¤ I WANT TO SPEND MY LIFE ¤ ¤ SPEND MY LIFE ¤ 00:00:01.23\00:00:07.14 ¤ MENDING BROKEN PEOPLE ¤ ¤ I WANT TO SPEND MY LIFE ¤ 00:00:07.14\00:00:18.38 ¤ REMOVING PAIN ¤ ¤ LORD, LET MY WORDS ¤ 00:00:18.38\00:00:27.49 ¤ LET MY WORDS ¤ ¤ HEAL UP HEARTS THAT HURT ¤ 00:00:27.49\00:00:34.93 ¤ I WANT TO SPEND MY LIFE ¤ ¤ MENDING BROKEN PEOPLE ¤ 00:00:34.93\00:00:45.64 ¤ I WANT TO SPEND MY LIFE ¤ ¤ MENDING BROKEN PEOPLE ¤ 00:00:45.64\00:00:57.05 >> HELLO AND WELCOME TO 3ABN "TODAY LIVE." 00:01:05.93\00:01:10.30 WE'RE COMING TO YOU LIVE FROM STUDIO A RIGHT HERE IN 00:01:10.30\00:01:14.97 THOMPSONVILLE, ILLINOIS, AND TONIGHT WE HAVE A VERY SERIOUS 00:01:14.97\00:01:18.41 TOPIC, BUT A VERY INTERESTING TOPIC, AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT 00:01:18.41\00:01:22.94 WE NEED TO HEAR. WE'RE GOING TO TALK TONIGHT 00:01:22.94\00:01:26.68 ABOUT THE 500-YEARS FROM LUTHER, AND THE FINAL -- EARTH'S FINAL 00:01:26.68\00:01:34.29 CRISIS, WHAT IS COMING UP. YOU KNOW, IT'S AMAZING TO ME TO 00:01:34.29\00:01:39.36 THINK THAT OVER -- NEARLY 500 YEARS AGO, OCTOBER 31ST, 1517, 00:01:39.36\00:01:46.07 MARTIN LUTHER NAILED HIS 95 THREE ADVERTISE ABOUT -- WHAT HE 00:01:46.07\00:01:49.67 WAS CONCERNED ABOUT THE ABUSES OF THE CHURCH, TO THE DOOR OF 00:01:49.67\00:01:55.38 THE WHITTENBERG CHURCH, AND HE WEREN'T REALIZE WHAT HE WAS 00:01:55.38\00:02:00.28 STARTING, AND IT SPREAD LIKE WILDFIRE, BUT WHA WE'RE SEEING 00:02:00.28\00:02:06.82 TODAY IS THE ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT WOULD BEGIN. 00:02:06.82\00:02:17.77 LET ME INTRODUCE MY SPECIAL GUEST. 00:02:17.77\00:02:21.60 PASTOR STEVE WOHLBERG, WHO IS THE SPOKER, DIRECTOR OF WHITE 00:02:21.60\00:02:27.04 HORSE MEDIA. WELCOME TO 3ABN "TODAY LIVE." 00:02:27.04\00:02:30.35 >> THANK YOU. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME WE HAVE 00:02:30.35\00:02:33.92 DONE A LIVE SHOW TOGETHER. SO I'M THRILLED. 00:02:33.92\00:02:36.42 >> THAT'S RIGHT. I WANTED TO OPEN UP TONIGHT WITH 00:02:36.42\00:02:39.12 A SCRIPTURE THAT YOU WILL SEE WHY IN A LITTLE WHILE. 00:02:39.12\00:02:44.19 IT COMES FROM 2 CORINTHIANS 11:14-15. 00:02:44.19\00:02:53.34 AND PAUL IS TALKING ABOUT WORKER WHO TRANSFORM THEMSELVES INTO 00:02:53.34\00:02:59.31 THE APOSTLES OF CHRIST. AND HE SAYS, FOR NO WONNER, 00:02:59.31\00:03:05.48 THEREFORE IT IS NO GREAT THING IF HIS MINISTERS ALSO TRANSFORM 00:03:05.48\00:03:09.78 THEMSELVES INTO MINISTERS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS WHO'S END WILL BE 00:03:09.78\00:03:15.82 ACCORDING TO THEIR WORKS. THAT'S A POWERFUL STATEMENT. 00:03:15.82\00:03:19.29 IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'LL UNPACK IN A LITTLE WHIE. 00:03:19.29\00:03:22.40 BEFORE WE BEGIN, WE WANT TO TALK ABOUT -- FIRST, I JUST WANT TO 00:03:22.40\00:03:27.07 SAY THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR 00:03:27.07\00:03:29.80 PRAYERS AND YOUR LOVE AND YOUR FINANCIAL SUPPORT OF 3ABN. 00:03:29.80\00:03:32.77 BUT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE SOME MUSIC FIRST, AND THIS WILL KIND 00:03:32.77\00:03:36.51 OF GET US GOING. IT'S SOMEBODY WHO IS VERY NEAR 00:03:36.51\00:03:41.45 AND DEAR TO MY HEART, TAMMY CHANCE. 00:03:41.45\00:03:44.72 THAT'S DANNY'S SISTER, SHE IS THE BEST THING THAT CAE OUT OF 00:03:44.72\00:03:50.46 THE SHELTON FAMILY. AND SHE HAS A PURE VOICE, AND 00:03:50.46\00:03:53.96 SHE HAS ALWAYS USED IT FOR THE LORD. 00:03:53.96\00:03:56.26 SHE IS GOING TO SWING FOR US, "HE WILL CARRY YOU." 00:03:56.26\00:03:59.23 ¤ 00:03:59.23\00:04:07.91 ¤ THERE IS NO PROBLEM TOO BIG ¤ ¤ GOD CANNOT SOLVE IT ¤ 00:04:10.95\00:04:19.35 ¤ THERE IS NO MOUNTAIN TOO TALL ¤ 00:04:19.35\00:04:23.49 ¤ HE CANNOT MOVE IT ¤ ¤ AND THERE IS NO STORM TOO 00:04:23.49\00:04:35.20 DARK, GOD CANNOT CALM IT ¤ ¤ THERE IS NO SORROW TOO DEEP, 00:04:35.20\00:04:43.68 HE CANNOT SOOTHE IT ¤ ¤ HE CAN CARRY THE WEIGHT OF THE 00:04:43.68\00:04:54.99 WORLD, UPON HIS SHOULDERS ¤ ¤ OH, OH, ¤ 00:04:54.99\00:04:58.96 ¤ I KNOW MY BROTHER THAT HE WILL CARRY YOU ¤ 00:04:58.96\00:05:07.10 ¤ IF HE CARRIES THE WEIGHT OF THE WORLD UPON HIS SHOULDERS ¤ 00:05:07.10\00:05:15.44 ¤ OH, OH, OH ¤ ¤ I KNOW MY SISTER THAT HE WILL 00:05:15.44\00:05:21.62 CARRY YOU ¤ ¤ HE SAID COME TO ME ¤ 00:05:21.62\00:05:38.37 ¤ AND I WILL GIVE YOU REST ¤ ¤ OOOOOOOOOH ¤ 00:05:38.37\00:06:02.92 ¤ THERE IS NO PROBLEM TOO BIG GOD CANNOT SOLVE IT ¤ 00:06:02.92\00:06:14.80 ¤ THERE IS NO MOUNTAIN TOO TALL HE CANNOT MOVE IT ¤ 00:06:14.80\00:06:23.38 ¤ AND THERE IS NO STORM TOO DARK, GOD CANNOT CALM IT ¤ 00:06:23.38\00:06:33.42 ¤ THERE IS NO SORROW TOO DEEP HE CANNOT SOOTHE IT ¤ 00:06:33.42\00:06:41.83 ¤ IF HE CARRIES THE WEIGHT OF THE WORLD UPON HIS SHOULDERS ¤ 00:06:41.83\00:06:51.01 ¤ OH, OH ¤ ¤ I KNOW MY BROTHER THAT HE WILL 00:06:51.01\00:06:57.68 CARRY YOU ¤ ¤ IF HE CARRIES THE WEIGHT OF -THE WORLD UPON HIS 00:06:57.68\00:07:11.09 SHOULDERS ¤ ¤ OH, OH ¤ ¤ I KNOW MY SISTER THAT HE WILL 00:07:11.09\00:07:17.20 CARRY YOU ¤ ¤ I KNOW MY BROTHER, I KNOW MY 00:07:17.20\00:07:30.81 SISTER, I KNOW THAT HE WILL CARRY ME THROUGH ¤ 00:07:30.81\00:07:44.66 ¤ HE WILL CARRY YOU ¤ 00:07:44.66\00:07:48.63 >> BEAUTIFUL SONG. PURE VOICE FROM A PURE HEART. 00:07:57.37\00:08:00.64 THAT WAS TAMMY CHANCE. WELL, IF YOU ARE JUST JOINING 00:08:00.64\00:08:04.51 US, OUR SPECIAL GUEST TONIGHT IS PASTOR STEVE WOHLBERG WHO IS THE 00:08:04.51\00:08:09.28 SPEAKER DIRECTOR OF WHITE HORSE MEDIA, AND THIS IS LIVE. 00:08:09.28\00:08:12.49 WE DEBATED DIDN'T WE, STEVE, WHETHER OR NOT WE SHOULD TAKE 00:08:12.49\00:08:16.42 QUESTIONS TONIGHT, BUT IF WE HAD SAID YES, HAD YOU CALLING IN, WE 00:08:16.42\00:08:20.56 WOULD HAVE PROBABLY ONLY GOTTEN TO TWO OR THREE QUESTIONS, 00:08:20.56\00:08:25.70 BECAUSE HE CAME ARMED WITH A LOT OF INFORMATION, SO IT'S GOING TO 00:08:25.70\00:08:29.07 BE A FAST-PACED PROGRAM AND IT IS GOING TO BE EXCITING. 00:08:29.07\00:08:33.11 WE DO NOT HAVE FREE OFFER TONIGHT, BUT WHITE HORSE MEDIA 00:08:33.11\00:08:37.01 IS MAKING A SPECIAL OFFER, AND THERE ARE FIVE OF THEIR 00:08:37.01\00:08:43.39 POCKETBOOKS, I GUESS WE WOULD CALL IT -- 00:08:43.39\00:08:45.15 >> CORRECT. >> FOR THE 500-YEAR OF THE 00:08:45.15\00:08:51.03 REFORMATION. 5 BOOKS FOR $5, PLUS THE BONUS 00:08:51.03\00:08:54.73 BOOK. YOU ACTUALLY WROTE THIS LAST ONE 00:08:54.73\00:09:08.81 WHEN -- AT -- BEFORE, WHEN WE INVITED YOU TO DO CAMP MEETING, 00:09:08.81\00:09:13.42 EXPOSING THE COUNTERFEIT STEVE DID A SERMON ON IS GOD'S CHURCH 00:09:13.42\00:09:19.49 BUILT ON THEATER? AND THAT'S WHEN YOU WROTE THAT. 00:09:19.49\00:09:23.26 SO WE'LL TELL YOU HOW TO GET THOSE LATER ON IN THE HOUR. 00:09:23.26\00:09:28.73 STEVE, BEFORE WE GET INTO OUR SUBJECT, CATCH US UP ON THE 00:09:28.73\00:09:32.93 FAMILY. >> SURE, IF WE CAN PUT THE SLIDE 00:09:32.93\00:09:35.97 ON THE SCREEN OF MY SON SETH, AND MY DAUGHTER, I'M THILLED TO 00:09:35.97\00:09:40.91 ANNOUNCE THAT SETH WAS BAPTIZED LAST SUMMER. 00:09:40.91\00:09:43.75 >> HOW OLD IS HE? >> HE IS 13. 00:09:43.75\00:09:46.21 >> UNBELIEVABLE. >> AND KRISTEN WAS IN THE 00:09:46.21\00:09:50.72 BACKGROUND. SHE PREFERS TO KEEP A LOW 00:09:50.72\00:09:54.16 PROFILE. BUT THE LORD HAS BEEN SO GOOD TO 00:09:54.16\00:09:56.26 ME AND MY FAMILY. AND I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW EXCITED 00:09:56.26\00:10:00.06 THIS FATHER'S HEART WAS TO GO INTO THE WATER AND BAPTIZE SETH. 00:10:00.06\00:10:05.20 AND GOD HAS JUST BEEN SO GOOD TO US. 00:10:05.20\00:10:08.17 >> HE HAS. I REMEMBER WHEN WE FIRST MET, IT 00:10:08.17\00:10:11.37 WAS 2002. I WASN'T NET A MEMBER OF THE 00:10:11.37\00:10:14.94 ADVENTIST CHURCH, BUT IT WAS ATTENDING AN ADVENTIST CHURCH, 00:10:14.94\00:10:19.05 AND I ATTENDED, SEVEN, EIGHT MONTHS BEFORE I JOINED. 00:10:19.05\00:10:22.98 AND WHEN YOU AND KRISTEN WERE NEWLY MARRIED, NO CHILDREN, AND 00:10:22.98\00:10:27.49 SO IT WAS -- I HAVE HAD THE PLEASURE OF WATCHING STEVE'S 00:10:27.49\00:10:32.79 FAMILY GROW AND JUST Y'ALL WERE MEANT FOR EACH OTHER. 00:10:32.79\00:10:36.13 GOD BROUGHT YOU TOGETHER NO DOUBT. 00:10:36.13\00:10:37.70 >> AMEN. >> TELL US WHAT IS GOING ON AT 00:10:37.70\00:10:40.50 WHITE HORSE MEDIA. >> THERE'S TOO MUCH TO TELL, BUT 00:10:40.50\00:10:43.44 I'LL GIVE YOU A SHRT VERSION. WE'RE LIVE AND WELL. 00:10:43.44\00:10:46.21 WE'RE MOVING FORWARD. WE HAVE A TEAM OF FOUR ASSOCIATE 00:10:46.21\00:10:50.51 SPEAKERS, INCLUDING ME -- OR IN ADDITION TO ME, TO HELP FIELD 00:10:50.51\00:10:54.18 ALL OF THE SPEAKING REQUESTS THAT WE GET. 00:10:54.18\00:10:56.15 >> WONDERFUL. >> WE JUST HAD A TEAM COME BACK 00:10:56.15\00:11:01.89 FROM INN -- INDIA, TRAINING PASTORS AND THEIR WIVES, AND 00:11:01.89\00:11:06.80 THERE IS ANOTHER OUTREACH BEING PLANNED IN AN UNDISCLOSED 00:11:06.80\00:11:11.37 LOCATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST, AND WE HAVE ALSO BEEN ASKED TO COURT 00:11:11.37\00:11:16.84 NATE AN OUTREACH OF 18 DIFFERENT SEMINARS IN THE PHILIPPINES 00:11:16.84\00:11:22.64 COMING UP IN 2018. AND THAT'S JUST A FEW OF OUR 00:11:22.64\00:11:26.21 PROJECTS. WE HAVE BOOKS ON THE HORIZON. 00:11:26.21\00:11:29.68 WE HAVE A WEBINAR. WE JUST DID A WEBINAR ON ALL OF 00:11:29.68\00:11:33.09 THE DISASTERS. >> WE'LL BE TALKING ABOUT THAT 00:11:33.09\00:11:35.82 IN THE SECOND HOUR. >> YEAH, AND GOD IS GOOD THAT 00:11:35.82\00:11:39.16 THE MINISTRY IS STILL GOING FORWARD IN FAITH AND IN JESUS 00:11:39.16\00:11:44.03 AND HIS POWER. >> I KNOW YOU HAVE A VERY HECTIC-SCHEDULE, AND 00:11:44.03\00:11:52.67 IT KIND OF CAUGHT UP WITH YOU. TELL US ABOUT THAT. 00:11:52.67\00:11:54.61 >> YEAH, THIS IS GOING TO BE THE REAL SHORT VERSION. 00:11:54.61\00:11:58.25 ACTUALLY THE STORY IS ON THE HOME PAGE OF OUR WEBSITE, 00:11:58.25\00:12:05.75 WHITEHORSEMEDIA.COM. AND I GAVE A TALK ON THIS A 00:12:05.75\00:12:07.66 COUPLE OF DAYS AGO, I ENTITLED MY TALK "I CAN'T SLEEP, MY 00:12:07.66\00:12:15.06 CRISIS, GOD'S VICTORY." AND THIS WAS THE WORST SUMMER IN 00:12:15.06\00:12:22.67 MY LIFE FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS. 00:12:22.67\00:12:25.24 AND I DON'T UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING. 00:12:25.24\00:12:26.71 IN JUNE SHORTLY AFTER THE CAMP MEETING WHEN I SPOKE HERE 00:12:26.71\00:12:34.05 COUNTERING THE COUNTERFEIT, I STARTED HAVING SLEEPING ISSUES, 00:12:34.05\00:12:38.25 AND I LOST MY ABILITY TO GET A GOOD NIGHT'S SLEEP, AND THINGS 00:12:38.25\00:12:42.12 GOT WORSE AND WORSE, AND STARTED OUT WITH TYLENOL, AND THEN A LOT 00:12:42.12\00:12:50.40 OF MELATONIN, AND THERE SOME OTHER SLEEPING PILLS. 00:12:50.40\00:12:57.94 AND I WENT INTO A TAILSPIN. I ACTUALLY WENT FOUR DAYS IN A 00:12:57.94\00:13:02.48 ROW WITHOUT SLEEPING AT ALL. >> SLEEP DEPRIVATION -- 00:13:02.48\00:13:10.22 >> MY LIFE WAS FALLING APART. THE MEDICATIONS THAT I WAS ON 00:13:10.22\00:13:14.06 WERE LEADING TO DEPRESSION, AND TO MAKE A LONG STORY SHORT, GOD 00:13:14.06\00:13:22.66 OPENED UP A MIRACULOUS ABILITY FOR ME TO JOIN A DEPRESSION 00:13:22.66\00:13:31.44 PROGRAM. AND I SPENT THREE WEEKS THERE. 00:13:31.44\00:13:33.04 AND A SERIES OF BLOOD TESTS WERE DONE. 00:13:33.04\00:13:35.64 AND THE DOCTOR LOOKED AT THE RESULTS FROM THE LAB, AND MY 00:13:35.64\00:13:39.58 BRAIN CHEMISTRY, WHICH WAS REALLY OUT OF WHACK, AND HE 00:13:39.58\00:13:43.99 RECOMMENDED DIFFERENT SUPPLEMENTS FOR MY HEAD, TO 00:13:43.99\00:13:46.19 BALANCE ME OUT, AND -- PLUS -- THE EIGHT LAWS OF 00:13:46.19\00:13:51.23 HEALTH, IT'S A VERY RIGOROUS PROGRAM AT WEMAR, AND I DON'T 00:13:51.23\00:13:59.23 HAVE TIME TO TELL YOU. TH 00:13:59.23\00:14:04.14 TH THEORY STORY IS ON OUR WEBSITE. 00:14:04.14\00:14:07.84 BUT I FELT HOPELESS. I DIDN'T FEEL LIKE GOD LOVED ME. 00:14:07.84\00:14:11.68 I FELT LIKE MY FUTURE WAS DARK. I STARTED HAVE DIFFERENT THINGS 00:14:11.68\00:14:19.15 HAPPENING IN MY HEAD. BUT BY THE GRACE IN GOD, I HELD 00:14:19.15\00:14:25.46 ON TO MY FAITH IN JESUS. >> AMEN. 00:14:25.46\00:14:27.20 >> AND WHEN I CAME BACK FROM WEMAR, THE DOCTOR HELPED WEAN ME 00:14:27.20\00:14:33.80 OFF OF THE REST OF THE SLEEP MEDICATIONS, AND THEN ABOUT TWO 00:14:33.80\00:14:39.21 WEEKS LATER, ONE DAY I WOKE UP, AND IT WAS ALL OVER. 00:14:39.21\00:14:42.78 IT WAS GONE. AND THAT WAS ABOUT A MONTH AGO. 00:14:42.78\00:14:45.91 AND SINCE THEN I HAVE BEEN PREACHING AND TRAVELING, BACK ON 00:14:45.91\00:14:50.29 THE SADDLE, AND THE LORD HAS TAUGHT ME SO MANY THINGS. 00:14:50.29\00:14:53.86 HE IS POWERFUL, HIS GRACE IS SUFFICIENT, EVEN WHEN YOU THINK 00:14:53.86\00:15:00.80 IT'S HOPELESS, IT'S A LIE FROM THE ENEMY, AND THERE IS NOTHING 00:15:00.80\00:15:06.63 THAT GOD CAN'T BRING US THROUGH IF WE TRUST IN HIM AND IN HIS 00:15:06.63\00:15:10.77 LOVE. >> AND YOU -- I'M SO PROUD OF 00:15:10.77\00:15:12.64 YOU FOR COMING FORWARD TO TALK ABOUT THIS, BECAUSE SOMETIMES 00:15:12.64\00:15:16.58 WHEN PEOPLE GO THROUGH ANXIETY ATTACKS THAT THEY GO THROUGH, 00:15:16.58\00:15:20.35 DEPRESSION, I THINK PEOPLE WORRY THAT THERE IS A SOCIAL STIGMA 00:15:20.35\00:15:24.45 ATTACHED TO THAT, AND THEY DON'T TALK ABOUT IT OFTEN, OFTEN DON'T 00:15:24.45\00:15:28.12 EVEN REACH OUT FOR HELP, AND I'M SO GLAD THAT YOU ARE BEING 00:15:28.12\00:15:33.23 TRANSPARENT ABOUT THIS, TO SHOW GOD'S VICTORY AND WHAT HE HAS 00:15:33.23\00:15:36.60 DONE IN YOUR LIFE, BUT I HOPE YOU ARE GOING TO WRITE A BOOK ON 00:15:36.60\00:15:41.14 THIS. >> I THINK I WILL. 00:15:41.14\00:15:42.74 I DEBATED WHETHER I SHOULD SHARE IT, BUT GOD OPENED UP THE DOOR 00:15:42.74\00:15:47.24 TO SHARE IT IN MY CHURCH, AND WHEN I WAS DONE THE RESPONSE WAS 00:15:47.24\00:15:53.75 OVERWHELMINGLY POSITIVE. AND IT CONFIRMED IN ME, THAT IF 00:15:53.75\00:15:56.82 I SHARE THIS STORY AND LIFT UP JESUS AND TRY TO BRING HOPE TO 00:15:56.82\00:16:01.59 THE HOPELESS THAT GOD CAN USE IT TO HELP OTHERS. 00:16:01.59\00:16:04.66 >> AMEN. >> SO THAT'S WHAT IT IS ALL 00:16:04.66\00:16:07.13 ABOUT. BUT ANYWAY THAT'S THE SHORT 00:16:07.13\00:16:09.36 VERSION OF MY DIFFICULT SUMMER. >> I KNOW WE ALREADY PRAYED, BUT 00:16:09.36\00:16:14.37 I FEEL A NEED FOR US TO PRAY AGAIN, IF YOU WOUD, PLEASE, 00:16:14.37\00:16:17.94 BEFORE WE GET INTO THIS TOPIC. >> YES, FOR SURE. 00:16:17.94\00:16:20.94 DEAR GOD IN HEAVEN THANK YOU SO MUCH THAT I'M HERE, THAT YOU 00:16:20.94\00:16:24.55 HAVE BROUGHT ME THROUGH THE TRIALS OF MY LIFE, THAT YOU ARE 00:16:24.55\00:16:27.68 STILL WITH ME, THAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO BLESS. 00:16:27.68\00:16:30.75 WE PRAY THAT YOU WILL BLESS THE TIME THAT WE SPEND HERE RIGHT 00:16:30.75\00:16:34.56 NOW IN JESUS NAME, AMEN. >> AMEN. 00:16:34.56\00:16:36.93 AS YOU WERE PRAYING, I WAS THINKING OF MICAH 7:8 -- 00:16:36.93\00:16:42.70 >> REJOICE NOT AGAINST ME. >> YES, IF I FALL I WILL -- 00:16:42.70\00:16:46.37 >> THAT IS MY TEXT. >> AMEN. 00:16:46.37\00:16:48.64 >> ACTUALLY IT'S RIGHT ON OUR WEBSITE. 00:16:48.64\00:16:51.91 THAT VERY VERSE. WHEN I SIT IN DARKNESS, THE LORD 00:16:51.91\00:16:54.98 WILL BE A LIGHT TO ME. >> AMEN. 00:16:54.98\00:16:57.21 HE ALWAYS IS. >> ALL RIGHT. 00:16:57.21\00:16:59.05 LET'S TALK ABOUT LUTHER. WE HAVE A LOT TO DO. 00:16:59.05\00:17:02.18 I JUST BROUGHT A FEW MAGAZINES HERE JUST TO SHOW YOU. 00:17:02.18\00:17:06.15 THIS IS THE 500-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE BANG BANG BANG ON THE 00:17:06.15\00:17:11.39 DOOR OF THE WHITTENBERG CASTLE CHURCH, AND ALL KINDS OF NEWS 00:17:11.39\00:17:17.93 AGENCIES ARE REMEMBERING AND TALKING ABOUT THIS. 00:17:17.93\00:17:20.30 MY SON READS -- AND MY DAUGHTER DOES TOO. 00:17:20.30\00:17:23.34 GUIDE MAGAZINE. HERE ARE THREE ISSUES IN A ROW 00:17:23.34\00:17:26.24 ABOUT LUTHER. HERE ARE SIGNS OF THE TIME 00:17:26.24\00:17:30.28 MARTIN LUTHER. THIS IS ADVENTIST WORLD, 00:17:30.28\00:17:35.12 OCTOBER 2017, A REFORMATION JOURNEY. 00:17:35.12\00:17:39.62 AND LIBERTY MAGAZINE, SO THIS IS JUST A SAMPLE THAT PEOPLE ARE 00:17:39.62\00:17:43.93 TALKING ABOUT THIS ALL OVER THE WORLD, AND WE WANT TO GO BACK TO 00:17:43.93\00:17:49.73 THAT DAY AND TALK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THE CONTEXT OF HOW -- HOW 00:17:49.73\00:17:52.77 IT HAPPENED, AND WHAT THE ISSUES ARE, AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO 00:17:52.77\00:17:57.64 FAST FORWARD TO OUR DAY, AND TALK ABOUT THE CONTINUATION OF 00:17:57.64\00:18:01.51 THE REFORMATION ESPECIALLY DURING THE FINAL SCENES OF 00:18:01.51\00:18:05.45 EARTH'S HISTORY. >> IT'S SO IMPORTANT, AND WE 00:18:05.45\00:18:08.82 NEED TO TALK ABOUT THIS MORE THAN JUST ON THE 500TH 00:18:08.82\00:18:12.79 ANNIVERSARY, BECAUSE A LOT OF TIMES IF I'M SPEAKING WITH 00:18:12.79\00:18:15.79 PEOPLE, IF I MENTION THAT I'M A SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST, AND THEY 00:18:15.79\00:18:20.16 SAID WHAT IS THAT? I SAY WE'RE PROTESTANTS. 00:18:20.16\00:18:24.33 AND THEY SAY I THINK I'M A PROTESTANT TOO, I'M A BAPTIST, 00:18:24.33\00:18:29.37 BUT THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT PROTESTANT MEANS, AND BECAUSE 00:18:29.37\00:18:34.94 PEOPLE ARE NOT EDUCATED ON THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION, WE ARE 00:18:34.94\00:18:39.38 PUTTING OURSELVES IN JEOPARDY TO HAVE THAT REFORMATION REVERSED. 00:18:39.38\00:18:44.59 LET'S TALK ABOUT THE MONK, MARTIN LUTHER, HIS LIFE, HIS 00:18:44.59\00:18:48.92 LOVE FOR THE CHURCH, AND HOW GOD LEAD HIM. 00:18:48.92\00:18:51.56 >> IT'S A STORY OF A MONK VERSUS THE POPE. 00:18:51.56\00:18:54.96 IT'S REALLY SIGNIFICANT TO REALIZE THAT THERE IS NO HUMAN 00:18:54.96\00:19:01.00 BEING OTHER THAN JESUS CHRIST, WHO MORE BOOKS HAVE BEEN WRITTEN 00:19:01.00\00:19:05.37 ABOUT THAN MAR THIN LUTHER. MARTIN LUTHER IS NUMBER 2. 00:19:05.37\00:19:09.94 JESUS IS NUMBER 1, AND LUTHER IS NUMBER 2. 00:19:09.94\00:19:13.65 AND WHAT HE DID IN THE EARLY 1500S LITERALLY CHANGED THE 00:19:13.65\00:19:18.99 COURSE OF HISTORY, AND IT IS STILL AFFECTING US TODAY. 00:19:18.99\00:19:21.89 MAYBE WE CAN PUT ON THE SCREEN THE PICTURE OF HIM HAMMERING ON 00:19:21.89\00:19:25.19 THE DOOR OF THE CHURCH. THIS IS REALLY WHAT THE 500-YEAR 00:19:25.19\00:19:30.00 ANNIVERSARY IS ABOUT. IT WAS ON OCTOBER 31, 1517, THAT 00:19:30.00\00:19:35.74 LUTHER DID THIS FAMUS ACT, AND -- AND THE CONTEXT OF WHAT 00:19:35.74\00:19:39.27 WAS HAPPENING, REALLY, WAS -- EUROPE AT THAT TIME WAS 00:19:39.27\00:19:43.41 UNDER THE CONROL OF THE ROMAN CHURCH, AND THE POPES HAD 00:19:43.41\00:19:46.88 TREMENDOUS POWER, AND THEY -- YOU KNOW, THEY BASICALLY 00:19:46.88\00:19:49.62 TOLD THE KINGS AND THE PRINCES OF EUROPE, THAT IF YOU DON'T GO 00:19:49.62\00:19:53.59 ALONG WITH WHAT WE TEACH, YOU ARE OUT OF THE GRACE OF GOD. 00:19:53.59\00:19:57.06 YOU ARE OUT OF HEAVEN. YOU WILL BE EXCOMMUNICATED, AND 00:19:57.06\00:20:00.73 SO THERE WAS A LOT OF POWER IN THE CHURCH'S HAND. 00:20:00.73\00:20:04.40 MARTIN LUTHER AS A YOUNG MAN, HE STARTED GOING TO -- STUDYING 00:20:04.40\00:20:08.20 LAW, AND THEN HE GOT ON TO A HORSE, AND IT WAS RIDING IN A 00:20:08.20\00:20:12.97 STORM AND LIGHTNING STRUCK RIGHT NEAR HIM. 00:20:12.97\00:20:16.51 THE HORSE KNOCKED HIM OFF, AND HE MADE A VOW THAT IF GOD 00:20:16.51\00:20:21.02 BROUGHT HIM THROUGH THIS, HE WOULD BECOME A MONK. 00:20:21.02\00:20:23.75 AND HE SURVIVED THE STORM. CHANGED FROM LAW TO THE 00:20:23.75\00:20:27.69 MINISTRY, AND WENT TO A MONASTERY. 00:20:27.69\00:20:30.39 AND HE WENT THROUGH A RIGOROUS TRAINING, WHERE HE ALMOST KILLED 00:20:30.39\00:20:34.20 HIMSELF TRYING TO EARN THE FAVOR OF GOD, BUT HE SURVIVED AND GOT 00:20:34.20\00:20:38.27 THROUGH THAT, AND HE BECAME A PRIEST AND THEN IT LANDED IN 00:20:38.27\00:20:44.44 VICCENBURG GERMANY AS A PROFESSOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF 00:20:44.44\00:20:48.58 WHITTENBERG, AND RIGHT AT THAT TIME, THERE WAS A MAN NAMED 00:20:48.58\00:20:53.92 JOHAN WHO WAS BASICALLY A FUNDRAISER FOR THE VATICAN. 00:20:53.92\00:20:57.05 AND HE SHOWED UP IN WHITTENBERG OFFERING A PIECE OF PAPER CALLED 00:20:57.05\00:21:02.92 AN INDULGENCE, THAT THE MONEY WOULD THEN HELP TO BUILD ST. 00:21:02.92\00:21:10.17 PETER'S CHURCH IN ROAM. AND THOSE WHO GAVE MONEY WOULD 00:21:10.17\00:21:13.57 HAVE ALL OF THEIR SINS FORGIVEN, AND THEY WOULD ALSO BE ABLE TO 00:21:13.57\00:21:18.41 BASICALLY BUY PEOPLE OUT OF PURGATORY. 00:21:18.41\00:21:20.58 SO A LOT OF THE CHURCH MEMBERS IN WHITTENBERG DID THEY -- THEY 00:21:20.58\00:21:24.45 PAID THE MONEY, THEY GOT THE CERTIFICATE. 00:21:24.45\00:21:28.18 THEY BROUGHT THEM TO DR. LUTHER, AND HE SAID I DON'T ACCEPT 00:21:28.18\00:21:31.82 THESE. BY THAT TIME LUTHER HAD BEEN 00:21:31.82\00:21:34.89 STUDYING THE BIBLE, LEARNING THAT THOU SHALL LIVE BY FAITH, 00:21:34.89\00:21:43.57 THE PROTESTANT MOTTO, CALL, AND AS THE CONTROVERSY WAS 00:21:43.57\00:21:48.67 DEVELOPING, LUTHER DECIDED TO PUT ON TO THE DOOR OF THE CHURCH 00:21:48.67\00:21:54.61 95 THESISES AGAINST INDULGENCES TO CREATE DISCUSSION. 00:21:54.61\00:21:58.75 HE REALLY HAD NO IDEA THE SPARK THIS WAS GOING TO IGNITE. 00:21:58.75\00:22:03.05 THE REVOLUTION THAT THIS WAS GOING TO RESULT IN. 00:22:03.05\00:22:05.69 >> AND WE SHOULD SAY THAT LUTHER LOVED THE CHURCH. 00:22:05.69\00:22:09.82 >> HE DID. >> GUTTENBERG HAD INVENTED THE 00:22:09.82\00:22:19.17 PRINTING PRESS NOT TOO LONG BEFORE THIS. 00:22:19.17\00:22:21.74 BUT THE PEOPLE GOT AHOLD OF THE 95 THESIS, AND THEY WERE 00:22:21.74\00:22:26.64 FASCINATED BY THE THOUGHT THAT, OH, THE POPE DOESN'T HAVE TOTAL 00:22:26.64\00:22:30.01 AUTHORITY? THE INDULGENCES, ALL OF THE 00:22:30.01\00:22:32.55 THINGS THAT HE WAS LISTING -- THE ABUSES AGAINST 00:22:32.55\00:22:34.92 THE CHURCH. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:22:34.92\00:22:36.48 >> SO HE DIDN'T EXPECT IT TO SPREAD THAT FAR THAT FAST. 00:22:36.48\00:22:39.55 >> NO, AND IT WAS DESIGNED TO CREATE DISCUSSION ORIGINALLY, 00:22:39.55\00:22:45.16 AND HE WAS A STRONG REFORM-MINDED ROMAN CHAT LICK, 00:22:45.16\00:22:52.87 AND HE HAD NO THOUGHT THAT HE WAS EVENTUALLY GOING TO LEAVE 00:22:52.87\00:22:56.27 THE CHURCH, BUT ANYWAY AS -- AS HIS THESISES BEGAN TO CIRCULATE, 00:22:56.27\00:23:06.61 AND IT CREATED SUCH A STIR OF CONTROVERSY, THAT AS THE 00:23:06.61\00:23:13.15 CONTROVERSY DEVELOPED, YOU KNOW, HE BECAME STRONGER IN HIS 00:23:13.15\00:23:17.93 STATEMENTS ABOUT SALVATION BY FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST. 00:23:17.93\00:23:21.30 AND THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO STRESS; THAT LUTHER CAME 00:23:21.30\00:23:25.77 TO BELIEF FROM THE STUDY OF THE BIBLE, AND ROMANS, THE BOOK OF 00:23:25.77\00:23:33.27 GALATIANS, THAT SALVATION IS THROUGH THE GRACE OF GOD THROUGH 00:23:33.27\00:23:37.65 FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST, IT WAS THE BIBLE ONLY, FAITH ONLY, 00:23:37.65\00:23:43.65 GRACE ONLY, JESUS ONLY, AND TO THE GLORY OF GOD ONLY. 00:23:43.65\00:23:47.02 >> AMEN. >> AND HERE IS PINT THAT IS 00:23:47.02\00:23:51.23 WORTH NOTING, THAT LUTHER STRONGLY BELIEVED IN SALVATION 00:23:51.23\00:23:59.93 BY GRACE. AND INDULGENCES IS BASICALLY THE 00:23:59.93\00:24:04.01 IDEA THAT YOU CAN PAY MONEY OR DO SOMETHING, AND THEN WHATEVER 00:24:04.01\00:24:07.68 YOU DO -- AT LEAST BACK THEN -- WHATEVER YOU DO, ALL OF 00:24:07.68\00:24:11.65 YOUR SINS ARE FORGIVEN, AND I THINK TODAY WE NEED TO REALIZE 00:24:11.65\00:24:16.02 THAT YES, SALVATION IS BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH AND JESUS AND HIS 00:24:16.02\00:24:20.06 MERITS ALONE, BUT THAT DOES NOT MEAN THAT WE HAVE AN INDULGENCE 00:24:20.06\00:24:24.59 GIVEN TO US BY GOD THAT WE CAN THEN DO WHATEVER WE WANT. 00:24:24.59\00:24:27.86 HE STILL NEED TO SURRENDER OUR LIVES TO GOD AND JESUS AND SEEK 00:24:27.86\00:24:33.20 TO DO HIS WILL. SO THERE IS A BALANCE IN 00:24:33.20\00:24:37.41 LUTHER'S TEACHING THAT REALLY HELPED SPARK THE REFORMATION. 00:24:37.41\00:24:40.54 >> AMEN. YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT 00:24:40.54\00:24:43.71 THE -- THE CHURCH OF ROME WAS TEACHING THAT PURGATORY WAS A 00:24:43.71\00:24:47.78 PLACE WHERE PEOPLE WENT TO HAVE -- AFTER YOU DIED, THAT 00:24:47.78\00:24:50.52 THIS IS WHERE -- SINS WERE PURGED, THAT YOU SUFFERED AND 00:24:50.52\00:24:54.66 BURNS IN PURRINGER TO, AND NOT ONLY WERE THE INDULGENCES EITHER 00:24:54.66\00:24:59.03 THAT THEY COULD SPENDLESS TIME IN PURGATORY OR AS YOU SAY, HAVE 00:24:59.03\00:25:03.80 ALL OF THEIR SINS FORGIVEN, BUT THEY HAD INDULGENCES THAT THEY 00:25:03.80\00:25:08.80 WERE SELLING TO BUY THEIR DEAD RELATIVES OUT OF PURGATORY, OR 00:25:08.80\00:25:14.14 LESSEN THEIR TIME. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:25:14.14\00:25:16.21 THAT'S WHAT THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO DO IS HELP LESSEN YOUR TIME 00:25:16.21\00:25:21.38 IN PURGATORY OR ELIMINATE IT ENTIRELY. 00:25:21.38\00:25:24.92 AS WE TALKED ABOUT MY STRUGGLES, AND YOU SHARED WITH ME EARLIER 00:25:24.92\00:25:29.59 TODAY DURING LUNCH SOME OF YOUR STRUGGLES, AND I THINK ABOUT 00:25:29.59\00:25:33.76 LUTHER'S STRUGGLES, AND IT SEEMS TO ME THAT GOD USES STRUGGLES. 00:25:33.76\00:25:40.30 LUTHER STRUGGLED, AND FINALLY HE DISCOVERED THE GRACE OF GOD. 00:25:40.30\00:25:44.71 AND WHAT I HAVE BEEN THROUGH HAS RE-EMPHASIZED IN MY SOUL MY 00:25:44.71\00:25:53.38 TOTAL DEPENDENCE ON THE GRACE OF JESUS. 00:25:53.38\00:25:56.92 AND WE ALL NEED THAT. >> AMEN. 00:25:56.92\00:25:58.59 >> AS WE CONTINUE ON WITH THE SUBJECT, THERE IS ANOTHER BIG 00:25:58.59\00:26:01.86 POINT THAT NEEDS TO BE BROUGHT OUT, AND THAT IS THIS, THAT THE 00:26:01.86\00:26:05.79 REFORMATION WAS NOT JUST BUILT UPON THE DOCTRINE OF THE 00:26:05.79\00:26:09.33 AUTHORITY OF THE BIBLE AND JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH IN JESUS 00:26:09.33\00:26:13.20 APART FROM WORKS, BUT THERE WAS A SECOND PILLAR OF THE 00:26:13.20\00:26:17.94 REFORMATION, AND THAT HAD TO DO WITH BIBLE PROPHECY, AND WHAT 00:26:17.94\00:26:22.41 HAPPENED HISTORICALLY WAS THAT AS THE INDULGENCE CONTROVERSY 00:26:22.41\00:26:27.18 GOT -- GOT MORE INTENSE -- AS IT HEATED UP, EVENTUALLY IN 1520, 00:26:27.18\00:26:33.92 THREE YEARS AFTER LUTHER WENT BANG BANG BANG, THE POPE ISSUED 00:26:33.92\00:26:39.26 A BULL, WHAT IS CALLED A PAPAL BULL AGAINST LUTHER. 00:26:39.26\00:26:43.37 >> WHICH IS A DECREE. >> AND IT SAID YOU HAVE GOT 60 00:26:43.37\00:26:47.60 DAYS TO -- TO RECANT, AND IF YOU DON'T, YOU ARE EXCOMMUNICATED, 00:26:47.60\00:26:53.24 AND YOU -- YOU ARE GOING TO DIE. YOU ARE PROBABLY GOING TO DIE. 00:26:53.24\00:26:56.75 >> AND EXCOMMUNICATION IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH MEANS THAT -- 00:26:56.75\00:27:00.05 >> YOU ARE OUT. >> BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE THAT 00:27:00.05\00:27:02.65 SALVATION IS ONLY THROUGH THE CHURCH, SO IF YOU ARE NOT IN THE 00:27:02.65\00:27:06.29 CHURCH, YOU ARE DEAD. >> THAT MEANS YOU OUT OF THE 00:27:06.29\00:27:09.32 CHURCH, AND YOU ARE OUT OF HEAVEN, THAT'S RIGHT. 00:27:09.32\00:27:12.49 SO IT WAS A FEARFUL THUNDER FROM -- FROM ROME THAT MADE 00:27:12.49\00:27:16.80 KINGS AND PRINCES AND NOBLES TREMBLE, SO LUTHER RECEIVED THIS 00:27:16.80\00:27:26.01 PAPAL BULL IN 1520, AND HE READ IT -- AND ANOTHER CONCEPT HAD 00:27:26.01\00:27:30.15 BEEN DEVELOPING IN HIS MIND, THAT THE POWER THAT HAS BEEN 00:27:30.15\00:27:37.39 OPPOSING HIM IS NOT -- NOT ONLY IS IT NOT FROM CHRIST, BUT IT 00:27:37.39\00:27:41.49 IS -- IT IS ANTICHRIST. AND LET ME JUST READ TO YOU -- I 00:27:41.49\00:27:45.99 HAVE GOT A BOOK HERE -- BIG BOOK. 00:27:45.99\00:27:48.56 I LIKE HISTORY, THIS IS CALLED THE HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION 00:27:48.56\00:27:52.60 OF THE 16TH CENTURY, IT IS A CLASSIC. 00:27:52.60\00:27:55.70 IT HAS BEEN TRANSLATED INTO MANY LANGUAGES, GONE THROUGH MANY 00:27:55.70\00:28:00.31 EDITIONS, IT'S A TEXTBOOK DEALING WITH THE REFORMATION, 00:28:00.31\00:28:03.81 AND LET ME SHARE A COUPLE OF QUOTES HERE. 00:28:03.81\00:28:05.95 IT SAYS -- THIS IS PAGE 215 -- THAT WHEN -- WHEN -- WHEN 00:28:05.95\00:28:13.19 THE POPE BASICALLY THREATENED LUTHER WITH THE BULL, AND SAID 00:28:13.19\00:28:18.33 YOU RECANT OR YOUR DEAD YOU ARE GOING TO BE EXCOMMUNICATED, AND 00:28:18.33\00:28:23.37 YOU ARE GONE, LUTHER, ESPECIALLY BEGAN TO STUDY THE 00:28:23.37\00:28:28.84 PROPHECIES -- THE PROPHECIES OF THE BIBLE, AND HERE HE SAYS IT 00:28:28.84\00:28:35.24 CAME AT LAST -- THIS IS ACTUALLY PAGE 204, IT CAME AT LAST THE 00:28:35.24\00:28:41.48 ROMAN BULL. I DISPIES IT AND ATTACK IT AS 00:28:41.48\00:28:46.89 FALSE. AND THEN HE SAID, I REJOICE 00:28:46.89\00:28:50.63 HAVING TO BARE SUCH ILLS FOR THE BEST OF CAUSES. 00:28:50.63\00:28:53.40 I FEEL GREATER LIBERTY IN MY HEART, FOR AT LAST I KNOW THAT 00:28:53.40\00:28:58.83 THE POPE IS ANTICHRIST, THAT HIS THROWN IS THAT OF SATAN HIMSELF. 00:28:58.83\00:29:04.17 THAT'S A STRONG, NOT POLITICALLY CORRECT STATEMENT, BUT THAT'S 00:29:04.17\00:29:07.31 WHAT HE SAID, AND IF YOU GO ON TO PAGE 215, IN THIS BOOK, IT 00:29:07.31\00:29:12.81 SAYS HERE, LUTHER SAID I WILL STIR UP THE BILE OF THIS ITALIAN 00:29:12.81\00:29:17.49 BEAST. SAID LUTHER. 00:29:17.49\00:29:18.62 HE KEPT HIS WORD. IN HIS REPLY TO THE BULL, HE 00:29:18.62\00:29:22.99 PROVED BY THE REVELATIONS OF DANIEL AND ST. JOHN, THAT THE 00:29:22.99\00:29:30.80 REIGN OF ANTICHRIST DESCRIBED IN THE BIBLE WAS THE PAPACY. 00:29:30.80\00:29:36.27 A HOLY TERROR SEIZED UPON PEOPLE'S SOULS. 00:29:36.27\00:29:40.98 THIS NEW IDEA WHICH DERIVED GREATER STRENGTH FROM THE 00:29:40.98\00:29:47.05 DESCRIPTIONS LAUNCHED FORTH BY LUTHER INFLICTED THE MOST 00:29:47.05\00:29:54.79 TERRIBLE BLOW ON ROME. AND IT IS A FACT THAT THE 00:29:54.79\00:29:58.89 REFORMATION NOT ONLY DISCOVERED CHRIST, BUT PREACHED AGAINST 00:29:58.89\00:30:03.87 ANTICHRIST. AND IT WAS LUTHER'S STUDYING AND 00:30:03.87\00:30:10.57 PREACHING ABOUT THE LITTLE HORN IN DANIEL, THE MAN OF SIN, THE 00:30:10.57\00:30:15.24 BEAST IN REVELATION 13, AND THE WOMAN THAT WAS CLOTHED WITH 00:30:15.24\00:30:18.78 PURPLE AND SCARLET DRUNK WITH THE BLOOD OF THE SAINT, SITTING 00:30:18.78\00:30:22.92 ON SEVEN HILLS IN REVELATION 17, LUTHER APPLIED ALL OF THESE 00:30:22.92\00:30:27.22 THINGS TO THE PAPAL POWER, AND IT WAS HIS TYING IN PROPHECY TO 00:30:27.22\00:30:33.40 THE PAPACY, THAT'S WHAT REALLY GAVE POWER TO THE PROTESTANT 00:30:33.40\00:30:39.70 REFORMATION, AND TO CLARIFY, LUTHER WAS NOT ANTI-CATHOLIC. 00:30:39.70\00:30:43.97 HE WAS ANTI-PAPACY. HE WAS ANTI-AUTHORITY GIVEN 00:30:43.97\00:30:48.34 TO -- TO THE POPE ABOVE THE AUTHORITY OF THE BIBLE. 00:30:48.34\00:30:51.78 THAT WAS THE -- THE ISSUE. AND -- AND TODAY, YOU KNOW, 00:30:51.78\00:30:55.35 PEOPLE HAVE FORGOTTEN THAT, THAT -- THAT LUTHER -- NOT ONLY 00:30:55.35\00:31:00.29 TAUGHT JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH, BUT HE TAUGHT THAT THE PAPAL 00:31:00.29\00:31:04.83 POWER WAS THE HORN AND THE BEAST AND THE WOMAN OF REVELATION 17. 00:31:04.83\00:31:08.86 >> THE LITTLE HORN THAT CAME IN THE MIDST OF THE EUROPEAN 00:31:08.86\00:31:12.97 NATIONS -- >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:31:12.97\00:31:14.10 CAME OUT OF ROME. >> WITH ONE WITH THE BOASTING 00:31:14.10\00:31:19.34 MOUTH. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:31:19.34\00:31:20.84 YOU HAVE FOUR BEASTS. THE ROMAN POWER HAD TEN HORNS, 00:31:20.84\00:31:26.61 AND THEN THE LITTLE HORN THAT CAME UP OUT OF ROME. 00:31:26.61\00:31:30.72 AND THE VATICAN IS VERY SMALL, BUT IT HAS A LOT OF INFLUENCE, 00:31:30.72\00:31:35.09 AND DANIEL 7:21 SAYS ITS WOULD MAKE WAR AGAINST THE SAINTS, 7:8 00:31:35.09\00:31:41.80 SAID IT WOULD HAVE A MOUTH SPEAKING GREAT THINGS. 00:31:41.80\00:31:44.27 AND LUTHER BELIEVED THAT THE LITTLE HORN REPRESENTED THE 00:31:44.27\00:31:49.24 ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. NOT THE MEMBERS, BUT THE SYSTEM 00:31:49.24\00:31:52.44 CENTERED IN THE AUTHORITY OF THE POPE. 00:31:52.44\00:31:54.28 >> WHEN YOU ARE TALKING SYSTEM, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A 00:31:54.28\00:31:58.15 GEOPOLITICAL SYSTEM THAT WAS NOT JUST ECCLESIASTICAL POWER, BUT 00:31:58.15\00:32:06.55 TEMPORAL POWER. IT WAS THE COMBINATION OF CHURCH 00:32:06.55\00:32:09.66 AND STATE. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:32:09.66\00:32:11.69 IT HAD SO MUCH POWER IN EUROPE, AND IT WAS FEARED BY PRINCES AND 00:32:11.69\00:32:15.90 KINGS AND RULERS, THAT THEY BETTER TOE THE LINE, OR THEY 00:32:15.90\00:32:21.87 WOULD BE EXCOMMUNICATED AND SEVERED FROM GOD. 00:32:21.87\00:32:24.81 >> A LOT OF TIMES WE WILL -- AND WE HAVE GOT SOME QUOTES -- I 00:32:24.81\00:32:29.14 HAVE A QUOTE I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE WITH YOU, AT LEAST BY THE 00:32:29.14\00:32:32.85 SECOND HOUR. BUT BAPTISTS -- EVERY -- EVERY 00:32:32.85\00:32:36.95 PROTESTANT DENOMINATION HAS LONG BELIEVED WHAT LUTHER TAUGHT, 00:32:36.95\00:32:42.49 THROUGH CONTINUED STUDY, THAT THE GEOPOLITICAL POWER OF THE 00:32:42.49\00:32:49.26 ROMAN CHURCH IS THE ONE THAT IS THE ANTICHRIST, AND I CAN 00:32:49.26\00:32:53.30 REMEMBER, STEVE, WHEN I WAS PROBABLY EIGHT, NINE YEARS OLD. 00:32:53.30\00:33:02.51 PRESIDENT KENNEDY WAS RUNNING FOR OFFICE, AND HE WAS CATHOLIC, 00:33:02.51\00:33:06.55 AND ALL OF THE BUZZ, ALL OF THE BUZZ -- AND WE -- AND -- AND I 00:33:06.55\00:33:10.45 GREW UP IN A NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH, QUOTE UNQUOTE, THAT DID 00:33:10.45\00:33:14.56 NOT STUDY REVELATION. IT WAS A HAND'S OFF BOOK FOR US. 00:33:14.56\00:33:18.83 I MEAN THEY DID NOT STUDY REVELATION, YET, ALL OF THE 00:33:18.83\00:33:22.63 PEOPLE THAT WE KNEW WOULD SIT AROUND AND TALK ABOUT THE -- THE 00:33:22.63\00:33:26.70 BEAST -- THE ANTICHRIST; THAT THE CATHOLIC -- THAT THEY WERE 00:33:26.70\00:33:32.21 WORRIED ABOUT A CATHOLIC, GAINING ASCEND ANTSY TO THE 00:33:32.21\00:33:43.25 PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, BECAUSE ALL OF THEM KNEW THE 00:33:43.25\00:33:49.82 ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH WAS BELIEVED TO BE THE ANTICHRIST. 00:33:49.82\00:33:54.23 >> THAT'S RIGHT. AND THIS WAS NOT AN ATTACK ON 00:33:54.23\00:33:56.90 THE CATHOLIC PEOPLE, BUT EVENTUALLY WHEN -- WHEN THE 00:33:56.90\00:34:00.80 HEADQUARTERS SAID WE'RE GOING TO GET RID OF YOU, WE ISSUED THE 00:34:00.80\00:34:06.17 BULL, WHICH LUTHER HAD A BIG BONFIRE IN WHITTENBERG, HE 00:34:06.17\00:34:14.12 BURNED THE PAPAL BULL, AND HE SAID A SERIOUS STRUGGLE HAS JUST 00:34:14.12\00:34:19.15 BEGUN BETWEEN ME AND THE POPE, AND THAT'S WHEN HE LEVELED 00:34:19.15\00:34:21.72 ALL -- ALL OF HIS WEAPONS, HIS SPIRITUAL WEAPONS OF TRUTH 00:34:21.72\00:34:31.80 AGAINST THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. 00:34:31.80\00:34:34.50 AND IT RESULTED IN HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE IN EUROPE 00:34:34.50\00:34:37.91 LEAVING THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. THE RESULT WAS THE PROTESTANT 00:34:37.91\00:34:43.78 MOVEMENT, PROTESTING AGAINST THE TRADITIONS THA HAD COME 00:34:43.78\00:34:46.58 IN -- INTO CHRISTIANITY, THROUGH THE ROMAN CHURCH, AND THAT'S 00:34:46.58\00:34:50.82 WHAT A PROTESTANT IS. SOMEONE WHO PROTESTS. 00:34:50.82\00:34:54.59 LUTHER PROTESTS, AND EVENTUALLY HE SEVERED ALL COMMUNICATION 00:34:54.59\00:34:59.86 WITH THE CHURCH. HE WAS PART OF THE CHURCH OF 00:34:59.86\00:35:04.77 CHRIST, BUT NO LONGER A MEMBER OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. 00:35:04.77\00:35:08.90 AND THAT'S WHAT IT WAS ALL ABOUT, GETTING BACK TO THE BIBLE 00:35:08.90\00:35:12.71 AND STANDING UP FOR JESUS CHRIST AND HIS WORD. 00:35:12.71\00:35:16.04 >> A PROTESTANT IS ONE WHO BELIEVES IN SALVATION BY GRACE 00:35:16.04\00:35:21.88 THROUGH FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST? A PROTESTANT IS ONE WHO BELIEVES 00:35:21.88\00:35:25.52 IN THE BIBLE AND THE BIBLE ONLY AS A RULE OF AUTHORITY, AND WHO 00:35:25.52\00:35:32.39 REJECTS THE IDEA THAT THE POPE IS THE HEAD -- THE TOTAL 00:35:32.39\00:35:41.24 AUTHORITY OF THE ONE TRUE CHURCH? 00:35:41.24\00:35:43.61 >> YES, THAT'S CORRECT. AND PROTESTANT CHURCHES, 00:35:43.61\00:35:47.64 LUTHERAN, BAPTIST, METHODIST, PRESBYTERIAN, MENENITE, THEY ALL 00:35:47.64\00:35:59.92 BELIEVED IN THE PILARS, AND BELIEVING IN THE BIBLE AS THE 00:35:59.92\00:36:03.59 PRIMARY AUTHORITY, THEY ALSO BELIEVED THAT THE ROMAN PAPACY 00:36:03.59\00:36:06.76 WAS THE BEAST AND THE HARLOT AND THE LITTLE HORN OF PROPHECY. 00:36:06.76\00:36:11.60 THEY ALL BELIEVED THAT. BUT RECENTLY THINGS HAVE 00:36:11.60\00:36:15.17 CHANGED. AND NOW WE HAVE COME DOWN 500 00:36:15.17\00:36:18.27 YEARS SINCE THE BANG BANG BANG ON THE DOOR OF THE WHITTENBERG 00:36:18.27\00:36:22.08 CHURCH. AND SOME SURPRISING THINGS ARE 00:36:22.08\00:36:24.38 HAPPENING TODAY. IF WE CAN PUT A SLIDE ON THE 00:36:24.38\00:36:26.75 SCREEN. YES, THERE YOU CAN SEE -- IT WAS 00:36:26.75\00:36:29.65 LAST OCTOBER POPE FRANCIS TRAVELED TO SWEDEN FOR A JOINT 00:36:29.65\00:36:34.76 COMMEMORATION WITH THE LEADERSHIP OF THE LUTHERAN WORLD 00:36:34.76\00:36:39.69 FEDE FEDERATION. 00:36:39.69\00:36:42.60 FROM CONFLICT TO COMMUNION. I HAVE -- THIS LOOK PLACE IN 00:36:42.60\00:36:48.34 SWEDEN. I HAVE GOT AN ARTICLE THAT 00:36:48.34\00:36:50.57 DESCRIBES ALL -- ALL ABOUT THIS, IN ECUMENISM NEWS, AND IT SAYS 00:36:50.57\00:36:59.11 HERE IT'S ALL ABOUT ENDING A CONFLICT THAT LASTED FOR 500 00:36:59.11\00:37:04.69 YEARS. IT IS AN IMPORTANT STEP AND PART 00:37:04.69\00:37:06.22 OF THE PROCESS OF RECONCILING THE PAST AND MOVING FORWARD 00:37:06.22\00:37:10.53 TOGETHER. NOW IT'S NOT JUST LUTHERANS AND 00:37:10.53\00:37:14.10 CATHOLICS WHO HAVE COME TOGETHER TO MOVE FORWARD TOGETHER, BUT IF 00:37:14.10\00:37:17.73 WE COULD PUT ANOTHER PICTURE ON THE SCREEN ABOUT THE CAIRO 00:37:17.73\00:37:22.74 CONFERENCE. THIS -- THIS IS AMAZING. 00:37:22.74\00:37:25.84 YOU CAN JUST SEE THAT BRIEFLY. THAT MEANS TIME IN GREEK. 00:37:25.84\00:37:32.01 UNITED IN CHRIST, REFERRING TO ALL OF THE WORLD KNOWING THAT WE 00:37:32.01\00:37:36.02 ARE ONE. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS YOU SEE 00:37:36.02\00:37:40.62 CARDINAL DANIEL, AND KEN THET COPELAND, AND YOU CAN SEE THE 00:37:40.62\00:37:47.03 DATES. SO THAT CONFERENCE ACTUALLY JUST 00:37:47.03\00:37:49.40 ENDED TODAY. IT HAS BEEN TAKE PLACE IN KANSAS 00:37:49.40\00:37:52.80 CITY. AND IF YOU LOOK AT THE SPEAKER 00:37:52.80\00:37:55.27 LIST -- WHICH I HAVE LOOKED AT EVERY ONE OF THEM, IT'S A WHO'S 00:37:55.27\00:38:01.88 WHO LIST OF VERY INFLUENTIAL LEADERS IN THE EVANGELICAL 00:38:01.88\00:38:16.29 WORLD. KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI CONVENTION 00:38:16.29\00:38:25.23 CENTER. JOINING TOGETHER FOR ROUND TABLE 00:38:25.23\00:38:28.64 DISCUSSION, WORSHIP, PRAYER, AND IN PARTATION, AND THEY ARE 00:38:28.64\00:38:32.81 REFERRING TO JOHN 17, WHEN JESUS PRAYED THAT WE WOULD BE ONE. 00:38:32.81\00:38:35.48 IT SAYS THE CONFERENCE ALSO CELEBRATES THE SIGNIFICANCE OF 00:38:35.48\00:38:40.68 2017, FOR THE CHURCH INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZING A 00:38:40.68\00:38:44.62 NUMBER OF HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT ANNIVERSARIES. 00:38:44.62\00:38:48.86 THE FIRST IS THE 500-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE PROTESTANT 00:38:48.86\00:38:58.37 REFORMATION. PLUS THE RENEWAL MOVEMENT, THE 00:38:58.37\00:39:00.90 LAUNCHING OF THAT IN 1967, THE MES ANTIC MOVEMENT, AND THE 40 00:39:00.90\00:39:06.94 YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE CONFERENCE IN KANSAS IN 1977. 00:39:06.94\00:39:10.88 AND IT SAYS HERE THE PURPOSE IS TO CELEBRATE OUR DIVERSITY TO 00:39:10.88\00:39:15.38 COME TOGETHER AND TO HELP HEAL THE WOUNDS OF THE PAST. 00:39:15.38\00:39:19.95 THAT'S WHAT THIS PRESS RELEASE SAYS. 00:39:19.95\00:39:21.56 AND SHELLEY, THIS IS JUST SO AMAZING THAT YOU HAVE A WHOLE 00:39:21.56\00:39:26.73 HOST OF MOVERS AND SHAKERS COMING TOGETHER, FINISHING 00:39:26.73\00:39:33.00 TODAY, THE DAY THAT WE'RE HERE IN KANSAS CITY, HERE WE 00:39:33.00\00:39:36.71 ARE -- WE'RE IN THOMPSONVILLE, ILLINOIS, CORRECT? 00:39:36.71\00:39:41.11 THIS LITTLE -- YOU KNOW, NOT SO LITTLE TELEVISION STATION, WHERE 00:39:41.11\00:39:44.78 WE'RE BROADCASTING THIS LIVE. THEY WERE ALSO BROADCASTING 00:39:44.78\00:39:48.32 LIVE, BUT OUR EVENTS ARE VERY DIFFERENT, AND I'M SURE THAT THE 00:39:48.32\00:39:52.39 PEOPLE THERE ARE VERY SINCERE, AND THEY -- YOU KNOW, WHAT THEY 00:39:52.39\00:39:55.06 ARE TRYING TO DO -- I WAS READING SOME STATEMENTS FROM 00:39:55.06\00:39:59.49 KENNETH COPELAND, AND I WATCHED HIS SERMON ABOUT THIS, AND HE 00:39:59.49\00:40:04.53 SAID A DIVIDED CHURCH CANNOT HEAL A DIVIDED NATION. 00:40:04.53\00:40:08.60 AND PROTESTANTS AND CATHOLICS NEED TO COME TOGETHER TO HELP 00:40:08.60\00:40:12.44 AMERICA, AND HE REFERRED TO THE DEMON OF DIVISION THAT MIGHT BE 00:40:12.44\00:40:20.05 CRUSHED. BUT AS I READ JOHN 17, JESUS 00:40:20.05\00:40:23.02 ALSO SAID IN VERSE 17, THAT WE MUST BE SANCTIFIED BY THE WORD 00:40:23.02\00:40:28.39 OF GOD, AND GOD'S WORD IS THE TRUTH. 00:40:28.39\00:40:31.23 SO THE UNITY OF JOHN 17 IS UNITY IN CHRIST WITH EACH OTHER IN 00:40:31.23\00:40:37.13 TRUTH, AND IN HIS WORD, AND WE MUST NOT FORGET THE BASIS OF 00:40:37.13\00:40:41.60 UNITY. >> IS -- LET ME ASK YOU 00:40:41.60\00:40:43.00 THIS -- ISN'T THIS ALSO -- I THINK YOU TOLD ME AT LUNCH, THIS 00:40:43.00\00:40:46.68 WAS THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FATAMA -- AM I JUMPING AHEAD? 00:40:46.68\00:40:54.88 >> NO, YOU ARE RIGHT THERE. AND WE CAN PUT THAT ON THE 00:40:54.88\00:40:57.85 SCREEN TOO, THIS PICTURE. THIS IS A CATHOLIC PUBLICATION. 00:40:57.85\00:41:04.46 AND IT SAYS POPE FRANCIS GRANTS INDULGENCE. 00:41:04.46\00:41:11.47 SO NOT ONLY IS OCTOBER, AND THIS YEAR, THE 500-YEAR ANNIVERSARY 00:41:11.47\00:41:16.54 OF THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION, WHICH THEY ARE CELEBRATING IN 00:41:16.54\00:41:20.88 KANSAS CITY, AND COMING TOGETHER TO HEAL THE -- WHAT THEY ARE 00:41:20.88\00:41:25.35 CALLING THE DEMON OF DIVISION, BUT IT'S -- ALL THIS YEAR IS 00:41:25.35\00:41:31.39 ALSO THE ANNIVERSARY OF AN APPARENT -- AND I BELIEVE IT WAS 00:41:31.39\00:41:35.82 THE DEVIL THAT APPEARED TO THESE THREE CHILDREN IN FATIMA 00:41:35.82\00:41:43.80 PORTUGAL, CLAIMING TO BE THE VIRGIN MARY, AND THE CATHOLIC 00:41:43.80\00:41:47.50 CHURCH REALLY BELIEVED THAT THE FATIMA VISIONS WERE REAL. 00:41:47.50\00:42:01.22 AND I LOOK AT LUTHER FIGHTING INDULGENCES. 00:42:01.22\00:42:04.45 I SEE 500 YEARS TO THIS YEAR, SEEING PROTESTANT AND CATHOLICS 00:42:04.45\00:42:11.46 COMING TOGETHER SAYING WE NEED TO HEAL THE DIVISIONS OF THE 00:42:11.46\00:42:16.10 PAST. AND THEN I SEE THE POPE ISSUING 00:42:16.10\00:42:19.33 ANOTHER INDULGENCE FOR THOSE WHO GO TO FATIMA AND PRAY TO THE 00:42:19.33\00:42:24.77 VIRGIN MARY. AND THE BOTTOM LINE IS ROME IS 00:42:24.77\00:42:28.31 STILL ROME. ROME IS THE SAME ROME THAT IT 00:42:28.31\00:42:30.75 WAS BACK IN THE DAYS OF LUTHER. I HAVE A CATHOLIC CALENDAR HERE 00:42:30.75\00:42:35.38 THAT WAS SENT TO OUR OFFICE FOR SOME REASON, AND IT'S 00:42:35.38\00:42:39.92 SOMEBODY -- AND IT TALKS ABOUT FATIMA, AND HERE IS A COUPLE OF 00:42:39.92\00:42:45.69 QUICK QUOTES. OUR LADY OF FATIMA SAID PRAY THE 00:42:45.69\00:42:56.10 ROSY EVERY DAY, PRAYING FOR PEACE ON THE WORLD, AND THE END 00:42:56.10\00:43:01.98 OF THE WAR. AND HERE IS MARY, AND YOU SEE A 00:43:01.98\00:43:06.15 PICTURE OF HER HEART HERE, AND THIS IS AGAIN COMMEMORATING OUR 00:43:06.15\00:43:11.12 LADY OF FATIMA. 100 YEARS AGO, SAID -- MARY SAID 00:43:11.12\00:43:17.19 MY EMACULATE HEART WILL BE YOUR REFUGE AND YOUR WAY TO GOD. 00:43:17.19\00:43:25.33 IF MARTIN LUTHER READ THS, HE WOULD DO THE SAME THING HE DID 00:43:25.33\00:43:29.64 IN 1517. HE WOULD PROTEST THAT SALVATION 00:43:29.64\00:43:37.71 WAS THROUGH JESUS CHRIST ALONE. AND WE DON'T NEED TO PRAY TO 00:43:37.71\00:43:42.42 MARY. AND ROME STILL BELIEVES THT 00:43:42.42\00:43:43.89 MARY IS A MEDITOR. ROME STILL PRAYS TO DEAD SAINTS. 00:43:43.89\00:43:49.72 THEY STILL BELIEVE IN PURGATORY. THEY STILL ISSUE INDULGENCES. 00:43:49.72\00:43:57.70 THE PRIEST STILL SAY THE WORDS AND BELIEVE THEY CAN CHANGE 00:43:57.70\00:44:02.00 LITERAL BREAD INTO THE ACTUAL LITERAL BODY OF JESUS CHRIST. 00:44:02.00\00:44:08.98 SAYING THEY CAN CREATE THE CREATOR. 00:44:08.98\00:44:12.18 >> THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT MARLIN LUTHER -- HE WAS 00:44:12.18\00:44:15.45 BALLISTIC ON THAT POINT. >> THEY STILL BELIEVE IN THE 00:44:15.45\00:44:19.15 SUPREME AUTHORITY OF THE POPE, AND TRADITION ABOVE THE BIBLE. 00:44:19.15\00:44:24.19 AND THE BOTTOM LINE IS THE BEAST IS STILL THE BEAST. 00:44:24.19\00:44:27.36 IT'S STILL THE BEAST, AND THE PROTESTANTS AND CHARISMATICS, 00:44:27.36\00:44:32.33 AND ORTHODOX, AND ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT GROUPS WHO ARE COMING 00:44:32.33\00:44:36.07 TOGETHER, THEY HAVE COMPLETELY LOST SIGHT OF LUTHER AND ALL OF 00:44:36.07\00:44:43.91 THE PROTESTANTS, THEIR UNDERSTANDING OF DANIEL 7, AND 00:44:43.91\00:44:49.32 REVELATION 13, AND SECOND THESSALONIANS 2, AND REVELATIONS 00:44:49.32\00:44:53.32 17, THAT THESE SYMBOLS, THE LITTLE HORN, THE HARLOT, THE MAN 00:44:53.32\00:44:58.03 OF SIN, THE BEAST, THAT THE SYMBOLS REFER TO THE ROMAN PAPL 00:44:58.03\00:45:05.17 POWER, AND IT IS STILL THE BEAST TODAY. 00:45:05.17\00:45:08.54 >> THE INTERESTING THING TO ME IS THAT SO MANY CHURCH LEADERS 00:45:08.54\00:45:14.71 COULD BE DECEIVED, BECAUSE ROME -- IF YOU -- MAY I TAKE -- 00:45:14.71\00:45:19.58 >> SURE, YES, OF COURSE. WE'RE FINE ON OUR SEQUENCE HERE. 00:45:19.58\00:45:25.12 >> ROME IS VERY OPEN ABOUT THEIR AGENDA. 00:45:25.12\00:45:29.99 THE CAN ON LAW -- THAT'S WHAT IS LAID DOWN BY THE PAPAL 00:45:29.99\00:45:36.33 ANNOUNCEMENTS, IS ABSOLUTELY -- THEY -- THEY 00:45:36.33\00:45:39.13 DETEST THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. 00:45:39.13\00:45:41.44 THEY DETEST FREEDOM. HERE'S -- THE CHURCH OF ROME 00:45:41.44\00:45:46.94 DENIES THE EQUALITY OF EVERY CITIZEN IN LIBERTY OF CONSCIOUS. 00:45:46.94\00:45:51.78 THIS COMES FROM THE NEW YORK FREEMAN, THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF 00:45:51.78\00:45:57.92 BISHOP HUGHES. HE SAYS NO MAN HAS THE RIGHT TO 00:45:57.92\00:46:00.86 CHOOSE HIS RELIGION. THE CHURCH DOES NOT AND CANNOT 00:46:00.86\00:46:07.66 ACCEPT IN ANY DEGREE OR IN ANY DEGREE FAVOR LIBERTY AND THE 00:46:07.66\00:46:13.74 PROTESTANT SENSE OF LIBERTY. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH DENIES 00:46:13.74\00:46:20.44 INDEPENDENCE OF CIVIL LAW FROM ECUMENICAL LAW. 00:46:20.44\00:46:26.18 IN OTHER WORDS THEY BELIEVE THAT THE CHURCH IS THE SOUL -- HAS 00:46:26.18\00:46:30.22 THE LEGITIMACY, THE ONLY PERSON THAT HAS THE LEGITIMACY TO MAKE 00:46:30.22\00:46:35.32 LAWS AND TO ENFORCE LAWS, AND THEY SAY THAT -- IN THE KEYS OF 00:46:35.32\00:46:40.13 THIS BLOOD, MALACHI MARTIN, SAID THAT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH INTENDS 00:46:40.13\00:46:48.07 TO BE THE RELIGIOUS-POLITICAL RULER OF THE WORLD. 00:46:48.07\00:46:54.91 BUT THEY BELIEVE ONLY THE POPE CAN DETERMINE HOW YOU WILL ACT, 00:46:54.91\00:46:58.41 OR WHAT YOU BELIEVE.-pPOPE PIUS SAID IT WAS PROPOSED THAT ALL RELIGIOUS PERSUASIONS 00:46:58.41\00:47:08.32 SHOULD BE FREE AND THEIR WORSHIP PUBLICLY EXERCISED. 00:47:08.32\00:47:13.09 BUT WE HAVE REJECTED THIS ARTICLE AS CONTRARY TO THE 00:47:13.09\00:47:17.53 CANNONS AND COUNCILS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. 00:47:17.53\00:47:20.10 SO WHAT HE IS SAYING IS YOU CANNOT HAVE FREEDOM. 00:47:20.10\00:47:23.67 ONLY THE POPE CAN TELL YOU WHAT IS GOOD FOR YOU, AND WHAT YOU 00:47:23.67\00:47:27.54 MUST DO. AND THEN REVEREND O'CONNOR 00:47:27.54\00:47:34.08 WROTE, RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IS MERELY ENDURED, IT IS MERELY 00:47:34.08\00:47:40.49 TOLERATED, UNTIL THE OPPOSITE CAN BE CARRIED INTO EFFECT 00:47:40.49\00:47:45.53 WITHOUT PERIL TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. 00:47:45.53\00:47:50.67 SO ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT THAT -- I BELIEVE THAT TONY PALMER, 00:47:50.67\00:47:56.67 AND -- OH, WHO IS THAT YOU -- >> KENNETH COPELAND. 00:47:56.67\00:48:01.51 >> KENNETH COPELAND AND TONY PALMER. 00:48:01.51\00:48:05.48 TONY PALMER WAS A BISHOP OF THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH, AND HE WAS 00:48:05.48\00:48:12.99 INSTRUMENTAL IN TALKING ABOUT LET'S HEAL THIS WOUND IN THE 00:48:12.99\00:48:17.39 CHURCH. BUT HOW CAN THEY? 00:48:17.39\00:48:18.66 WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE CATHOLIC LITERATURE, BASICALLY THEY ARE 00:48:18.66\00:48:22.96 SAYING WE WANT TO GET RID OF PROTESTANTISM, WE'RE NOT GOING 00:48:22.96\00:48:27.10 TO COMPROMISE ON ANY OF OUR BELIEFS. 00:48:27.10\00:48:30.61 THE POPE IS THE ONE WHO HAS THE RIGHT TO TELL YOU. 00:48:30.61\00:48:33.78 HOW DO INTELLIGENT PEOPLE, WHO HAVE ALL OF THIS AVAILABLE TO 00:48:33.78\00:48:38.51 THEM, HOW DO THEY NOT SEE WHAT THE AGENDA OF THE PAPAL 00:48:38.51\00:48:48.82 SEE -- HOW DO THEY NOT SEE WHAT THE AGENDA OF PAPACY IS? 00:48:48.82\00:48:54.00 >> YEAH, ONE BIG REASON IS BECAUSE THE PROTESTANT WORLD HAS 00:48:54.00\00:49:02.14 LOST ITS KNOWLEDGE OF BIBLE PROPHECY. 00:49:02.14\00:49:04.57 AS I READ FROM THE BOOK, IT SAYS THAT LUTHER PROVED FROM -- FROM 00:49:04.57\00:49:08.51 THE REVELATIONS OF DANIEL, AND JOHN IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION, 00:49:08.51\00:49:14.95 FROM PALL IN 2 THESSALONIANS 2, THAT THE ANTICHRIST AS DESCRIBED 00:49:14.95\00:49:20.26 IN THE BIBLE REFERRED TO THE PAPAL POWER, THAT WAS A VIEW 00:49:20.26\00:49:24.33 THAT WAS SHARED BY ALL OF THE MAJOR PROTESTANT DENOMINATIONS 00:49:24.33\00:49:29.33 FOR A COUPLE HUNDRED YEARS SINCE LUTHER, BUT THEY HAVE LOST THAT. 00:49:29.33\00:49:33.20 NOW THEY ARE LOOKING FOR A FUTURE ANTICHRIST, MANY OF THEM 00:49:33.20\00:49:37.44 AFTER THE RAPTURE, THEN THE ANTICHRIST WILL SHOW UP, SO THEY 00:49:37.44\00:49:41.41 HAVE LOST THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF HISTORY. 00:49:41.41\00:49:43.71 THEY HAVE LOST THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF PROPHECY, AND SO THEY -- THEY 00:49:43.71\00:49:46.78 ARE NOT LOOKING -- THEY ARE NOT LOOKING FOR A -- FOR WHAT YOU 00:49:46.78\00:49:51.22 ARE TALKING ABOUT. YOU KNOW, THEY SEE THE ROMAN 00:49:51.22\00:49:54.92 CHURCH AS AN ALLY FOR PROPRO-LIFE, AND AN ALLEY IN A 00:49:54.92\00:50:02.50 CULTURE WAR, AND THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND WHO THEY ARE DEALING 00:50:02.50\00:50:05.10 WITH. BUT THEY KNOW EXACTLY WHAT IT'S 00:50:05.10\00:50:07.80 DOING. IT HAS KNOWN THIS FOR A LONG 00:50:07.80\00:50:09.34 TIME. AND WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT 00:50:09.34\00:50:11.47 CATHOLIC PEOPLE. LUTHER WAS A CATHOLIC FOR A LONG 00:50:11.47\00:50:14.28 TIME. AND THE REASON WHY HE PROTESTED, 00:50:14.28\00:50:16.64 STOOD UP, PREACHED AND WAS BULLED, AND TURNED TO THE 00:50:16.64\00:50:22.85 PROPHECIES, WAS BECAUSE HE CARED ABOUT CATHOLIC PEOPLE. 00:50:22.85\00:50:25.85 HE WANTED TO HELP THEM TO TURN AWAY FROM ALL OF THESE 00:50:25.85\00:50:29.49 TRADITIONS AND FOCUS THEIR MINDS ON JESUS CHRIST, ON HIS GRACE, 00:50:29.49\00:50:34.56 LOVE, POWER AND WORD, BUT INSTEAD OF ALL OF THE DEMANDS OF 00:50:34.56\00:50:39.03 ROMANISM. I WENT TO ROME ONE TIME IN 1993, 00:50:39.03\00:50:43.37 AND I STILL REMEMBER, SHELLEY, GOING TO -- TO A CHURCH -- A 00:50:43.37\00:50:47.68 ROMAN CHURCH THAT WAS A TOURIST SIGHT, AND I WAS AT THE TOP OF A 00:50:47.68\00:50:52.08 SERIES OF STAIRS, AND I LOOKED DOWN, AND I SAW OLD CATHOLIC 00:50:52.08\00:50:58.99 WOMEN ON THEIR KNEES CLIMBING UP THE STAIRS IN THIS CHURCH, AND I 00:50:58.99\00:51:03.56 SAW THEIR FACES, THEY WERE G GRIMACING AND THEY WERE IN PAIN. 00:51:03.56\00:51:09.30 AND THEY WERE DOING THIS, BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT THAT THAT 00:51:09.30\00:51:11.93 WOULD HELP THEM TO EARN THE FAVOR OF GOD. 00:51:11.93\00:51:14.67 AND I LOOKED AT THESE WOMEN, AND THEY COULD HAVE BEEN MY GRANDMA, 00:51:14.67\00:51:19.37 AND I JUST THOUGHT TO MYSELF, LADIES, YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO 00:51:19.37\00:51:23.01 THIS. JESUS LOVES YOU. 00:51:23.01\00:51:24.08 HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR YOU. HE WANTS TO SAVE YO BY HIS 00:51:24.08\00:51:27.48 GRACE. YOU CAN'T WORK YOUR WAY TO 00:51:27.48\00:51:30.02 HEAVEN, YOU CAN'T CLIMB THE STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN ON YOUR 00:51:30.02\00:51:32.85 KNEES, AND EXPECT TO EARN THE HAIF -- FAVOR OF GOD. 00:51:32.85\00:51:40.56 AND THE NEED FOR THE REFORMATION IS VERY REAL TODAY, AND THE 00:51:40.56\00:51:44.33 PROTESTANT CHURCHES -- THE LUTHERAN WORLD FEDERATION, AND 00:51:44.33\00:51:48.54 THE KIROS EVENT, THEY JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND. 00:51:48.54\00:51:52.47 AND HERE, AGAIN IS THE STATEMENT THAT WE WANT TO CELEBRATE OUR 00:51:52.47\00:51:56.18 DIVERSITY AND TO HELP HEAL THE WOUNDS OF THE PAST. 00:51:56.18\00:51:59.51 AND THAT LEADS US TO ONE MORE TEXT BEFORE THE BREAK. 00:51:59.51\00:52:05.49 >> OKAY. I JUST WANT TO THROW THIS 00:52:05.49\00:52:07.36 THOUGHT IN, BECAUSE WE HAVEN'T -- WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT 00:52:07.36\00:52:12.83 THE REFORMATION, AND POPE LEO THE TENTH, WAS THE POPE THAT 00:52:12.83\00:52:18.13 READ THE BULL. HE WAS READY TO HAVE LUTHER 00:52:18.13\00:52:21.74 KILLED. >> BURN HIM UP. 00:52:21.74\00:52:22.94 >> HE WAS READY TO BURN HIM AT A 00:52:22.94\00:52:28.31 THE STAKE. IGNTIUS STEPPED IN -- 00:52:28.31\00:52:30.75 >> HE WAS A SPANISH SOLDIER WHO WAS WOUNDED IN BATTLE AND IN A 00:52:30.75\00:52:34.95 HOSPITAL APPARENTLY HAD A REVELATION AND BECAME A SOLDIER 00:52:34.95\00:52:38.89 FOR THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, AND HE FOUNDED THE ORDER OF THE 00:52:38.89\00:52:43.53 SOCIETY -- WHICH IS THE ORDER OF THE JESUITS, AND THE JESUITS 00:52:43.53\00:52:47.30 BECAME THE ARMY OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH TO HELP FIGHT 00:52:47.30\00:52:52.03 AND COUNTERACT AND ULTIMATELY DESTROY THE REFORMATION. 00:52:52.03\00:52:57.61 AND THE JESUITS ARE STILL VERY REAL TODAY. 00:52:57.61\00:53:01.71 SOMEBODY TOLD ME ABOUT A LETTER THEY RECEIVED THAT SAYS YOU ARE 00:53:01.71\00:53:05.01 ON THE SHORT LIST BECAUSE YOU ARE TAKING A STAND AGAINST THE 00:53:05.01\00:53:08.68 ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, AND THIS WAS FROM THE JESUITS. 00:53:08.68\00:53:12.49 AND THEY ARE VERY REAL, VERY ACTIVE, AND THEY KNOW WHAT THEY 00:53:12.49\00:53:16.69 ARE DOING -- >> AND IT WAS THE JESUITS 00:53:16.69\00:53:21.36 THAT -- THE COUNTER REFORMATION -- 00:53:21.36\00:53:27.44 [ OVERLAPPING SPEAKERS ] >> EXCUSE ME. 00:53:27.44\00:53:28.47 THEY WERE THE ENFORCERS OF THE INQUISITION. 00:53:28.47\00:53:32.67 BUT THE COUNTER REFORMATION THAT CAME UP, WHICH BROUGHT FORWARD 00:53:32.67\00:53:38.51 PEOPLE LIKE -- OH, MY MIND -- FRANCISCO ROBERRA, AND 00:53:38.51\00:53:47.99 AL KASAR. >> YES. 00:53:47.99\00:53:50.39 >> PUTTING THE BEAST WAY IN THE FUTURE OR WAY IN THE PAST, 00:53:50.39\00:53:54.76 ASSOCIATING WITH NERO, THESE IDEAS THROUGH THE JESUITS HAVE 00:53:54.76\00:53:58.80 WORKED THEIR WAY INTO THE PROTESTANT WORLD, AND THEY HAVE 00:53:58.80\00:54:04.11 REPLACED PROTESTANT HISTORYIST POWER. 00:54:04.11\00:54:13.28 I HAVE ONE LAST PICTURE FOR THIS FIRST HOUR. 00:54:13.28\00:54:16.75 THERE YOU SEE TIME MAGAZINE, THE POPE WAS CHOSEN AS MAN OF THE 00:54:16.75\00:54:22.79 YEAR. AND YOU SEE HIM SITTING WITH A 00:54:22.79\00:54:25.03 WHOLE HOST OF FORTUNE 500 CEOS. AND HE IS SPEAKING AT THE UNITED 00:54:25.03\00:54:31.10 NATIONS. WE KNOW HE SPOKE TO A JOINT -pSESSION OF CONGRESS IN 00:54:31.10\00:54:38.37 2015. ON THE RIGHT, YOU SEE HIM WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP. 00:54:38.37\00:54:41.74 YOU ALSO SEE HIM ABOVE THE PICTURE, I BELIEVE THAT'S WITH 00:54:41.74\00:54:45.51 AN ORHODOX OR MUSLIM MAN, AND THERE HE IS ALSO WITH A 00:54:45.51\00:54:49.15 JEWISH -- A JEWISH LEADER BEFORE THE WHALING WALL, AND YOU SEE 00:54:49.15\00:54:52.85 HIM ON THE BOTTOM RIGHT WITH KENNETH COPELAND AND A WHOLE 00:54:52.85\00:54:58.06 HOST OF PROTESTANT AND CHARISMATIC LEADERS. 00:54:58.06\00:55:01.30 AND THERE IS A VERSE IN REVELATION 13 WHICH GOES BACK TO 00:55:01.30\00:55:05.13 THE PRESS RELEASE THAT CAME OUT OF THE KIROS CONFERENCE TO HELP 00:55:05.13\00:55:09.74 HEAL THE WOUNDS OF THE PAST. PROPHECY PREDICTS, I SAW ONE OF 00:55:09.74\00:55:17.21 HIS HEADS AS IT -- AS IF IT HAD BEEN MORE TALLY WOUNDED. 00:55:17.21\00:55:21.45 THIS IS TALKING ABOUT THE BEAST GETTING A WOUND, BUT THEN IT 00:55:21.45\00:55:26.99 SAYS HIS DEADLY WOUND WAS HEALED, AND ALL OF THE WORLD 00:55:26.99\00:55:30.96 MARVELLED AND FOLLOWED THE BEAST. 00:55:30.96\00:55:33.73 THE DEADLY WOUND WILL BE HEALED. THE PRESS RELEASE SAYS WE'RE 00:55:33.73\00:55:37.53 COMING TOGETHER IN KANSAS CITY IN 2017 TO HELP HEAL THE WOUNDS 00:55:37.53\00:55:43.24 OF THE PAST. THE PRESS RELEASE LINES UP WITH 00:55:43.24\00:55:46.11 PROPHECY, THAT THE WOUND -- THAT THE REFORMATION ISSUED AND THAT 00:55:46.11\00:55:50.75 THE FRENCH REVELATION ISSUED, KNOCKING THE PAPAL POWER -- THE 00:55:50.75\00:55:56.22 REFORMATION WOUNDED IT SPIRITUALLY, THE FRENCH 00:55:56.22\00:55:59.45 REVOLUTION AT THE END OF THE 1700S, KNOCKED THE PAPAL POWER 00:55:59.45\00:56:05.19 OUT POLITICAL, BUT NOW IT'S HEALING. 00:56:05.19\00:56:08.46 AND PROTESTANTS ARE START OF THAT. 00:56:08.46\00:56:10.93 AND PROPHECY PREDICTS WHAT WILL HAPPENS BY COMING TOGETHER WITH 00:56:10.93\00:56:15.10 THE BEAST. AND THEY HAVE FORGOTTEN WHO THE 00:56:15.10\00:56:17.51 BEAST IS. THEY DON'T KNOW WHO THE BEAST 00:56:17.51\00:56:19.64 IS. AND THAT'S BECAUSE OF THE 00:56:19.64\00:56:21.61 JESUITS, AND ALL OF THIS HISTORY MAY SOUND SHOCKING AND 00:56:21.61\00:56:25.11 POLITICALLY INCORRECT, BUT IT IS FACT, AND IT IS WORTH SHARING 00:56:25.11\00:56:29.88 DURING THE 500-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF MARTIN LUTHER GOING BANG BANG 00:56:29.88\00:56:35.19 BANG. >> WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF TIME, 00:56:35.19\00:56:37.06 BUT I JUST WANT TO SAY SOMETHING THAT TO ME, POPE FRANCIS IS SUCH 00:56:37.06\00:56:43.06 A LIKABLE PERSONALITY. >> I AGREE, TOTALLY. 00:56:43.06\00:56:46.43 >> HE SEEMS LIKE A WARM AND SINCERE INDIVIDUAL. 00:56:46.43\00:56:49.44 AND ONCE AGAIN, WE ARE TALKING ABOUT A PAPAL SYSTEM, A -- A 00:56:49.44\00:56:54.48 SYSTEM OF CHURCH AND STATE THAT WE DON'T -- WE DON'T WANT YOU TO 00:56:54.48\00:56:59.11 FEEL LIKE WE'RE CATHOLIC BASHING, BECAUSE WE'RE NOT. 00:56:59.11\00:57:02.25 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HISTORY. >> THAT'S RIGHT, WE'RE DOING 00:57:02.25\00:57:05.65 WHAT LUTHER DID IN STANDING UP FOR TRUTH BECAUSE WE CARE ABOUT 00:57:05.65\00:57:10.09 PEOPLE. >> AND BECAUSE WE'RE SEEING THAT 00:57:10.09\00:57:12.29 PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO REVERSE THE REFORMATION, NOT RECOGNIZING 00:57:12.29\00:57:17.60 THAT THEY ARE ABOUT TO GET IN BED WITH THE ENEMY. 00:57:17.60\00:57:20.27 >> WITH THE BEAST. >> WITH THE BEAST. 00:57:20.27\00:57:23.87 WELL, WE'RE DOWN TO THE END OF THIS FIRST HOUR. 00:57:23.87\00:57:26.21 WE HOPE YOU WILL STAY WITH US. I WANTED TO TALK ABOUT YOUR 00:57:26.21\00:57:30.25 BOOKS THT YOU -- THAT BOOK OFFER. 00:57:30.25\00:57:32.45 BUT WE WILL TALK ABOUT THAT IN THE FIRST PART OF THE NEXT HOUR, 00:57:32.45\00:57:36.15 AND WE'LL BE DISCUSSING ALL OF THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES, AND ALL 00:57:36.15\00:57:42.12 OF THE TERRIBLE EVENTS THAT HAVE BEEN TAKING PLACE THT TELL US 00:57:42.12\00:57:46.43 JESUS IS COMING SOON. JOIN US. 00:57:46.43\00:57:47.96 ¤ 00:57:47.96\00:57:50.17