¤ >> WELCOME BACK TO THE SECOND 00:00:11.64\00:00:13.94 HOUR. I HOPE YOU HAVE BEEN ABLE TO 00:00:13.94\00:00:16.31 ABSORB, IF YOU ARE LISTENING IN THE CAR, OR WHEREVER YOU MIGHT 00:00:16.31\00:00:21.85 BE LISTENING BY RADIO OR WHATEVER MEANS. 00:00:21.85\00:00:25.62 MAYBE BY THE INTERNET, BY TELEVISION, BY CABLE, BY 00:00:25.62\00:00:31.36 SATELLITE, THIS FIRST HOUR WAS VERY INFORMATIVE, AND TO THANK 00:00:31.36\00:00:35.36 YOU PASTOR BRADSHAW FOR JUST WALKING US THROUGH AS WE LOOK 00:00:35.36\00:00:40.07 FORWARD TO THE 9-PART SERIES, CALLED 50. 00:00:40.07\00:00:45.81 500 TALKS ABOUT THE 500 YEARS OF THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION 00:00:45.81\00:00:51.01 MOVEMENT. I MADE THE COMMENT THE OTHER -pDAY, AND I SAID IF I WAS 00:00:51.01\00:00:56.42 TOLD TO NOT MOVE AND I PUT A COIN ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF OUR 00:00:56.42\00:01:00.32 CHURCH'S STAGE, AND I WAS TOLD NOT TO MOVE IT, AND I MOVED IT, 00:01:00.32\00:01:06.33 MAYBE A SMIDGEN OF AN INCH, AND IT TOOK ME 500 YEARS TO GET FROM 00:01:06.33\00:01:14.40 ONE END TO THE OTHER, I COULD DO IT, AND YOU WOULD NEVER KNOW IT 00:01:14.40\00:01:20.11 MOVED. THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION WAS CALLED ALSO THE 00:01:20.11\00:01:23.58 DARK AGES. >> SURE IT WAS. >> THE DARK AGES -- TELL OUR 00:01:23.58\00:01:28.42 LISTENERS WHY. WHY WAS IT CALLED THE DARK AGES? 00:01:28.42\00:01:31.15 >> YOU KNOW, I SHOULD DO BETTER THAN THIS. 00:01:31.15\00:01:33.92 I WAS ABOUT TO TELL YOU THAT -- THAT THE LATIN PHRASE 00:01:33.92\00:01:37.79 THAT MEANS DARK AGES -- THIS IS GOING TO BUG ME FOR THE NEXT 00:01:37.79\00:01:42.06 HOUR. THE REASON IT WAS DARK IS 00:01:42.06\00:01:44.43 BECAUSE THE LIGHT OF THE GOSPEL DIDN'T SHINE. 00:01:44.43\00:01:47.27 I'M TAKING YOU DOWN ONE ROAD. THERE ARE OTHERS THAT WILL GIVE 00:01:47.27\00:01:51.27 YOU DEFINITIONS THAT ARE DIFFERENT THAN THAT. 00:01:51.27\00:01:54.81 BUT THE CHURCH REALLY HAD THINGS LOCKED UP, AND PROGRESS WAS 00:01:54.81\00:01:58.25 IMPEDED IN THE ARTS AND SCIENCE, VARIOUS BRANCHES OF LEARNING, 00:01:58.25\00:02:03.32 BECAUSE EVERYTHING FILTERED THROUGH THE ROMAN CATHOLIC 00:02:03.32\00:02:09.92 CHURCH. WHEN KA PAREN CUSS MADE HIS 00:02:09.92\00:02:17.70 STATEMENTS, THE -- THE CHURCH REALLY CONTROLLED EVERYTHING. 00:02:17.70\00:02:21.30 THE LIGHT WASN'T SHINING. IT WAS DARK, BECAUSE THERE WAS 00:02:21.30\00:02:25.64 TRUTH. PEOPLE DIDN'T HAVE ACCESS TO THE 00:02:25.64\00:02:27.98 GOSPEL. ALL THEY KNEW IS WHAT THE CHURCH 00:02:27.98\00:02:29.61 TOLD THEM TO BE TRUE. WHEN YOU GO BACK AND YOU THINK 00:02:29.61\00:02:32.75 ABOUT THE -- THE HIDEOUS THINGS THAT HAPPENED IN THE NAME OF 00:02:32.75\00:02:36.62 GOD, NO WONDER PEOPLE ARE JADED ABOUT CHRISTIANITY WHEN FOR 500 00:02:36.62\00:02:45.49 YEARS, THOUSAND YEARS, HOWEVER LONG, WE HAD SO MANY DISASTROUS 00:02:45.49\00:02:48.96 THINGS HAPPENING IN THE NAME OF CHRIST. 00:02:48.96\00:02:52.30 PERSECUTIONS, INQUISITIONS, CRUSADES, AND ALL VARIOUS KINDS 00:02:52.30\00:02:55.87 OF THINGS. IT WAS A DARK, DARK TIME. 00:02:55.87\00:02:58.71 AND WHEN THE REFORMERS POPPED THEIR HEADS UP, THE CHURCH TRIED 00:02:58.71\00:03:03.18 TO GET RID OF THEM, BECAUSE YOU JUST CANNOT CHALLENGE THE 00:03:03.18\00:03:07.28 AUTHORITY OF THE CHURCH. IT WAS A DARK TIME. 00:03:07.28\00:03:10.12 DARK. NO LIGHT FROM THE BIBLE. 00:03:10.12\00:03:12.15 >> AND IN THIS HOUR OF THE PROGRAM, WE'RE GOING TO ALSO 00:03:12.15\00:03:16.26 TALK ABOUT THE PLACE OF THE UNITED STATES. 00:03:16.26\00:03:18.83 WHAT DOES THE UNITED STATES HAVE TO DO WITH PROTESTANTISM, AND 00:03:18.83\00:03:23.60 WHY IS THIS COUNTRY BECOMING SUCH AN AIM OF THE VATICAN? 00:03:23.60\00:03:28.90 WHY ARE THERE SO MANY MOVEMENTS HAPPENING IN AMERICA, INCLUDING 00:03:28.90\00:03:32.61 THE POPE AND -- AND WHY IS HE REACHING OUT TO CONGRESS? 00:03:32.61\00:03:36.78 WHY DID HE REACH TO NOT ONLY CONGRESS, BUT TO THE UNITED 00:03:36.78\00:03:41.65 NATIONS. WHAT SIGNIFICANCE DOES THIS HAVE 00:03:41.65\00:03:44.12 IN LIGHT OF BIBLE PROPHECY, WHICH IS SO SIGNIFICANT IN WHERE 00:03:44.12\00:03:48.29 WE ARE TODAY. AND WE HAVE CHRISTIANS 00:03:48.29\00:03:51.03 TODAY -- WHEN I WAS IN WASHINGTON, D.C. -- AND YOU MAY 00:03:51.03\00:03:54.20 HAVE A FEW YEARS AGO, WHEN POPE FRANCIS SPOKE THERE FROM THE 00:03:54.20\00:03:58.43 STEPS IN THE WASHINGTON -- THE WHITE HOUSE -- I MEAN THE 00:03:58.43\00:04:02.44 CAPITOL, AND SPOKE TO CONGRESS. I WAS INVITED TO BE THERE. 00:04:02.44\00:04:06.14 I WAS INVITED BY ACTUALLY A BAPTIST SENATOR. 00:04:06.14\00:04:09.88 I HAD A CHANCE TO SIT DOWN IN HIS CHAMBERS, AND HE JUST ASKED 00:04:09.88\00:04:13.72 FOR ME TO DEFINE WHAT I THOUGHT WAS HAPPENING HERE TODAY. 00:04:13.72\00:04:17.22 AND WHEN I TALKED HIM THROUGH REVELATION 2:17-18, AND IT WAS 00:04:17.22\00:04:23.56 QUITE AN EYE OPENER TO GET THE PRIVILEGE TO DO THAT. 00:04:23.56\00:04:27.40 IT DIDN'T REALLY MATTER THE DENOMINATION, BUT WHAT I HEARD, 00:04:27.40\00:04:34.40 WAS PEOPLE SAID THIS IS OUR POPE. 00:04:34.40\00:04:36.40 >> SURE. >> DENOMINATIONAL WALLS MADE NO 00:04:36.40\00:04:42.08 DIFFERENCE. >> WHAT'S INTERESTING IS THE 00:04:42.08\00:04:43.81 DIFFERENCE THAT A GOOD PR CAMPAIGN CAN MAKE. 00:04:43.81\00:04:46.61 >> YES. >> THIS POPE, POPE FRANCIS, IS A 00:04:46.61\00:04:51.05 LIKABLE FELLA. AND HE'S REALLY BROKEN DOWN SOME 00:04:51.05\00:04:55.86 WALLS, AND HE HAS SHOWN HIMSELF TO BE VERY HUMAN. 00:04:55.86\00:04:59.46 HE TALKED ABOUT -- I THINK HE USED TO WORK AS A BOUNCER IN A 00:04:59.46\00:05:03.93 NIGHTCLUB, AND TALKED ABOUT THE PREVIOUS THINGS HE HAS DONE IN 00:05:03.93\00:05:07.67 HIS PAST. VERY HUMAN SORT OF A GUY. 00:05:07.67\00:05:10.37 DOESN'T WANT TO STAY IN THE TRADITIONAL PAPAL APARTMENTS. 00:05:10.37\00:05:14.28 HE WANTS TO STAY SOMEWHERE MORE HUMBLE. 00:05:14.28\00:05:16.68 HE SAID WE OUGHT TO BE A POORER CHURCH, YOU KNOW, CONSIDERING 00:05:16.68\00:05:22.35 ROME OWNS MORE LAND THAN NEW YORK CITY THAN ANYWHERE 00:05:22.35\00:05:26.59 ELSE, OTHER THAN THE CITY OF NEW YORK. 00:05:26.59\00:05:28.89 BUT HE HAS MADE THESE CLAIMS THAT RESINATES WITH PEOPLE. 00:05:28.89\00:05:33.40 HE HAS HUGGED DISFIGURED PEOPLE, AND COMFORTED PEOPLE WHO ARE 00:05:33.40\00:05:37.90 SOBBING OVER THE LIFE OF HIS CHILDREN. 00:05:37.90\00:05:39.83 AND HE HAS GIVEN HIS BODYGUARDS FITS BECAUSE HE BREAKS OUT OF 00:05:39.83\00:05:44.07 THE CHOREOGRAPHED THING TO SHAKE HANDS AND LOVE PEOPLE AND WASH 00:05:44.07\00:05:50.15 PEOPLE'S FEET. AND ONE JOURNALIST WROTE E 00:05:50.15\00:05:57.55 EVEN -- ATHEISTS SHOULD PRAY FOR THIS POPE. 00:05:57.55\00:06:05.06 THIS GUY HAS ME THINKING ABOUT COMING BACK TO THE CHURCH. 00:06:05.06\00:06:09.36 WHY? BECAUSE HE IS A NICE GUY. 00:06:09.36\00:06:11.27 WHO ARE WE TO JUDGE. AND PEOPLE SAY WHAT A NICE MAN. 00:06:11.27\00:06:16.27 I'M WILLING TO SAY NICE MAN. GREAT. 00:06:16.27\00:06:18.84 BUT LET'S GO BEYOND THAT. WHAT DOES HE SAY ABOUT THE 00:06:18.84\00:06:23.61 GOSPEL? WHAT DOES HE TEACH ABOUT HOW TO 00:06:23.61\00:06:25.21 GET SAVED? IS HE ELEVATING HIMSELF ABOVE 00:06:25.21\00:06:29.75 GOD? THE ANSWER IS YES, HE IS DOING 00:06:29.75\00:06:34.22 THAT. THAT MIGHT BE A PRETTY BOLD 00:06:34.22\00:06:36.96 STATEMENT FOR SOME PEOPLE TO TAKE ON BOARD, BUT THAT'S 00:06:36.96\00:06:41.06 BECAUSE PEOPLE AREN'T PROTESTING ANYMORE. 00:06:41.06\00:06:43.26 THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION YOU MIGHT AS WELL SAY IT ENDED, 00:06:43.26\00:06:48.67 EXCEPT GOD HAS CALLED ON A GROUP OF PEOPLE TO CARRY ON AND 00:06:48.67\00:06:53.58 ACTUALLY FINISH THE WORK OF THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION. 00:06:53.58\00:06:58.71 >> AND THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT, BECAUSE WE ARE AT A PIVOTAL 00:06:58.71\00:07:06.12 TIME. PEOPLE MIGHT WONDER WHY IS THERE 00:07:06.12\00:07:08.19 SUCH A WILLING IGNORANCE ABOUT DOCTRINE COMPARED TO 00:07:08.19\00:07:14.83 CHRISTIANITY. >> SURE. 00:07:14.83\00:07:15.60 >> WHAT I'M SEEING TODAY, JOHN, ALSO -- WE CALL EACH OTHER JOHN, 00:07:15.60\00:07:19.80 BECAUSE WE SHARE THAT IN COMMON, BUT PASTOR BRADSHAW IS -- WHEN 00:07:19.80\00:07:25.01 YOU THINK ABOUT THE CHURCH AS IT IS ON TELEVISION AND IN THE 00:07:25.01\00:07:28.74 MAJORITY OF SETINGS, DOCTRINES ARE NOT REALLY HIGHLIGHTED. 00:07:28.74\00:07:33.82 NOT ANY LONGER. THE WORD DOCTRINE HAS BEEN SO 00:07:33.82\00:07:40.99 BLACKBALLED THAT THE PHRASE NON-DENOMINATIONAL HAS BECOME 00:07:40.99\00:07:44.86 ALMOST LIKABLE. WE'RE NON-DENOMINATIONAL. 00:07:44.86\00:07:49.10 >> AS THOUGH THAT IS A FLAG TO FLY AND BE PROUD OF. 00:07:49.10\00:07:52.07 >> RIGHT. >> YEAH, IT'S AN INTERESTING 00:07:52.07\00:07:55.77 THING. PEOPLE SAY I JUST COME TO JESUS 00:07:55.77\00:07:57.71 AND THAT'S ENOUGH. AND I DON'T KNOW WHICH PEOPLE. 00:07:57.71\00:08:01.81 OKAY. WE WOULD AGREE WITH THAT. 00:08:01.81\00:08:03.51 JUST COME TO JESUS, AND THAT'S ENOUGH. 00:08:03.51\00:08:06.28 EXCEPT WE WOULD ALSO SAY, WHAT DOES THAT -- WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY 00:08:06.28\00:08:10.15 THAT? >> EXACTLY. 00:08:10.15\00:08:11.89 >> BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE SAY I CAN LIVE A LIFE OF SIN AND THEN 00:08:11.89\00:08:17.53 CLAIM JESUS. OTHERS SAY I HAVE CONFESSED MY 00:08:17.53\00:08:22.73 SINS TO A PRIEST. AND THAT IS NOT THE ROOT OF 00:08:22.73\00:08:27.04 SALVATION. >> EXACTLY. 00:08:27.04\00:08:28.07 >> SO GETTING RID OF DENOMINATIONAL DIFFERENCES, I 00:08:28.07\00:08:32.11 SEE THE APPEAL, BUT CHRIST GAVE US THE BIBLE FOR A REASON. 00:08:32.11\00:08:36.71 HE GAVE US TEACHING FOR A REASON. 00:08:36.71\00:08:39.75 WHAT YOU BELIEVE IMPACTS WHAT YOU BELIEVE ABOUT GOD AND HOW 00:08:39.75\00:08:44.12 YOU RELATE TO GOD, AND HOW YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE, AND HOW YOU 00:08:44.12\00:08:47.76 ENTER INTO THE SALVATION EXPERIENCE, YOU KNOW, I USED TO 00:08:47.76\00:08:51.26 BELIEVE THEY COULD GO TO CHURCH, GO AND SEE A PRIEST, BLESS ME 00:08:51.26\00:08:55.46 FATHER FOR I HAVE SINNED, RUSH TO THE BACK OF THE CHURCH SAY 00:08:55.46\00:09:02.07 TWO OUR FATHERS AND TWO HAIL MARYS, AND I'M OKAY. 00:09:02.07\00:09:06.17 ME AT LEAST, I'M DILUTED. THAT IS NOT A GENUINE CHRISTIAN 00:09:06.17\00:09:11.95 EXPERIENCE. NOW, AGAIN, THERE ARE SOME FINE 00:09:11.95\00:09:15.52 CHRISTIANS, AND THAT'S WHERE THEY FIND THEMSELVES. 00:09:15.52\00:09:17.89 BUT WHEN WE KNOW BETTER THE WORE OF GOD, GOD CALLS US TO A HIGHER 00:09:17.89\00:09:23.96 PLACE. LUTHER SPOKE AGAINST THE ROMAN 00:09:23.96\00:09:26.93 CATHOLIC CHURCH A LOT, BUT IN DOING THAT, WE WAS SPEAKING IN 00:09:26.93\00:09:30.83 FAVOR OF THE BIBLE. IT JUST SO HAPPENED SPEAKING IN 00:09:30.83\00:09:34.40 FAVOR OF THE BIBLE WAS TO EXPOSE THE UNTRUTHS OF THE CHURCH. 00:09:34.40\00:09:38.77 BUT LUTHER WAS SPEAKING FOR THE GOSPEL AND FOR A PERSONAL 00:09:38.77\00:09:43.85 RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS. WHICH IS WHAT ROME REMOVES. 00:09:43.85\00:09:47.78 ROME SAYS YOU NEED OUR SACRAMENTS, OUR FELLOWSHIP, OUR 00:09:47.78\00:09:52.42 TEACHING. YOU NEED US TO TELL YOU WHAT THE 00:09:52.42\00:09:54.76 BIBLE MEANS. YOU ARE INCAPABLE OF LEARNING IT 00:09:54.76\00:09:58.73 BY YOURSELF. >> AND WE ARE SOMEWHAT ACTUALLY 00:09:58.73\00:10:02.06 CONVERSING TOGETHER IN THE SENSE THAT THESE ARE, ACCORDING TO 00:10:02.06\00:10:06.20 GOD'S WORD, NOT -- NOT COINCIDENTAL EVENTS, BUT 00:10:06.20\00:10:11.54 FORECASTED AND PROPHESIZED PROGNOSTICATED IN SCRIPTURES. 00:10:11.54\00:10:19.55 WE HAVE ROME THAT REALLY WAS THE RULING POWER FOR THE ENTIRE NEW 00:10:19.55\00:10:24.49 TESTAMENT. >> THAT'S CORRECT. 00:10:24.49\00:10:25.62 >> MATTHEW TO REVELATIONS, JOHN WRITES [ INAUDIBLE ] OSTRACIZES 00:10:25.62\00:10:31.03 THERE BY THE POWER OF ROME. AND THEN YOU FIND THE CHURCH 00:10:31.03\00:10:35.50 LOSING ITS POWER. THEN ROME BEGINS TO FIND A WAY 00:10:35.50\00:10:39.07 TO GAIN ACCESS, AND AS YOU MENTIONED IN THE FIRST HOUR, 00:10:39.07\00:10:43.91 PAGANISM WAS BAPTIZED, BUT NOT CHANGED. 00:10:43.91\00:10:46.07 IT WAS GIVEN A PLATFORM WITH A RELIGIOUS CONTEXT. 00:10:46.07\00:10:50.58 AND ROME BECAME THE STATE RELIGION. 00:10:50.58\00:10:53.98 AND TODAY -- LET'S TALK ABOUT THE PILGRIMS. 00:10:53.98\00:10:59.95 WHY WOULD THEY FLEE TO COME TO AMERICA? 00:10:59.95\00:11:02.92 >> WELL, THERE WAS SO MUCH RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE, EVEN 00:11:02.92\00:11:07.60 THOUGH THE PROTESTANTS HAD PROTESTED. 00:11:07.60\00:11:11.33 AFTER A GIVEN PERIOD OF TIME, THE COUNTER REFORMATION KICKED 00:11:11.33\00:11:16.20 IN, PROTESTANTISM WAS KIND OF QUIETED. 00:11:16.20\00:11:21.64 IN A CERTAIN SENSE YOU HAVE GOT YOUR TERRITORY, WE HAVE GOT 00:11:21.64\00:11:25.85 OURS.-LET'S KEEP WHERE WE LONG. THERE WAS NO RELIGIOUS FREEDOM. 00:11:25.85\00:11:30.69 MAYBE I SHOULD SAVE THIS, BUT I'M GOING TO TELL YOU THIS NOW 00:11:30.69\00:11:33.69 HAVE. SOME OF THESE REFORMERS -- I 00:11:33.69\00:11:37.43 MEAN THEY WEREN'T CHOIR BOYS. LUTHER HARD, RACIST, HE WROTE 00:11:37.43\00:11:43.67 SOME STRIDENTLY ANTI-SEMITIC STUFF. 00:11:43.67\00:11:48.50 HE COULD BE VERY SHARP WITH HIS TONGUE, MARLIN LUTHER. 00:11:48.50\00:11:55.08 ONE OF THE GORMAN NOBLES WAS TRYING TO BROKER AN AGREEMENT 00:11:55.08\00:12:00.92 BETWEEN THE GERMAN REFORMATION AND THE SWISS REFORMATION. 00:12:00.92\00:12:04.42 THEY GOT TOGETHER AT THIS MEETING. 00:12:04.42\00:12:06.12 THEY COULDN'T AGREE. LUTHER THOUGHT HE WAS A RADICAL, 00:12:06.12\00:12:11.59 BECAUSE SOME OF HIS FOLLOWERS WERE DOWN ON IDOLS, SOME LIKE 00:12:11.59\00:12:19.20 FAREL WOULD SMASH IDOLS AND DRAG THEM OUT. 00:12:19.20\00:12:22.64 LUTHER SAID THAT IS GOING TOO FAR. 00:12:22.64\00:12:27.11 LUTHER WAS HUNG ON TRANS[ INAUDIBLE ] HE DIDN'T 00:12:27.11\00:12:29.98 BELIEVE THAT THE JUICE OR THE WINE AS IT MAY HAVE BEEN IN HIS 00:12:29.98\00:12:35.62 FELLOWSHIP AND THE BREAD TURNED INTO THE LITERAL BODY AND BLOOD 00:12:35.62\00:12:39.25 OF JESUS, BUT HE DID BELIEVE IN THE PRESENCE OF JESUS IN THOSE 00:12:39.25\00:12:44.93 THINGS. SO TO BE HONEST, YOU COULD SAY 00:12:44.93\00:12:47.36 THEY WERE A MILLION MIES APART. OR YOU COULD SAY, LOOK, THEY 00:12:47.36\00:12:51.43 WERE KIND OF CLOSE. THEY -- THEY WEREN'T THAT FAR 00:12:51.43\00:12:54.14 FROM EACH OTHER. WHEN THAT MEETING WAS NIRNED 00:12:54.14\00:12:58.54 LUTHER WOULDN'T EVEN SHAKE HIS HAND. 00:12:58.54\00:13:00.58 WHEN HE DIED ON A BATTLEFIELD, LUTHER SAID SOMETHING LIKE, HUM, 00:13:00.58\00:13:06.35 THOSE WHO LIVE BY THE SWORD WILL DIE BY THE SWORD. 00:13:06.35\00:13:14.49 FINKLY, AND THIS COMES BACK TO YOUR QUESTION, WHY DID THEY COME 00:13:14.49\00:13:18.33 TO THE UNITED STATES? THE BAPTISTS WERE IN ZURICH. 00:13:18.33\00:13:22.20 THEY WOULDN'T BAPTIZE INFANTS, NUMBER 1. 00:13:22.20\00:13:25.30 NUMBER 2, THEY WOULD, AND THEY DID BAPTIZE ADULTS. 00:13:25.30\00:13:31.21 THEY STARTED EXECUTING THESE BAPTIZED PEOPLE BY IMMERSION. 00:13:31.21\00:13:39.35 FRIGHTFUL. IMAGINE THEY WERE ALL PUT TO 00:13:39.35\00:13:42.22 DEATH BECAUSE YOU BAPTIZED SOMEBODY. 00:13:42.22\00:13:44.89 IN THAT WOULDN'T BE GOOD. AND THEN -- FINGLEY, THEY SAID 00:13:44.89\00:13:53.73 TO HIM, WE HAVE GOT TO FELLOW HERE, FELIX WHO IS AN, 00:13:53.73\00:14:00.34 ANTI-BAPTIST. WE SAY EXECUTE HIM. 00:14:00.34\00:14:02.07 WHAT DO YOU SAY? FINGLEY SAID, YEAH, EXECUTE HIM. 00:14:02.07\00:14:09.51 SAID THEY WE'RE GOING TO EXECUTE HIM BY DROWNING HIM IN THE LAKE. 00:14:09.51\00:14:16.79 YEAH, GO AHEAD. WOULDN'T YOU HOPE SOMEBODY WITH 00:14:16.79\00:14:20.69 THE REFORMATION WOULD SAY DON'T DO THAT. 00:14:20.69\00:14:23.43 THE THING WE HAVE GOT TO REMEMBER IS THESE MEN WEREN'T 00:14:23.43\00:14:26.53 THE FINISHED PRODUCT. THEY HAD COME OUT OF THE DARK. 00:14:26.53\00:14:29.43 THEY HAD COME OUT OF THE DARK. YOU CAN'T EXPECT THEM TO BE 00:14:29.43\00:14:33.47 PERFECT. SECONDLY, IT DEMONSTRATES THAT 00:14:33.47\00:14:37.91 GOD A GRACIOUS AND HE USES IMPERFECT PEOPLE. 00:14:37.91\00:14:41.71 SO THOSE OF US WHO ARE IMPERFECT WE CAN SAY, THANK THE LORD, 00:14:41.71\00:14:46.82 THERE IS HOPE FOR US. SO THIS WAS THE SITUATION ON THE 00:14:46.82\00:14:52.12 CONTINENT, THERE WAS NO RELIGIOUS FREEDOM. 00:14:52.12\00:14:55.39 AND THEY CAME HERE TO THESE UNITED STATES, SO THEY WOULD 00:14:55.39\00:14:58.06 LIVE IN A STATE WITHOUT A KING, AND BE A PART OF A CHURCH 00:14:58.06\00:15:02.03 WITHOUT A POPE. >> AND THE BIBLE PROPHESIZED 00:15:02.03\00:15:04.90 THAT THAT WOULD BE -- THE WOMAN WHO HAD BEEN SO -- HAD BEEN THE 00:15:04.90\00:15:08.20 AIM OF -- OF SATAN'S EYRE THROUGHOUT THE DARK AGES TO GET 00:15:08.20\00:15:15.48 RID OF THOSE WHO WANTED TO KEEP THE BIBLE ALIVE, THE WOMAN FLED 00:15:15.48\00:15:21.28 INTO THE WILDERNESS FOR THE ENTIRE DARK AGES, OUT OF WHICH 00:15:21.28\00:15:28.46 THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION ROSE. AND WE HAVEN'T GOTTEN TO THE -UNITED STATES YET -- 00:15:28.46\00:15:33.09 >> WE'LL DO THAT. >> WE'RE GETTING THERE. 00:15:33.09\00:15:36.23 BUT WE WOULD LIKE TO GET READY FOR THIS MIRACLE STORY. 00:15:36.23\00:15:40.00 >> YEAH, THE FIRST PROGRAM IN 500 IS AN OVERVIEW OF THE 00:15:40.00\00:15:46.14 REFORMATION. THE SECOND ONE IS ABOUT PATRICK. 00:15:46.14\00:15:49.31 WHICH I MENTIONED BEFORE, WE WENT TO IRELAND, AND FILMED. 00:15:49.31\00:15:54.22 AND SO WE ARRANGE THE SCHEDULE -- WE RUN HARD -- WHEN 00:15:54.22\00:15:58.79 YOU FILM ON LOCATION, YOU HAVE TO GET UP EARLY, BECAUSE THE 00:15:58.79\00:16:04.79 LIGHT IS BEST EARLY. AND IT'S LONG DAYS. 00:16:04.79\00:16:08.03 AND WE -- WE -- DROVE FROM PLACE-TO-PLACE AROUND IRELAND, 00:16:08.03\00:16:16.00 AND WE GOT TO THE CLIFFS. TAKE A LOOK AT THIS VIDEO. 00:16:16.00\00:16:19.77 A MIRACLE STORY IN -- INVOLVING A FLIGHT AT THE CLIFFS. 00:16:19.77\00:16:24.65 YOU CAN SEE THSE CLIFFS. THEY ARE SPECTACULAR. 00:16:24.65\00:16:27.88 YOU CAN SEE IT WAS A LITTLE BREEZY THERE, AND IN A MOMENT, 00:16:27.88\00:16:31.92 YOU CAN SEE IT WAS EVEN A LITTLE MORE BREEZY. 00:16:31.92\00:16:35.46 SO WE CAME UP TO THIS SPOT. YOU SEE WHERE THAT BUILDING IS. 00:16:35.46\00:16:39.16 >> YEAH. >> AND WE FILMED OVER THERE. 00:16:39.16\00:16:42.03 I WALKED FROM POINT TO POINT. AND YOU CAN SEE THE WIND 00:16:42.03\00:16:45.67 WHISTLING THROUGH THIS -- >> OH, YEAH. 00:16:45.67\00:16:47.67 >> I DID MY THING, AND I SAID YOU GUYS FLY THE DRONE. 00:16:47.67\00:16:52.74 I'M GOING TO TAKE OFF. SO THEY WANTED TO FLY IN SHORE 00:16:52.74\00:16:56.91 AND THEN BACK AN GET SOME OF THESE PICTURES YOU SEE. 00:16:56.91\00:16:59.78 AND THE CLIFFS LOOKED GORGEOUS. YOU CAN SEE OUR GUYS THERE, 00:16:59.78\00:17:04.09 MATT, AND ZACH, AND THEY WERE -- THEY WERE PILOTING THE 00:17:04.09\00:17:08.09 DRONE. MATT WAS ACTUALLY. 00:17:08.09\00:17:10.19 AND SO THEY -- THEY FLY THE THING OFFSHORE ABOUT A MILE. 00:17:10.19\00:17:14.36 YOU ARE GOING TO SEE HERE IN JUST A FEW SECONDS, IT SAYS 4600 00:17:14.36\00:17:19.17 FEET, AND THEN AS THEY TURNED IT AROUND TO FLY BACK TO LAND, THEY 00:17:19.17\00:17:23.17 ARE FLY GOING A PRETTY STIFF WIND. 00:17:23.17\00:17:25.91 IT WAS ABOUT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. 00:17:25.91\00:17:28.91 >> HUM. >> YOU KNOW ON YOUR CELL PHONE, 00:17:28.91\00:17:30.95 YOU HAVE GOT A LITTLE BATTERY GAUGE SHOWING YOU HAVE 81% OR 00:17:30.95\00:17:36.92 67%, AND IT COUNTS DOWN. IF YOU HAVE 81%, IT GOES TO 80 00:17:36.92\00:17:41.86 NEXT. THEY LOOKED AT THIS, AND IT 00:17:41.86\00:17:45.43 STARTED JUMPING DOWN. I MEAN IT WAS JUST PLUMMETING. 00:17:45.43\00:17:49.03 THE BATTERY LIFE. NOW I TELL YOU SOMETHING ABOUT 00:17:49.03\00:17:52.40 THESE DRONES, WHEN THIS MODEL GETS TO 5% BATTERY, IT LANDS. 00:17:52.40\00:17:56.77 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> IT'S JUST WHAT IT DOES. 00:17:56.77\00:17:59.64 YOU CAN'T OVERRIDE IT OR STOP IT, IT'S STILL THIS FAR FROM THE 00:17:59.64\00:18:03.98 SHORE AT 7%. 2% NOW WHERE IS IT GOING TO 00:18:03.98\00:18:07.75 LAND? RIGHT NOW IT'S GOING TO LAND IN 00:18:07.75\00:18:10.02 THE WATER. YOU CAN REPLACE A DRONE, BUT YOU 00:18:10.02\00:18:13.22 CAN'T GET THAT DAY'S FILMING BACK. 00:18:13.22\00:18:16.22 SO THE GUYS DECIDED THEY BETTER PRAY. 00:18:16.22\00:18:19.49 MATT IS PILOTING IT IN, ZACH IS PRAYING. 00:18:19.49\00:18:23.83 AND IT'S AT ZERO, AND MATT SAYS IT'S TOO LATE. 00:18:23.83\00:18:29.07 EXCEPT NOW WITHOUT A DROP OF GAS LEFT IN THE TANK, NO BATTERY 00:18:29.07\00:18:35.31 POWER, IT IS STLL FLYING TOWARDS THE CLIFFS, AND THEY ARE 00:18:35.31\00:18:38.65 LOOKING AT THAT, AND THEY ARE SAYING WE ARE PART OF A MIRACLE. 00:18:38.65\00:18:43.92 LORD, PLEASE. IT COULD DROP AT ANY MOMENT. 00:18:43.92\00:18:46.49 AND NOW IT'S JUST GOING TO DROP LIKE A ROCK, SO NOW IT'S GETTING 00:18:46.49\00:18:51.19 CLOSER TO THE LAND.-ONCE IT GETS OVER THE LAND, YOU STILL DON'T 00:18:51.19\00:18:56.23 WANT IT TO DROP, BECAUSE ALL YOU WILL HAVE LEFT IS A JIGSAW 00:18:56.23\00:19:01.70 PUZZLE. >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> AND THEY ARE WONDERING ARE WE 00:19:01.70\00:19:04.64 GOING TO BE ABLE TO LAND THIS OR DESTROY THE DRONE AND WE WON'T 00:19:04.64\00:19:08.44 BE ABLE TO FILM WITH IT IN BELGIUM AND SPAIN AND ENGLAND, 00:19:08.44\00:19:14.12 AND GERMANY. SO THEY START TO LAND THE DRONE, 00:19:14.12\00:19:17.92 LIKE A FEATHER IT COMES CLOSER, CLOSER, MY GOODNESS, PRAISE GOD. 00:19:17.92\00:19:24.86 WE GOT OUR DRONE BACK. IT FLEW TO LAND ON 0% BATTERY, 00:19:24.86\00:19:30.73 FLY GOING A SHIFT WIND. >> THAT WAS NOT COINCIDENTAL. 00:19:30.73\00:19:35.27 >> YOU COULD CALL IT A COINCIDENCE IF YOU WOULD LIKE. 00:19:35.27\00:19:39.37 IF YOU BELIEVE THAT, GO FIND A DRONE AND ATTEMPT TO FLY IT ON 00:19:39.37\00:19:49.32 0% BATTERY. >> I WOULD NEVER DO THAT. 00:19:49.32\00:19:52.09 AND IT'S PLUMMETING IS JUST THIS NOSE DIVING, AND AS YOU SHOWED 00:19:52.09\00:19:56.79 THE VIDEO -- IF YOU WERE IN THE CAR, YOU DIDN'T SEE IT. 00:19:56.79\00:20:01.50 BUT WE JUST SAW A DRONE FLY ON 0% BATTERY LIFE. 00:20:01.50\00:20:06.33 NOTHING YOU HAVE WORKS ON 0% BATTERY LIFE. 00:20:06.33\00:20:09.27 >> NOTHING. >> EXCEPT THE INTERVENTION OF 00:20:09.27\00:20:11.77 ALL MIGHTY GOD. >> THAT'S WHAT IT WAS. 00:20:11.77\00:20:15.48 WE SHOWED HIS GOODNESS AND GLORY, TO LET US KNOW I'M REALLY 00:20:15.48\00:20:20.68 WITH YOU. PROBABLY TO LET US KNOW TOO, 00:20:20.68\00:20:23.95 MAKE SURE THERE'S MORE BATTERY WHEN YOU FLY THE BATTERY. 00:20:23.95\00:20:30.93 MIND YOU, MATT IS VERY RESPONSIBLE. 00:20:30.93\00:20:33.83 HE KNOWS HE CAN GET IT BACK. BUT THE BATTERY JUST STARTS TO 00:20:33.83\00:20:39.90 DROP LIKE THE STONES. >> IT REMINDS ME [ INAUDIBLE ] 00:20:39.90\00:20:45.14 THE LORD GRACIOUSLY INFUSED THAT DRONE, YOU SHALL RECEIVE POWER. 00:20:45.14\00:20:50.68 >> YOU SHALL RECEIVE POWER. ISN'T THAT FUN? 00:20:50.68\00:20:55.42 THEN WE WENT BACK TO CHURCH WHATEVER TIME IT WAS -- THAT 00:20:55.42\00:20:59.42 LOOKS A LITTLE CLOSER TO SUNSET THAN A FRIDAY WOULD HAVE BEEN. 00:20:59.42\00:21:04.19 SO WE WENT TO CHURCH OUTSIDE OF LIMERICK THE NEXT DAY, AND WE 00:21:04.19\00:21:08.26 WERE KIND OF WALKING ON AIR A LITTLE BIT, AND THEN WE TRAVELED 00:21:08.26\00:21:12.83 TO ENGLAND FOR STORY NUMBER 3. WILLIAM TINDALE THIS IS CALLED A 00:21:12.83\00:21:20.74 LUMP UNTO MY FEET. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:21:20.74\00:21:22.81 >> YOU ARE WATCHING 3ABN NOW. YOU HAVE GOT TO PLAN TO BE 00:21:22.81\00:21:28.02 WATCHING 3ABN THE LAST NINE EVENINGS OF OCTOBER, EVERY 00:21:28.02\00:21:31.52 NIGHT. WITH THESE PROGRAMS, YOU WILL BE 00:21:31.52\00:21:33.52 SO BLESSED BY THEM, YOU REALLY WILL. 00:21:33.52\00:21:36.89 A LUMP UNDER MY FEET DEALS WITH WILLIAM TINDALE. 00:21:36.89\00:21:42.63 WE'RE FILMING AT WILLIAM TINDALE'S CHURCH WHERE HE USED 00:21:42.63\00:21:47.60 TO PATH FOR AT. IT'S AT A LITTLE VILLAGE. 00:21:47.60\00:21:54.38 SO WE'RE STANDING AT THAT CHURCH, A COUPLE OF GUYS WITH 00:21:54.38\00:21:58.65 CAMERAS, AND WE HAVE A DRONE BECAUSE WE'RE FLYING OVER THE 00:21:58.65\00:22:02.95 VILLAGE. AND TWO AMERICAN LADIES WALKED 00:22:02.95\00:22:05.12 BY. AND THEY WANT TO KNOW WHAT WE'RE 00:22:05.12\00:22:07.49 DOING. I TOLD THEM. 00:22:07.49\00:22:08.89 AND I SAID TO THEM, SO ARE YOU HERE TO SEE THE WILLIAM TINDALE 00:22:08.89\00:22:14.36 CHURCH? THEY SAID THE WHAT? 00:22:14.36\00:22:18.30 YOU HAVE HEARD OF WILLIAM TINDALE. 00:22:18.30\00:22:20.90 ANY WAY THEY WERE TOURISTS ON A WALKING TRAIL, HAD NO IDEA THIS 00:22:20.90\00:22:26.91 CHURCH HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH WILLIAM TINDALE. 00:22:26.91\00:22:30.45 AND WE START TO FLY THE DRONE. DIRECTLY ACROSS THE LANE FROM 00:22:30.45\00:22:34.58 THE CHURCH IS FIEDS. BUT GO UP THERE AND THERE'S A 00:22:34.58\00:22:38.85 HOUSE.-THE MAN HEARS THE DRONE AND COMES OUT, AND SAYS, YOU 00:22:38.85\00:22:42.69 KNOW, WHAT YA DOING? AND WE EXPLAIN, AND HE SAID, 00:22:42.69\00:22:47.66 WILLIAM TINDALE? WHAT WAS WILLIAM TINDALE HAVE TO 00:22:47.66\00:22:52.83 DO WITH THIS VILLAGE. HE LIVED THERE FOR 20 YEARS. 00:22:52.83\00:22:56.57 >> DIDN'T EVEN KNOW. >> DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THAT ONE OF 00:22:56.57\00:22:59.54 THE GIANTS OF THE REFORMATION -- HE HAS BEEN NAMED 00:22:59.54\00:23:04.38 AS ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL MEN IN THE LAST THOUSAND YEARS 00:23:04.38\00:23:10.45 OF BRITISH HISTORY. DIDN'T EVEN KNOW. 00:23:10.45\00:23:12.39 >> DIDN'T EVEN KNOW. >> SO WE WENT UP TO A MONUMENT 00:23:12.39\00:23:17.49 TO WILLIAM TINDALE.-NO ONE GOES. AND THERE WAS A COUP COUPLE 00:23:17.49\00:23:23.23 HANGING OUT UP THERE. BUT THERE ARE NOT THOUSANDS OF 00:23:23.23\00:23:29.07 PILGRIMAGES WEARING OUT THE TRACK TO THE WILLIAM TINDALE M 00:23:29.07\00:23:35.08 MON -- MONUMENT. >> AND NOW YOU HAVE THE PRESS, 00:23:35.08\00:23:40.22 THE CONQUER DANCE, AND ALL OF THESE BITS OF LITERATURE THAT 00:23:40.22\00:23:44.39 ARE SURROUNDING THE WORKS OF WILLIAM TINDALE BUT PEOPLE 00:23:44.39\00:23:49.29 ARE -- IN HIS OWN HOMELAND -- >> DON'T EVEN KNOW HIM. 00:23:49.29\00:23:53.29 THE THING ABOUT TINDALE, HE WAS A GENIUS. 00:23:53.29\00:23:57.77 ONE HISTORIAN SAID HE WAS AS GREAT WITH WORDS AS SHAKESPEARE. 00:23:57.77\00:24:08.31 IT'S SOMETHING LIE 73% OF THE OLD TESTAMENT IN THE KING JAMES, 00:24:08.31\00:24:13.68 AND 80% OF THE NEW TESTAMENT IN THE NEW KING JAMES IS TINDALE'S 00:24:13.68\00:24:21.99 WORK. HE WAS THAT GOOD OF TRANSLATOR. 00:24:21.99\00:24:28.10 SO HIS CONTRIBUTION TO THE WORLD WAS IMMENSE. 00:24:28.10\00:24:33.17 SO WE WERE THERE, OXFORD WAS WHERE HE WAS EDUCATED. 00:24:33.17\00:24:37.64 AND I MENTIONED ABOUT GOING TO THE WILLIAM TINDALE MUSEUM, 00:24:37.64\00:24:44.85 STANDING AT THE APPROXIMATE SITE OF WHERE HE WAS EXECUTED, MAN, 00:24:44.85\00:24:50.62 SAD. HE WAS RATTED OUT. 00:24:50.62\00:24:53.19 AND THE CHURCH EXECUTED HIM. THERE WAS A LAW AGAINST 00:24:53.19\00:24:57.36 TRANSLATING THE BIBLE INTO ENGLISH. 00:24:57.36\00:24:59.23 >> AND THAT'S WHY TODAY THE BIBLE IS SO PREVALENT -- YOU 00:24:59.23\00:25:02.80 KNOW WHAT AMAZING ME, JOHN, IS THAT THE BIBLE IS SO PREVALENT 00:25:02.80\00:25:07.14 TODAY, YET, THERE IS SO MUCH -- AND I DON'T WANT TO USE 00:25:07.14\00:25:11.87 THE WORD IGNORANCE -- BUT THRE IS SUCH A LACK OF KNOWLEDGE, 00:25:11.87\00:25:15.91 BECAUSE WHEN YOU LISTEN TO SERMONS NOWADAYS, MANY OF THE 00:25:15.91\00:25:21.08 SERMONS TODAY ARE RATHER THAN BEING BASED ON WHAT THE BIBLE 00:25:21.08\00:25:25.55 TEACHES, IT'S KIND OF A -- IT HAS TAKEN ON A SOCIAL LEAN. 00:25:25.55\00:25:30.79 HOW TO HAVE A BETTER RELATIONSHIP IN OUR SOCIETY, 00:25:30.79\00:25:33.90 WHICH IS NOT A BAD THING, AND THE BIBLE IS BEING NEGATED BY 00:25:33.90\00:25:38.53 SUPPOSEDLY GOOD TOPICS. >> SURE. 00:25:38.53\00:25:40.57 >> SO THE BIBLE IS BEING SILENCED. 00:25:40.57\00:25:43.27 THERE'S ALMOST -- AND I'M GOING TO USE THIS PHRASE -- IT JUST 00:25:43.27\00:25:46.31 CAME TO ME -- THERE'S ALMST A COUNTER REFORMATION AMONG THE 00:25:46.31\00:25:51.48 REFORMERS. >> THAT'S TRUE, YOU KNOW. 00:25:51.48\00:25:53.42 >> SO WHAT ROME DID THROUGH PEOPLE LIKE LUIZ AND FRANCISCO 00:25:53.42\00:26:03.63 RIVERA, THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH TODAY IS TAKE IT TO THE NEXT 00:26:03.63\00:26:06.39 LEVEL, BECAUSE YOU TALK TO CHRISTIANS NOWADAYS AND SAY, 00:26:06.39\00:26:09.83 WELL, WE DON'T AGREE ON A PARTICULAR DOCTRINE. 00:26:09.83\00:26:13.03 LET'S GET TOGETHER AND SEE WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES, AND LET'S 00:26:13.03\00:26:17.37 DECIDE TO LET THE BIBLE HAVE THE FINAL SAY. 00:26:17.37\00:26:20.21 I HAVE YET TO FIND PEOPLE THAT WOULD BE OPEN TO THAT, EVEN 00:26:20.21\00:26:24.45 PASTORS. >> INTERESTING. 00:26:24.45\00:26:25.35 >> AND WE HAVE THIS THING NOW 00:26:25.35\00:26:29.52 NOWADAYS, AS YOU HAVE TRAVELED THE WORLD AS WE HAVE, AND YOU 00:26:29.52\00:26:31.99 SEE THAT THE BIBLE IS LESS OF THE FOCUS. 00:26:31.99\00:26:35.19 IT'S MORE HOW CAN WE GET ALONG? WHICH ARE NOT BAD THINGS, BUT 00:26:35.19\00:26:40.80 WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO MAINTAIN A THUS SAITH THE WORD TODAY OR 00:26:40.80\00:26:47.77 THE BIBLE AS OUR GOD. >> THERE IS CREATIVE POWER THAT 00:26:47.77\00:26:59.38 IS RESIDENT IN THE WORLD OF GOD TODAY. 00:26:59.38\00:27:02.92 ALSO, YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE BIBLE INFORMS AND IMPACTS YOUR 00:27:02.92\00:27:06.72 UNDERSTANDING OF GOD -- >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:27:06.72\00:27:08.76 >> -- AND THEREFORE YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD. 00:27:08.76\00:27:11.66 WHAT GOD IS LOOKING TO DO IS TO DRAW US BAC AS CLOSE TO HIS 00:27:11.66\00:27:15.83 HEART AS WE POSSIBLY CAN. WHAT SATAN -- KEEP IN MINE THE 00:27:15.83\00:27:20.27 BIG PICTURE. SATAN IS AT WORK TO DRAW US AWAY 00:27:20.27\00:27:24.17 FROM GOD. JESUS SAID TRUTH IS IMPORTANT. 00:27:24.17\00:27:26.64 TRUTH OF HIS WORD GIVES US A CLEARER COMPREHENSION OF WHO GOD 00:27:26.64\00:27:31.51 IS, AND IT LEADS US DEEPER INTO THE PLAN AND EXPERIENCE OF 00:27:31.51\00:27:35.38 SALVATION. >> UH-HUH. 00:27:35.38\00:27:36.42 >> YOU START LEAVING THINGS UP FOR GRABS. 00:27:36.42\00:27:38.92 YOU START NEGATING. YOU START MOVING OFF THE 00:27:38.92\00:27:43.06 PLATFORM, YOU HAVE GOT PEOPLE WHO ARE WANDERING, AND THEY ARE 00:27:43.06\00:27:49.96 NOT REALLY SURE ABOUT GOD, BECAUSE HOW DOES GOD SAVE YOU? 00:27:49.96\00:27:55.30 ON WHAT AUTHORITY DOES GOD SAVE YOU? 00:27:55.30\00:27:57.24 AND ON SO. >> UH-HUH. 00:27:57.24\00:27:59.04 >> IF YOU ARE NOT STANDING ON THE BIBLE WITH JESUS, YOU ARE 00:27:59.04\00:28:06.15 BUILDING YOUR HOUSE ON SAND, AND THE MINUTE THE RAIN COMES AND 00:28:06.15\00:28:09.25 THE WIND BLOWS, YOU ARE GOING TO BE WASHED AWAY. 00:28:09.25\00:28:12.15 >> YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WATER AND SAND MIXES TOGETHER, 00:28:12.15\00:28:17.59 QUICK SAND. >> QUICK SAND. 00:28:17.59\00:28:19.36 >> AND IT'S ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO FREE YOURSELF FROM SOMETHING 00:28:19.36\00:28:22.86 THAT HAS LIQUIFIED, SUCKING YOU IN FROM THE POWERS UNDER THE 00:28:22.86\00:28:28.17 GROUND. SO I'LL ASK YOU THE QUESTION, IS 00:28:28.17\00:28:31.07 THERE A NEED TO GET BACK TO THE BIBLE TODAY? 00:28:31.07\00:28:34.08 >> OH, THERE'S ABSOLUTELY A NEED TO GET BACK TO THE BIBLE. 00:28:34.08\00:28:40.25 YOU PICK ANY STRATA, ANY SEGMENT, ANY FACTION OF SOCIETY, 00:28:40.25\00:28:45.02 ANY ASPECT OF LIFE, THE BIBLE INFORMS OUR EXPERIENCE. 00:28:45.02\00:28:49.39 THE BIBLE HELPS US TO KNOW THE MIND AND THE WILL OF GOD. 00:28:49.39\00:28:54.10 >> UH-HUH. >> THE BIBLE WILL LEAD US IN 00:28:54.10\00:28:57.37 ACCORDANCE WITH THE WILL OF GOD. I'M GOING TO GO FOR SOME 00:28:57.37\00:29:01.60 LOW-HANGING FRUIT HERE. I WANT TO BE SENSITIVE. 00:29:01.60\00:29:03.64 I'M NOT PICKING ON YOU OR ANYBODY ELSE. 00:29:03.64\00:29:06.47 AND I MEAN YOU -- I MEAN YOU. >> UH-HUH. 00:29:06.47\00:29:09.41 >> BUT LET'S LOOK AT THE AREA OF DIVORCE IN SOCIETY TODAY. 00:29:09.41\00:29:13.65 AND I SAY THIS JUST VERY CAREFULLY. 00:29:13.65\00:29:17.05 WE UNDERSTAND IT'S A COMPLEX BUSINESS. 00:29:17.05\00:29:20.59 BUT WHAT IF IN EVERY SITUATION WHERE THERE WAS MARITAL DISCORD, 00:29:20.59\00:29:25.03 BOTH PEOPLE SAID LET'S JUST HUMBLE OURSELVES BEFORE GOD AND 00:29:25.03\00:29:31.90 HUMBLE OURSELVES BEFORE THE WORD OF GOD. 00:29:31.90\00:29:34.67 CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT? CAN YOU IMAGINE IF IN 00:29:34.67\00:29:38.14 INTERNATIONAL DISPUTES, PEOPLE SAID BEFORE I PRESS THAT RED 00:29:38.14\00:29:41.88 BUTTON, WE'RE GOING TO GET TOGETHER AND HUMBLE OURSELVES 00:29:41.88\00:29:44.95 BEFORE GOD. NOW LET'S MAKE IT PERSONAL -- AS 00:29:44.95\00:29:49.18 IF THAT'S NOT PERSONAL ENOUGH -- YOU ARE WONDERING IN 00:29:49.18\00:29:52.22 WHICH DIRECTION YOUR LIFE OUGHT TO GO. 00:29:52.22\00:29:55.79 WHEN WE GET BACK TO THE BIBLE, IT SAYS GOD SPEAK TO ME THROUGH 00:29:55.79\00:30:00.73 YOUR WORD. YOU ARE WANTING YOUR LIFE TO BE 00:30:00.73\00:30:03.57 GUIDED IN THE WILL OF GOD SO THAT ULTIMATELY GOD'S WILL CAN 00:30:03.57\00:30:08.54 BE DONE IN YOUR LIFE. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:30:08.54\00:30:11.21 >> SO THE BIBLE MUST BE THE PLATFORM. 00:30:11.21\00:30:13.78 AND ONCE WE START TO DRIFT OFF OF THE BIBLE, CHURCHES AREN'T 00:30:13.78\00:30:18.45 REALLY SURE ANYMORE WHAT THEY STAND FOR, EVEN WHY THEY EXIST. 00:30:18.45\00:30:24.85 WHICH IS WHY MANY CHURCHES, I DON'T WANT TO SAY THIS 00:30:24.85\00:30:28.42 CRITICALLY -- ALTHOUGH IT IS GOING TO SOUND THAT WAY -- MANY 00:30:28.42\00:30:35.50 CHURCHES DON'T REALLY KNOW WHAT THEY EXIST FOR. 00:30:35.50\00:30:37.93 >> SO THE SOCIAL ILLS ARE BEING ADDRESSED BY THE CHURCH, YET THE 00:30:37.93\00:30:43.54 SCRIPPAL DIRECTION IS BEING IGNORED. 00:30:43.54\00:30:47.68 >> YEAH, THE ONLY REAL STRENGTH TO ADDRESS THOSE SOCIAL ILLS IS 00:30:47.68\00:30:51.65 OFTEN BEING LEFT IN THE SHADE OR IT ISN'T BEING BROUGHT TO THE 00:30:51.65\00:30:59.95 FOREFRONT. >> SOMETHING ELSE THAT IS 00:30:59.95\00:31:01.59 MISSING IS PROPHECY. WE TALKED ABOUT THE PROPHETIC 00:31:01.59\00:31:05.36 TIMETABLE. LET'S GO NOW TO THE MOVEMENT 00:31:05.36\00:31:08.43 THAT GOD RAISED UP AT A TIME WHEN THE TEACHING ON THE SECOND 00:31:08.43\00:31:13.84 COMING WAS -- WAS ALMOST COMPLETELY OBLITERATED. 00:31:13.84\00:31:16.77 >> YEAH. CAN I ASK YOUR PERMISSION. 00:31:16.77\00:31:19.14 CAN I WALK THROUGH A COUPLE OF STEPS BEFORE WE DO THAT. 00:31:19.14\00:31:24.78 >> ABSOLUTELY. >> WE HAVE A COUPLE OF VIDEOS 00:31:24.78\00:31:29.15 THAT WE FILMED AT THE BASILICA, AND THE HEAD JESUIT CHURCH. 00:31:29.15\00:31:36.39 THIS GETS US TO OUR PROGRAM ON THE COUNTER REFORMATION. 00:31:36.39\00:31:43.50 THIS IS THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE JESUIT CHURCH. 00:31:43.50\00:31:46.40 HERE IS -- SEE THAT FELLOW IN THE MIDDLE. 00:31:46.40\00:31:48.77 I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT HE IS DOING, BUT HE IS ENJOYING HIMSELF. 00:31:48.77\00:31:53.61 >> THAT'S NOT PLANNED? >> NO. 00:31:53.61\00:31:57.01 BUT I WAS WALKING THROUGH ST. PETERS BASILICA. 00:31:57.01\00:32:02.78 LOOK WHAT HE IS STANDING ON. HE IS STANDING ON A PROESTANT. 00:32:02.78\00:32:08.46 HE IS STANDING ON A PROTESTANT HOLDING THE BIBLE. 00:32:08.46\00:32:11.66 >> UNBELIEVABLE. >> IT'S EITHER A PROTESTANT 00:32:11.66\00:32:17.40 HOLDING A BIBLE OR SOMEBODY LIKE KELVIN. 00:32:17.40\00:32:22.70 WHAT IS ROME TELLING YOU ABOUT IT THINKS OF THE PROTESTANT 00:32:22.70\00:32:27.74 REFORMATION. THIS IS INSIDE THE CHURCH OF THE 00:32:27.74\00:32:32.91 JESUIT, A VERY PROMINENT STATUTE YOU JUST SAW, AND THEN THIS 00:32:32.91\00:32:39.95 REMARKABLE SCULPTURE RIGHT NEXT TO IT. 00:32:39.95\00:32:43.79 ABOUT 6:00 THAT SCULPTURE IS REVEALED. 00:32:43.79\00:32:49.80 THIS IS MARY, SHE HAS A CROSS IN ONE HAND AND WHAT HAPPEN PEERS 00:32:49.80\00:32:53.97 TO BE A LIGHTNING BOLT IN THE OTHER. 00:32:53.97\00:32:57.41 FALLING DOWN IN FRONT OF HER ARE TWO PROTESTANTS. 00:32:57.41\00:33:01.14 THEIR WRITINGS CAN BE SEEN AROUND THAT STATUE. 00:33:01.14\00:33:07.88 IF YOU GET UP CLOSE, YOU SEE THE BOOK, JOHN CALVIN, IT IS VERY 00:33:07.88\00:33:15.12 DISCERNIBLE. ONE THAT SAYS MARTIN LUTHER, AND 00:33:15.12\00:33:18.96 YOU CAN GOING TO SEE AN ANGEL IN JUST A MOMENT HOLDING A BOOK. 00:33:18.96\00:33:23.10 MATTER OF FACT, WHAT IS THE ANGEL DOING? 00:33:23.10\00:33:26.74 TEARING THE PAGES OUT OF THE WRITINGS OF FINGLEY. 00:33:26.74\00:33:33.27 >> UNBELIEVABLE. >> AT ST. PETERS INSIDE THE 00:33:33.27\00:33:37.71 VATICAN AND AT THIS, THE HEAD JESUIT CHURCH, YOU HAVE STATUES 00:33:37.71\00:33:48.39 OF PROTESTANTS BEING CRUSHED. AND YOU HAVE MATCHING STATUTES, 00:33:48.39\00:33:58.10 AND AGAIN, HE IS CRUSHING A PROTESTANT UNDER HIS FOOT. 00:33:58.10\00:34:02.90 PASTOR LOMACANG, THE YEAR IS 2017. 00:34:02.90\00:34:05.74 ONE WOULD UNDERSTAND IF THESE STATUES WERE ERECTED IN 1660 AND 00:34:05.74\00:34:12.28 THEN TAKEN DOWN AS THE CHURCH WELCOMES BACK WHAT SHE HAS 00:34:12.28\00:34:17.35 REFERRED TO AS HER SEPARATED BRETHREN. 00:34:17.35\00:34:21.36 BUT YOU VISIT THE VATICAN, YOU WALK IN AND LOOK TO THE LEFT, 00:34:21.36\00:34:27.60 AND YOU GO OH, MY GOODNESS, THAT'S US THEY ARE TALKING 00:34:27.60\00:34:32.03 ABOUT. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:34:32.03\00:34:32.80 >> AND THE HEADQUARTERS FOR THE JESUIT SOCIETY, HEAD CHURCH, AND 00:34:32.80\00:34:37.84 YOU HAVE PROTESTANTS BEING -CRUSHED, AND PROTESTANTS BEING CAST DOWN, AND THEIR WRITINGS 00:34:37.84\00:34:44.61 BEING RIPPED UP. THIS IS A VERY, VERY CLEAR 00:34:44.61\00:34:47.55 MESSAGE TO PROTESTANTISM. HERE IS WHAT WE THINK OF YOU. 00:34:47.55\00:34:51.72 IF YOU WERE TO LOOK AT POPE FRANCIS'S BOOK THAT HE WROTE, 00:34:51.72\00:34:55.62 THE HISTORY OF THE JESUITS, YOU'LL FIND A QUOTE IN THERE 00:34:55.62\00:34:59.63 WHERE HE SAYS THAT THE ILLS WE SEE IN THE MODERN WORLD TODAY 00:34:59.63\00:35:04.17 ARE BECAUSE OF THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION. 00:35:04.17\00:35:07.24 LET THAT SINK IN. SO YOU ASK -- WE HAVE DISCUSSED 00:35:07.24\00:35:12.34 THIS A BIT, AND YOU ASKED EARLIER IN THIS PROGRAM, DO WE 00:35:12.34\00:35:17.45 NEED A REFORMATION TODAY. ROME SAYS WE DON'T NEED A 00:35:17.45\00:35:21.18 REFORMATION TODAY. ROME SAYS TH REFORMATION WAS A 00:35:21.18\00:35:23.99 VERY BAD THING. SO IT SEEMS TO ME THAT WE NEED 00:35:23.99\00:35:27.12 TO QUICKLY AND DESPERATELY GET BACK TO THE PRINCIPLES OF THE 00:35:27.12\00:35:32.93 PROTESTANT REFORMATION. THE BIBLE AND THE BIBLE ALONE IS 00:35:32.93\00:35:35.63 OUR RULE AND PRACTICE. GRACE ALONE -- CHRIST ALONE, 00:35:35.63\00:35:41.90 SOLELY TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND SO ON, FAITH ALONE. 00:35:41.90\00:35:45.57 YEAH, THAT WAS REALLY INTERESTING TO GO TO ROME AND 00:35:45.57\00:35:48.54 HAVE MY EYES OPENED AND TO SEE SOME OF THESE STATUES AND IMAGES 00:35:48.54\00:35:54.52 AND MESSAGES BEING PORTRAYED IN A VERY OBVIOUS FASHION. 00:35:54.52\00:36:00.32 I'LL TELL YOU THIS, IF YOU GO TO THE CHURCH OF THE JESUIT, AND 00:36:00.32\00:36:06.26 LOOK FOR LITERATURE EXPLAINING THAT STATUE, YOU ARE NOT GOING 00:36:06.26\00:36:10.27 TO FIND IT. THEY DON'T HAVE IT OUT ON 00:36:10.27\00:36:12.93 DISPLAY. >> HUM. 00:36:12.93\00:36:13.60 >> SO I WANT TO GET UP TO TODAY'S TIME. 00:36:13.60\00:36:19.41 PROGRAM 3, IS WILLIAM TINDALE. PROGRAM 4 IS THE ROMAN CATHOLIC 00:36:19.41\00:36:25.58 CHURCH. IT WAS ROME WAS THAT THE OBJECT 00:36:25.58\00:36:27.08 OF THE REFORMATION. YOU KNOW LUTHER WAS SO INCENSED 00:36:27.08\00:36:31.85 BY SELLING INDULGENCES. I THINK IT'S FASCINATING THAT 00:36:31.85\00:36:43.40 NICE IS WHERE THE PRINTING PRESS WAS INVENTED, AND NICE WAS WHERE 00:36:43.40\00:36:49.14 [ INAUDIBLE ] WAS SENT TO GO AND SELL INDULGENCES. 00:36:49.14\00:36:53.21 SO HE IS SELLING THESE INDULGENCES IN WITTENBERG. 00:36:53.21\00:36:57.91 LUTHER RISES UP AGAINST IT. INDULGENCE IS AVAILABLE TODAY. 00:36:57.91\00:37:03.35 AT THE AIRPORT IN ITALY, YOU CAN FIND INFORMATION ABOUT WHERE IN 00:37:03.35\00:37:08.26 ROME YOU CAN GO TO GET INDULGENCES. 00:37:08.26\00:37:11.13 >> EXPLAIN TO SOMEONE WHAT AN INDU 00:37:11.13\00:37:18.87 INDULGENCE. >> YEAH, THE ROMAN CATHOLIC 00:37:18.87\00:37:21.90 CHURCH TEACHES IF YOU DON'T GO TO HEAVEN, AND YOU ARE NOT QUITE 00:37:21.90\00:37:26.07 BAD ENOUGH TO GO TO HELL, YOU CAN BE PUDGE -- PURGE YOU. 00:37:26.07\00:37:35.12 THEY PURGE YOU WITH FIRE AND HEAT. 00:37:35.12\00:37:37.39 IT'S A DISASTROUS TEACHING. THE CHURCH TAUGHT -- THE CHURCH 00:37:37.39\00:37:42.72 TEACHES THAT YOU CAN EARN AN INDULGENCE, THAT'S A LESSENING 00:37:42.72\00:37:48.80 OF YOUR TIME IN PURGATORY. IF YOU KNOW YOU ARE GOING TO 00:37:48.80\00:38:08.12 PURGATORY, YOU WOULD BE NUTS GOT TO TRY TO BUY SOME TIME OUT. 00:38:08.12\00:38:13.12 IF YOU HAD FAMILY THAT WAS GOING TO PURGATORY, YOU WOULD BE AWFUL 00:38:13.12\00:38:21.46 NOT TO BUY THEM OUT. >> THE CHURCH SAID IF YOUR 00:38:21.46\00:38:24.63 INFANT IS NOT BAPTIZED, THEY WILL GO TO LIMBO. 00:38:24.63\00:38:28.10 IF YOUR ADULT IS NOT BAPTIZED, YOU WILL GO TO PURGATORY OR 00:38:28.10\00:38:37.51 PURGATORY. AND YOU HAVE 30 DAYS TO PAY THEM 00:38:37.51\00:38:39.98 OUT OF THERE. >> YEAH, SO THEY ARE GOT THERE. 00:38:39.98\00:38:43.65 PURGATORY IS A MONSTROUS TEACHING. 00:38:43.65\00:38:46.69 YOU HAVE TO PRAY BEFORE A SHRINE, GO TO A CERTAIN CHURCH, 00:38:46.69\00:38:54.10 YOU WILL GET INDULGENCES. IF YOU FOLLOW THE POPE ON -TWITTER, YOU 00:38:54.10\00:39:00.84 GET AN INDULGENCE. >> HUM. >> WHO WANTS TO SEND MORE TIME 00:39:00.84\00:39:04.31 IN PURGATORY, SO BECOME A TWITTER FOLLOWERS OF THE POPE, 00:39:04.31\00:39:08.08 LESS TIME IN PURGATORY. AND THAT IS A TEACHING OF 2017, 00:39:08.08\00:39:12.25 NOT 1517. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:39:12.25\00:39:14.58 >> SO WHAT LUTHER STOOD UP AGAINST THEN THIS BONDAGE OF WE 00:39:14.58\00:39:18.39 HAVE GOT YOU BY THE THROAT AND THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN GET OUT OF 00:39:18.39\00:39:23.16 PURGATORY IS BY PAYING US MONEY, OR DOING YOUR TIME, IF YOU PAY 00:39:23.16\00:39:30.37 OR PRAY OR VISIT OR GIVE. LUTHER STOOD UP AGAINST THAT. 00:39:30.37\00:39:34.74 LUTHER PROCLAIMED JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH. 00:39:34.74\00:39:38.04 WE BECOME JUST BEFORE GOD, NOT BY OUR WORKS. 00:39:38.04\00:39:41.38 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> ALONE BY FAITH IN JESUS 00:39:41.38\00:39:45.85 CHRIST. ROME TODAY TEACHES JUSTIFICATION 00:39:45.85\00:39:50.25 BY FAITH. >> AND YOU CAN PICK ANY GOSPEL 00:39:50.25\00:39:53.66 YOU DESIRE BECAUSE THERE'S NO GAUGING POINT. 00:39:53.66\00:39:56.59 THERE'S NO POINT OF REFERENCE. AND SO THE CHURCH TODAY -- AND 00:39:56.59\00:39:59.29 WE LOOK AT A LOT OF THE THINGS THAT ARE DONE BY THE CHURCH. 00:39:59.29\00:40:02.96 THE CHURCH IS PRIMARILY A MOVEMENT OF ACTIVISM. 00:40:02.96\00:40:06.47 >> YEAH, SURE. >> BUT ON THE HEELS OF THAT, YOU 00:40:06.47\00:40:09.24 STILL HAVE THE AUTHORITY OF THE POPE RECOGNIZED BY ALL RELIGIOUS 00:40:09.24\00:40:15.08 AUDIENCES. >> SURE. 00:40:15.08\00:40:15.98 SURE. >> AND THEN YOU HAVE A 00:40:15.98\00:40:17.35 PERSON -- AND I DON'T WANT TO MISALIGN OR IDENTIFY WRONGLY, 00:40:17.35\00:40:22.02 BUT USING HIS OWN WORDS, RICK WARREN, A STRONG PROTESTANT 00:40:22.02\00:40:27.39 LEADER -- NOT PROTESTANT, BUT EVANGELICAL LEADER -- 00:40:27.39\00:40:35.93 >> THESE ARE STATEMENTS THAT NEED TO BE EXPOSED, AND I NEED 00:40:35.93\00:40:41.80 TO SAY THAT IN A KIND WAY. I HA A PERSON SAY YOU SAID 00:40:41.80\00:40:47.14 WHAT? AND I HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN. 00:40:47.14\00:40:49.24 THE WORLD DEFAULTS TO THE LEADERSHIP OF THE POPE. 00:40:49.24\00:40:52.41 WHY? BECAUSE HE SEEMS LIKE A NEUTRAL 00:40:52.41\00:40:55.85 KIND OF -- EVERYBODY RELATES. HE SAYS SALVATION IS THROUGH US, 00:40:55.85\00:41:01.49 BUT HE'S IMMENSELY POWERFUL AD SO FORTH. 00:41:01.49\00:41:05.63 I SAID ROME TEACHES JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH. 00:41:05.63\00:41:09.53 THE CHURCH OF ROM TEACHES JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH, BUT NOT 00:41:09.53\00:41:14.17 JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH ALONE. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:41:14.17\00:41:16.87 >> AND SO IF IT'S NOT JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH ALONE. 00:41:16.87\00:41:20.78 IT'S JUSTIFICATION BY WORKS. SALVATION BY WORKS. 00:41:20.78\00:41:23.95 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> SO, YOU KNOW, LUTHER AND 00:41:23.95\00:41:28.12 OTHERS, THEY WERE KIND OF CONTEMPORARIES, AFTER KNOX AND 00:41:28.12\00:41:33.42 NUMEROUS OTHERS DENTED THE CHURCH OF ROME, CURTAILED ITS 00:41:33.42\00:41:37.63 POWER A LITTLE BIT, IMPEDED ITS PROGRESS A LITTLE BIT, AND THIS 00:41:37.63\00:41:41.70 INSPIRED A FELLOW NAMED IGNCIOS OF LIOLA, AND HE SAID GIVE US A 00:41:41.70\00:41:56.44 CHARTER, WE'LL DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO TURN THIS PROTESTANT 00:41:56.44\00:42:02.22 REFORMATION AROUND AND REGAIN THE GROWN FOR CATHOLICISM. 00:42:02.22\00:42:09.66 THE SOCIETY OF JESUS EXISTS. IT'S A FACT. 00:42:09.66\00:42:12.29 IT WAS RAISED UP FOR THE PURPOSE OF COUNTERING THE REFORMATION. 00:42:12.29\00:42:15.83 THAT'S WHY IT EXISTING. AND THE FORMER SOLDIER, A 00:42:15.83\00:42:19.90 BRILLIANT FELLOW, OBVIOUSLY VERY CHARISMATIC AND CONVINCING, DID 00:42:19.90\00:42:24.84 AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF WORK IN THAT REGARD, SO WE FOCUS ON THAT 00:42:24.84\00:42:28.71 IN THE PROGRAM, THE COUNTER REFORMATION. 00:42:28.71\00:42:31.71 COMING UP IN THE SERIES 500 HERE ON 3ABN LATER ON THIS MONTH. 00:42:31.71\00:42:42.06 EVENINGS. THEN PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND. 00:42:42.06\00:42:43.99 WILLIAM MILLER. INTERESTING, BECAUSE NOW THE 00:42:43.99\00:42:46.80 TRUTH IS ADVANCING. HE HAD PROTESTANTISM COME TO THE 00:42:46.80\00:42:49.83 UNITED STATES. IT WAS -- TO BEGIN WITH, IT WAS 00:42:49.83\00:42:53.70 PURE TANNISM. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:42:53.70\00:42:56.67 >> AND THEY CREATED WHAT THEY KNEW. 00:42:56.67\00:42:59.01 THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND WASN'T A CHURCH THAT -- THAT REALLY 00:42:59.01\00:43:02.64 OFFERED YOU ANY RELIGIOUS LIBERTY. 00:43:02.64\00:43:07.12 SO THEY CAME HERE -- YOU DIDN'T GO TO CHURCH ON SUNDAYS, YOU 00:43:07.12\00:43:10.65 COULD BE FINED OR EVEN PUT N JAIL. 00:43:10.65\00:43:13.19 >> OH, RIGHT. >> IMAGINE THAT IN THE LAND OF 00:43:13.19\00:43:16.73 THE FREE, THE HOME OF THE BRAVE. >> BUT THEY WERE SO TERRIFIED OF 00:43:16.73\00:43:21.83 WHAT HAPPENED IN EUROPE, THAT THEY CAME OVER AND CREATED A 00:43:21.83\00:43:27.84 MICROCOSM OF THE SAME THING OF RELIGIOUS RESTRAINT, BUT OUT OF 00:43:27.84\00:43:31.54 FEAR THAT, YOU KNOW, WE CANNOT LIE ROME TO FOLLOW US HERE. 00:43:31.54\00:43:36.88 AND WE KNOW IN AMERICAN HISTORY, THAT IF THE POPE WOULD HAVE COME 00:43:36.88\00:43:41.78 HERE SHORTLY ON THE HEELS OF THE P 00:43:41.78\00:43:49.42 PUREPURE TANS, HE WOULD HAVE BEEN EXECUTED. 00:43:49.42\00:43:53.73 >> YEAH. ROGER WILLIAM WANTED TO EXTEND 00:43:53.73\00:43:57.53 TO EVERYBODY THE FREEDOM T PRACTICE THEIR RELIGION IN A WAY 00:43:57.53\00:44:03.00 THEY SAW FIT. WHAT A RISK. 00:44:03.00\00:44:06.81 INTERESTINGLY, SAME RISK GOD TOOK. 00:44:06.81\00:44:08.38 HERE IS WHAT I WANT DO YOU DO, BUT I'M NOT GOING TO FORCE YOU. 00:44:08.38\00:44:13.42 IT COST GOD AN AWFUL LOT, DIDN'T IT? 00:44:13.42\00:44:17.22 >> THA'S RIGHT. >> AND WILLIAM CHAMPIONED, YOU, 00:44:17.22\00:44:21.59 ME, WE ALL HAVE THE RIGHT TO PRACTICE OUR FAITH IN THE EYES 00:44:21.59\00:44:24.79 OF GOD, THIS IS WHAT WILLIAM TAUGHT AS WE SEE FIT. 00:44:24.79\00:44:29.70 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> AND THAT WAS REALLY IMPORTANT 00:44:29.70\00:44:33.44 TO ROGER WILLIAMS, AND THANK GOD IT WAS. 00:44:33.44\00:44:36.47 BECAUSE LATER -- NOW WE HAVE THIS PRINCIPALISM THAT ALLOWED 00:44:36.47\00:44:42.14 PROTESTANTISM TO FLOURISH. AND YET THERE WERE STILL THINGS 00:44:42.14\00:44:45.38 THAT THE PROTESTANTS WERE MISSING. 00:44:45.38\00:44:47.68 ONE WAS THERE WAS NO URGENCY ABOUT THE SECOND COMING OF 00:44:47.68\00:44:52.45 JESUS. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:44:52.45\00:44:53.79 >> MILLENNIALISM THOUGHT THAT THERE WOULD BE A THOUSAND YEARS 00:44:53.79\00:44:57.56 OF PEACE ON EARTH. THIS FELLOW WILLIAM MILLER, A 00:44:57.56\00:45:01.66 BAPTIST, DIDN'T BUY IT. HE BEGAN TO STUDY HIS BIBLE AND 00:45:01.66\00:45:05.67 HE ARRIVED AT CERTAIN POSITIONS, INCLUDING THE IDEA THAT JESUS 00:45:05.67\00:45:10.31 WOULD RETURN SOMETIME IN THE 1840S. 00:45:10.31\00:45:12.71 THEY ENDED UP PINNING IT ON 1843 -- ACTUALLY THAT SAMUEL 00:45:12.71\00:45:21.82 SNOW. SNOW CAME UP WITH THE 1844 DATE. 00:45:21.82\00:45:25.09 MILLER NEVER SET A DATE. BUT HE WAS HOPEFUL THAT JESUS 00:45:25.09\00:45:29.96 WOULD RETURN IN 1843. HE DID NOT. 00:45:29.96\00:45:34.56 SNOW SAID HE WAS GOING TO COME 1844. 00:45:34.56\00:45:38.20 BUT IT WAS THE MILLERITE MOVEMENT, THE ADVENTIST 00:45:38.20\00:45:44.67 MOVEMENT. WE TAKE YOU TO THE WILLIAM 00:45:44.67\00:45:48.28 MILLER FARM. TO THE VERY ROOM WILLIAM MILLER 00:45:48.28\00:45:51.51 WAS PACING IN LOOKING TOWARDS THE EASTERN SKY. 00:45:51.51\00:45:57.95 ASCENSION ROCK. THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE WHO ARE 00:45:57.95\00:46:00.92 RELATIVES OF THE ORIGINAL SETTLERS OF THE AREA WHO CLAIM 00:46:00.92\00:46:04.83 IT HAPPENED, SO -- OKAY, GO TOE THE MILLER CHAPEL. 00:46:04.83\00:46:08.70 BUT THEN -- AND I THINK THIS IS IMPORTANT. 00:46:08.70\00:46:12.00 PROGRAM 9, THE FINAL PROGRAM, IS FINISHING THE REFORMATION. 00:46:12.00\00:46:16.44 BY THE WAY, IN EACH OF THOSE PROGRAMS -- THESE PROGRAMS, WE 00:46:16.44\00:46:21.01 SPEAK TO AN EXPERT. FIRST PROGRAM -- LET ME SEE IF I 00:46:21.01\00:46:25.55 CAN REMEMBER ALL OF THEM. THE FIRST ABOUT THE REFORMATION, 00:46:25.55\00:46:30.85 DR. [ INAUDIBLE ]. THE SECOND PROGRAM ABOUT 00:46:30.85\00:46:34.96 PATRICK, DR. DAVID TRIM FROM THE GENERAL CONFERENCE. 00:46:34.96\00:46:37.76 HE IS THE HEAD OF THE ARCHIVES. HE IS A BRILLIANT FELLA. 00:46:37.76\00:46:43.10 IN THE THIRD PROGRAM, I SPEAK FROM DR. [ INAUDIBLE ] FROM 00:46:43.10\00:46:49.00 OAKWOOD UNIVERSITY. POWERFUL STUFF. 00:46:49.00\00:46:51.71 THE FOURTH PROGRAM WHERE WE TALK ABOUT LUTHER -- NO ROME -- NO 00:46:51.71\00:46:56.41 LUTHER, LUTHER. I SPEAK TO DR. LESLIE POLLARD, 00:46:56.41\00:47:06.39 THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY. WE SPEAK TO DR. [ INAUDIBLE ]. 00:47:06.39\00:47:09.42 DR. [ INAUDIBLE ] AGAIN ABOUT THE COUNTER REFORMATION. 00:47:09.42\00:47:15.36 LINCOLN STEED, DR. JUDD LAKE ABOUT WILLIAM MILLER, AND THEN 00:47:15.36\00:47:22.30 PASTOR TED WILSON ABOUT FINISHING THE REFORMATION, 00:47:22.30\00:47:25.11 BECAUSE WHERE DOES THIS THING END? 00:47:25.11\00:47:28.51 IT'S GOD'S IDEA, IDEAL, WILL, THAT THE WORK GET DONE. 00:47:28.51\00:47:34.08 JESUS SAID THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM. 00:47:34.08\00:47:36.82 WHICH GOSPEL, THE GOSPEL OF JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH ALONE. 00:47:36.82\00:47:40.09 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> IT HAS GOT TO GO TO ALL OF 00:47:40.09\00:47:43.09 THE WORLD. SO GOD AT THEN OF TIME WOULD UP 00:47:43.09\00:47:46.90 HIS PEOPLE. WHAT WOULD THESE PEOPLE LOOK 00:47:46.90\00:47:49.76 LIKE? WOULD THEY BE RIGHT 00:47:49.76\00:47:52.83 THEOLOGICALLY? WELL, YES I THINK THEY WOULD BE 00:47:52.83\00:47:55.27 AND SHOULD BE, BUT THEY ARE GOING TO BE RIGHT 00:47:55.27\00:47:59.71 EXPERIENTIALLY. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:47:59.71\00:48:00.71 NOT JUST A THEORY. >> RIGHT. 00:48:00.71\00:48:03.14 THERE ARE A LOT OF MEAN SPIRITED PEOPLE WHO HAVE THE FACTS 00:48:03.14\00:48:08.92 STRAIGHT, BUT THEY HAVEN'T -- >> TRANSFORMED. 00:48:08.92\00:48:12.22 >> THEY HAVEN'T BEEN TRANSFORMED. 00:48:12.22\00:48:15.39 SO GOD'S LOOKING FOR A PEOPLE IN THE LAST DAYS WHO WILL -- WHO 00:48:15.39\00:48:20.10 WILL HAVE REFORMED IN THEM THE CHARACTER OF GOD. 00:48:20.10\00:48:23.33 >> UH-HUH. >> THEY WILL BE FOLLOWING THE 00:48:23.33\00:48:25.60 WORD OF GOD. THEY WILL BE LIFTING UP THE 00:48:25.60\00:48:29.24 BIBLE AS THE RULE OF FAITH AND PRACTICE, AND THEY WILL BE 00:48:29.24\00:48:32.67 TAKING THE GOSPEL TO THEIR NEIGHBORS, SO THEIR FRIENDS. 00:48:32.67\00:48:36.14 THEY WILL BE URGING THOSE PEOPLE ARRANGE THEM TO JOIN WITH THEM 00:48:36.14\00:48:40.62 IN FOLLOWING CHRIST. THEY WILL BE MISSIONARIES, LIKE 00:48:40.62\00:48:45.35 THE REFORMERS WERE. THESE WERE BRILLIANT PEOPLE. 00:48:45.35\00:48:49.59 THEY WERE WELL EDUCATED. THEY WERE BRIGHT, BUT THEY TOOK 00:48:49.59\00:48:52.99 THEIR WELL EDUCATEDNESS, AND DEDICATED THAT TO GOD. 00:48:52.99\00:48:56.60 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> SEE. 00:48:56.60\00:48:59.33 THESE GUYS -- IF THEY WERE LIVING TODAY, THEY ARE BRILLIANT 00:48:59.33\00:49:04.24 ENOUGH TO MAKE MILLIONS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. 00:49:04.24\00:49:07.51 BUT INSTEAD OF PURSUING SOMETHING THAT WOULD BRING THEM 00:49:07.51\00:49:11.41 GAME, THEY PURSUED SOMETHING THAT BROUGHT THEM PERSONAL LOSS. 00:49:11.41\00:49:16.92 ROGER WILLIAMS WAS RUN OUT OF TOWN, AND LIVED IN THE WOODS FOR 00:49:16.92\00:49:21.46 WEEKS. LUTHER WAS PERSECUTED AND 00:49:21.46\00:49:23.69 BANISHED AND SENTENCED TO DIE. TINDALE DIED. 00:49:23.69\00:49:27.86 PATRICK WAS AN OUTCAST, YOU KNOW, HE RISKED HIS LIFE TO 00:49:27.86\00:49:32.23 SHARE WITH THE PAGANS. WILLIAM MILLER SPENT HIS 00:49:32.23\00:49:38.57 FORTUNATE TO PROCLAIM THE GOSPEL, AND THEN, OF COURSE, HE 00:49:38.57\00:49:42.18 LOOKED LIKE A BIT OF A FOOL IN THE EYES OF MANY BECAUSE THE 00:49:42.18\00:49:48.32 PREDICTIONS DID NOT COME THROUGH THE WAY HE CLAIMED. 00:49:48.32\00:49:51.39 THEY DEDICATED THEMSELVES TO LIFTING UP OTHER PEOPLE. 00:49:51.39\00:49:55.29 AND WE CAN GET DISTRACTED, YOU KNOW, THERE'S SO MUCH GOING ON 00:49:55.29\00:50:00.93 AROUND US. WE CAUGHT UP IN THIS MOVEMENT, 00:50:00.93\00:50:03.60 THAT MOVEMENT, THIS ARGUMENT, THIS DEBATE, THIS ISSUE. 00:50:03.60\00:50:07.30 >> UH-HUH. >> THE MAIN ISSUE IS TAKING 00:50:07.30\00:50:09.47 JESUS TO OTHERS, SO 500, THE SERIES ON 3ABN LATER THIS MONTH 00:50:09.47\00:50:14.61 IS GOING TO TALK US THROUGH THIS HISTORY OF THE PROTESTANT 00:50:14.61\00:50:18.95 REFORMATION AND APPLY IT TO HOW IT WILL EFFECT OUR LIVES TODAY. 00:50:18.95\00:50:23.89 GOD IS CALLING US TO BE PROTESTANTS IN OUR BELIEFS, HOW 00:50:23.89\00:50:28.42 WE LIVE FOR JESUS, HOW WE DEDICATE OURSELVES TO SHARING 00:50:28.42\00:50:33.03 THE GOSPEL WITH THE WORLD. >> SO BRINGING THIS BACK FULL 00:50:33.03\00:50:37.10 CIRCLE, IS IT IMPORTANT TO STILL BE A PROTESTANT. 00:50:37.10\00:50:39.97 YOU JUST ANSWERED THE QUESTION. >> OH, YEAH. 00:50:39.97\00:50:45.24 >> BECAUSE THE KEY HERE WOULD NOT BE JUST SACRED TRADITION, 00:50:45.24\00:50:50.75 WHICH IS A TERM USED TO CHALLENGE THE SCRIPTURES, BUT 00:50:50.75\00:50:53.98 THIS WOULD BE THE PROPER GOSPEL. SALVATION IS BY GRACE THROUGH 00:50:53.98\00:50:58.29 FAITH IN CHRIST ALONE. >> ALONE. 00:50:58.29\00:51:00.49 >> AND THAT IS NOT THE PLATFORM OF ROMANISM. 00:51:00.49\00:51:05.29 >> THAT'S CORRECT. >> SO WE'RE NOT SAYING 00:51:05.29\00:51:07.50 THAT -- WE'RE NOT SAYING THAT CATHOLICS ARE BAD PEOPLE -- 00:51:07.50\00:51:10.53 >> OF COURSE NOT. >> MY FAMILY I LOVE THEM ALL. 00:51:10.53\00:51:13.60 THEY LOVE US. >> AND THEY PUT UP WITH YOU. 00:51:13.60\00:51:16.30 >> ANYBODY WHO CAN PUT UP WITH ME HAD TO BE A GOO PERSON. 00:51:16.30\00:51:19.71 >> THEY ARE SAINTS. >> BUT EACH HAS A DIFFERENT WALK 00:51:19.71\00:51:26.51 IN FAITH, BUT YOU HAVE THE STATEMENT IN JOHN 10:16, WHICH 00:51:26.51\00:51:30.69 JESUS NOW IN THE GOSPEL SAYS OTHER SHEEP I HAVE THAT ARE NOT 00:51:30.69\00:51:37.13 OF THIS FOLD. >> YEAH, THEM ALSO I MUST BRING. 00:51:37.13\00:51:40.70 >> THEM ALSO I MUST BRING, AND THEY WILL HEAR MY VOICE. 00:51:40.70\00:51:44.80 SO NOW WE HAVE THIS DAY AND AGE WHERE ROME IS CALLING FOR UNITE 00:51:44.80\00:51:51.04 UNDER US, BUT JESUS IS SAYING UNITE UNDER ME AND MY WORD. 00:51:51.04\00:51:55.41 >> THAT'S RIGHT. REVELATION 18, COME OUT OF HER, 00:51:55.41\00:52:00.25 MY PEOPLE. IT MATTERS TO GOD. 00:52:00.25\00:52:02.08 >> THA'S RIGHT. >> IT REALLY MATTERS TO GOD. 00:52:02.08\00:52:04.82 YOU SEE IF YOU ARE NOT A PROTESTANT, IF YOU HAVE GIVEN UP 00:52:04.82\00:52:08.72 THINK PROTEST AND ACCEPTED THE AUTHORITY OF THE RULING 00:52:08.72\00:52:11.53 CHURCH -- >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:52:11.53\00:52:12.96 >> THEREFORE, YOU CAN ACQUIESCED TO THE IDEA THAT THERE IS MERIT 00:52:12.96\00:52:21.84 IN PRAYING TO SAINTS, THERE IS MERIT IN RECEIVING THE 00:52:21.84\00:52:27.48 SACRAMENTS, THERE IS MERIT BEING SUB SERVIENT TO THE AUTHORITY OF 00:52:27.48\00:52:33.11 THE POPE. IF YOU ARE NOT PROTESTANT --IF 00:52:33.11\00:52:35.78 YOU ARE NOT PROTESTING, YOU MUST BE ACCEPTING THAT SALVATION IS 00:52:35.78\00:52:40.72 IN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. THE SCRIPTURES MAKE IT 00:52:40.72\00:52:46.93 ABUNDANTLY PLAIN THAT IT CANNOT BE THAT WAY. 00:52:46.93\00:52:50.53 SO YOU ARE EITHER ACCEPTING OF -THOSE FACTS OR YOU ARE NOT. IF YOU ARE NOT, OUR OUGHT TO 00:52:50.53\00:52:56.47 OPEN YOUR MOUTH IN DEFENSE OF THE GOSPEL. 00:52:56.47\00:52:59.04 I HAVE TO BE REALLY CLEAR ABOUT THIS. 00:52:59.04\00:53:01.51 I'M NOT A RABBLE-ROUSER. I'M NOT SUGGESTING LET'S GO ON 00:53:01.51\00:53:07.85 THE ATTACK AGAINST A CHURCH, A DENOMINATION, A POPE, ABSOLUTELY 00:53:07.85\00:53:11.85 NOT. GO ON THE OFFENSIVE WITH THE 00:53:11.85\00:53:15.12 MESSAGE OF JESUS. LIFT HIM UP. 00:53:15.12\00:53:17.59 OPEN PEOPLE'S EYES TO THE WORD OF GOD. 00:53:17.59\00:53:21.23 LET PEOPLE KNOW THERE IS A SAVIOR, JESUS. 00:53:21.23\00:53:24.50 HE'S ENOUGH. YOUR WORKS DON'T CONTRIBUTE TO 00:53:24.50\00:53:27.27 YOUR SALVATION. THEY WILL COME AS THE RESULT OF 00:53:27.27\00:53:31.44 SALVATION, BECAUSE JESUS IS LIVING IN YOU, SO WE HAVE GO TO 00:53:31.44\00:53:34.58 STAND UP AND STEP UP AND SPEAK UP FOR THE POWER THAT'S IN THE 00:53:34.58\00:53:37.75 WORD OF GOD, AND FOR THE CHRIST WHO DIED ON THE CROSS SO WE 00:53:37.75\00:53:43.65 WOULD RECEIVE HIS WORD INTO OUR HEARTS. 00:53:43.65\00:53:47.46 >> I KNOW IF YOU HAVE BEEN LISTENING, I KNOW YOUR EARS HAVE 00:53:47.46\00:53:51.26 BEEN PINNED TO THE RADIO, BECAUSE WE HAVE BEEN WALKING 00:53:51.26\00:53:54.76 THROUGH THINGS THAT ALMOST HAVE BEEN DELETED IN THE MODERN 00:53:54.76\00:53:58.60 DAY -- >> PEOPLE ARE NOT SPEAKING ABOUT 00:53:58.60\00:54:03.07 IT. >> BUT SOMEBODY MIGHT SAY I WANT 00:54:03.07\00:54:06.01 TO INVITE PASTOR JOHN BRADSHAW TO MAYBE COME SPEAK US TO ABOUT 00:54:06.01\00:54:14.08 THESE REALITIES, SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE YOU GET THE 00:54:14.08\00:54:17.99 INFORMATION TO INVITE PASTOR JOHN BRADSHAW, AD AFTER THIS 00:54:17.99\00:54:21.36 ADDRESS ROLL, WE'LL COME BACK WITH A FEW CLOSING THOUGHTS. 00:54:21.36\00:54:25.06 >> FANTASTIC. ¤ 00:54:25.06\00:54:27.30 >> Announcer: IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT IT IS 00:54:27.30\00:54:30.77 WRITTEN, YOU CAN VISIT THEM ON LINE AT ITISWRITTEN.COM. 00:54:30.77\00:54:37.54 YOU MAY ALSO GIVE THEM A CALL TOLL FREE AT 844-WRITTEN. 00:54:37.54\00:54:48.52 THAT'S 1-844-9748836. 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THEN PATRICK, THEN THE ROLL OF 00:55:58.62\00:56:03.29 THE BIBLE, WAIT UNTIL YOU HEAR THE DOCTOR TALKING ABOUT THE 00:56:03.29\00:56:07.23 POWER AND THE WORD OF GOD. AND THEN WE TALK ABOUT 00:56:07.23\00:56:10.47 THE -- THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH THAT WAS WHY THE REFORMATION. 00:56:10.47\00:56:16.27 THEN MARTIN LUTHER HERE I STAND POWERFUL. 00:56:16.27\00:56:20.28 THIS MAN WHO STOOD UP AND MET IT ALL HEAD ON. 00:56:20.28\00:56:25.75 THEN THE COUNTER REFORMATION. THEN ROGER WILLIAMS, THE 00:56:25.75\00:56:30.15 UNITED STATES COMING INTO PLAY. WILLIAM MILLER TELL IT TO THE 00:56:30.15\00:56:37.83 WORLD, AND THEN THE REFORMATION FINISHED WHERE WE LOOKED AT WHAT 00:56:37.83\00:56:42.73 HAPPENED TO FINISH THE REFORMATION. 00:56:42.73\00:56:44.67 AND MY GUEST IS PASTOR TED WILSON. 00:56:44.67\00:56:48.24 >> YOU HAVE JUST SINGLE HANDEDLY SET MY SCHEDULE FOR NINE NIGHTS 00:56:48.24\00:56:52.71 IN A ROW. AND I'M ENCOURAGING YOU WHO HAVE 00:56:52.71\00:56:58.25 JUST HEARD THIS PROGRAM FOR THE FIRST TIME, SET YOUR SCHEDULE. 00:56:58.25\00:57:01.95 WE BELIEVE JESUS IS SOON TO COME, AND WE THANK PASTOR 00:57:01.95\00:57:05.99 BRADSHAW FOR MAKING THAT A REALITY. 00:57:05.99\00:57:08.42 UNTIL WE SEE YOU THEN, MAY THE LORD BLESS YOU. 00:57:08.42\00:57:12.59 ¤ 00:57:12.59\00:57:15.23