HELLO AND WELCOME BACK TO 3ABN LIVE. 00:00:12.14\00:00:14.41 IF YOU'RE JUST JOINING US YOU MISSED A GOOD FIRST HOUR BUT 00:00:14.41\00:00:18.01 THIS PROGRAM ALWAYS REPEAT AND IT COULD REPEAT AGAIN ON SUNDAY 00:00:18.01\00:00:26.49 AFTERNOON. TUESDAY MORNING AND MAYBE EVEN 00:00:26.49\00:00:29.29 LATER TONIGHT. GO ON THE WEBSITE AND IT'S WORTH 00:00:29.29\00:00:31.86 HEARING BECAUSE WE HAVE PASTOR JAMES AND MS. RAFFERTY WITH US 00:00:31.86\00:00:38.83 TONIGHT. WE'LL CALL YOU ALL CO-HOSTS. 00:00:38.83\00:00:41.47 YOU'RE BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN THE LORD AND WORKERS HERE. SUCH 00:00:41.47\00:00:47.11 A PRIVILEGE 0 WORK WITH YOU ALL. WE'RE LEARNING THINGS TONIGHT. 00:00:47.11\00:00:50.31 >> WE ARE. THIS IS AN IMPORTANT ISSUE THE 00:00:50.31\00:00:55.55 ISSUE OF WHAT IS IT THAT WE ARE DOING THAT VIOLATES OUR 00:00:55.55\00:01:00.82 CONSCIENCES OR WHAT IS IT THAT WE'RE DOING THAT REINFORCES? 00:01:00.82\00:01:04.59 SO WE NEED TO -- WE REALLY NEED TO FLUSH IT OUT. 00:01:04.59\00:01:12.27 >> RIGHT BEFORE WE WENT TO BREAK YOU HAD A QUESTION. 00:01:12.27\00:01:15.50 SO I TOLD THE FOLKS YOU WOULD. >> MY QUESTION WAS, WHEN WE 00:01:15.50\00:01:29.22 THINK OF A CONSCIENCE, GOOD CONSCIENCE, ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO 00:01:29.22\00:01:31.82 BE COOKIE CUTTERS? ARE THEY ALWAYS GOING TO BE 00:01:31.82\00:01:34.72 REFLECTION OF MINE OR IS MINE ALWAYS GOING TO BE SUBMITTED TO 00:01:34.72\00:01:39.66 YOURS? >> IT'S REALLY GOOD QUESTION. 00:01:39.66\00:01:42.16 THERE WAS TIME WHEN RELIGION FELT HA WAY. 00:01:42.16\00:01:44.10 THE CHURCH OF THE DARK AGES FELT THIS WAS THE WAY EVERYONE NEEDS 00:01:44.10\00:01:47.57 TO THINK AT LEAST IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE BIBLE. 00:01:47.57\00:01:50.64 SO, THEY HAD NO CAQUALMS OF KILLING PEOPLE WHO DIDN'T SEE 00:01:50.64\00:01:58.88 THINGS THE WAY THE CHURCH SAW THINGS. 00:01:58.88\00:02:00.95 THEY BELIEVED IF A PERSON DID NOT BELIEVE IN GOD, LET'S SAY, 00:02:00.95\00:02:05.95 OR RELIGION THE WAY THEY DID THAT PERSON WAS GOING TO BE 00:02:05.95\00:02:09.12 DAMMED AND BURN ETERNALLY IN HELL. 00:02:09.12\00:02:11.26 SO THEY THOUGHT WHATEVER WE TPWHAOED TO DO. 00:02:11.26\00:02:14.50 WHATEVER AFFLICTION WE NEED TO PUT ON THEM ORATOR CHER WE NEED 00:02:14.50\00:02:18.90 THEM TO ACQUIESCE AND ACCEPT WHAT WE BELIEVE, OUR 00:02:18.90\00:02:24.44 CONSCIENTIOUS BELIEF WE NEED TO DO IT BECAUSE OTHERWISE THEY'LL 00:02:24.44\00:02:27.98 BE LOST AND BURNED FOREVER AND EVER AND OVER AND I BELIEVE 00:02:27.98\00:02:32.81 WE'RE GOING BACK IN THE DARK AGES TODAY. 00:02:32.81\00:02:35.72 WE AS AMERICANS BELIEVE THAT EVEN IF I'M CONVINCED 00:02:35.72\00:02:41.16 CONSCIENTIOUSLY THAT WHAT YOU BELIEVE AND PRCTICE IS GOING TO 00:02:41.16\00:02:45.56 HARM YOU, I HAVE NO RIGHT TO DO ANYTHING TO FORCE YOU TO BELIEVE 00:02:45.56\00:02:51.40 DIFFERENTLY OR TO COME IN HARMONY. 00:02:51.40\00:02:55.17 TONIGHT WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT VACCINATION OR NOT VACCINATION. 00:02:55.17\00:02:59.71 WHAT WE BELIEVE IS IF SOMEONE WANTS TO GET VACCINATED WE 00:02:59.71\00:03:02.48 BELIEVE WE SHOULD SUPPORT THAT 100%. 00:03:02.48\00:03:04.78 IF SOMEONE DOES NOT WANT TO GET VACCINATED WE BELIEVE WE CAN 00:03:04.78\00:03:09.42 SUPPORT THAT TOO. WE DO NOT BELIEVE WE NEED TO 00:03:09.42\00:03:11.99 FORCE PEOPLE TO SEE IT OUR WAY EVEN IF WE WERE RIGHT. 00:03:11.99\00:03:17.59 IN THE DARK AGES THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE RIGHT ABOUT GOD AND 00:03:17.59\00:03:22.26 SALVATION AND THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE DOING SOMEONE A FAVOR. 00:03:22.26\00:03:25.43 WHEN WE START MANDATING AND TAKING PEOPLE'S LIVELIHOODS AWAY 00:03:25.43\00:03:30.27 FROM THEM AND HOUSES AWAY FROM THEM HEALTH AND HEALTH ACCESS 00:03:30.27\00:03:34.18 AWAY FROM THEM, WHAT WE ARE DOING IS THE SAME THING THE 00:03:34.18\00:03:37.48 CHURCH OF THE DARK AGESES. WE'RE SIMPLY TRYING TO FORCE 00:03:37.48\00:03:39.78 THEM TO DO WHAT WE THINK IS RIGHT IN DOING THAT MANY OF THE 00:03:39.78\00:03:46.42 PEOPLE ARE VIOLATE BEEN THEIR CONSCIENTIOUS CONVICTION. 00:03:46.42\00:03:57.27 BIBLE IS VERY CLEAR THAT WE CAN HAVE DIFFERENCES. 00:03:57.27\00:04:08.98 SO FEAR IS BROUGHT IN. YOU'RE AFRAID OF LOSING YOUR 00:04:08.98\00:04:11.91 JOB. YOU'RE AFRAID OF LOSING YOUR 00:04:11.91\00:04:13.25 HOME OR NOT BEING ABLE TO VISIT YOUR GRANDKIDS OR GO TO PUBLIC 00:04:13.25\00:04:19.72 PLACES SO YOU ACQUIESCE. I KNOW PEOPLE WHO HAVE DONE 00:04:19.72\00:04:24.83 THAT. AND ANOTHER PRINCIPLE IS 00:04:24.83\00:04:27.86 ANXIETY. THE BIBLE SAYS DON'T BE TROUBLED 00:04:27.86\00:04:31.27 OR FEARFUL ABOUT THESE THINGS AND DON'T BE ANXIOUS. 00:04:31.27\00:04:38.54 BE ANXIOUS FOR NOTHING. DON'T BE ANXIOUS ABOUT ANYTHING. 00:04:38.54\00:04:43.11 MAKE THE REQUEST KNOWN TO GOD. WHEN WE'RE ANXIOUS AND FEARFUL 00:04:43.11\00:04:47.35 WE WILL DO THINGS THAT WE WOULDN'T NORMALLY DO AND THOSE 00:04:47.35\00:04:51.42 THINGS WILL VIOLATE OUR CONSCIENCE AND OUR CONVICTIONS. 00:04:51.42\00:04:54.66 >> I THINK THAT WE HAVE TO ALSO LOOK AT EVERYTHING FROM LIKE OF 00:04:54.66\00:05:00.13 COURSE THE SPIRITUAL PERSPECTIVE AND LOOK AT THIS AS A GLOBAL 00:05:00.13\00:05:05.10 ISSUE. THIS IS NOT JUST AN AMERICAN 00:05:05.10\00:05:07.57 ISSUE. THIS IS A GLOBAL SITUATION WHERE 00:05:07.57\00:05:11.54 MEN AND WOMAN'S CONSCIENCES ARE BEING VIOLATED AND SO, WHEN YOU 00:05:11.54\00:05:16.64 STEP BACK AND LOOK AT IT IT'S BIGGER THAN AN AMERICAN ISSUE. 00:05:16.64\00:05:22.95 THIS IS A GLOBAL ISSUE AND THIS IS A SPIRITUAL ISSUE AND I THINK 00:05:22.95\00:05:27.02 A LOT OF TIMES WE JUST WANT TO THINK THAT WELL THIS IS JUST 00:05:27.02\00:05:31.03 HAPPENING HERE OR JUST HAPPENING TO US OR OH NO. 00:05:31.03\00:05:33.09 WHEN YOU LOOK AT WHAT'S GOING ON AROUND THE WORLD AND YOU'RE 00:05:33.09\00:05:36.23 SAYING THAT PEOPLE ARE BEING FORCED INTO SITUATIONS THAT 00:05:36.23\00:05:40.90 VIOLATE THEIR CONSCIENCES, THEY DON'T WANT DO IT BUT THEY MUST 00:05:40.90\00:05:44.07 DO IT? IT'S LIKE THEN YOU HAVE TO SAY, 00:05:44.07\00:05:47.61 AS A CHRISTIAN, WHO READS THE WORD, YOU HAVE TO SAY, WELL 00:05:47.61\00:05:51.81 WHAT'S NEXT? WHAT IS NEXT? 00:05:51.81\00:05:54.98 IF THIS IS HAPPENING NOW AND THAT'S WHAT YOU WERE SAYING, 00:05:54.98\00:05:57.55 JAMES, THE THREE DECEPTIONS, IN MATTHEW 24, IF WE DON'T STAND UP 00:05:57.55\00:06:03.49 NOW, HOW ARE WE GOING TO STAND UP TO THE WORSHIP ISSUES? 00:06:03.49\00:06:08.50 >> HOW ABOUT THIS? THE SUNDAY LAW, WE'VE NOT TOLD 00:06:08.50\00:06:12.27 THAT PEOPLE WILL END UP NOT JUST THE PEOPLE WILL TURN ON THOSE 00:06:12.27\00:06:16.81 WHO STAND UP FOR THE WORD OF GOD AND SAY YOU'RE TO BLAME. 00:06:16.81\00:06:23.01 YOU'RE THE REASON THAT ALL THESE CALAMITIES ARE HAPPENING. 00:06:23.01\00:06:26.95 DOES THAT SOUND FAMILIAR? >> YOU'RE FAST FORWARDING. 00:06:26.95\00:06:31.52 YOU DIDN'T GET VACCINE AND YOU'RE THE CAUSE OF THE PROBLEMS 00:06:31.52\00:06:36.66 AND EVEN THOUGH YOU READ EVERY DAY AND I KNOW PEOPLE WHO GOT 00:06:36.66\00:06:40.60 THE VACCINE AND I KNOW PEOPLE CAN GIVE IT WHO HAVE BEEN 00:06:40.60\00:06:44.57 VACCINATED AND CAN ALSO GIVE COVID. 00:06:44.57\00:06:47.64 BUT STILL YET PEOPLE ARE WRITING UGLY THINGS ON SOCIAL MEDIA 00:06:47.64\00:06:50.54 SAYING YOU'RE ALL TO BLAME. SO TO ME IF IT'S CUT AND DRY I 00:06:50.54\00:06:58.55 DON'T SMOKE BECAUSE I KNOW THE SCIENCE BEHIND IT. 00:06:58.55\00:07:01.08 I DON'T DRINK ALCOHOL. I KNOW THE SCIENCE BEHIND IT. 00:07:01.08\00:07:03.99 BUT I DON'T KNOW THIS YET. SO WE'RE LEARNING AND THE MORE 00:07:03.99\00:07:06.92 WE LEARN THE MORE ENLIGHTENED WE MIGHT BE AND PEOPLE ARE SAYING, 00:07:06.92\00:07:11.99 I WISH I NEVER HAD DONE THAT. SO AGAIN IT SHOULD BE YOUR 00:07:11.99\00:07:16.06 CHOICE. BECAUSE THERE'S NO PROOF THAT 00:07:16.06\00:07:18.83 THE UNVACCINATED ARE KILLING A LOT MORE PEOPLE ARE RESPONSIBLE 00:07:18.83\00:07:22.60 FOR THAT BECAUSE WE'RE SEEING IT BOTH WAYS. 00:07:22.60\00:07:26.98 BREAKTHROUGHS -- >> IN ENGLAND THEY HAD WHERE 60% 00:07:26.98\00:07:31.61 DIED OVER THERE WERE FULLY VACCINATED. 00:07:31.61\00:07:34.32 AND SO THEY DIED. SO WE OUGHT TO BE OPEN TO THE 00:07:34.32\00:07:40.12 FACT THAT HOW AM I GOING TO ACT WHEN THIS COMES DOWN TO THE 00:07:40.12\00:07:46.06 SUNDAY LAW. SO THE PRINCIPLE YOU'RE TO 00:07:46.06\00:07:51.23 BLAME, YOU GUYS ARE TO BLAME US AN OF WHAT HAPPENED TO ME. 00:07:51.23\00:07:55.24 >> THIS IS WHERE WE NEED TO LOOK AT SOME OF THESE BIBLE VERSUSES. 00:07:55.24\00:08:02.84 GOD IS LOVE AND THAT LOVE DRIVES OUT ALL FEAR. 00:08:02.84\00:08:05.88 SO WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT COMES INTO OUR HEARTS THE FATHER GOES 00:08:05.88\00:08:09.25 OUT. NOT JUST THE FEAR THAT CAUSES US 00:08:09.25\00:08:13.99 TO COMPROMISE OUR CONVICTION BUT THE FEAR THAT WOULD INTIMIDATE 00:08:13.99\00:08:17.86 US WHEN PEOPLE POINT THE FINGER. THAT'S ANOTHER PRINCIPLE THAT WE 00:08:17.86\00:08:25.87 LOOK AT HERE. PEER PRESSURE IS WHEN YOU HAVE PRESSURE. 00:08:25.87\00:08:32.21 PEER PRESSURE IS WHEN YOU HAVE PEOPLE AROUND YOU. 00:08:32.21\00:08:34.78 JOSEPH WAS UNDER A LOT OF PEER PRESSURE AND CALEB AND JOSHUA 00:08:34.78\00:08:39.25 WERE UNDER A LOT OF PEER PRESSURE. 00:08:39.25\00:08:41.15 THEY'RE 2 OUT OF 10. AT THE TIME THERE WAS A CONFLICT 00:08:41.15\00:09:11.21 TAKING PLACE HERE. AND GOD HAS TO COME INTO THE PICTURE. 00:09:11.21\00:09:14.72 >> I WANT TO MAKE ONE LAST STATEMENT. 00:09:14.72\00:09:19.09 I'M NOT SITTING HERE SAYING I'LL NEVER TAKE THE VACCINE. 00:09:19.09\00:09:24.26 THEY'RE CHANGING AND I SAW A PILL THAT YOU CAN TAKE AND 00:09:24.26\00:09:28.46 NUMEROUS PROTOCOLS AND A LOT OF THINGS YOU CAN DO AND THEY MAY 00:09:28.46\00:09:33.23 HAVE PROVEN THAT AND SCIENCE BACKS IT AND I SEE IT TORE A 00:09:33.23\00:09:37.07 WHILE -- SO I'M NOT GOING TO SIT HERE AND SAY THIS IS ABOUT 00:09:37.07\00:09:40.54 VACCINEES. NO IT'S NOT. 00:09:40.54\00:09:42.34 IT'S JUST ABOUT BEING MANDATED. RIGHT NOW IT'S AGAINST MY 00:09:42.34\00:09:52.29 CONSCIENCE. >> I CHOOSE TO TAKE THE VACCINE 00:09:52.29\00:09:54.12 FOR THIS AND THIS REASON. >> THANK YOU. 00:09:54.12\00:09:57.99 THAT'S ALL I'M SAYING. >> SO ANOTHER PRINCIPLE THAT 00:09:57.99\00:10:02.96 COMES AGAINST OUR CONSCIENCE INTIMIDATES OUR CONSCIENCE IS 00:10:02.96\00:10:07.57 ISOLATION. ISOLATION. 00:10:07.57\00:10:08.77 ISOLATING AND FEELING ALONE IN YOUR CONVICTIONS WHICH MAKES YOU 00:10:08.77\00:10:11.47 QUESTION THEM. WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME? 00:10:11.47\00:10:14.28 I'M THE ONLY ONE THAT THINKS THIS WAY. 00:10:14.28\00:10:18.11 DANIEL DARE TO BE A DANIEL. DARE TO STAND ALONE AND HAVE A 00:10:18.11\00:10:25.05 PURPOSE. HE EXPERIENCED SEPARATION FROM 00:10:25.05\00:10:26.86 HIS FAMILY FROM HIS CULTURE AND FROM HIS NATION. 00:10:26.86\00:10:30.66 THEY CHANGED HIS NAME AND CHANGED HIS EDUCATION. 00:10:30.66\00:10:33.83 JOHN THE BAPTIST HE WAS TOTALLY ISOLATED OTHER. 00:10:33.83\00:10:36.93 E EVEN FROM HIS DISCIPLES. AND JESUS SAID THERE IS NO 00:10:36.93\00:10:45.14 GREATER PROPHET THAN JOHN THE BAPTIST BECAUSE HE STOOD STRONG 00:10:45.14\00:10:49.48 FOR HIS CONSCIENTIOUS CONVICTION AND TOLD THE TRUTH TO HAR ROD 00:10:49.48\00:10:53.15 AND STOOD ON THAT TRUTH. IT WAS THE TRUTH OF THE WORD OF 00:10:53.15\00:10:57.22 GOD. BUT ISOLATION CAN BE HARD. 00:10:57.22\00:10:58.75 YOU'RE NOT GOING TO SEE YOUR FAMILY OR GRANDKIDS. 00:10:58.75\00:11:01.69 THESE ARE ALL PRINCE IS MR.S THAT WE SEE. 00:11:01.69\00:11:04.26 THAT INTIMIDATE THE CONSCIENCE. >> THAT IS SUCH A GREAT POINT 00:11:04.26\00:11:08.00 BECAUSE I KNOW SO MANY PEOPLE WHO FEEL SO ISOLATED AND ALONE, 00:11:08.00\00:11:13.37 ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO HAVE CHOSEN NOT TO GET THE VACCINE WITH 00:11:13.37\00:11:18.14 THEIR FRIENDS WHO EVER CHOSEN TO AND NOT COMING OVER THERE 00:11:18.14\00:11:23.71 BECAUSE YOU HAVEN'T BEEN VACCINATED OR I WON'T VISIT YOU. 00:11:23.71\00:11:28.42 IT'S THAT ISOLATION THAT CAUSES PEOPLE ALONG WITH PEER PRESSURE 00:11:28.42\00:11:33.76 TO MOVE AGAINST WHAT THEY FEEL IS RIGHT. 00:11:33.76\00:11:36.29 SO THAT IS SUCH -- THAT IS SUCH AN IMPORTANT POINT AND THERE ARE 00:11:36.29\00:11:40.56 SO MANY PEOPLE NOW WHO FEEL SO ALONE. 00:11:40.56\00:11:49.37 NOT JUST BECAUSE OF THE VACCINE BUT JUST BECAUSE OF COVID 00:11:49.37\00:11:52.24 PERIOD. THEY'RE JUST TRYING TO STAY AWAY 00:11:52.24\00:11:53.98 OR STAY HEALTHY. BUT IT IS A REAL PROBLEM. 00:11:53.98\00:11:57.58 ISOLATION AND PEER PRESSURE ARE VERY, VERY SIGNIFICANT WITH 00:11:57.58\00:12:01.72 CHRISTIANS AND NON CHRISTIANS >> AND DOESN'T MAKE SENSE WITH 00:12:01.72\00:12:04.02 THE SCIENCE. IF YOU'RE VACCINATED WHAT ARE 00:12:04.02\00:12:06.39 YOU AFRAID OF? YOU'RE VACCINATED. 00:12:06.39\00:12:09.92 VACS NAYSES WERE NEVER INTENDED TO STOP INFECTIONS. 00:12:09.92\00:12:13.93 YOU CAN STILL INFECT AND BE INFECTED. 00:12:13.93\00:12:17.07 SO ISOLATION IS ONE. AND WHEN WE LOOK AT THIS TO 00:12:17.07\00:12:21.04 RELATIONSHIP TO CHOICES AND LIFESTYLE, THAT'S ANOTHER AREA. 00:12:21.04\00:12:29.41 I WAS THINKING HOW WE RELATE TO THINGS LIKE FOOD. 00:12:29.41\00:12:35.18 PEOPLE MAYBE LIKE, WELL, THAT TASTES GOOD OR WE THAT FEELS 00:12:35.18\00:12:38.89 GOOD. SO THERE IS A PART OF THE BRAIN 00:12:38.89\00:12:41.46 THAT IS THE PLEASURE REWARD PATHWAY AND A LOT OF THE 00:12:41.46\00:12:45.06 DECISIONS ON WHETHER THAT GETS STIMULATED OR IGNITED. 00:12:45.06\00:12:47.13 IT BRINGS ME PLEASURE SO I JUST AUTOMATICALLY GO DO IT. 00:12:47.13\00:12:57.54 I FIND MYSELF WITH A QUART OF ICE CREAM IN MY LAP. 00:12:57.54\00:13:01.18 >> HAVE YOU BEEN FOLLOWING ME? [LAUGHTER] 00:13:01.18\00:13:08.38 >> DO I LOOK GUILTY? >> IT'S SO COMMON. 00:13:08.38\00:13:12.65 SO WE MAKE DECISIONS BASED ON THAT PART OF OF OUR BRAIN OR 00:13:12.65\00:13:16.22 THERE ARE OTHER PARTS THAT ARE MORE KEYED INTO SOMETHING 00:13:16.22\00:13:20.76 HAPPENED AND I HAVE TO REACT TO THE AND WE DON'T PASS TAT 00:13:20.76\00:13:26.20 INFORMATION THROUGH OUR CONSCIENCE FIRST, IS THAT A BEST 00:13:26.20\00:13:30.97 IDEA FOR ME TO GRAB ICE CREAM RIGHT NOW. 00:13:30.97\00:13:33.88 YES OR NO. IT'S MY CHOICE. 00:13:33.88\00:13:38.61 RATHER THAT COMPULSIVE THING. WHEN JAMES WAS EVEMENTIONING THE 00:13:38.61\00:13:46.45 LIFESTYLE, YOU WANT TO BE WILLING TO VIS LISTEN TO THAT 00:13:46.45\00:13:51.13 VOICE AND SUBMIT TO SOME OTHER PARTS OF THE BRAIN. 00:13:51.13\00:13:53.63 >> ONE OF THE SADDEST STORIES I HEARD IN A LONG TIME, SOMEONE 00:13:53.63\00:13:56.23 THAT WAS MARRIED TO ONE OF MY RELATIVES -- I DON'T WANT TO GET 00:13:56.23\00:14:01.14 TOO DETAILED -- SHE DIED SOME TIME AGO AND IS THE HUSBAND WAS 00:14:01.14\00:14:06.31 SO LONELY. HE HAD BEEN OFFWEIGHT. 00:14:06.31\00:14:10.38 HE DIDN'T WANT TO GO OUT AND HE CONTINUED TO EAT AND EAT AND IS 00:14:10.38\00:14:16.45 ENDED UP 325 POUNDS. ONLY THING HE COULD DO WAS MAKE 00:14:16.45\00:14:19.42 IT TO HIS CAR TO GO TO FAST FOOD AND COME HOME AND HE KEPT 00:14:19.42\00:14:24.13 GETTING HEAVIER AND HEAVIER UNTIL LAST WEEK I GOT A CALL 00:14:24.13\00:14:27.13 FROM ONE OF MY RELATIVES IN FACT WAS ASKED TODAY TO DO A 00:14:27.13\00:14:33.03 MEMORIAL. IT'S BEEN A WEEK OR SO AGO, HE 00:14:33.03\00:14:34.87 KILLED HIMSELF. SHOT HIMSELF. 00:14:34.87\00:14:36.77 LEFT A NOTE. NOT WORTH LIVING. 00:14:36.77\00:14:38.61 I CAN'T EVEN GET OUT TO GO EAT. SO SOMETHING THERE WAS NOT 00:14:38.61\00:14:44.65 BALANCED. BECAUSE THAT MEANT MORE THAN 00:14:44.65\00:14:49.05 ANYTHING. BUT NOW IF I CAN'T DO THAT, THEN 00:14:49.05\00:14:52.02 I DON'T WANT TO LIVE. >> YEAH, IT'S HARD. 00:14:52.02\00:14:56.59 WHEN WE LOOK AT THESE PRINCIPLES THAT INTIMIDATE OUR CONSCIENCE, 00:14:56.59\00:15:00.90 SOMETIMES WE'RE IN SITUATIONS WHERE WE FEEL HELPLESS TO GET 00:15:00.90\00:15:03.97 OUT OF THEM. AND WE TALK ABOUT THIS IN 00:15:03.97\00:15:06.37 RELATIONSHIP TO FEAR AND RELATIONSHIP TO ANXIETY AND 00:15:06.37\00:15:09.60 HEALTH PRINCIPLES. GOD IS THE SOURCE. 00:15:09.60\00:15:13.14 SO EVEN THOUGH WE'RE BEING ISOLATED FROM PEOPLE, ULTIMATELY 00:15:13.14\00:15:17.61 OUR SOUL IS GOD. HE'S ALWAYS THERE FOR US. 00:15:17.61\00:15:20.65 HE'S ALWAYS OUR FRIEND. WE WENT THROUGH SOME 00:15:20.65\00:15:23.62 PARTICULARLY DIFFICULT TIME IN THE LAST YEAR OR TWO, WORKING 00:15:23.62\00:15:27.49 FOR A MINISTRY THAT COFOUNDED AND CODIRECTED AND IS I HAD TO 00:15:27.49\00:15:32.16 RESIGN AND WALK AWAY FROM IT. I FOUND AT THAT TIME I FELT VERY 00:15:32.16\00:15:36.16 ISOLATED. MAYBE I WASN'T BUT I FELT VERY 00:15:36.16\00:15:38.67 ISOLATED. AND IN THAT ISOLATION, IT'S LIKE 00:15:38.67\00:15:40.97 WHEN DAVID IS GOING THROUGH THIS EXPERIENCE AND HIS MEN ARE 00:15:40.97\00:15:46.94 WEEPING AND CRYING AND THEY TURN ON HIM. 00:15:46.94\00:15:50.15 SO HE'S BY HIMSELF NOW. HIS OWN MEN. 00:15:50.15\00:15:52.35 HE ENCOURAGES HIMSELF IN THE LORD. 00:15:52.35\00:15:55.92 WE CAN ALWAYS FIND GOD WITH US NO MATTER HOW LOW AND NO MATTER 00:15:55.92\00:15:59.72 HOW HARD AND HOW DIFFICULT IT IS. 00:15:59.72\00:16:02.26 AND WHAT'S REALLY AMAZING ABOUT THAT IS, WHEN WE FIND THAT GOD 00:16:02.26\00:16:07.60 IS WITH US, WHEN EVERYONE ELSE IS GONE, WHEN WE FIND HE'S THE 00:16:07.60\00:16:10.73 ONLY ONE THAT WE HAVE, WE'LL FIND HE'S THE ONLY ONE THAT WE 00:16:10.73\00:16:14.07 ACTUALLY NEED. >> YES. 00:16:14.07\00:16:15.67 THAT'S SO TRUE. >> THAT'S WHERE GOD WANTS US. 00:16:15.67\00:16:20.34 SO WHEN THESE MACHINE DATES COME SO THAT WHEN THESE THINGS 00:16:20.34\00:16:23.35 HAPPEN, WE'RE SAYING, WHY WOULD WE TURN AWAY FROM GOD RIGHT NOW? 00:16:23.35\00:16:27.65 GIVE UP OUR FAITH IN GOD RIGHT NOW. 00:16:27.65\00:16:30.32 WHAT EARTHLY THING WOULD COME CLOSE TO STANDING FOR TRUTH AND 00:16:30.32\00:16:33.99 PRINCIPLE IN WHAT'S RIGHT AND WHAT MY CONSCIENCE TELLS ME. 00:16:33.99\00:16:36.32 THERE IS NOTHING THAT CAN TOUCH US IN THIS TIME. 00:16:36.32\00:16:39.39 BUT WHAT HAPPENS IS THE DEVIL COMES IN AND ANOTHER THING HE 00:16:39.39\00:16:42.33 DOES TO INTIMIDATE IS PRE OCCUPATION WITH SUCCESS OR 00:16:42.33\00:16:49.70 SURVIVAL. DAVID WANTED TO SURVIVE. 00:16:49.70\00:16:52.44 HE'S RUNNING FROM SOL AND HE LIES TO HIM AND ACTUALLY PUTS 00:16:52.44\00:16:56.68 HIM IN JEOPARDY BECAUSE HE LIVES. 00:16:56.68\00:16:58.91 AND SOMETIMES SURVIVAL MODE KICKS IN AND WE'RE WILLING TO 00:16:58.91\00:17:01.32 SAY THINGS THAT AREN'T TRUE AND VIOLATE OUR CONSCIENCE OR 00:17:01.32\00:17:08.52 SUCCESS MODE. PEOPLE ARE MORE FOCUSSED ON 00:17:08.52\00:17:20.04 SURVIVAL MODE OR MORE FOCUS THE ON SUCCESS AND HAVING THEIR 00:17:20.04\00:17:23.17 CAREER OR NAME OR WHATEVER THAN THEY ARE IN FOLLOWING THE 00:17:23.17\00:17:28.98 CONSCIENCE AND CONSCIENTIOUS CONVICTIONS. 00:17:28.98\00:17:33.35 >> GUILT IS ANOTHER ONE. WE TOUCHED ON THAT A LITTLE BIT. 00:17:33.35\00:17:41.79 SOMETIMES WHEN YOU ARE SO GUILTY WE THROW OFF THE CONSCIENCE. 00:17:41.79\00:17:45.43 IT'S TOO MUCH PRESSURE. I DON'T HAVE A PLACE TO RESOLVE 00:17:45.43\00:17:50.80 THAT. I DIDN'T FOUND FORGIVENESS IN 00:17:50.80\00:17:53.54 CHRIST. SO THAT SOMETIMES CAN BE A 00:17:53.54\00:17:54.97 THREAT TO OUR CONSCIENCE. PAUL WAS PRETTY BEAT UP BY THE 00:17:54.97\00:18:14.86 TIME HE GOT TO END OF HIS MINISTRY. 00:18:14.86\00:18:23.23 195 STRIPE BEATEN STONE TO DEATH. 00:18:23.23\00:18:25.10 THEY THOUGHT HE WAS DEAD SHIPWRECKED AND IN THAT CONFLICT 00:18:25.10\00:18:30.21 HE SAYS, I'VE LIVED WITH THIS CONSCIENCE BEFORE GOD AND MAN. 00:18:30.21\00:18:49.16 SO THE CONSCIENCE IS THE MOST VALUABLE THING THAT WE POSSESS. 00:18:49.16\00:18:54.36 WHY? BECAUSE IT SUGGESTS OUR 00:18:54.36\00:18:56.03 RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD, OUR CONNECTION WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT 00:18:56.03\00:18:58.23 AND OUR COPERCEPTION WITH GOD AND LIVING A LIFE THAT IS 00:18:58.23\00:19:01.97 PLEASING TO GOD. THAT'S THE MOST IMPORTANT THING 00:19:01.97\00:19:03.97 THAT WE CAN HAVE ON PLANET EARTH. 00:19:03.97\00:19:07.68 >> IF THAT'S THE CASE WHAT DO YOU THINK THE DEVIL WILL TARGET. 00:19:07.68\00:19:11.71 >> EVERY WAY HE CAN. >> HE'LL TRY TO DESTROY 00:19:11.71\00:19:19.82 CONSCIENTIOUS CONVICTION. WE DON'T WANT TO BE TIED INTO 00:19:19.82\00:19:40.38 OUR NOTES BUT WE HAVE WRITTEN THESE OUT SO WE CAN HAVE SOME 00:19:40.38\00:19:44.88 GOOD BIBLICAL GUIDELINES. AND FOLKS CAN FOLLOW. 00:19:44.88\00:19:52.52 WE MIGHT VEER OFF AND GO INTO A DIFFERENT DIRECTION. 00:19:52.52\00:19:55.66 BUT THIS I CONFESS UNTO THEE. AFTER THE WAY WHICH THEY CALL 00:19:55.66\00:20:05.73 HERESY BELIEVE ALL THINGS -- >> 24:16. 00:20:05.73\00:20:10.77 SORRY. 16. 00:20:10.77\00:20:11.67 I WANT TO READ THE WHOLE CONTEXT AND WHICH THEY THEMSELVES ALSO 00:20:11.67\00:20:16.48 ALLOW THERE SHOULD BE A RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD AND 00:20:16.48\00:20:22.35 HEREIN TO I EXERCISE MYSELF TOWARD GOD AND TOWARD MEN. 00:20:22.35\00:20:26.86 NOW WHAT'S REALLY INTERESTING IS THIS. 00:20:26.86\00:20:30.33 IN THE CONTEXT OF THIS HE'S SAYING THAT THE MEN THAT HE HAS 00:20:30.33\00:20:34.00 A GOOD CONSCIENCE TOWARD ARE CALLING HIM A HERETIC. 00:20:34.00\00:20:38.60 THEY'RE SAYING I'M A HERETIC BUT I'M LIVING IN GOOD CONSCIENCE 00:20:38.60\00:20:46.74 TOWARD GOD AND MEN. THERE ARE HUMANS WHO YOU BELIEVE 00:20:46.74\00:20:53.68 IS HERESY BUT YOU BELIEVE YOU'RE LIVING IN GOOD CONSCIENCE TOWARD 00:20:53.68\00:20:57.22 THEM AND GOD. AND THAT IS WHERE FREEDOM OF 00:20:57.22\00:21:00.89 CONSCIENCE IS VITAL. THAT'S WHERE THIS COUNTRY HAS 00:21:00.89\00:21:05.09 STOOD SO STRONG FOR SO LONG. THIS HAS BEEN -- I MENTIONED 00:21:05.09\00:21:07.76 THIS EARLIER A GLORIOUS LAND. DANIEL 11 TALKS ABOUT THIS KING 00:21:07.76\00:21:13.64 OF THE NORTH POWER ENTERING INTO THE GLORIOUS LAND. 00:21:13.64\00:21:22.98 AND THAT IS UNDER ATTACK. AND THEY RECOGNIZE THE THREAT 00:21:22.98\00:21:39.43 NOT NECESSARILY FROM SOCIALISM OR THE MONARCHS BUT FROM 00:21:39.43\00:21:44.10 DEMOCRACY, FROM THE MASS. THAT'S WHY THIS COUNTRY WAS 00:21:44.10\00:21:48.04 ESTABLISHED BY AS A REPUBLIC AND ABOUT AS A DEMOCRACY. 00:21:48.04\00:21:51.74 IT WAS ESTABLISHED IN WAYS WITH CHECKS AND BALANCES SO YOU HAVE 00:21:51.74\00:21:54.84 AN EXECUTIVE BRANCH AND IS JUDICIAL BRANCH AND LEGISLATIVE 00:21:54.84\00:21:59.08 BRANCH AND THEY WEREN'T TO BE MIXED UP. 00:21:59.08\00:22:01.15 WE DIDN'T WANT THE PRESIDENT TO BE MAKING LAWS. 00:22:01.15\00:22:02.68 THAT'S FOR THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH. 00:22:02.68\00:22:04.89 WE DON'T WANT THE SUPREME COURT BEING THE ONE THAT MAKES 00:22:04.89\00:22:07.66 DECISIONS THAT DETERMINE LAWS. THEY'RE THE JUDGE. 00:22:07.66\00:22:13.16 SO EVERYTHING IS TURNED UPSIDE DOWN AND EVERYTHING IS MIXED UP 00:22:13.16\00:22:16.77 AND WE'RE SEEING AN ERODING OF THESE PRINCIPLES OF THE 00:22:16.77\00:22:22.64 INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND CONSCIENCE BEING HE WOULD SAY SOVEREIGN IN 00:22:22.64\00:22:27.31 A SENSE. GOD WHO IS SOVEREIGN MADE HUMAN 00:22:27.31\00:22:30.68 BEINGS WITH THE FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE AND THEY HAVE BECOME 00:22:30.68\00:22:37.45 SOVEREIGN. JESUS CHRIST DIED ON THE CROSS 00:22:37.45\00:22:40.92 TO PROTECT THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE INDIVIDUAL RIGHT TO CHOOSE 00:22:40.92\00:22:44.39 AGAINST HIM. IT'S INCREDIBLE. 00:22:44.39\00:22:45.63 SO WHEN WE LOOK AT THERE THIS PRINCIPLE WE'RE NOT JUST TALKING 00:22:45.63\00:22:51.93 ABOUT SOME THING. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE BIBLICAL 00:22:51.93\00:22:58.44 FOUNDATION. AND IT'S UNDER ATTACK RIGHT NOW. 00:22:58.44\00:23:07.02 >> I'D RATHER HAVE THIS APPROVAL. 00:23:07.02\00:23:08.68 WHEN YOU WERE TALKING I WAS THINKING ABOUT THE NUREMBURG 00:23:08.68\00:23:14.19 TRIALS AFTER WORLD WAR II. 1945, '46 AND THESE MEN WHO HAVE 00:23:14.19\00:23:19.49 BEEN A PART OF HORRIFIC THINGS THAT WERE DONE ARE BEING CALLED 00:23:19.49\00:23:23.83 TO BE ACCOUNTABLE FOR IT AND THEY SAY, WELL, I WAS JUST 00:23:23.83\00:23:27.00 FOLLOWING ORDERS. RIGHT? 00:23:27.00\00:23:30.11 AT THAT POINT WE SAID NO THAT DOESN'T FLY. 00:23:30.11\00:23:32.64 WHY DOESN'T THAT FLY? BECAUSE BELIEVE THAT YOU SHOULD 00:23:32.64\00:23:37.15 HAVE A CONSCIENCE. THERE'S RIGHT AND WRONG AND THEN 00:23:37.15\00:23:42.82 ACCOUNTABILITY FOR YOUR ACTIONS TO GOD AND MAN. 00:23:42.82\00:23:44.25 >> SO IT'S THE INDIVIDUAL. YOU CANNOT SURRENDER THAT TO THE 00:23:44.25\00:23:49.42 MASS AND TO THE MAJORITY. IN THE DECISIONS OF INDIVIDUAL 00:23:49.42\00:23:56.06 CONSCIENCE, THE MAJORITY HAS NO POWER. 00:23:56.06\00:24:01.70 WE HAVE TO STAND INDIVIDUALLY BEFORE GOD AND GIVE AN ACCOUNT 00:24:01.70\00:24:04.74 OF OURSELVES. YOU ALL HAVE CALLED ME HERETICS 00:24:04.74\00:24:07.54 BUT MY CONSCIENCE IS WITHOUT OFFENSE BEFORE GOD AND BEFORE 00:24:07.54\00:24:11.01 YOU. ASK SO YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND 00:24:11.01\00:24:13.85 HOW -- BECAUSE IN THIS SOCIETY IN SOCIAL MEDIA WHERE THE MEDIA 00:24:13.85\00:24:17.69 SAYS ABOUT YOU IS WHAT'S TRUE. IF MOST OF THE PEOPLE ON YOUR 00:24:17.69\00:24:25.03 FEED ARE SAYING THAT WHAT SAYING IS WRONG YOU MUST BE WRONG. 00:24:25.03\00:24:30.17 IF PEOPLE WILL CANCEL YOU THEN THERE MUST BE SOMETHING WICKED 00:24:30.17\00:24:36.17 ABOUT YOU. WE'RE GIVING INTO THAT GROUP 00:24:36.17\00:24:39.24 THINK. >> WE ALL KIND OF BELIEVE THE 00:24:39.24\00:24:40.64 SAME THING AND THEREFORE IT'S RIGHT AND WE'LL PRESSURE TO THE 00:24:40.64\00:24:48.42 THE WAY WE DO. WE RECONSIDER THE SOCIAL MEDIAS 00:24:48.42\00:24:56.06 THAT WE'RE APART OF. BECAUSE AS BEING PART OF THAT, 00:24:56.06\00:24:59.29 WE ARE SUPPORTING SOMETHING THAT IS REALLY ACTUALLY OUR SOCIETY. 00:24:59.29\00:25:10.71 WE GOT THIS GROUP THING THAT'S TAKING PLACE AND COLLECTIVE 00:25:10.71\00:25:16.88 CONSCIOUSNESS AND PEOPLE -- IT'S NOT NECESSARILY A REASONING 00:25:16.88\00:25:21.32 THING. IT'S NOT NECESSARILY LOOKING AT 00:25:21.32\00:25:22.65 THE EVIDENCE. IT'S AN EMOTIONAL THING AND THE 00:25:22.65\00:25:25.75 WAY YOU FEEL AND YOUR EMOTIONS AND THE PEOPLE HAVE THE 00:25:25.75\00:25:28.12 STRONGEST EMOTIONS ARE THE PEOPLE WHO ARE THE RIGHTEST. 00:25:28.12\00:25:33.26 BECAUSE LOOK HOW EMOTIONAL THEY ARE ABOUT THIS. 00:25:33.26\00:25:35.96 THEY MUST BE RIGHT. LOOK HOW THEY FEEL. 00:25:35.96\00:25:38.83 >> BUT THEY'RE ALSO THE ONES WHO CAN KIND OF CONTROL THOSE WHO 00:25:38.83\00:25:42.60 ARE NOT AS VOCAL. SO YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE PEOPLE 00:25:42.60\00:25:46.34 WHO ARE LIKE THIS IS THE WAY IT'S GOT TO BE AND ITS NOT 00:25:46.34\00:25:49.88 GOING TO BE THS WAY YOU'LL BE PU 00:25:49.88\00:26:15.54 PUNISHED YOU FEEL RISE THIS IS A REAL PHENOMENON THAT SOME OF 00:26:15.54\00:26:19.97 THESE SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS ARE SET UP WITHAL GO RHYTHMS -- 00:26:19.97\00:26:33.02 ALGORITHMS THAT CONTROL HOW MANY RESPONSES YOU GET AND ALL THAT. 00:26:33.02\00:26:48.80 >> I WAS JUST SITTING HERE THINKING HOW WONDERFUL PARENTAL 00:26:48.80\00:26:52.67 GUIDANCE CAN BE. MY DAD WAS A SIMPLE GUY. 00:26:52.67\00:26:56.38 HE HAD AN EIGHTH GRADE EDUCATION BUT ONE OF THE SMARTEST PEOPLE I 00:26:56.38\00:27:00.82 EVER MET. WHOLE TIME WE'VE BEEN TALKING I 00:27:00.82\00:27:02.45 REMEMBER HIM SAYING, SON YOU BUILD ON A FOUNDATION. 00:27:02.45\00:27:05.89 YOU DON'T BUILD IN THE SAND. SO YOU GO BY PRINCIPLE. 00:27:05.89\00:27:13.33 WE DON'T BY DETAILS. IF FOLLOW EVERYBODY ELSE YOU'RE 00:27:13.33\00:28:03.51 GOING TO END UP DYING REALLY YOUNG. 00:28:03.51\00:28:07.25 YOU'LL SMOKE AND YOU'LL PROBABLY DIE OF LUNG CANCER OR DRINKING 00:28:07.25\00:28:11.95 YOU DIE FROM A CAR WRECK. WHY WOULD YOU LET SOMEBODY IN 00:28:11.95\00:28:15.76 THIS GROUP YOUR PEERS WHY WOULD YOU LET THEM TALK INTO DOING 00:28:15.76\00:28:21.53 SOMETHING THAT MAY CAUSE EFFECTS THE REST OF YOUR LIFE. 00:28:21.53\00:28:24.00 IT GOT THROUGH TO ME. I WOULD SAY THIS AND THAT. 00:28:24.00\00:28:36.28 SON, WE DON'T CARE ABOUT THAT. WE LOOK AT THE PRINCIPLE. 00:28:36.28\00:28:45.19 >> I LISTEN TO THIS TED TALK WHERE A FATHER SAID I WANT TO 00:28:45.19\00:28:49.76 HELP NURTURE CONSCIENCE, A TENDER SENSITIVE CONSCIENCE IN 00:28:49.76\00:28:53.19 MY CHILDREN AND LIKE YOU SAID I THINK PARENTS THAT'S OUR JOB. 00:28:53.19\00:28:59.10 AND HE WOULD TAKE HIS CHILDREN ONE AT A TIME AND THEY WOULD DO 00:28:59.10\00:29:02.50 LIKE A TRIP THEY COULD AFFORD IT OR WHATEVER BUT THEY WOULD TAKE 00:29:02.50\00:29:06.81 THESE TRIPS ONE ON ONE WITH EACH ONE OF THEIR KIDS AND DO 00:29:06.81\00:29:10.28 SOMETHING HUMANITARIAN AND IS GO DOWN TO SOUTH AMERICA OR AFRICA 00:29:10.28\00:29:18.05 BUT TO KEEP THAT CONSCIENCE SENSITIVE AND TENDER AND EDUCATE 00:29:18.05\00:29:25.56 IT. MY DAUGHTER SAID ONE TIME YOU'RE 00:29:25.56\00:29:27.00 THE VOICE IN OUR HEAD. FOR ALMOST 37 YEARS I TRIED TO 00:29:27.00\00:29:54.69 GUIDE IT THROUGH THE GUIDING PART BASED ON WHAT BASICALLY MY 00:29:54.69\00:29:58.06 DAD TAUGHT ME AND THAT'S STAY IN THE WORD OF GOD AND DON'T WORRY 00:29:58.06\00:30:04.43 ABOUT BEING POPULAR, WHO CARES? YOU JUST WANT TO BE POPULAR WITH 00:30:04.43\00:30:07.97 JESUS. DECISIONS WE MADE AND A LOFT 00:30:07.97\00:30:10.37 TIMES PEOPLE HAVE BEEN VERY UPSET IN THE BEGINNING. 00:30:10.37\00:30:29.39 I NEVER ONCE DOUBTED THAT 3ABN WOULD BECOME A REALITY. 00:30:29.39\00:30:37.57 NEVER ONCE. WHY? 00:30:37.57\00:30:40.64 BECAUSE THE LORD IMPRESSED ME TO BUILD A TELEVISION STATION TO 00:30:40.64\00:30:43.61 REACH THE WORLD. SO NOW ALL I GOT TO DO IS GO 00:30:43.61\00:30:47.78 FORWARD. ONLY WAY IT WOULDN'T HAPPEN IS 00:30:47.78\00:30:53.28 IF I QUIT. I FOUND 3 OR 4 PEOPLE WHEN I 00:30:53.28\00:30:59.75 BEGAN TO TELL THE STORY ABOUT 3AB2346789 WHO SAID I KNOW 00:30:59.75\00:31:04.03 YOU'RE TELLING THE TRUTH BECAUSE THE LORD IMPRESSED ME THE SAME 00:31:04.03\00:31:07.20 THING AND I COULDN'T DO IT. SO I SAID I'M NOT EVEN THE FIRST 00:31:07.20\00:31:10.43 CHOICE. I'M DOWN IN THE LANE SOMEWHERE. 00:31:10.43\00:31:18.17 SO NOW THANK YOU. AND THAT I LOVE THAT. 00:31:18.17\00:31:31.19 MY DAD HE DIED WHEN I WAS 23, HE STILL DECISIONS I MAKE TO THIS 00:31:31.19\00:31:35.32 DAY BASE IT ON PRINCIPLE. WE DON'T CARE ABOUT FEELINGS. 00:31:35.32\00:31:53.07 SO THAT'S STILL TODAY I'M A VERY -- I'M A VERY POSITIVE 00:31:53.07\00:31:58.81 PERSON. >> HE IS. 00:31:58.81\00:31:59.51 HE DOESN'T GET DEPRESSED. HE'S NOT HANGING HIS HEAD DOWN 00:31:59.51\00:32:05.45 BECAUSE HE KNOWS -- >> SPHR IT'S NOT ON ME. 00:32:05.45\00:32:10.69 IT >> I WANT TO ADD TO THAT. 00:32:10.69\00:32:12.93 EVEN THE VOICE IN THE HEAD SAYING MY CHILDREN ARE NOT 00:32:12.93\00:32:16.56 COOKIE CUTTERS OF ME AND I SHOULD BE -- I WANT THEM TO MAKE 00:32:16.56\00:32:20.84 THE DECISIONS. SOME OF THEM I'M LIKE, WHY DON'T 00:32:20.84\00:32:24.01 YOU LIVE LIKE ME OR DO WHAT I WANT YOU DO. 00:32:24.01\00:32:26.61 BUT I'M AN AMERICAN AND I'M A CHRISTIAN AND I BELIEVE IN 00:32:26.61\00:32:29.71 FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE AND I'M GOING TO RESPECT THAT'S WHERE 00:32:29.71\00:32:32.45 YOU'RE AT RIGHT NOW AND THOSE ARE THE DECISIONS YOU'RE MAKING 00:32:32.45\00:32:35.18 AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A COOKIE CUTTER. 00:32:35.18\00:32:44.56 >> I'LL HOPE THEY ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT. 00:32:44.56\00:32:46.13 IT MAY GO AWAY. >> I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT 00:32:46.13\00:32:50.43 WE TOUCH ON THE CONSCIENCE BEING SEARED. 00:32:50.43\00:32:53.94 >> WE CAN TOUCH ON THAT. BUT ONE LAST POINT IS HOW IT 00:32:53.94\00:33:00.31 RELATES TO OTHER PEOPLE. IF WE AREN'T CAREFUL WE CAN MAKE 00:33:00.31\00:33:04.15 DECISIONS THINKING WE'RE REACHING PEOPLE AND INFLUENCING 00:33:04.15\00:33:07.95 PEOPLE AND MAYBE EVEN EVANGELIZING PEOPLE BUT WE'RE 00:33:07.95\00:33:12.45 COMPROMISING OUR CONSCIENCE OR CONSCIENTIOUS BELIEFS OR THE 00:33:12.45\00:33:19.06 KNOWLEDGE THAT WE HAVE. >> SOLOMON WAS NOT ONLY WEALTHY, 00:33:19.06\00:34:00.60 WHICH HE DIDN'T ASK FOR WEALTH HE ASKED FOR WISDOM AND GOD GAVE 00:34:00.60\00:34:03.84 HIM WISDOM AND WEALTH AND HE WAS THE WISEST MAN THAT LIVED. 00:34:03.84\00:34:06.78 BUT IN THAT KNOWLEDGE AND IS HE KNEW THAT GOD WAS THE ONLY TRUE 00:34:06.78\00:34:11.15 GOD. HE KNEW THAT. 00:34:11.15\00:34:12.95 BUT AS HE STARTED TO RUB SHOULDERS WITH A LOT OF THE 00:34:12.95\00:34:15.32 NATIONS AROUND HIM AND STARTED TO IMPRESS THEM HE BEGAN TO DO 00:34:15.32\00:34:20.62 EVANGELISM THAT WAS BASED ON COMPROMISING. 00:34:20.62\00:34:30.90 THEN HE STARTED PUTTING UP IDOL AND HE KNEW IT WASN'T ANYTHING. 00:34:30.90\00:34:34.94 AN IDOL IS NOTHING AND THERE ARE NO OTHER GODS. 00:34:34.94\00:34:38.24 WE KNOW THAT. BUT IF PEOPLE SEE YOU WHO KNOW 00:34:38.24\00:34:41.94 THAT ACTUALLY WORSHIPPING IDOLS AND IF PEOPLE WHO SEE THAT WHO 00:34:41.94\00:34:46.98 KNOW THAT YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE ONE INTERACTING LIKE THAT -- I'M 00:34:46.98\00:34:52.05 JUST DOING THAT OR EVANGELISM. THEIR CONSCIENCE WILL BE 00:34:52.05\00:34:57.09 EMBOLDEN TO BE THE VERY SAME THINGS. 00:34:57.09\00:34:58.69 THE LACK OF STANDING UP FOR OUR CONSCIENTIOUS CONVICTIONS OF 00:34:58.69\00:35:02.60 TRUTH CAN ACTUALLY BE A STUMBLING BLOCK TO OTHER PEOPLE. 00:35:02.60\00:35:12.61 HE WAS TRYING TO DO IT HIS WAY AND NOT GOD'S WAY. 00:35:12.61\00:35:17.21 AND HE'S SAYING THAT THERE ARE TIMES NO ONE ELSE SHOULD 00:35:17.21\00:35:26.96 INFLUENCE THOSE BUT ALSO OUR CONSCIENTIOUS CONVICTIONS CAN BE 00:35:26.96\00:35:30.86 COMPROMISED IN A WAY THAT INFLUENCES OTHER PEOPLE 00:35:30.86\00:35:33.60 NEGATIVELY. AND SO WE KNOW THE TRUTH. 00:35:33.60\00:35:35.40 WE KNOW WHAT'S RIGHT AND I JUST WANT TO SAY THIS AGAIN. 00:35:35.40\00:35:38.63 I DON'T WANT TO NECESSARILY BRING THIS UP AGAIN BUT WE'RE 00:35:38.63\00:35:42.27 7TH DAY ADVENTISTS. AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY ARE 00:35:42.27\00:35:49.54 PRIMARY TEACHINGS. WE KNOW THESE PRINCIPLES PERHAPS 00:35:49.54\00:35:53.38 MORE THAN ANY OTHER CHURCH. BAPTISTS ARE REALLY BIG ON 00:35:53.38\00:36:00.12 RELIGIOUS LIBERTY AS WELL. I SALUTE THEM FOR THAT. 00:36:00.12\00:36:04.46 WE SHOULD BE SPEAKING OUT AND WE SHOULD BE CRYING OUT AND 00:36:04.46\00:36:07.86 STANDING AGAINST NOT VACCINES OR UNVACCINES BUT MAN DATES AND 00:36:07.86\00:36:14.24 COERCION AND INTIMIDATION AND ISOLATION AND FEAR AND ALL THESE 00:36:14.24\00:36:17.94 PRINCIPLES THAT INTIMIDATE FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE. 00:36:17.94\00:36:21.74 >> GOOD. INTIMIDATION. 00:36:21.74\00:36:28.48 BIBLE TELLS US THAT OUR CONSCIENCE CAN GO BAD AND BE 00:36:28.48\00:36:31.79 DAMAGED AND SEARED AND IGNORED AND SILENCED AND UNDEVELOPED. 00:36:31.79\00:36:39.43 ALL THESE THINGS CAN HAPPEN FIRST SIM MOTH THY 4. 00:36:39.43\00:36:50.47 WHY DID I STUDY THESE IN BECAUSE I WAS A MEAT EATER. 00:36:50.47\00:36:54.38 I WAS THE MEAT EATER. WHEN EVERYONE WAS GOING BACK FOR 00:36:54.38\00:37:03.35 ICE CREAMY WAS GOING BACK FOR MEET AND POTATOES. 00:37:03.35\00:37:12.36 I STILL SALIVATE WHEN I SMELL MEAT COOKING. 00:37:12.36\00:37:15.30 I HAVEN'T EATEN MEAT FOR 37 YEARS SINCE I BECAME A 00:37:15.30\00:37:19.40 VEGETARIAN. BUT WHEN I FIRST STARTED 00:37:19.40\00:37:24.07 STUDYING THESE ARE THE VERSUS I READ. 00:37:24.07\00:37:28.01 I'LL READ TWO OF THEM. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT CONVINCED 00:37:28.01\00:37:30.38 ME THAT SHE WAS IN A CULT SHE TOLD ME THAT YOU SHOULDN'T EAT 00:37:30.38\00:37:37.55 M MEAT. 00:37:37.55\00:37:38.39 I THOUGHT MAN SHE'S IN A CULT I GOT TO GET HER OUT. 00:37:38.39\00:37:41.59 THE SPIRIT SPEAKS EXPRESSLY AND IS SOME SHALL DID HE PARTY 00:37:41.59\00:37:45.96 GIVING HEAT TO SEDUCING SPEECH. HAVING THEIR CONSCIENCE SEARED 00:37:45.96\00:37:53.67 WITH A HOT IRON WE CAN SEAR THE CONSCIENCE. 00:37:53.67\00:37:56.40 THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO WERE ONCE IN THE FAITH AND THEY'RE 00:37:56.40\00:37:58.71 DEPARTING. WHAT IS THE FAITH? 00:37:58.71\00:38:01.61 THE FAITH COMES FROM HEARING AND DEPARTING FROM THE WORD OF GOD. 00:38:01.61\00:38:07.42 THE COPERCEPTION OF GOD IS SEARED. 00:38:07.42\00:38:09.05 WHAT ARE THEY DOING IN VERSE 3? THEY'RE FORBIDDING TO MARRY AND 00:38:09.05\00:38:16.89 COMMANDING TO ABSTAIN FROM MEATS. 00:38:16.89\00:38:33.48 THE WORD GOD CREATED THAT'S WHAT HE ORIGINALLY FORMED. 00:38:33.48\00:38:35.31 HE ORIGINALLY CREATED. THAT'S WHAT THE GREEK IS. 00:38:35.31\00:38:38.51 IT'S AN ORIGINAL FORMATION SO THIS SHOULD READ. 00:38:38.51\00:38:40.85 THOSE WHO DEPART FROM THE WORD OF GOD WHO ONCE HAD A POSITION 00:38:40.85\00:38:45.35 BUT NOW LEAVING IT OR COMMANDING PEOPLE TO HOLD OFF FROM THE FOOD 00:38:45.35\00:38:49.56 TO BE RECEIVED AT THANKSGIVING. EVERYTHING HE ORIGINALLY CREATED 00:38:49.56\00:38:58.27 IS GOOD. THIS IS TALKING ABOUT THE 00:38:58.27\00:39:01.94 ORIGINAL DIET GOD GAVE US. BUT HERE'S THE KEY IN THESE 00:39:01.94\00:39:05.47 VERSUS THAT I WANT TO GO BACK TO. 00:39:05.47\00:39:07.51 WHEN OUR CONSCIENCE IS SEARED THERE ARE TWO THINGS WE'LL DO. 00:39:07.51\00:39:11.98 FORBIDDING AND COMMANDING. FORBIDDING AND COMMANDING. 00:39:11.98\00:39:16.62 WHEN THE CONSCIENCE IS SEARED ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS WHEN HE 00:39:16.62\00:39:19.42 DO -- WHEN JESUS CAME TO THIS EARTH HE MET WITH PEOPLE AND LET 00:39:19.42\00:39:22.56 THEM HAVE FREEDOM OF CHOICE. HE PREACHED TO THEM AND HE URGED 00:39:22.56\00:39:27.03 THEM AND HE CALLED THEM. BUT HE DIDN'T -- HE WASN'T IN 00:39:27.03\00:39:30.10 THIS ATTITUDE OF FORBIDDING AND COMMANDING. 00:39:30.10\00:39:33.74 IN OTHER WORDS, HUMAN -- NOW GOD HAS COMMAND. 00:39:33.74\00:39:35.87 ES BUT THEY'RE PROMISES FPLS HUMAN BEINGS WHEN THEIR 00:39:35.87\00:39:38.74 CONSCIENCE IS SEARED THEY GET INTO THIS CONTROL MODE OF 00:39:38.74\00:39:43.48 FORBIDDING AND COMMANDING. I'VE SEEN THIS EVERYWHERE. 00:39:43.48\00:39:46.21 I'LL GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE. I'VE SEEN IT ON AIRPLANES. 00:39:46.21\00:39:51.35 WE FLEW OUT HERE -- ONE TRIP -- WE GOT ON AN AIRPLANE. 00:39:51.35\00:39:56.62 WE WERE ALL MASKING UP AND IS THE STEWARD DOES THE AUTOMATIC 00:39:56.62\00:40:02.76 THING. SAT DOWN IN THE CHAIR AND NEVER 00:40:02.76\00:40:05.10 SAID ANOTHER WORD ABOUT IT. AND SOME OF US HAD THEM UNDER 00:40:05.10\00:40:08.87 OUR NOSES AND DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING. 00:40:08.87\00:40:11.84 GOT ON THE NEXT FLIGHT TWO STOOD WARDS ALL OVER US. 00:40:11.84\00:40:15.04 JUST POLICING IT. FORBIDDING AND COMMANDING. 00:40:15.04\00:40:18.25 FORBIDDING AND COMMANDING NO SLACK AND I FEEL LIKE THIS IS 00:40:18.25\00:40:22.35 ONE OF THE ERR MARKS OF THOSE WHOSE CONSCIENCES ARE BEING 00:40:22.35\00:40:26.82 SEARED AND THEY WANT TO CONTROL OTHER PEOPLE. 00:40:26.82\00:40:28.89 IT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH THEY'RE DOING WHAT THEY FEEL IS THEIR 00:40:28.89\00:40:31.89 CONVICTION. THEY WANT TO MAKE SURE OTHER 00:40:31.89\00:40:33.19 PEOPLE ARE DOING IT TOO. THEIR CONTROLLING AND FORBIDDING 00:40:33.19\00:40:35.20 AND COMMANDING AND THIS IS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I THINK IS AN 00:40:35.20\00:40:39.17 EARMARK OF A SEARED CONSCIENCE. >> I THINK YOU'RE USING THE WORD 00:40:39.17\00:40:43.67 SEARED BUT IF WE COULD CLARIFY. WHEN WE'RE NOT ALLOWING TO HAVE 00:40:43.67\00:41:14.64 OTHER PEOPLE HAVE THEIR OWN INTERNAL GPS THEN WE WANT TO 00:41:14.64\00:41:23.85 CONTROL IT. HE HAD A QUESTIONABLE 00:41:23.85\00:41:42.66 FATHERHOOD. AND IS PEOPLE ARE THINKING, OH 00:41:42.66\00:41:45.70 NO, THAT CAN'T BE THE MESSIAH AND THEY CONTINUED UNTIL FINALLY 00:41:45.70\00:41:49.27 THEY GOT TO THE PLACE WHERE HE IS THE DEVIL AND WE NEED TO TAKE 00:41:49.27\00:41:53.41 HIM OUT AND EVEN PEOPLE WHO SPOKE UP IN THE FINAL MEETING, 00:41:53.41\00:41:59.28 HE WASN'T INVITED AND JOSEPH WASN'T INVITED. 00:41:59.28\00:42:01.68 THEY DIDN'T WANT TO HEAR THAT. THE CONSCIENCE BECAME MORE AND 00:42:01.68\00:42:04.85 MORE SEARED AND SO THEY COULDN'T EVEN HEAR UNTIL FINALLY THE 00:42:04.85\00:42:10.03 ROMAN SOLDIERS CAME BACK FROM THE TOMB AND SAID, IT'S THE 00:42:10.03\00:42:14.56 MESSIAH AND ANGEL CAME AND MATOLD 00:42:14.56\00:42:18.90 US THEY'RE LIKE, WAIT AN ININ. TAKE THIS MONEY. 00:42:18.90\00:42:21.50 THE BIBLE TELLS US FIRST TIMOTHY 6 VERSE 10 THAT THE LOVE OF 00:42:21.50\00:42:31.81 MON MONEY IS ROOT OF ALL EVIL. THAT'S WHAT WE ARE SEEING RIGHT 00:42:31.81\00:42:37.09 NOW BEING IMPLEMENTED. BEING ARE BEING PRESSURED UNDER 00:42:37.09\00:42:40.42 THIS EMPHASIS OF MONEY. ROMAN SOLDIERS WENT IN WITH A 00:42:40.42\00:42:47.56 TESTAMENT AND WENT OUT WITH A LOAD OF MONEY. 00:42:47.56\00:42:49.63 AND THEIR CONSCIENCE WAS SEARED. BUT THE ROMANS HAD THE 00:42:49.63\00:42:58.57 OPPORTUNITY. THE SOLDIERS HAD THE 00:42:58.57\00:42:59.84 OPPORTUNITY. THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE IN COUNTRY 00:42:59.84\00:43:01.61 WHO ARE SEEING THINGS AND KNOWS GOING ON AND SOME OF THEM ARE 00:43:01.61\00:43:04.61 SPEAKING UP. WE CALL THEM WHISTLE BLOWERS AND 00:43:04.61\00:43:08.25 WE'RE TELLING US THINGS THAT ARE BEHIND THE SCENES AND WAEPBT TO 00:43:08.25\00:43:11.92 ENCOURAGE THESE PEOPLE AND THE BIBLE IS BEHIND YOU. 00:43:11.92\00:43:13.79 WHEN YOU SPEAK UP AND STAND FOR YOUR CONSCIENCE THE BIBLE IS 00:43:13.79\00:43:17.06 BEHIND YOU AND THE BIBLE WILL STAND AND GOD WILL STAND AND 00:43:17.06\00:43:20.86 VINNED DATE YOU NO MATTER WHAT. YOU DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT 00:43:20.86\00:43:25.50 ANYTHING. AND GOD WILL STAND FOR YOU. 00:43:25.50\00:43:28.30 >> WE JUST HUNG OUT WITH OUR DAUGHTER AND FRIENDS JUST A 00:43:28.30\00:43:30.44 MONTH AGO AND THEY HAD THIS FUNNY SAYING, BRING SHAME BACK. 00:43:30.44\00:43:35.38 THEY WEREN'T TALKING ABOUT SHAME AS MUCH THEY WERE LIKE HOW COME 00:43:35.38\00:43:41.22 THESE PEOPLE ARE DOING ALL HE THESE THINGS AND THEY DON'T FEEL 00:43:41.22\00:43:46.62 ABOUT BAD ABOUT IT. SO OUR CONSCIENCE CAN BE QUIETED 00:43:46.62\00:43:57.67 AND WE CAN USE THAT THING, BRING SHAME BACK. 00:43:57.67\00:44:00.54 THE COOL THING IS THAT IT CAN BE RESTORED AND BECOME LOUDER AND I 00:44:00.54\00:44:06.51 THINK WE SHOULD GIVE PEOPLE HOPE ABOUT THAT. 00:44:06.51\00:44:09.58 HOW DO WE REJUVENATE OUR CONSCIENCE. 00:44:09.58\00:44:11.68 >> WELL, THAT IS WHERE WE WANT TO END. 00:44:11.68\00:44:14.25 WE WANT TO END ON A POSITIVE NOTE. 00:44:14.25\00:44:48.12 HE OFFERED HIMSELF A SPOT TO GOD AND PURGE YOUR CONSCIENCE FROM 00:44:48.12\00:44:52.29 DEAD WORKS TO SERVE THE LIVING GOD. 00:44:52.29\00:44:54.62 ISN'T THAT POWERFUL? >> SO I HAD A CONSCIENCE BEFORE 00:44:54.62\00:45:03.03 I ACCEPTED CHRIST AS MY SAVIOR. BUT MY CONSCIENCE WAS BASED A 00:45:03.03\00:45:07.07 LOT ON THE PERCEPTION OF MY ROOMMATES AND SOCIETY AROUND ME 00:45:07.07\00:45:10.97 AND I WASN'T AS BAD AS THEY WERE. 00:45:10.97\00:45:14.44 I WAS JUST BETTER THAN THEY WERE. 00:45:14.44\00:45:16.51 I WAS A BETTER PERSON. I PAID MY BILLS AND I WAS 00:45:16.51\00:45:19.25 RESPONSIBLE AND I HAD A JOB AND I DIDN'T DO DRUGS OR TAKE 00:45:19.25\00:45:26.39 ADVANTAGE OF PEOPLE BUT HOLY SPIRIT THERE'S A DIFFERENT LEVEL 00:45:26.39\00:45:29.76 AND STANDARD THAT GOD HAS I WASN'T AWARE OF OR CONVICTED OF 00:45:29.76\00:45:46.54 OR WHATEVER AND MY CONSCIENCE BECAME MORE SENSITIVE AND MORE 00:45:46.54\00:45:54.35 SENSITIVE TO HIS LAW. THEY BECAME A FOUNDATION THAT 00:45:54.35\00:46:09.60 CAUSED YOU TO LIVE FOR NOTHING ELSE. 00:46:09.60\00:46:22.41 IT'S MORE IMPORTANT TO US THAN ANYTHING ES. 00:46:22.41\00:46:24.05 I THINK THAT HE WHAT WE SEE IN THE HIS THERE I GOING BACK TO 00:46:24.05\00:46:26.68 THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH AND EVEN BEFORE THAT. 00:46:26.68\00:46:30.95 TO THE FAITHFUL OF THE NEW AND OLD TESTAMENT AND REFORMERS 00:46:30.95\00:46:36.79 FAITHFUL AND DISAPPOINTMENT THEY STOOD FAST THROUGH THAT BECAUSE 00:46:36.79\00:46:39.59 THEY WERE CONSCIENTIOUSLY CONVICTED. 00:46:39.59\00:47:16.23 YOU SAID EARLIER THERE IS SCIENCE ON BOTH OTHER SIDES OF 00:47:16.23\00:47:19.00 THIS. SCIENCE IS EVOLUTION AND A WHOLE 00:47:19.00\00:47:21.30 BUNCH OF STUFF BUT THE WORD OF GOD IS REALLY CLEAR. 00:47:21.30\00:47:23.71 WHEN I GO TO THE WORD OF GOD AND I LOOK AT ADAM, I LOOK AT ADAM 00:47:23.71\00:47:27.84 WHEN HE WAS CREATED AND HE'S ONE DAY OLD. 00:47:27.84\00:47:35.05 WHAT SCIENCE TELLS ME HE'S PROBABLY 30. 00:47:35.05\00:47:38.75 SO THE BIBLE HAS TO BE THE FOUNDATION, THE BEDROCK OF ALL 00:47:38.75\00:47:43.12 SCIENCE AND SCIENCE IS 100% COMPATIBLE WITH THE WORD OF GOD 00:47:43.12\00:47:47.20 AS LONG AS YOU ALLOW IT TO BE COMPATIBLE. 00:47:47.20\00:48:05.81 THEY DIDN'T TO GIVE THE PATIENTING SOMETHING SO I THINK 00:48:05.81\00:48:09.02 THE RIGHT KIND OF MASK ESPECIALLY THE N-95'S ACTUALLY 00:48:09.02\00:48:13.89 WORK. WHAT WE SEE IS THIS IS A GREAT 00:48:13.89\00:48:15.59 WAY -- I'M SURE WE WOULD HAVE HAD -- WE TRAVELED THOUSANDS AND 00:48:15.59\00:48:20.06 THOUSANDS OF MILES ON AIRPLANES SO FAR WE HAVEN'T CAUGHT COVID 00:48:20.06\00:48:28.50 DOESN'T MEAN IT'S NOT IN MY SYSTEM RIGHT NOW OR WON'T 00:48:28.50\00:48:33.21 DEVELOP TOMORROW BECAUSE IT VERY WELL COULD. 00:48:33.21\00:48:41.32 I'M CONVINCED MASK WORK FROM THE SCIENCE. 00:48:41.32\00:48:44.05 I WORKED IN SURGERY FOR A LITTLE WHILE. 00:48:44.05\00:48:47.12 I TOOK AN LPN COURSE WHEN I GOT OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL AND DID THAT 00:48:47.12\00:48:50.73 AND WORKED AT A HOSPITAL AND THE I USED TO GO IN SURGERIES WITH 00:48:50.73\00:48:55.10 HIM AND HE WE ALWAYS WORE THE MASK AND GLOVES AND THERE IS A 00:48:55.10\00:48:57.83 REASON FOR IT. SO I'M NOT -- I BELIEVE THE 00:48:57.83\00:49:00.67 SCIENCE OF MASKS. I'M JUST NOT CONVINCED ON THE 00:49:00.67\00:49:03.91 OTHER YET TO WHAT THE BENEFITS ARE. 00:49:03.91\00:49:07.81 SO AGAIN YOU WANT YOUR OWN CHOICE. 00:49:07.81\00:49:12.28 PLEASE DON'T GO AWAY SAYING YOU SHOULDN'T BE VACCINATED OR YOU 00:49:12.28\00:49:15.52 SHOULD BE VACCINATED OR ANYTHING. 00:49:15.52\00:49:18.52 IT'S NOT ABOUT WHETHER YOU SHOULD OR SHOULDN'T BE. 00:49:18.52\00:49:20.79 IT'S USING YOUR OWN CONSCIENCE TO MAKE THAT CHOICE TO SAY, I 00:49:20.79\00:49:25.09 CHOOSE NOT TO BE OR I CHOOSE TO. AND THEN WE HAVE NO BUSINESS 00:49:25.09\00:49:30.70 SAYING, OH SHAME ON YOU YOU TOOK THE VACCINE OR SHAME ON YOU YOU 00:49:30.70\00:49:34.40 DIDN'T. AND IS YOU'RE RESPONSIBLE. 00:49:34.40\00:49:39.01 IS IT TOO STRONG TO SAY WHAT WE ARE SEEING HAS ANNING RIGHT NOW 00:49:39.01\00:49:43.11 WITH THE MANDATES, WITH PEOPLE GIVING IN TO THOSE AND WITH 00:49:43.11\00:49:52.12 PEOPLE TURNING ON OTHERS ISN'T THAT A PER CURSER? 00:49:52.12\00:49:57.59 >> IT ABSOLUTELY IS. >> THEY TALK ABOUT IF YOU WALK 00:49:57.59\00:50:02.00 WITH A FOOT MAN HOW ARE YOU GOING TO CONTEND WITH THE HORSES 00:50:02.00\00:50:05.77 AND IN THE LAND OF PEACE YOU'RE IN TROUBLE ARE YOU GOING TO -- 00:50:05.77\00:50:11.14 WE KNOW THAT THE LITTLE THINGS COME BEFORE. 00:50:11.14\00:50:12.91 WE LOOKED AT THAT IN DANIEL. DANIEL CHAPTER 1 CAME BEFORE 00:50:12.91\00:50:18.31 CHAPTER 3 AND 6 AND CHAPTER ONE HAD TO BE A TEST. 00:50:18.31\00:50:22.08 SO WE AS CHRISTIANS WE HAVE THE BIBLE AS OUR GUIDE AND NEED IT. 00:50:22.08\00:50:28.72 WE PT TOUCHED ON MATTHEW 24. WE'RE IN STAGE NUMBER 11. 00:50:28.72\00:50:33.06 IT'S ALMOST LIKE READING THE NEWSPAPER WHEN YOU READ MATTHEW 00:50:33.06\00:50:36.40 CHAPTER 24 TODAY AND THE FIRST FEW VERSUS UP TO VERSE 10. 00:50:36.40\00:50:55.42 THEY'RE GOING TO BE ANOINTED AND THAT DOESN'T MEAN RELIGIOUS BUT 00:50:55.42\00:50:58.92 MEANS THEY'RE ANOINTED MEANING THEY ARE IN A POSITION OF 00:50:58.92\00:51:02.52 AUTHORITY. AND THIS THEY'RE GOING TO BE 00:51:02.52\00:51:04.36 TELLING YOU THESE PEOPLE THINGS THAT AREN'T NECESSARILY RIGHT. 00:51:04.36\00:51:09.63 AND WE GOT TO TRYING TO FIGURE OUT FROM AT LEAST FROM THE WORD 00:51:09.63\00:51:13.64 OF GOD WHAT IS THE BEST THING TO DO NOW. 00:51:13.64\00:51:16.37 WE DON'T KNOW ABOUT THAT VACCINATIONS RIGHT NOW SO PEOPLE 00:51:16.37\00:51:19.81 HAVE DIFFERENT THINGS. BUT WE KNOW ABOUT COERCION AND 00:51:19.81\00:51:22.14 WE KNOW ABOUT MANDATES AND THAT VERY CLEAR. 00:51:22.14\00:51:27.45 WE SHOULD NOT BE PART OF OR SUPPORTING ANY KIND OF COERCION 00:51:27.45\00:51:31.99 AGAINST PEOPLE'S CONSCIENTIOUS CONVICTIONS ESPECIALLY WHEN IT 00:51:31.99\00:51:35.22 COMES TO USING ISOLATION AND IS FEAR, USING MONETARY AND 00:51:35.22\00:51:42.93 IMPRISONMENT THE ALL THESE THINGS ARE WRONG. 00:51:42.93\00:51:47.87 >> WE'RE SAYING IF YOU LOOK AT CHRISTIANITY SUPPOSEDLY IN THE 00:51:47.87\00:51:52.84 DARK AGES IT WAS ALL ABOUT COERCION. 00:51:52.84\00:51:54.81 YOU DO WHAT I SAY OR I'LL KILL YOU OR BURN YOU AT THE STAKE. 00:51:54.81\00:52:01.92 WHEN TRUE CHRISTIANITY WOULD SAY TO ME I DON'T AGREE WITH 00:52:01.92\00:52:05.42 SAME-SEX LAW BUT I'M NOT TRYING TO ENFORCE SOMEBODY TO NOT DO 00:52:05.42\00:52:09.29 IT. SAY YOU CAN'T -- BUT IT'S MY 00:52:09.29\00:52:11.89 RESPONSIBILITY TO SAY ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE THIS IS WRONG. 00:52:11.89\00:52:20.07 COVETING IS KNOW WROTE. BUT I'M NOT THEIR CONSCIENCE SO 00:52:20.07\00:52:27.91 MY JOB IS TO PUT IT OUT THERE AND LET THE HOLY SPIRIT TO DO 00:52:27.91\00:52:31.28 THE NURTURING. I DON'T CONDEMN PEOPLE WHO ARE 00:52:31.28\00:52:37.79 HOMOSEXUALS. I DON'T THINK SOMEBODY SHOULD BE 00:52:37.79\00:52:38.92 BEATING THEM OVER THE HEAD BECAUSE THAT TAKES AWAY THEIR 00:52:38.92\00:52:44.46 CHOICE. GOD CREATED US WHERE HE GAVE US 00:52:44.46\00:52:47.23 WE'RE COULSOVEREIGN AND MAKE OUR OWN CHOICES. 00:52:47.23\00:52:52.27 DO I AGREE WITH IT? NO. 00:52:52.27\00:52:55.24 BUT STILL YET I'M GLAD I'M ABLE TO SPEAK ALL THESE YEARS. 00:52:55.24\00:53:05.31 TO ME TRUE CHRISTIANITY IS AGAIN, I CAN'T FORCE ANYBODY AND 00:53:05.31\00:53:10.45 SHOULDN'T BE FORCING SOMEBODY TO DO. 00:53:10.45\00:53:13.69 MY JOB IS TO PLANT THE SEED AND SAY GOD IS LOVE AND IF GOD IS 00:53:13.69\00:53:17.93 LOVE ARE WE GOING T PROTECT HUMAN LIVES OR TAKE IT? 00:53:17.93\00:53:21.93 GOD CREATED US ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN. 00:53:21.93\00:53:25.20 WITHOUT THAT, THAT WOULD BE THE END OF THE STORY. 00:53:25.20\00:53:27.04 WE WOULDN'T BE AROUND. IF THAT WHAT PEOPLE WANT DO I'M 00:53:27.04\00:53:43.62 NOT OUT TO CONDEMN THEM OR SAY TERRIBLE THINGS ABOUT THEM. 00:53:43.62\00:53:46.62 IT HE NOT MY JOB. MY JOB IS TO LOVE PEOPLE NO 00:53:46.62\00:53:49.66 MATTER WHO THEY ARE AND SAY, HEY, YOU DON'T TO HAVE BEEN LIKE 00:53:49.66\00:53:52.86 ME FOR ME TO LOVE YOU BECAUSE WHEN JESUS -- HE SAID, I BE 00:53:52.86\00:53:57.77 LIFTED UP WHEN I'M LIFTED UP FROM THE ARMS. 00:53:57.77\00:54:02.30 SO OUR JOB AS CHRISTIANS IS NOT TO BE PART OF THE COERCION AND 00:54:02.30\00:54:06.54 NOT TO FORCE OR GUILT TRIPS OR REALLY -- REALLY BOTHERS ME IS 00:54:06.54\00:54:13.05 THAT PEOPLE SAY WELL IF YOU DON'T LIVE FOR JESUS, HE DIED 00:54:13.05\00:54:18.72 FOR YOU AND MADE SALVATION FOR YOU OH BY THE WAY IF YOU DON'T 00:54:18.72\00:54:24.06 SERVE GOD HE'LL TORTURE YOU THROUGHOUT THE EONS OF ETERNITY. 00:54:24.06\00:54:29.40 SO THAT'S WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT. 00:54:29.40\00:54:35.64 HELL FIRE. IT WASN'T FROM THE BIBLE BUT 00:54:35.64\00:54:39.07 BEGAN AS COERCION. SO AS CHRISTIANS IT'S OUR 00:54:39.07\00:54:43.14 OPPORTUNITY TO BE HEALTHY AND HAPPY AND SHARE WITH PEOPLE WHAT 00:54:43.14\00:54:46.48 THE TRUTH IS AND LET THEM DECIDE WHAT TO DO. 00:54:46.48\00:54:49.75 ROMANS CHAPTER 1 TELS US THAT ALL OF US ARE SINNERS. 00:54:49.75\00:54:54.02 WHATEVER LEVEL THAT IS, WHETHER IT'S HOMOSEXUALITY OR DISOBEYING 00:54:54.02\00:55:00.16 YOUR PARENTS, ALL THAT COMES UNDER THE SAME CATEGORY. 00:55:00.16\00:55:03.13 SOMETIMES WE WANT TO SPECIALIZE SINS. 00:55:03.13\00:55:05.10 WELL THAT'S A BAD THING RIGHT THERE BUT ME BEING A GOSSIPER 00:55:05.10\00:55:09.07 THAT'S NOT SUCH A BAD THING. THAT'S WHY WE CAN'T CONDEMN 00:55:09.07\00:55:14.44 OTHERS. WE'RE ALL SINNERS SAVED BY 00:55:14.44\00:55:16.31 GRACE. SOME PEOPLE HAVE CHOSEN TO 00:55:16.31\00:55:18.45 BECOME -- SOME PEOPLE HAVE CHOSEN TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE 00:55:18.45\00:55:22.78 CHILDREN OF OF OUR HEAVENLY FATHER. 00:55:22.78\00:55:25.39 THERE A LOT OF CHILDREN THAT AREN'T ACKNOWLEDGED IN THAT AND 00:55:25.39\00:55:30.83 THE BIBLE SAYS THEY'RE LIVING IN DENIAL OF THEIR ADOPTION. 00:55:30.83\00:55:33.73 THEIR CREATION AND ADOPTION. SO WE ARE ALL IN THE SAME 00:55:33.73\00:55:39.43 CATEGORY BUT WE NEED TO HONOR INDIVIDUAL CHOICE. 00:55:39.43\00:55:52.61 I THINK THAT'S WHY YOU MENTION THE THE DARK AGES. 00:55:52.61\00:55:55.85 PEOPLE ARE WILLING TO DIE RATHER THAN GIVING UP VIOLATING THEIR 00:55:55.85\00:56:03.59 CONSCIENCE. FOR US TO REALIZE HOW PRECIOUS 00:56:03.59\00:56:08.90 IT IS AND HOW INTIMATE GOD WANTS TO COMMUNICATE WITH EACH ONE OF 00:56:08.90\00:56:12.60 US IS AMAZING. >> CLOSING THOUGHTS? 00:56:12.60\00:56:14.34 >> THIS HAS BEEN REALLY GOOD. I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE WILL BE 00:56:14.34\00:56:18.97 BLESSED BY IT AND WE PRAY THAT YOUR CONSCIENCE WILL BE RENEWED 00:56:18.97\00:56:23.41 AND RESTORED THROUGH IT. >> IS WE DIDN'T REALLY PROMOTE 00:56:23.41\00:56:28.22 OR PUSH THE TAKING QUESTIONS BECAUSE WE HAD SO MUCH TO COVER. 00:56:28.22\00:56:31.49 BUT FEEL FREE. YOU CAN WRITE TO 3ABN AND 00:56:31.49\00:56:35.76 ADDRESS JAMES AND RICE AND I'M SURE THEY'LL ANSWER YOUR 00:56:35.76\00:56:38.09 QUESTIONS HOWEVER YOU WANT TO DO IT. 00:56:38.09\00:56:40.30 E-MAIL IT OR WHAT HAVE YOU AND AS TIME GOES ON. 00:56:40.30\00:56:43.20 . BUT WE'RE SO THANKFUL YOU ALL 00:56:43.20\00:56:44.43 ARE HERE AND TRAVELING BACK AND FORTH FROM CALIFORNIA TO 3ABN 00:56:44.43\00:56:49.07 BUT WE LOVE IT WHEN YOU'RE HERE AND WE APPRECIATE AND RESPECT 00:56:49.07\00:56:55.48 WHAT GOD HAS DONE IN YOUR LIFE AND FOR YOU AT HOME WE LOVE YOU 00:56:55.48\00:56:59.51 TOO. OUR TIME IS ALL GONE FOR TODAY. 00:56:59.51\00:57:01.45 UNTIL WE SEE YOU NEXT TIME MAY THE LORD RICHLY BLESS YOU 00:57:01.45\00:57:05.32 ABUNDANTLY ASK FOR. 00:57:05.32\00:57:09.32