to make him want to
eat and to change that?
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And how did Christ
answered all three temptations?
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All three times, It is written,
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it is written and
finally, get behind me.
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Just reminded me,
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my wife and I went to
Mackinac Island years ago,
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we got married.
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And it's interesting
because you go down the street,
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and they got
these nice little vents,
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and they pump out
taffy and fudge smells,
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you're like, ooh,
fudge, you know, oh, fudge.
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The temptations are there.
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But, you know, that's, like
you talking about that bread,
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you know, to ward
off those temptations
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and how powerful this is.
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And I was thinking when
we're talking about this idea,
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how do we discern
about, you know, Satan,
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what he's up to, Isaiah 8:20
is something really powerful.
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Tells us to the law
and to the testimony
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that he speaks not
according to his words,
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because there's
no light in them.
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So kind of gives us a
little like a marker to say,
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hey, there's
something going on here.
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So we got to
really know this Word.
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So we know what the Word
says, we can be able to test it.
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And I think this
is really important
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that we set up this foundation
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to the law and to the
testimony it is written,
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because we find,
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in fact, he was just speaking
with someone last night.
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A lot of people are
out, they church shop.
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Well, I like to
eat such and such
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so which church
will go with this,
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if I believe in that
part, and they're looking,
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rather than coming
to the Word of God,
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and taking the simplicity of it,
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and accepting it,
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and allowing it to mold
and to change our characters.
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In other words,
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we are to line up
with the Word of God,
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not make the Word
of God line up to us,
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which is what we see
happening in our world.
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You know, many, many changes,
many laws have been passed.
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And we can see even more clearly
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how those of us
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who are holding up
the standards of God
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are going to be downtrodden,
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we're going to be looked upon.
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It's not for the
common good of the people.
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You know, it's actually
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what is the
word I'm looking for?
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Hate speech. Hate speech.
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A look at it in hate speech.
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I think out in
California, if I'm not mistaken,
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I could be
mistaken. I saw a news clip.
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They were even
trying to talk about
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whether or not
they should do away
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with the Bible out there,
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because they felt
like it was hate speech,
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you know, so...
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Wow, I can see that.
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Well, maybe you, I mean,
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if we think that
giving a Bible study right now
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is kind of difficult,
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it depends on who
you're working with
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and studying with.
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Think about when there
will be miracles performed
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as it were in their favor.
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It's even going
to be more difficult.
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So therefore, we need
more Holy Spirit power,
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do we not?
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To our faith,
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at least in my mind
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is going to be
challenged in such a way.
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Pastor John was mentioning,
to deceive the very elect,
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and I'm not the
elect, the very elect,
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you know that
one with knowledge,
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that really knows
the Scripture really.
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But it's, it's that's the
way it's going to come across.
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And so everything
that we present is
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the last day message,
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the counterfeit is going
to be so strong against it,
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you're going to
look strange and odd.
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Pastor John, what
do you think about that
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when we're looking at it,
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you think is going to
become even more difficult?
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Absolutely, it will
become more and more difficult
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as time goes on,
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because the devil
becomes more and more desperate.
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So he has to,
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he has to
heighten his deception.
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He has to find ways to make
his deception so believable,
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that if you don't
accept his deceptions,
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you're going to
look like either a fool
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or like you
don't believe in truth.
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That's right.
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And that is one of
the sneaky wicked things
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to make a lie in such a way
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that if you don't
believe in this lie,
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you're not believing the truth.
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And look at history,
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how you can see history
how some people, they...
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Jesus said,
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"The time will come
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when those that kill you
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will think they're
doing God's service."
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Yes, as Paul did.
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So you're going to
have a repeating of history.
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It happened in the
time of the disciples,
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it's going to happen in the end.
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The people that
will come persecuting
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the God's people,
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they are thinking
they're doing God's service,
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because they believe
something that is not biblical,
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but they believe
this is biblical.
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So how do we know?
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We have to study the Scriptures
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but since, you know,
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the wonderful thing
about the Scripture says
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that there's...
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The doctrines
are abundantly clear,
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abundantly clear.
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Yes.
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Now, we have to admit
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that there are some things
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that appear to say something,
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but when you compare it
with the abundance of Scripture.
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That's right.
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It's clear, the
message is clear.
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And so, I'm tempted to,
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you know, maybe
that's not the right word.
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I'm considering
sharing something,
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as an example,
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but perhaps it's
not the best idea,
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because there are
people that are joining us now
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that are listening to
this, and they're going to say,
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"Oh, you're just picking on us,"
00:18:58.03\00:18:59.37
and they're going
to miss the message
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that the devil
is out to deceive.
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I mean, I could talk about
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the state of the
dead for example.
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Oh, absolutely.
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People think,
as soon as you die,
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you go to heaven.
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Or if you were
bad, you go to hell.
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But the Bible doesn't teach that
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as soon as you
die, you go to heaven.
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And as soon as you die,
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if you're
wicked, you go to hell.
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It does not teach that.
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But a lot of people
accept this because of,
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for example, there's
the parable of Lazarus.
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Yes.
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And the parable describes that
Lazarus went to Abraham's bosom
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and they'll be,
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"Ah, he's in
heaven, he is in heaven."
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So, but you cannot grab
a doctrine from a parable.
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You see, there are
abundant scriptures that say
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that when you die, you
are sleeping in the grave.
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That's right.
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That's why Jesus talks about
00:19:47.62\00:19:49.18
in John Chapter 5 that, and 6
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that He will
resurrect them at the last day
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and there's going
to be the resurrection
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of the righteous
00:19:59.13\00:20:00.46
and the
resurrection of the wicked.
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So if there's going
to be a resurrection
00:20:01.86\00:20:03.20
of the righteous and
the wicked in the end,
00:20:03.23\00:20:05.60
how can it be
that these people are,
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the good ones are dying
00:20:07.80\00:20:09.14
and they go to
heaven right away.
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See, but you're giving
least in my estimation,
00:20:10.57\00:20:14.48
what I'm thinking here,
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abundant weight of
evidence from Scripture.
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You just get real quick,
a lot of things right now
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that you just
can't throw out and say,
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well, that's not what it means.
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But most people, remember,
you said, they throw it out.
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I mean, I've sat down
and study with people,
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you give a weight of evidence,
00:20:29.39\00:20:31.09
line upon line,
precept upon precept,
00:20:31.13\00:20:33.19
here a little there a little.
00:20:33.23\00:20:34.56
And they throw it out for
one little obscure passage
00:20:34.60\00:20:37.13
somewhere that not even
talking about the issue.
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And so they won't accept it.
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Now, how do we deal with that
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because we're trying to
return to primitive godliness.
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The enemy has come in deceiving.
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We're told that we have to
give heed to seducing spirits
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and doctrines of what?
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Demons. Devils, demons.
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You see, how do
you really do that?
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There's, there's...
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I would like to
mention concerning that,
00:21:00.42\00:21:01.76
we'll come back
to it in a minute.
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Some people
accept some teachings
00:21:03.89\00:21:07.76
because they learned
it from their father.
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They learned it
from their mother,
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and their mother
learned it from their mother
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and so on and so on.
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It has come down generations
leading this particular thing.
00:21:14.70\00:21:18.97
And perhaps even
their pastor said it
00:21:19.01\00:21:21.08
and brother so and so
00:21:21.11\00:21:23.65
that is so, so
righteous, believe this.
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But if it's not scripture,
then you're in serious trouble.
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You know, that there
are a few groups out there
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that for example, say,
00:21:34.99\00:21:36.49
"It's okay to have
more than one wife."
00:21:36.52\00:21:38.76
But that's not
biblical, you see.
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So we have to
look at the scriptures,
00:21:41.10\00:21:44.23
look at the
weight of the evidence,
00:21:44.27\00:21:46.47
and then come to a
conclusion that is safe,
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because it's
based on God's Word.
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Amen.
00:21:51.11\00:21:52.44
So primitive godliness.
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Oh, yes.
00:21:53.84\00:21:55.18
And why do we need
primitive godliness
00:21:55.21\00:21:56.98
is because just like
you said, time goes on.
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And some people
water down the truth
00:22:00.42\00:22:02.52
as time goes on.
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And because of
the social conditions,
00:22:03.92\00:22:10.33
the standard for righteousness
and what is good is lowered.
00:22:10.36\00:22:15.93
Yeah, that's right.
00:22:15.96\00:22:17.30
It's lowered because of society.
00:22:17.33\00:22:19.63
And you've heard the phrase...
00:22:19.67\00:22:23.94
What is that
phrase where they say,
00:22:23.97\00:22:25.47
politically correct?
00:22:25.51\00:22:28.64
And so to be
politically correct,
00:22:28.68\00:22:30.95
some people
cross some boundaries.
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Absolutely.
00:22:32.85\00:22:34.72
And they get
into their dark area
00:22:34.75\00:22:37.95
and away from the light.
00:22:37.99\00:22:39.82
Because the
politically correct thing
00:22:39.85\00:22:41.72
is to accept this darkness,
00:22:41.76\00:22:43.56
this thing that is evil,
00:22:43.59\00:22:45.29
and instead of
what the Bible says,
00:22:45.33\00:22:46.70
Yeah, I mean, we
don't have to go too deep.
00:22:46.73\00:22:48.53
Maybe Don, you can do, kind
of, you can do talk on this,
00:22:48.56\00:22:51.43
you don't really
have to dig too deep
00:22:51.47\00:22:54.40
for some people,
00:22:54.44\00:22:55.77
because again, as
they look at Scripture,
00:22:55.80\00:22:57.77
they're going to come up
in their mind, they'll say,
00:22:57.81\00:22:59.31
this is what it says,
00:22:59.34\00:23:00.68
again, regardless of
what the Bible has to say.
00:23:00.71\00:23:05.71
To me, it's very interesting,
it either is the truth
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or it's beyond.
00:23:08.95\00:23:10.75
It's a lie of the enemy.
00:23:10.79\00:23:13.52
And it's like most
people going to church,
00:23:13.56\00:23:15.32
it doesn't really matter
if it's a lie of the enemy.
00:23:15.36\00:23:17.79
You gave an illustration,
00:23:17.83\00:23:19.23
you talk about is,
you know, a person,
00:23:19.26\00:23:22.80
maybe who was,
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you know, raised a
certain way in a different faith
00:23:24.20\00:23:26.03
and so on and so forth.
00:23:26.07\00:23:27.40
And they have
great and this is okay,
00:23:27.44\00:23:29.07
they had great
respect for their pastor then.
00:23:29.10\00:23:31.77
Later on in life,
they find out truth,
00:23:31.81\00:23:35.41
that it was their attitude
and their mind has changed
00:23:35.44\00:23:37.78
as they read the Word of God,
00:23:37.81\00:23:39.55
but they still go
back and they'll say,
00:23:39.58\00:23:42.08
"This is most godly
man that there was."
00:23:42.12\00:23:45.35
And then I
would, I'd say to them,
00:23:45.39\00:23:47.02
"Well, what did he teach you?"
00:23:47.06\00:23:48.66
And all of a sudden,
00:23:48.69\00:23:50.09
what he was teaching
was not Bible based at all.
00:23:50.13\00:23:53.86
So if he was...
00:23:53.90\00:23:55.23
That's just pretty heavy duty,
00:23:55.26\00:23:56.60
but if he wasn't
teaching Bible based,
00:23:56.63\00:23:58.23
and in truth from
God's Word, he was teaching,
00:23:58.27\00:24:01.07
he may not know it,
00:24:01.10\00:24:02.44
he may be all
right in God's sight.
00:24:02.47\00:24:04.17
But quiet, he still
taught a lie of the enemy.
00:24:04.21\00:24:07.61
So we're dealing with
truth and a lie of the enemy.
00:24:07.64\00:24:11.31
So it seems like
most of us and I still,
00:24:11.35\00:24:13.92
I'm interested in
finding out what, what is truth.
00:24:13.95\00:24:17.49
You know, it's...
00:24:17.52\00:24:19.02
I've heard people say that.
00:24:19.05\00:24:21.12
I've heard people say,
good people, wonderful people,
00:24:21.16\00:24:24.89
like you said, they
wouldn't hurt anyone.
00:24:24.93\00:24:27.86
They're living their lives
00:24:27.90\00:24:29.43
according to
what they understand.
00:24:29.46\00:24:32.43
And when they learn
new truth, they said,
00:24:32.47\00:24:35.84
all this time I
thought it was this way.
00:24:35.87\00:24:39.47
But now, finally, I
learned that it's this way.
00:24:39.51\00:24:42.18
I've heard about this
in Guatemala, for example,
00:24:42.21\00:24:45.48
on a trip.
00:24:45.51\00:24:46.85
Oh, did you know
00:24:46.88\00:24:48.22
there's this pastor of
this large denomination
00:24:48.25\00:24:50.55
and huge, and he recently,
00:24:50.59\00:24:55.09
for example, I'm going to say
00:24:55.12\00:24:56.46
recently accepted
the Sabbath, he says,
00:24:56.49\00:24:58.33
"I cannot
believe I didn't see this
00:24:58.36\00:25:00.43
in all my years of
studying the Bible."
00:25:00.46\00:25:03.40
Well, how did he miss it?
00:25:03.43\00:25:04.77
I don't know.
00:25:04.80\00:25:06.13
But for him, he said,
00:25:06.17\00:25:07.80
"This is marvelous.
00:25:07.84\00:25:09.17
I didn't
understand this before."
00:25:09.20\00:25:10.64
So how does that happen?
00:25:10.67\00:25:12.01
We don't know. But it happens.
00:25:12.04\00:25:13.61
And what, the good news is
that they are seeing the light.
00:25:13.64\00:25:17.45
The wonderful thing is
that we have the promise
00:25:17.48\00:25:19.15
that the Holy Spirit
will guide us in His truth.
00:25:19.18\00:25:21.15
One wonderful thing we can do is
00:25:21.18\00:25:23.28
ask for the Lord to
bless us with the Holy Spirit.
00:25:23.32\00:25:26.25
Lord, bless us.
Guide me into all truth.
00:25:26.29\00:25:28.59
That's a prayer we can all pray.
00:25:28.62\00:25:29.96
That's right. Lord,
guide me into all truth.
00:25:29.99\00:25:31.93
That's a safe prayer.
00:25:31.96\00:25:33.29
Lord, please
guide me into all truth.
00:25:33.33\00:25:35.16
If I... Please.
00:25:35.20\00:25:36.70
We have to mean
it. Yes, absolutely.
00:25:36.73\00:25:38.87
But we have to mean
it because like I say,
00:25:38.90\00:25:40.54
we've talked to so
many different people
00:25:40.57\00:25:42.10
who say that
nothing more I want in life
00:25:42.14\00:25:44.04
than make it to heaven,
00:25:44.07\00:25:45.41
but they will not they say
right at that point in time,
00:25:45.44\00:25:48.44
follow what God has said.
00:25:48.48\00:25:50.31
He said, for
instance, so simple,
00:25:50.35\00:25:51.75
"If you love Me,
keep My commandments."
00:25:51.78\00:25:53.21
And they'll say, "Well,
you don't have to keep them."
00:25:53.25\00:25:55.38
But there's
nothing more I want to do.
00:25:55.42\00:25:56.92
I have a personal
relationship with Jesus Christ,
00:25:56.95\00:25:58.89
I know, I'm going
to make it to heaven.
00:25:58.92\00:26:00.76
But then the actions,
00:26:00.79\00:26:03.22
you know, again,
00:26:03.26\00:26:04.59
we're not trying to
change or criticize that,
00:26:04.63\00:26:05.96
we're simply saying,
the enemy is at work.
00:26:05.99\00:26:08.76
And remember, I
found something here,
00:26:08.80\00:26:10.57
and then you, and
somebody else can comment.
00:26:10.60\00:26:12.23
Review and Herald 8-25-1885,
00:26:12.27\00:26:14.70
Satan gives his power
to those who are aiding him
00:26:14.74\00:26:17.94
in his deceptions.
00:26:17.97\00:26:19.34
Satan does
what? Gives his power.
00:26:19.37\00:26:20.74
Gives his power to
those who are aiding him
00:26:20.78\00:26:23.45
in his deceptions.
00:26:23.48\00:26:24.85
Those who claim to
have a great power of God
00:26:24.88\00:26:28.58
can only be
discerned by, notice this,
00:26:28.62\00:26:31.62
by the great detector
of the law of Jehovah.
00:26:31.65\00:26:35.46
Just what you said to
the law and the testimony,
00:26:35.49\00:26:37.63
somebody will say,
this is what and you'll say,
00:26:37.66\00:26:39.46
to the law and to the testimony,
00:26:39.49\00:26:40.83
they just say,
00:26:40.86\00:26:42.20
"Well, no." And then they go on.
00:26:42.23\00:26:43.87
I mean, to me a
searcher of truth.
00:26:43.90\00:26:45.60
And I'm not trying to be ugly,
00:26:45.63\00:26:46.97
but searcher of
truth is going to say,
00:26:47.00\00:26:48.34
I've got to consider that.
00:26:48.37\00:26:49.70
I've got to consider that
00:26:49.74\00:26:51.21
and what do you
think about it, honey?
00:26:51.24\00:26:53.17
Should we consider
the law and the testimony
00:26:53.21\00:26:55.68
because that's
what the Bible said,
00:26:55.71\00:26:57.21
to compare
everything to so that we know?
00:26:57.25\00:27:00.68
Try the spirits with this?
00:27:00.72\00:27:02.15
Absolutely. Absolutely.
00:27:02.18\00:27:03.85
In fact, I looked up
00:27:03.89\00:27:05.22
if I don't know if I
can find it real quick.
00:27:05.25\00:27:06.76
I have too many notes
that I've put in here today,
00:27:06.79\00:27:09.39
I can't even find
something that I'm looking for.
00:27:09.42\00:27:10.99
Because I know,
00:27:11.03\00:27:12.36
the Spirit of
Prophecy tells us that
00:27:12.39\00:27:13.93
there will be a great
return to primitive godliness
00:27:13.96\00:27:17.83
before Christ comes.
00:27:17.87\00:27:19.73
And so we look back into Acts,
00:27:19.77\00:27:21.27
we find out how we go back
00:27:21.30\00:27:22.87
and look how that
first church was set up
00:27:22.90\00:27:25.04
and how the attributes
of that first church was
00:27:25.07\00:27:27.61
when it was in its pure form.
00:27:27.64\00:27:29.41
You know, even in
our time, we can see it.
00:27:29.44\00:27:32.11
Now, Don, you're
a little younger.
00:27:32.15\00:27:33.48
I don't know how much younger,
00:27:33.52\00:27:34.85
but we can see great
changes in the churches.
00:27:34.88\00:27:38.12
You know, back
when I was in my teens,
00:27:38.15\00:27:41.29
I came down and started
living with my grandparents.
00:27:41.32\00:27:44.09
They started
taking me to church,
00:27:44.13\00:27:45.99
you know, but I
was still coming,
00:27:46.03\00:27:47.43
my mom had left the church
and she used to work in...
00:27:47.46\00:27:50.73
She had restaurants
00:27:50.77\00:27:52.10
and every restaurant was
always that there was a door
00:27:52.13\00:27:53.94
in between that and a tavern.
00:27:53.97\00:27:55.44
And she would
sing, she was a singer,
00:27:55.47\00:27:57.37
so she sang country music
00:27:57.41\00:27:58.97
and back they asked
her to be on Hee Haw.
00:27:59.01\00:28:00.98
But that was right
at her transition time.
00:28:01.01\00:28:03.91
We are, they wanted
her to be on Hee Haw,
00:28:03.95\00:28:05.78
but she was just transitioning
over to be a Christian,
00:28:05.81\00:28:08.75
so she turned that down.
00:28:08.78\00:28:10.55
However, I grew up
in the taverns you know,
00:28:10.59\00:28:13.42
as a little girl, and I
was dancing to this music
00:28:13.46\00:28:16.39
and all of that, da-da.
00:28:16.42\00:28:17.76
So I come and live
with my grandparents.
00:28:17.79\00:28:19.29
And by the time
I'm in high school,
00:28:19.33\00:28:20.76
you know, we had Teen Town,
00:28:20.80\00:28:22.13
you guys remember
Teen Town probably?
00:28:22.16\00:28:24.17
Maybe not John.
00:28:24.20\00:28:25.53
You may not have been here.
00:28:25.57\00:28:26.90
So I didn't go a
whole lot, but I did.
00:28:26.94\00:28:28.94
But they always
had like this music
00:28:28.97\00:28:30.77
and I'd want to dance.
00:28:30.81\00:28:32.41
Well then,
finally this pastor came
00:28:32.44\00:28:34.94
and he started trying to
explain to me about dancing.
00:28:34.98\00:28:38.48
You know, and I
just couldn't get it.
00:28:38.51\00:28:41.42
And dancing was fun.
00:28:41.45\00:28:43.22
You know, it
wasn't ballroom dancing.
00:28:43.25\00:28:44.95
It wasn't a hokey
pokey or anything like that.
00:28:44.99\00:28:47.02
But you know,
to me at that time,
00:28:47.06\00:28:49.32
I wasn't thinking too much.
00:28:49.36\00:28:50.69
And it just, it seemed like fun.
00:28:50.73\00:28:52.63
What he did was he
took some literature
00:28:52.66\00:28:55.60
from another
church to give to me,
00:28:55.63\00:28:59.17
and I read it,
and it made sense.
00:28:59.20\00:29:02.07
But you see, my
point is, back in the day,
00:29:02.10\00:29:04.97
all of these
Protestant churches,
00:29:05.01\00:29:07.78
there wasn't dancing,
00:29:07.81\00:29:09.14
there wasn't the
alcohol, there, you know,
00:29:09.18\00:29:11.05
they would all
separate from the worldly music,
00:29:11.08\00:29:14.28
the worldly
this, the worldly that
00:29:14.32\00:29:16.25
and they were, you know,
on the outside looking in,
00:29:16.28\00:29:20.06
it appeared more godly
00:29:20.09\00:29:21.66
as we would gather
from reading the Scripture.
00:29:21.69\00:29:24.39
But now, most of the time
you can no matter where you go,
00:29:24.43\00:29:28.46
you can't tell who's a Christian
00:29:28.50\00:29:29.90
and who's not a Christian.
00:29:29.93\00:29:31.63
You know, the
dress doesn't tell it.
00:29:31.67\00:29:33.70
You know, that...
00:29:33.74\00:29:35.77
What they take into their bodies
00:29:35.80\00:29:37.44
doesn't show it.
00:29:37.47\00:29:38.81
They believe it's
okay to go to the bar.
00:29:38.84\00:29:41.01
It's okay to
drink. It's okay to party.
00:29:41.04\00:29:43.35
It's okay to go out dancing
as long as you go on Sunday.
00:29:43.38\00:29:46.55
You know, may be
some Sabbath people too,
00:29:46.58\00:29:49.58
I don't know.
00:29:49.62\00:29:50.95
But you see what I'm saying?
00:29:50.99\00:29:52.32
It has changed.
00:29:52.35\00:29:53.69
And so God is calling us back.
00:29:53.72\00:29:55.89
He's calling us back, He said.
00:29:55.92\00:29:57.63
In fact, when we look at
a lot of these calamities
00:29:57.66\00:30:00.50
that are taking
place in our world.
00:30:00.53\00:30:01.93
Why does Jesus
say it's happening?
00:30:01.96\00:30:03.97
Because we are not living up
to the law and the testimony.
00:30:04.00\00:30:07.14
We have transgressed His law,
we have stepped all over it,
00:30:07.17\00:30:10.64
we have just
thought it didn't matter
00:30:10.67\00:30:12.14
anything to anybody.
00:30:12.17\00:30:14.24
Right.
00:30:14.28\00:30:15.61
And so, He's giving
us what we're asking for.
00:30:15.64\00:30:18.68
But as a child of God,
00:30:18.71\00:30:20.18
we need to come back in
line with the Word of God.
00:30:20.22\00:30:23.52
And if that means
primitive godliness,
00:30:23.55\00:30:25.55
then praise God,
00:30:25.59\00:30:27.26
allow Him to come into
your heart, in your mind,
00:30:27.29\00:30:30.03
and to change each
and every one of us
00:30:30.06\00:30:32.23
as we study that Word,
00:30:32.26\00:30:34.26
and we're to line
up with that Word.
00:30:34.30\00:30:36.40
You know, we're not,
00:30:36.43\00:30:38.10
we're not dealing with
someone that doesn't know
00:30:38.13\00:30:42.34
what a heavenly
atmosphere is like.
00:30:42.37\00:30:45.84
You go back to
Ezekiel, isn't it?
00:30:45.87\00:30:48.54
Ezekiel, there's
28:12, it says, you know,
00:30:48.58\00:30:54.28
full of wisdom and
perfect and beauty.
00:30:54.32\00:30:56.52
Fourteen,
00:30:56.55\00:30:57.89
"Thou art the
anointed cherub that covereth."
00:30:57.92\00:31:00.49
What was he covering?
00:31:00.52\00:31:02.69
What was he covering?
00:31:02.72\00:31:04.39
The law.
00:31:04.43\00:31:05.76
The Ten Commandment law.
00:31:05.79\00:31:07.93
He was covering the law of God.
00:31:07.96\00:31:10.77
"I have set thee so:
00:31:10.80\00:31:12.53
thou wast upon the
holy mountain of God,
00:31:12.57\00:31:14.87
thou hast walked up and down
00:31:14.90\00:31:16.24
in the midst of
the stones of fire.
00:31:16.27\00:31:18.67
Thou was perfect
in all thy ways,"
00:31:18.71\00:31:21.01
this is verse 15,
00:31:21.04\00:31:22.74
"that thou was created,
00:31:22.78\00:31:25.18
till iniquity
was found in thee."
00:31:25.21\00:31:27.32
Verse 17,
00:31:27.35\00:31:28.68
"Thine heart was lifted
up because of thy beauty,
00:31:28.72\00:31:32.29
thou hast corrupted thy
wisdom by reason of brightness:
00:31:32.32\00:31:36.09
I will cast thee to the ground,
I will lay thee before kings,
00:31:36.12\00:31:39.63
that they may behold thee."
00:31:39.66\00:31:41.36
Now the reason I read
that is because he knows how,
00:31:41.40\00:31:46.80
you know, when he
couldn't kill the Christians,
00:31:46.84\00:31:48.77
he joined the movement.
00:31:48.80\00:31:50.71
He came into the churches,
00:31:50.74\00:31:52.91
and he knows how to
present a holy atmosphere.
00:31:52.94\00:31:56.58
He knows how to make
you feel a certain way,
00:31:56.61\00:32:00.55
you know, as long
as you're not living up
00:32:00.58\00:32:02.32
to all the light that you know,
00:32:02.35\00:32:05.35
he's happy.
00:32:05.39\00:32:06.72
Now I'm thinking
when you're saying that
00:32:06.76\00:32:08.09
you're painting a
picture of me of a...
00:32:08.12\00:32:09.52
I don't want to be weird,
00:32:09.56\00:32:10.89
but a mom kind of
doing this with their baby
00:32:10.93\00:32:12.39
rocking it to sleep.
00:32:12.43\00:32:14.00
You know, Satan
wants to rock us to sleep.
00:32:14.03\00:32:16.53
Yes. That's what he wants to do.
00:32:16.56\00:32:18.07
He wants to put us to sleep.
00:32:18.10\00:32:19.43
And I think that's interesting,
when you're talking about
00:32:19.47\00:32:21.64
his ideas,
complacency is set in.
00:32:21.67\00:32:24.07
And when we look at this culture
00:32:24.11\00:32:25.44
really plays a
dynamic in this complacency
00:32:25.47\00:32:28.71
to where we get
so disassociated,
00:32:28.74\00:32:30.95
like you talk about Israel,
00:32:30.98\00:32:32.31
you know, in a day they
were slaves under Egypt,
00:32:32.35\00:32:34.95
you know, they got
so heavily oppressed,
00:32:34.98\00:32:36.58
that they lost the sight of God.
00:32:36.62\00:32:38.49
And then so God had to literally
00:32:38.52\00:32:39.85
get them out of Egypt.
00:32:39.89\00:32:41.56
And still in them was Egypt,
00:32:41.59\00:32:44.56
you know, it was
still planted in there
00:32:44.59\00:32:45.93
where they made a golden
calf in the wilderness there.
00:32:45.96\00:32:48.23
They made a golden calf,
00:32:48.26\00:32:49.60
so there something was embedded,
00:32:49.63\00:32:50.97
it's this culture it
just kind of seeps in us.
00:32:51.00\00:32:53.40
And we get kind of like
intoxicated by this culture.
00:32:53.44\00:32:55.97
And so we got to
really learn the Word of God.
00:32:56.00\00:32:58.24
I had a young lady
00:32:58.27\00:32:59.61
that I spoke to
on our prayer line
00:32:59.64\00:33:01.24
a few days ago,
00:33:01.28\00:33:02.61
and she was telling me that
00:33:02.64\00:33:03.98
she had went down this
path of getting into Reiki
00:33:04.01\00:33:06.48
and into a New Age,
00:33:06.51\00:33:07.95
and she actually
traveled in demonic like realms,
00:33:07.98\00:33:11.19
and she's seeing things
that she shouldn't have saw
00:33:11.22\00:33:13.79
and she, she asked me
the question, she says,
00:33:13.82\00:33:16.06
"Don, I think
I'm the Antichrist.
00:33:16.09\00:33:18.06
Interesting.
00:33:18.09\00:33:19.43
I, you know,
and this is how easy
00:33:19.46\00:33:21.76
the enemy can really
trip us up and fool us,
00:33:21.80\00:33:24.50
you know, we get
down that path so far.
00:33:24.53\00:33:25.87
She said,
00:33:25.90\00:33:27.24
"I don't, I never really
had relationship with Jesus."
00:33:27.27\00:33:28.60
And so I told her, I said,
00:33:28.64\00:33:29.97
"You know, and
the Bible tells us
00:33:30.01\00:33:31.51
that this Antichrist
is a number of a man."
00:33:31.54\00:33:34.21
I said, "666
it's a number of man."
00:33:34.24\00:33:35.98
So that
automatically disqualifies you
00:33:36.01\00:33:37.91
because you're a woman.
00:33:37.95\00:33:39.28
And I said, you know,
actually, if you study this out,
00:33:39.31\00:33:41.18
which I did a little
study with her quickly,
00:33:41.22\00:33:42.55
but and, you know,
00:33:42.58\00:33:43.92
in Revelation we
talked about in 13,
00:33:43.95\00:33:46.12
you know, the beast and stuff.
00:33:46.15\00:33:47.92
And in there, it's
actually it's a religious
00:33:47.96\00:33:50.13
or it's a
religious political system.
00:33:50.16\00:33:52.49
So and that's what it is.
00:33:52.53\00:33:53.96
And she thought, "Oh, I
thought I was the Antichrist"
00:33:54.00\00:33:55.33
I said, "No,
you're not the Antichrist.
00:33:55.36\00:33:57.40
You're okay."
00:33:57.43\00:33:58.77
And so we went
through a little Bible study
00:33:58.80\00:34:00.14
and you know, these people
don't realize these truths,
00:34:00.17\00:34:02.00
and they're like,
00:34:02.04\00:34:03.41
why are they so suppressed
00:34:03.44\00:34:04.77
is because the
enemy is fearful that,
00:34:04.81\00:34:07.48
you know, when these
people learn this truth,
00:34:07.51\00:34:09.18
he's lost
people, he's lost them.
00:34:09.21\00:34:11.31
Had another gentleman
just not too long ago,
00:34:11.35\00:34:13.62
he wanted to commit
suicide on the phone with me
00:34:13.65\00:34:15.98
and literally said to me
00:34:16.02\00:34:17.35
after calling him
another day, later,
00:34:17.39\00:34:18.72
he had a knife to his throat
was getting to kill himself.
00:34:18.75\00:34:21.22
He was so heavily oppressed
00:34:21.26\00:34:22.59
by everything that's
happening around him.
00:34:22.62\00:34:24.03
He's watching the
news and the media
00:34:24.06\00:34:25.56
and I'm like,
well, first of all,
00:34:25.59\00:34:26.93
you got to cut the media.
00:34:26.96\00:34:28.30
If you're not mentally stable,
00:34:28.33\00:34:29.66
you're really, I mean,
00:34:29.70\00:34:31.03
that music is going
to twist you so bad.
00:34:31.07\00:34:32.40
You got to be careful that
00:34:32.43\00:34:33.77
so you know and
then praying with him
00:34:33.80\00:34:35.14
and just
something actually shift him
00:34:35.17\00:34:37.37
and just changed his life.
00:34:37.41\00:34:38.74
God's word cut
right through all,
00:34:38.77\00:34:40.78
I mean, he's literally
crying and sobbing and yelling
00:34:40.81\00:34:43.58
and not cursing
00:34:43.61\00:34:44.95
but you know,
might as well then,
00:34:44.98\00:34:46.31
and it cut through and he said
00:34:46.35\00:34:47.68
at the end of the last
time I talked to him, he said,
00:34:47.72\00:34:49.05
"Donald, I have hope.
00:34:49.08\00:34:51.09
Now, you restored
my hope, I have peace.
00:34:51.12\00:34:53.59
And I know God is on my side."
00:34:53.62\00:34:56.12
And I talked him the next day
00:34:56.16\00:34:57.49
or a couple days later, he said,
00:34:57.53\00:34:58.86
"You know what, you
don't realize this, Don,
00:34:58.89\00:35:00.23
but I have a
thick knife to my neck.
00:35:00.26\00:35:01.86
I was literally
going to kill myself."
00:35:01.90\00:35:03.83
And this is where
Satan will push you to.
00:35:03.87\00:35:05.97
This counterfeit, you know,
00:35:06.00\00:35:07.34
and it looks so
good and so tempting.
00:35:07.37\00:35:08.94
It's so pleasant,
but he wants to destroy.
00:35:08.97\00:35:12.47
Well, in our question it says,
00:35:12.51\00:35:14.51
the Antichrist is to
perform his marvelous works
00:35:14.54\00:35:17.28
in our sight so closely,
00:35:17.31\00:35:20.25
will the
counterfeit resemble the true?
00:35:20.28\00:35:22.88
Now my mind goes
to the great deception
00:35:22.92\00:35:25.75
right before Christ comes.
00:35:25.79\00:35:28.22
Do you know what
I'm talking about?
00:35:28.26\00:35:29.59
Yeah. What?
00:35:29.62\00:35:30.96
The enemy appears as Christ.
00:35:30.99\00:35:32.56
The enemy is going to appear.
00:35:32.59\00:35:34.70
He can transfer...
00:35:34.73\00:35:36.06
The Bible tells us
00:35:36.10\00:35:37.43
he can transfer
into an angel of light.
00:35:37.47\00:35:39.23
He did I believe
00:35:39.27\00:35:40.60
when he met
Christ in the wilderness.
00:35:40.64\00:35:42.74
And that is going
to be an overwhelming.
00:35:42.77\00:35:47.14
In fact, Great Controversy,
page 624 reads this.
00:35:47.18\00:35:52.51
"As the crowning act
00:35:52.55\00:35:54.25
in the great drama of deception,
00:35:54.28\00:35:56.38
Satan himself
will personate Christ.
00:35:56.42\00:35:59.75
The church has long professed
to look to the Savior's advent
00:35:59.79\00:36:03.86
as the
consummation of her hopes.
00:36:03.89\00:36:06.26
Now the great
deceiver will make it appear
00:36:06.29\00:36:10.30
that Christ has come."
00:36:10.33\00:36:11.73
Can you imagine with
people being so confused
00:36:11.77\00:36:15.80
about religion, about
what the Bible teaches.
00:36:15.84\00:36:19.27
This is going to be something
00:36:19.31\00:36:20.78
that's either
going to turn them away,
00:36:20.81\00:36:23.18
or it's going to
sit them even deeper,
00:36:23.21\00:36:25.71
where it's harder to reach them.
00:36:25.75\00:36:27.95
"In different
parts of the earth,
00:36:27.98\00:36:29.48
" listen to this
because we know at the coming,
00:36:29.52\00:36:32.15
the Bible says all
eye shall see Him, right?
00:36:32.19\00:36:34.76
She says,
00:36:34.79\00:36:36.12
"In different
parts of the earth,
00:36:36.16\00:36:37.49
Satan will
manifest himself among men,
00:36:37.53\00:36:40.06
as a majestic being
of dazzling brightness,
00:36:40.10\00:36:43.23
resembling the
description of the Son of God
00:36:43.26\00:36:46.74
given by John the
Revelator in Revelation 1:13-15.
00:36:46.77\00:36:51.07
The glory that surrounds
him is unsurpassed by anything
00:36:51.11\00:36:56.14
that mortal
minds have yet beheld.
00:36:56.18\00:36:59.55
The shout of
triumph rings in the air:
00:36:59.58\00:37:02.12
'Christ has
come! Christ has come!'
00:37:02.15\00:37:04.65
The people prostrate themselves
in adoration before Him,
00:37:04.69\00:37:07.89
while He lifts up His hands
00:37:07.92\00:37:09.26
and pronounces a
blessing upon them,
00:37:09.29\00:37:11.56
as Christ blessed the disciples
when He was upon the earth.
00:37:11.59\00:37:14.90
His voice is soft and
subdued, yet full of melody."
00:37:14.93\00:37:19.37
He knows what
Christ sounds like.
00:37:19.40\00:37:21.97
He knows what Christ
sounded like before the fall.
00:37:22.00\00:37:24.77
He was in
heaven before the fall.
00:37:24.81\00:37:27.58
In gentle, compassionate tones,
00:37:27.61\00:37:30.05
he presents some of
the great same gracious,
00:37:30.08\00:37:33.08
heavenly truths,
which the Savior uttered,
00:37:33.11\00:37:36.12
he heals the diseases of people.
00:37:36.15\00:37:38.69
This is a strong,
00:37:38.72\00:37:40.72
almost overmastering delusion.
00:37:40.76\00:37:45.69
So it's ramping up.
00:37:45.73\00:37:48.23
It's not going to get easier.
00:37:48.26\00:37:51.87
It's ramping up. We
don't give him credit.
00:37:51.90\00:37:53.84
He knows things we
don't know. Yes, he does.
00:37:53.87\00:37:55.94
Like said he was in the presence
00:37:55.97\00:37:57.31
she brought out here.
00:37:57.34\00:37:58.67
He was in the
presence of God Almighty.
00:37:58.71\00:38:01.28
He knows Jesus, He knows
how He talks and how He deals
00:38:01.31\00:38:05.01
and he's going to
do his very best to,
00:38:05.05\00:38:07.32
you know, be an imposter
00:38:07.35\00:38:08.68
but he's going to
bring these things to us,
00:38:08.72\00:38:10.25
but to me it's going
to be just, you know,
00:38:10.29\00:38:11.82
if we don't know that's, I
think that's the bottom line.
00:38:11.85\00:38:14.66
They don't know scripture.
00:38:14.69\00:38:16.02
Well it says, yeah, none
00:38:16.06\00:38:17.39
but those who
fortify their minds, right?
00:38:17.43\00:38:19.59
With the truths of the Bible
00:38:19.63\00:38:21.20
will stand through
the last great conflict.
00:38:21.23\00:38:24.57
None but those who what?
00:38:24.60\00:38:26.23
Have fortified their mind
with the truth of Scripture.
00:38:26.27\00:38:29.67
But today truth
just doesn't seem,
00:38:29.70\00:38:31.57
it's on emotion.
00:38:31.61\00:38:33.31
It's on, I feel.
00:38:33.34\00:38:35.08
And as you mentioned
while ago some of that emotion
00:38:35.11\00:38:37.15
and all the stuff
00:38:37.18\00:38:38.51
it lead sometime
people to have a high
00:38:38.55\00:38:40.92
and then the next thing
you know they has some lows.
00:38:40.95\00:38:42.28
Right.
00:38:42.32\00:38:43.65
And then it brings
them to the point of,
00:38:43.69\00:38:45.02
well, the world would
be better off without me,
00:38:45.05\00:38:46.39
so I'm just going
to get rid of myself,
00:38:46.42\00:38:47.76
I'm going to kill myself.
00:38:47.79\00:38:49.12
We're living, you know,
00:38:49.16\00:38:50.49
by every word that proceeds
out of the mouth of God,
00:38:50.53\00:38:52.59
not pick and choose
00:38:52.63\00:38:53.96
or try to find you mentioned
a church that's going to fit.
00:38:54.00\00:38:57.20
What I want, you
know, to take place.
00:38:57.23\00:38:59.57
If you look around long
enough, you'll find some church
00:38:59.60\00:39:01.10
somewhere that
kind of goes along
00:39:01.14\00:39:02.47
with what you think is right.
00:39:02.50\00:39:03.84
You know, it's interesting
00:39:03.87\00:39:05.21
because I was
just watching this,
00:39:05.24\00:39:06.57
I don't remember I saw
this but I probably heard that
00:39:06.61\00:39:09.08
the people the Kardashians.
00:39:09.11\00:39:11.38
Anyways, this individual
made a hologram of their dad.
00:39:11.41\00:39:16.08
It looked so realistic
00:39:16.12\00:39:17.45
even had his
voice and everything
00:39:17.49\00:39:18.82
it sounds like
him, and even said that,
00:39:18.85\00:39:20.19
you know, I'm so happy
that you reach a certain age
00:39:20.22\00:39:22.59
and you're such a
beautiful daughter
00:39:22.62\00:39:24.26
and you are, you know,
this, you're wonderful spirit.
00:39:24.29\00:39:27.13
And they started crying.
00:39:27.16\00:39:28.50
They said, "Show us it
again. Show us it again."
00:39:28.53\00:39:30.50
They wanted to see this hologram
00:39:30.53\00:39:32.10
and I'm thinking man,
00:39:32.13\00:39:33.47
technology is to that point,
00:39:33.50\00:39:35.17
and you're
talking about the voice,
00:39:35.20\00:39:36.54
I'm just thinking
they have the technology
00:39:36.57\00:39:37.91
even manipulate voice.
00:39:37.94\00:39:39.97
Why wouldn't he?
00:39:40.01\00:39:41.34
And I'm thinking about
this now how can we discern
00:39:41.38\00:39:42.78
if Christ is
really truly coming.
00:39:42.81\00:39:44.48
I'm thinking of Acts 1
comes to my mind you know,
00:39:44.51\00:39:47.52
and these
disciples are standing there
00:39:47.55\00:39:49.78
and they're talking to Jesus.
00:39:49.82\00:39:51.15
Jesus talking to them,
He's going to give them
00:39:51.19\00:39:52.52
the Holy Ghost or
the Holy Spirit power.
00:39:52.55\00:39:54.66
And then also this
happens in verse 9, it says,
00:39:54.69\00:39:56.36
"And when he had
spoken these things,
00:39:56.39\00:39:57.86
while they beheld,
00:39:57.89\00:39:59.23
he was taken up,
00:39:59.26\00:40:00.80
and a cloud received
him out of their sight.
00:40:00.83\00:40:02.63
And while they looked
steadfastly toward heaven
00:40:02.66\00:40:04.97
as he went up, behold,
00:40:05.00\00:40:06.33
two men stood by
them in white apparel, "
00:40:06.37\00:40:07.70
of course we
know those are angels,
00:40:07.74\00:40:09.20
"which also said,
Ye men of Galilee,
00:40:09.24\00:40:10.77
why stand ye
gazing up into heaven?
00:40:10.81\00:40:12.64
This same Jesus,
00:40:12.67\00:40:14.01
which is taken up
from you into heaven,
00:40:14.04\00:40:15.58
shall so come
in like manner down
00:40:15.61\00:40:18.28
as you have seen
him go into heaven."
00:40:18.31\00:40:20.18
So this imposter,
this false Christ is,
00:40:20.22\00:40:24.35
it's just literally going
to be walking on the earth,
00:40:24.39\00:40:25.82
but he's not
literally coming down.
00:40:25.85\00:40:28.22
But Christ
warned us, did He not?
00:40:28.26\00:40:29.89
He warned us.
00:40:29.92\00:40:31.26
He said, "You hear he's
in the desert, don't go."
00:40:31.29\00:40:32.99
Right. That's right.
00:40:33.03\00:40:34.36
I want to say, you
hear He's on channel 12,
00:40:34.40\00:40:35.76
don't watch it.
00:40:35.80\00:40:37.30
You know what I'm saying.
00:40:37.33\00:40:38.67
You hear, He's on
the radio, don't listen,
00:40:38.70\00:40:40.77
on YouTube, don't watch it.
00:40:40.80\00:40:42.80
Because it's it,
we want to see Jesus,
00:40:42.84\00:40:48.28
we want to hear Him.
00:40:48.31\00:40:49.74
Right.
00:40:49.78\00:40:51.65
And he's such a
great deceiver. He's a...
00:40:51.68\00:40:53.62
He is probably
the first transformer.
00:40:53.65\00:40:56.79
He can transform into Christ.
00:40:56.82\00:40:59.05
And it will bring us
00:40:59.09\00:41:02.32
to the point that
we may be confused.
00:41:02.36\00:41:04.13
So what did Jesus said?
00:41:04.16\00:41:05.49
And he already has, isn't right?
00:41:05.53\00:41:06.86
The message that he gives
00:41:06.90\00:41:08.23
will be what the
world wants to hear.
00:41:08.26\00:41:10.60
And it's going to be
totally against those
00:41:10.63\00:41:12.43
who keep the commandments of God
00:41:12.47\00:41:14.40
and testimony of Jesus.
00:41:14.44\00:41:15.84
Completely against it.
00:41:15.87\00:41:17.24
So when the world
looks at by the millions,
00:41:17.27\00:41:19.04
and said, Look,
he's here right now.
00:41:19.07\00:41:20.68
And he has said these things,
00:41:20.71\00:41:22.34
no longer have to
worry about the Sabbath
00:41:22.38\00:41:23.88
that way and Sunday is
fine, blah, blah, blah.
00:41:23.91\00:41:25.78
Let's just be honest about
it, and lay it right out there.
00:41:25.81\00:41:28.35
It is going to just,
00:41:28.38\00:41:29.72
going to cause
a lot of division,
00:41:29.75\00:41:31.55
a lot of separation, but
it's going to come a time
00:41:31.59\00:41:33.46
when people will make decisions.
00:41:33.49\00:41:35.82
They're going to
have to make a decision,
00:41:35.86\00:41:37.79
you know, for or against Christ.
00:41:37.83\00:41:39.46
I mean, what do
you think about it?
00:41:39.49\00:41:41.10
Is that that kind of deceptions
that we're looking at right now
00:41:41.13\00:41:43.40
the kind of
decisions is going to be made,
00:41:43.43\00:41:45.13
have to be made?
00:41:45.17\00:41:47.64
It's a serious,
serious situation.
00:41:47.67\00:41:49.47
You know, I'm going to
point out some individuals
00:41:49.50\00:41:53.78
that quote scriptures,
but they were deceivers.
00:41:53.81\00:41:56.38
Go on. There is Jim Jones.
00:41:56.41\00:41:59.61
He quoted scriptures,
but he was a deceiver.
00:41:59.65\00:42:02.82
You may remember
David Koresh? Yes.
00:42:02.85\00:42:04.95
He quote scriptures,
but he was a deceiver.
00:42:04.99\00:42:07.99
You may remember some individual
00:42:08.02\00:42:09.72
that he claimed he couldn't die.
00:42:09.76\00:42:11.39
He was interviewed on
several television networks.
00:42:11.43\00:42:15.10
He claimed to be his
name is Jose Luis Miranda,
00:42:15.13\00:42:18.17
and he claimed he could not die.
00:42:18.20\00:42:20.00
He died about three years ago.
00:42:20.04\00:42:22.27
Now the reason I
want to point this out,
00:42:22.30\00:42:24.87
the fact that there
they are quoting scriptures
00:42:24.91\00:42:27.71
does not mean they're
quoting scriptures correctly,
00:42:27.74\00:42:30.55
or putting the
scriptures together
00:42:30.58\00:42:32.45
to form the
doctrines of the Bible.
00:42:32.48\00:42:34.85
We have to like
the Bereans do. Okay.
00:42:34.88\00:42:38.35
The Bible says talk about
00:42:38.39\00:42:39.72
the Bereans in the Book of Acts,
00:42:39.75\00:42:41.09
they heard the words gladly,
00:42:41.12\00:42:43.16
but they went home and
searched the scriptures
00:42:43.19\00:42:46.93
to see if these things are true.
00:42:46.96\00:42:48.90
So when we are
seeing these things,
00:42:48.93\00:42:50.43
even now, there are
many people on television,
00:42:50.47\00:42:52.83
we're on television, we
want people to go to the Bibles,
00:42:52.87\00:42:56.34
check these things out.
00:42:56.37\00:42:57.94
So that you can
understand for yourself
00:42:57.97\00:42:59.97
asking the Holy
Spirit to guide you
00:43:00.01\00:43:01.88
because the Holy Spirit
guide you into all truth.
00:43:01.91\00:43:04.51
And so these deceptions,
00:43:04.55\00:43:06.01
you know, we talk about
00:43:06.05\00:43:07.55
the devil himself
will try to personate,
00:43:07.58\00:43:11.09
that's the word
personate, not impersonate,
00:43:11.12\00:43:13.56
personate Christ in
such a way that he will try,
00:43:13.59\00:43:17.36
he will say the words of Christ,
00:43:17.39\00:43:19.03
blessed are the poor in spirit,
00:43:19.06\00:43:21.20
you know, the
words of the Bible.
00:43:21.23\00:43:23.37
And all of a
sudden people are saying,
00:43:23.40\00:43:25.03
"It's Jesus, He's here."
00:43:25.07\00:43:26.63
This will be a great deception.
00:43:26.67\00:43:28.00
Well, why is the
devil doing this?
00:43:28.04\00:43:29.54
To deceive people.
00:43:29.57\00:43:30.94
But I'm glad you know,
you mentioned some scripture.
00:43:30.97\00:43:33.81
I'd like to read one as well
00:43:33.84\00:43:35.54
about the second
coming of Christ,
00:43:35.58\00:43:37.41
because he cannot duplicate...
00:43:37.45\00:43:40.48
Praise God for that.
00:43:40.52\00:43:41.85
Christ in fullness,
because he really can't.
00:43:41.88\00:43:44.35
Number one is he
really can't. Yeah.
00:43:44.39\00:43:46.05
And number two is, is that
00:43:46.09\00:43:48.56
he says come in
great power and glory.
00:43:48.59\00:43:51.93
So 1
Thessalonians Chapter 4. Amen.
00:43:51.96\00:43:53.96
Great point.
00:43:54.00\00:43:55.46
Yeah, we have here,
beginning in verse 12.
00:43:55.50\00:43:59.00
It says, am I
in the right place?
00:43:59.03\00:44:00.37
I do not want to be
doing this or doing that.
00:44:00.40\00:44:01.74
Yeah, you're right.
00:44:01.77\00:44:03.10
Okay, verse 14, 1
Thessalonians 4:14,
00:44:03.14\00:44:05.07
"For, if we believe that
Jesus died and rose again,
00:44:05.11\00:44:07.84
even so God will bring with
Him those who sleep in Jesus."
00:44:07.88\00:44:11.91
Amen.
00:44:11.95\00:44:13.28
Wait a minute, wait.
00:44:13.31\00:44:14.65
Those that are sleeping,
He says they're in the grave,
00:44:14.68\00:44:16.48
and He's going
to resurrect them.
00:44:16.52\00:44:17.92
Notice the
description of the resurrection.
00:44:17.95\00:44:20.56
"For this we say to you
by the word of the Lord,
00:44:20.59\00:44:24.83
that we who are alive
00:44:24.86\00:44:26.63
and remain until
the coming of the Lord
00:44:26.66\00:44:29.36
will by no means precede,"
00:44:29.40\00:44:31.13
that means go before,
"those who are asleep."
00:44:31.17\00:44:33.87
That means, those
that are in the grave.
00:44:33.90\00:44:35.54
"For the Lord Himself
will descend from heaven
00:44:35.57\00:44:37.77
with a shout, with the
voice of the archangel,
00:44:37.81\00:44:40.71
with the trump of God
00:44:40.74\00:44:42.34
and the dead in
Christ will rise first."
00:44:42.38\00:44:46.21
Wait a minute,
why would they rise
00:44:46.25\00:44:47.95
since they're already in heaven.
00:44:47.98\00:44:49.35
Because that's where they are.
00:44:49.38\00:44:50.72
They're in the grave waiting
for the first resurrection.
00:44:50.75\00:44:53.82
"And so those and the
dead in Christ will rise first,
00:44:53.86\00:44:57.66
then we who are alive and remain
00:44:57.69\00:45:00.23
shall be caught
up together with them
00:45:00.26\00:45:02.16
in the clouds to
meet the Lord in the air."
00:45:02.20\00:45:05.73
So if they tell
you, He's in the desert,
00:45:05.77\00:45:07.47
don't have to go to the desert
because Jesus is not there.
00:45:07.50\00:45:09.87
That's right.
00:45:09.90\00:45:11.24
When He comes, He's
going to be in the air,
00:45:11.27\00:45:12.61
we're going to
meet Him in the air.
00:45:12.64\00:45:13.98
Good.
00:45:14.01\00:45:15.34
So, yeah, we'll
meet the Lord in the air
00:45:15.38\00:45:16.71
and thus we shall
always be with the Lord.
00:45:16.75\00:45:18.88
So the
scriptures are very clear.
00:45:18.91\00:45:20.25
Yes.
00:45:20.28\00:45:21.62
So when the devil makes
this counterfeit Christ,
00:45:21.65\00:45:25.89
a false Christ
00:45:25.92\00:45:27.26
and is walking
around on channel 12,
00:45:27.29\00:45:29.52
whatever channel
there is out there,
00:45:29.56\00:45:31.73
He's going to be
all over the media.
00:45:31.76\00:45:33.50
Every program
going to be texting
00:45:33.53\00:45:34.90
and telling,
yeah, Jesus has come,
00:45:34.93\00:45:36.36
and they're going to meet,
00:45:36.40\00:45:37.73
whatever these video
things are saying Jesus is here,
00:45:37.77\00:45:41.27
but He's not here
00:45:41.30\00:45:42.94
'cause His coming
has not yet arrived.
00:45:42.97\00:45:45.27
When He comes,
00:45:45.31\00:45:46.64
there will be
power and great glory.
00:45:46.68\00:45:48.44
The heavens will
be ablaze with glory
00:45:48.48\00:45:51.85
and the trump of God
every eye shall see Him.
00:45:51.88\00:45:54.75
Yeah. Yes.
00:45:54.78\00:45:56.12
Pastor, you know,
you brought to my mind is
00:45:56.15\00:45:57.49
I'm just thinking, you know,
00:45:57.52\00:45:58.85
obviously Satan does not
have the power to resurrect.
00:45:58.89\00:46:01.39
Does not have the
power to lift up the dead.
00:46:01.42\00:46:03.26
But, of course, in
Revelation 16 we realize
00:46:03.29\00:46:05.53
that he can use spirits,
demons to pose real people,
00:46:05.56\00:46:08.76
but he can't, he can't match
what Christ is going to do.
00:46:08.80\00:46:11.93
And I thought about
your touching something
00:46:11.97\00:46:13.57
about the idea of
emotions and feelings.
00:46:13.60\00:46:16.14
And I thought about in
the world we're in today,
00:46:16.17\00:46:18.11
right now the
society we're being pushed,
00:46:18.14\00:46:20.71
like we're talking
about this gentleman
00:46:20.74\00:46:22.08
that called in to where we
were going to choose something
00:46:22.11\00:46:24.61
because we're
pushed to it to a degree of
00:46:24.65\00:46:26.28
just like feeling overwhelmed.
00:46:26.31\00:46:27.65
We're going to, yeah, I'll go
ahead and I'll conform to this
00:46:27.68\00:46:30.32
or I'll go to that, you know,
00:46:30.35\00:46:31.69
it's like I see the enemy
00:46:31.72\00:46:33.05
just working that so
much that we're just,
00:46:33.09\00:46:34.72
we have to make a
drastic decision quickly
00:46:34.76\00:46:37.46
because we're
just so overwhelmed.
00:46:37.49\00:46:39.43
Like, I've got to choose that
00:46:39.46\00:46:40.80
because that sounds
like the better option
00:46:40.83\00:46:42.16
to go to that's all I've got.
00:46:42.20\00:46:43.67
So I'm just, I'm seeing it.
00:46:43.70\00:46:45.03
And you made an important point.
00:46:45.07\00:46:46.40
He can't
actually raise the dead,
00:46:46.43\00:46:47.84
but he can imitate or mimic
00:46:47.87\00:46:51.01
he can sound and look
00:46:51.04\00:46:52.64
you know people have
met their little girls,
00:46:52.67\00:46:55.44
you know, they think
00:46:55.48\00:46:56.81
that was girls, but
it was actually demons
00:46:56.85\00:46:58.18
or, you know,
00:46:58.21\00:46:59.55
these ghost stories that we hear
00:46:59.58\00:47:00.92
and it's
actually demons you know,
00:47:00.95\00:47:02.28
Samuel and the witch of
Endor it was actually a demon.
00:47:02.32\00:47:06.59
You know, so we
have to be careful
00:47:06.62\00:47:09.02
because he can confuse us,
00:47:09.06\00:47:11.13
that's why we have to keep
going back to the Word of God,
00:47:11.16\00:47:13.83
and light it in our
hearts and our minds
00:47:13.86\00:47:16.13
that we might
not sin against Him.
00:47:16.16\00:47:18.37
We got a lady we
would go and visit
00:47:18.40\00:47:20.17
when we lived back in India.
00:47:20.20\00:47:21.54
My wife and I and...
00:47:21.57\00:47:23.54
Horrific I don't
want to go great detail.
00:47:23.57\00:47:24.91
Her husband was an
alcoholic and he passed away
00:47:24.94\00:47:27.58
because of alcoholism,
00:47:27.61\00:47:28.94
but died because of
alcoholism, but he...
00:47:28.98\00:47:31.61
She was calling us
one night she goes,
00:47:31.65\00:47:34.02
"You got to come
over, you got to come over."
00:47:34.05\00:47:35.68
I'm like, "What's going?"
00:47:35.72\00:47:37.05
"My husband's
coming through the wall."
00:47:37.09\00:47:38.42
I'm like, "Oh, what are
we going to enter into?"
00:47:38.45\00:47:40.52
I'm like, Lord, I do
not know what to expect.
00:47:40.56\00:47:42.82
So I know what that
is. I know it's not You.
00:47:42.86\00:47:44.73
And so we went over there.
00:47:44.76\00:47:46.09
We gotten in the
kitchen and we knelt down
00:47:46.13\00:47:47.46
with her all
three of us and prayed.
00:47:47.50\00:47:49.26
And we're like,
what's going to happen?
00:47:49.30\00:47:50.63
You know, like, what's going on?
00:47:50.67\00:47:52.43
But we told her look,
that is not your husband.
00:47:52.47\00:47:54.14
That's a demon.
00:47:54.17\00:47:55.50
We showed her in a
scripture, obviously, you know,
00:47:55.54\00:47:57.24
in Ecclesiastes 9, I
think it is in 6 and 7,
00:47:57.27\00:47:59.94
that the dead know
nothing their awards,
00:47:59.97\00:48:01.48
and are deceased,
00:48:01.51\00:48:02.84
they don't, have no
more remembrance of them.
00:48:02.88\00:48:05.08
So you know, tried
to show her that and she
00:48:05.11\00:48:06.98
kind of got a
little bit but you know,
00:48:07.02\00:48:09.08
just how the
enemy will even fully
00:48:09.12\00:48:10.95
like you said your loved ones.
00:48:10.99\00:48:12.32
And he came back, was haunting
her over top of her and just...
00:48:12.35\00:48:16.79
I go back to what I said before,
00:48:16.83\00:48:18.66
are you going to
believe your eyes and your ears
00:48:18.69\00:48:20.80
or you going to
believe the scriptures?
00:48:20.83\00:48:22.16
That's right.
That's it. It's fake.
00:48:22.20\00:48:24.50
The scriptures are the safeguard
00:48:24.53\00:48:26.47
by which we know what is truth.
00:48:26.50\00:48:28.70
And so I want to, I want
to mention another deception.
00:48:28.74\00:48:32.84
And you have mentioned that
00:48:32.87\00:48:34.21
just kind of
highlight what you said.
00:48:34.24\00:48:36.41
And that is that feelings
00:48:36.44\00:48:39.38
the devil can
work on your feelings
00:48:39.41\00:48:41.55
to deceive you.
00:48:41.58\00:48:42.95
That's where I
was going while ago.
00:48:42.98\00:48:46.39
It's going to be difficult.
It's going to be difficult.
00:48:46.42\00:48:48.49
I mean, we're talking about
xlet's say that your son takes
00:48:48.52\00:48:49.99
the side of the wicked and he...
00:48:50.03\00:48:55.63
And the mother says,
00:48:55.66\00:48:57.00
"But I want to be with my son.
00:48:57.03\00:48:58.37
Oh, no, I don't want him to be."
00:48:58.40\00:48:59.73
It's going to be a
difficult situation.
00:48:59.77\00:49:02.50
Husbands and
wives may be divided.
00:49:02.54\00:49:04.37
Maybe the husband wants
to go over to, you know,
00:49:04.41\00:49:07.88
to join the ones that
are persecuting Christians,
00:49:07.91\00:49:09.71
and the wife says,
00:49:09.74\00:49:11.08
"No, I want to remain faithful
to the, to God to the Word.
00:49:11.11\00:49:15.22
So there's
going to be divisions,
00:49:15.25\00:49:17.45
but we must be
faithful to the Lord.
00:49:17.49\00:49:19.85
He who endures to the
end, the same shall be saved.
00:49:19.89\00:49:23.02
We have to surrender
our hearts to the Lord.
00:49:23.06\00:49:25.63
The safest place is to humble
ourselves before the Lord.
00:49:25.66\00:49:28.80
And to ask Him to
come into our lives Jesus.
00:49:28.83\00:49:31.93
Jesus, we have the promise
00:49:31.97\00:49:33.30
that Jesus is going
to complete that work.
00:49:33.34\00:49:34.67
Amen.
00:49:34.70\00:49:36.04
Philippians 1:6,
00:49:36.07\00:49:37.81
"Being confident
of this very thing,
00:49:37.84\00:49:39.51
that He who has
begun good work in you
00:49:39.54\00:49:41.98
will complete it unto
the day of Jesus Christ."
00:49:42.01\00:49:44.15
Amen. Praise the Lord, yes.
00:49:44.18\00:49:45.81
But we have to have a
commitment to Jesus Christ.
00:49:45.85\00:49:49.12
It's not based and I
want to be nice about it.
00:49:49.15\00:49:51.62
It's not based upon
the husband, or the wife,
00:49:51.65\00:49:54.89
or the children.
00:49:54.92\00:49:56.26
It has to be based on our
relationship with Jesus Christ
00:49:56.29\00:49:58.93
only because again,
00:49:58.96\00:50:00.30
there's going to be situations
00:50:00.33\00:50:01.66
there's going to kind of
cause division, separation.
00:50:01.70\00:50:03.37
But sometimes I found this out.
00:50:03.40\00:50:05.30
And I think most
of you have here.
00:50:05.33\00:50:06.67
When somebody gets a
little bit dissatisfied
00:50:06.70\00:50:09.40
with the church
that they're going to
00:50:09.44\00:50:11.24
maybe just that individual,
00:50:11.27\00:50:12.74
to say the
husband, he's not satisfied,
00:50:12.77\00:50:14.94
so he wants to leave.
00:50:14.98\00:50:16.31
But you'll notice that the wife,
00:50:16.34\00:50:17.81
a lot of times will leave,
00:50:17.85\00:50:19.18
and the children
will all leave too,
00:50:19.21\00:50:20.68
may not be their thought.
00:50:20.72\00:50:22.22
So their
relationship with Christ
00:50:22.25\00:50:24.29
is based upon their husband,
00:50:24.32\00:50:26.05
rather than on the
Word of God, or vice versa.
00:50:26.09\00:50:28.56
It's not, doesn't
always work that way.
00:50:28.59\00:50:29.92
And there's, you know,
00:50:29.96\00:50:31.29
terrible situations that
happen in division of family,
00:50:31.33\00:50:33.03
because there are
those who love Christ enough
00:50:33.06\00:50:35.36
that they're
willing to take their stand
00:50:35.40\00:50:37.27
for what is truth.
00:50:37.30\00:50:39.43
And we realized to get back to,
00:50:39.47\00:50:40.87
we talked about
primitive godliness
00:50:40.90\00:50:42.47
into here is,
00:50:42.50\00:50:44.14
maybe we should ask
ourselves a question.
00:50:44.17\00:50:46.31
Do we really feel like as
part of the family of God,
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that we're getting back
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to the way God
set up the church?
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And to me, that would be more
than we're talking about here?
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Would it not be in what we eat?
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Would it not be in how we dress,
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how we speak,
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how we conduct ourselves?
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What we see in the workplace?
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Are we listening
to the dirty jokes?
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You know, what I'm saying.
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Are we setting an
example of Christ,
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we go about our
Father's business.
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There's a lot of changes
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that seem that
we've gotten away from
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because the world has, we
have invited, not everybody,
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we've invited
the world to come in.
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And the church has
become more like the world,
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you see, rather than
be more Christ centered.
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And I want to read a
statement here quickly,
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just I think it's, yeah,
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see Acts of the
Apostles, page 11.
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Because we realize the
church is so important.
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But we had to figure out
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who and what the
church is or what,
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because sometimes we have
mindsets that's not correct.
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I have to go to the Word of God,
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I have to go to, you know,
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Spirit of Prophecy
and read what it says,
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"The church is God's fortress."
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Praise God.
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Isn't that fortress
something that does protect us
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if we stay there and
follow what the Word says?
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His city of refuge,
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which He holds
as a revolted world.
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Any betrayal, notice,
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of his treachery is to him
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who has bought
mankind with His blood
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and His only begotten Son.
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Now, here's the key
we have to listen to,
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from the beginning, you
know exactly where it is.
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Page 11, from the beginning,
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faithful souls have
constituted the church on earth.
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So a lot of time
we're criticizing,
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condemning, backbiting.
00:52:24.11\00:52:25.61
Faithful souls
constitute God's Church.
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That's a simple statement
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that will be thrown out by many.
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They don't want to hear that,
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that either is
truth or it's not.
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If you're faithful
to the calling of God.
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Somebody told me one
time, well, you know, blah-blah.
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I said, "Look,
somebody got off the platform,
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and it wasn't me."
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That's pretty heavy duty.
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God has given us
a platform of truth.
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If you get off of
that platform of truth,
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and get down and
start checking the pillars
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is trying to hold it up,
or criticizing or condemning.
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Now, there's a time
that we have to stand for
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what is truth and what is right.
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When we hear errors
ping, we hear it in the church,
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our job is watchmen on the walls
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is to come back and say,
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here's what the
Word of God says.
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That's right. Right.
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I mean, that's
not a tasteful thing.
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So it's distasteful,
we'll have to do it sometime.
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But God says to do it,
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or we're going to
be unfaithful to Him.
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So I want to be from
beginning faithful souls.
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And the way God's set up,
I think Desire of Ages said,
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the way God set up
the New Testament Church
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is that's what he means
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to generations
until He comes again.
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So we've got to
get back to that.
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And that encompasses the
whole man and whole woman.
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It does.
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In relation of Hebrews,
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when you're
talking about Hebrews 12,
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you know, we're
convinced by those faithful,
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you see the faithful ones,
00:53:39.68\00:53:41.02
it says that we're supposed
to lay aside every weight
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and a sin that
so easily besets us
00:53:43.15\00:53:44.59
and let us run with patience
the race that is set before us.
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But then it says in verse 2,
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looking unto Jesus,
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the author and
finisher of faith,
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yeah, who for the joy,
00:53:51.33\00:53:53.29
you know, endured the cross,
00:53:53.33\00:53:54.83
despising the shame and sit down
00:53:54.86\00:53:56.20
and reign on throne of God,
00:53:56.23\00:53:57.57
so we're to be looking to Him,
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and we're to watch His example
00:53:58.97\00:54:00.47
through reading
the Word, you know,
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we can't just pick and choose,
and we think feels right to us.
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And well, I think
Jesus would have done is
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what would Jesus do?
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I think, we have to be careful
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because the word I
mean plainly tells you,
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you know, or tell them always,
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things you can be deceived with,
00:54:14.58\00:54:15.92
you know, like
the state of the dead,
00:54:15.95\00:54:17.29
you know, the Sabbath issue.
00:54:17.32\00:54:18.72
But if we're not reading
it for ourselves and asking,
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like you said, the
Holy Spirit to guide us
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and giving ourselves
teachers who have teaching ears.
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We're kind of going wrong path.
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Yes, absolutely.
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You know, I can see
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where people when
they read the Word of God
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and they be, it begins to cut,
00:54:33.80\00:54:35.70
you know, the
Bible's a two-edged sword,
00:54:35.74\00:54:37.24
it begins to cut and separate
00:54:37.27\00:54:38.61
all those things that the dross,
00:54:38.64\00:54:40.81
the sin that we've
accumulated over the years,
00:54:40.84\00:54:42.88
people are saying,
I can never be right.
00:54:42.91\00:54:44.85
I can never do this.
00:54:44.88\00:54:46.35
The good news is,
00:54:46.38\00:54:47.72
they don't ever
have to do it alone.
00:54:47.75\00:54:50.12
God is a God of restoration.
He's a God of recreation.
00:54:50.15\00:54:54.09
He is going to give you
the strength and the power.
00:54:54.12\00:54:56.79
He will uplift you
00:54:56.83\00:54:58.16
with the right hand
of His righteousness.
00:54:58.19\00:54:59.83
He's promised to help us.
00:54:59.86\00:55:01.30
He's going to
work in and through us.
00:55:01.33\00:55:03.26
He is our strength.
He is our protector.
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He is everything. He's
every breath that we take.
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So we do none of this alone.
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Our choice, turn off
the world, turn on Jesus.
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Turn off the
world, get in the Word.
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Amen.
00:55:19.88\00:55:21.22
We have a couple minutes
left, and I think it'd be good.
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Pastor John, start with you.
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If you have like
a closing thought
00:55:25.05\00:55:26.42
and then, you
know, go to the Don,
00:55:26.45\00:55:28.32
if you want to around
him and we'll close it off.
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I think I'm going to
go with what Don said.
00:55:29.72\00:55:32.73
You can say
again if you want to.
00:55:32.76\00:55:34.56
We really have to face
life looking unto Jesus,
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the author and
finisher of our faith.
00:55:38.07\00:55:39.83
Let us spend time in
God's Word with Jesus
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and He will light our path.
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Amen.
00:55:44.34\00:55:45.67
Yes, you know, I kind of second,
00:55:45.71\00:55:47.04
I think that you know,
so many of us in this world,
00:55:47.08\00:55:48.41
we get our eyes off
00:55:48.44\00:55:49.78
what really is peace
is the Prince of Peace.
00:55:49.81\00:55:51.95
We got to look to
the Prince of Peace,
00:55:51.98\00:55:53.31
who can bring us that peace.
00:55:53.35\00:55:54.68
And if you want
peace in your life,
00:55:54.72\00:55:56.45
as Isaiah 26:3 says,
00:55:56.48\00:55:58.05
you know, those who
keep their mind on you
00:55:58.09\00:56:00.12
will have that
perfect peace so...
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Amen. Good.
00:56:01.52\00:56:02.86
There is no
peace without Christ.
00:56:02.89\00:56:04.73
No real peace.
00:56:04.76\00:56:06.43
You know, a lot of
times we want to get out,
00:56:06.46\00:56:08.06
we have fun but true happiness,
true peace comes from Him.
00:56:08.10\00:56:12.43
And that's what we can have.
00:56:12.47\00:56:13.80
This is a work,
00:56:13.84\00:56:15.17
this primitive
godliness part three,
00:56:15.20\00:56:17.71
I'm sure there's
going to be a part four
00:56:17.74\00:56:19.31
because we didn't
even touch those questions.
00:56:19.34\00:56:21.04
So I hope you'll
come back to part four,
00:56:21.08\00:56:24.11
and possibly part
five, because it's all good.
00:56:24.15\00:56:27.78
It's something that we need,
00:56:27.82\00:56:30.09
you know, as we
drink in the Word
00:56:30.12\00:56:31.79
and allow it to change
our hearts and our minds
00:56:31.82\00:56:34.16
so that we will not
sin against our Lord.
00:56:34.19\00:56:36.76
And He
recreates in us His image.
00:56:36.79\00:56:38.86
Amen.
00:56:38.89\00:56:40.23
Even our
thoughts begin to change.
00:56:40.26\00:56:41.60
Isn't that wonderful?
00:56:41.63\00:56:42.96
Aren't we glad that
we have the Word of God
00:56:43.00\00:56:44.67
that we can go through?
00:56:44.70\00:56:46.03
Now we know everybody says that.
00:56:46.07\00:56:47.40
But we go and we do, I
think it was John 5:39.
00:56:47.44\00:56:50.17
It was mentioned already,
search the scriptures, right?
00:56:50.21\00:56:52.84
Or in them you think what?
00:56:52.87\00:56:54.71
That you have
eternal life and what is,
00:56:54.74\00:56:57.21
they are they
which testify of Me.
00:56:57.25\00:56:59.85
Amen.
00:56:59.88\00:57:01.22
If we say today
that were a child of God,
00:57:01.25\00:57:02.98
then certainly He says,
00:57:03.02\00:57:04.52
"My sheep, hear My voice."
00:57:04.55\00:57:07.06
And then what do they do?
00:57:07.09\00:57:08.82
They hear and then they
follow. You're safe today.
00:57:08.86\00:57:11.99
You're safe to
follow Jesus Christ.
00:57:12.03\00:57:13.96
You are safe to follow
the teachings of His Word.
00:57:14.00\00:57:17.17
Wherever His feet
went, you can trot on those,
00:57:17.20\00:57:19.23
it's going to be good because
He's showing you the way.
00:57:19.27\00:57:21.47
Praise God for that.
00:57:21.50\00:57:22.84
We're so glad that
you've joined us today.
00:57:22.87\00:57:24.77
We've had a wonderful
time studying the Word of God.
00:57:24.81\00:57:27.01
And we're going to look forward
to seeing you at another time.
00:57:27.04\00:57:29.28
Be sure by the grace of God,
00:57:29.31\00:57:30.68
continue to pray
for 3ABN Family Worship.
00:57:30.71\00:57:33.15
We love you.
We'll see you next time.
00:57:33.18\00:57:35.05
Amen.
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