Hello and welcome
to 3ABN Worship Hour.
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We're glad you
decided to join us.
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I'm gonna spend, I want us
to call it a thoughtful hour,
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studying the Word of God today.
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I believe you're
going to enjoy the message.
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At least I want it
to be challenging to you
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as it was for me
in laying it out.
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And so, we're
going to be talking about
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weighed in the balances.
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What does that all mean?
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A lot of directions it can go,
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but we're going to encourage
you just to stay with us.
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Again, just get your
pencil, paper, Bible,
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get whatever you need to study.
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And we're gonna come
together and look at this Word
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that I believe is very critical
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in this hour
that we are living in.
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Praise God,
you're with us today.
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Always before we
study the Word of God,
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our custom is that we pray.
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And I encourage
you to do that also.
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I'm going to kneel
and you, where you can,
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please kneel with me
and others maybe you cannot.
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Let's just pray
together, shall we?
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Loving Father in heaven,
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we thank You for the
privilege that we have
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to study Your Word here today.
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We ask for the
power of Thy Holy Spirit.
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Lord, we pray that
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You will take all
selfish interests out
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and only Jesus will be seen.
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May the cross of
Calvary be lifted high?
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We pray for divine wisdom
that only heaven can give.
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Bless we pray,
bless every viewer,
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every listener.
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And may we be
drawn closer to Jesus
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as we study the
Word and lift up Jesus,
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in His name we pray
and for His sake, amen.
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Again, the subject is,
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we're going to be talking
about weighed in the balances.
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What does that really mean?
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First of all, I want
to just kind of go back
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and tell a little bit of story.
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I believe that fits well
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with what we're going
to be talking about today.
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So, just kind of put this
in the back of your memory
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as we go and as we study along.
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There's some of you are going
to be very familiar with this.
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His name is Robert
Robinson, Robert Robinson.
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He was a...
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He authored a hymn
and many of you will know,
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maybe some of
the younger will not,
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but it's an older hymn,
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come thou fount
of every blessing.
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He wrote this song and
it's very interesting song.
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And I think it's a
challenging one also.
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But the time came,
he wrote this song.
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It was very heart rendering
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when you'd go
through it and to follow it.
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But something happened
in this poor man's life
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that he gave up on Jesus Christ.
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He passed into the world of
sin and the things of the world,
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and he became
very spiritually dark.
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He decided, no,
I really don't want
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this kind of a lifestyle,
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but I don't know if I
want to change or not.
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And so, he said, I'll travel.
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You know, I'm gonna travel
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and sometime
traveling like clear the mind
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and, you know,
the senses and so on,
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but he began to
travel and he traveled.
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In his travels he met a woman.
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Now in one of
their many conversations
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that they had,
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she asked him a question.
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And I think it's a
question maybe that,
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you know, most of us
could ask our ourselves today
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and, you know,
again about the hymn,
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but you'd have to know the hymn.
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Hey, but she had been reading
this hymn that he had written.
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And so, she asked,
she didn't know that,
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but she asked him, she said,
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"I want you to read this hymn.
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And I want you to tell
me what you think about it."
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At first he kind of
evaded it and he said,
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"No, I, you know, I
don't wanna read that."
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"No, please read it.
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And then tell me
what you think about it."
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Well, he read it, but
suddenly he began to weep.
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Suddenly the tears just
begin to flow from his eyes.
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And he said,
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"I'm the man
that wrote that song."
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Oh, she was kind of
shocked and put back
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as we say for just a little bit.
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And she said, "Oh really?
You're the man that wrote it."
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"Oh, yeah."
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He said,
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"Listen, I would give anything
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if I could
experience that joy once again."
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Maybe like some of us today,
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I will do and
give anything he said.
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And again, the
woman said, "Oh, really?"
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Oh, let me reassure you.
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And she went back
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to a couple of
lines of this song.
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And she said,
remember the words,
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streams of mercy still flows.
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Oh, it's so touched his
heart right then right there
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he rededicated his
life to Jesus Christ.
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And I encourage you today.
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Please remember
that we're looking at...
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That stream of
mercy is still flowing.
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I've got...
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I jotted down a
couple of lines of this song
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because I remember
singing it as a young person,
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haven't sang it for years.
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But a couple of the lines I
liked this, listen carefully.
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It said,
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"Jesus sought me
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when a stranger
wondering from the fold of God,
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He rescued me from danger
interposed His precious blood.
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Isn't that beautiful
when you think about it?
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He sought me when a stranger.
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So, you know, if
he's seeking you today
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and it says, you
know, we need to seek
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and we shall surely find.
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And those blessings,
those streams of life and mercy
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still flowing
today to accept Christ
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as your personal savior,
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because we live in
a very awesome time
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of earth's history.
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And that's what kind of,
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you know, I was
impressed by the Spirit of God
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to be talking about
weighed in the balances.
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And certainly, you know,
that goes back to Daniel 5:27,
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the Bible says, I love this.
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The Bible says,
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"Thou art
weighed in the balances
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and are found wanting."
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What an interesting thought.
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We're weighed in the balances
and then we are found wanting,
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and that's going to happen
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to every one of
us sooner or later,
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we're being
weighed in the balances.
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But here was words of doom
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written on a banquet wall.
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You know just,
everybody can see,
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you know, fiery letters up there
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that frightened King Belshazzar.
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Oh, hey, oh, what
is, what's going on?
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What's being written up there?
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Why were these words written?
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This might be a better thought
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is why were these words written?
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And maybe they might be
written maybe against you or me.
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Wow!
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Weighed in the
balances and found wanting.
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I want to be
weighed in the balances,
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but found what?
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On God's side.
I know you do too.
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Had it possibly been
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that Babylon had
gone the wrong direction?
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Is it possible
maybe to this point,
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we talk about that maybe
we as a people individually
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have maybe been
going the wrong direction
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and God is trying to
call us back into the fold.
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Maybe a greater
question would be,
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has America gone too far?
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Is it possible
we've gone too far?
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Or the songs that we drifted
so far too far from the shore,
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or is God trying to get
our attention right now.
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Is it possible His
mercy has reached its limit?
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You know, I
talked to a lot of people
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and they say,
Oh, well, you know,
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God's grace is
bigger than, and you say,
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"Oh, absolutely it is.
There's no doubt about that."
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But there is a time that,
you know, his cup is full.
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There's a time
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that mercy has
reached its limit.
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And then what takes place?
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Found something I thought
was very, very interesting
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in the Manuscript, 58.
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It's written in 1900.
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Now I would use
some of these things
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from time to
time as you well know,
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but remember it
doesn't matter how old it is.
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If it's truth,
it always remains.
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It never changes.
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Notice what it says.
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It says, "All nations
have a period of probation
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until the point was reached,"
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notice this,
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"till their
iniquity was full, huh?
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And the
vengeance of God would be,"
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notice this,
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"it would be put
off for a while."
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But notice every
nation, every individual
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has a certain
amount of time probate
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and you can go back
and you look at Babylon,
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Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome.
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You'll find the
nations of the world
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had us very specific
time and then the end came.
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God doesn't change.
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So it could be, we
have it in our life.
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We have it, maybe this
country that we live in,
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maybe we're so close to the end.
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And many of us
do not realize it.
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God keeps an accurate account.
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When you talk about
weighed in the balance,
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accurate account of all
sins that are committed, deeds,
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whether it be good or evil,
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but an accurate account is kept.
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You can read that in Romans 2:6,
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you can read
that also in Jude 15,
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God keeps an accurate account,
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but the time's going to
come when he's going to visit.
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The Bible talks about
the transgressors with a rod.
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Other words, there's
going to be some correcting
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that's going to go on there.
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Psalms 89, just jot them
down, get time and look them up.
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Verse 30.
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He's going to visit us.
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And then as God visit us
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or when God has
to withdraw from us,
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who comes in?
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Oh, the enemy,
that's exactly right.
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The enemy comes in.
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He comes in to
kill, steal and destroy
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just to remind you
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and maybe those
who have not heard it.
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You know, we are living in
the hour of God's judgment.
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Jesus is soon to come.
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This is an awesome,
awesome, awesome time.
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You'll say, well,
I've never heard of that.
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Just read a
couple of quick passages
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before we move on.
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But the Book of Daniel 7:10,
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it confirms what
we're talking about here.
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The Bible says that
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a fiery stream issued and
came forth from before him
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thousands and
thousands ministered unto him,
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10,000, notice this,
and 10,000 stood before him.
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The judgment, notice, the
judgment was set and what?
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And the books were opened.
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Oh, you can talk, read about
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the books and we'll read
about one in just a moment,
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you know, in Revelation 21:7,
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talking about the
Lamb's Book of Life.
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That's where I want my name.
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That's, I'm sure that's
where you want your name
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and written in the
Lamb's Book of Life,
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how desperately we
should be striving.
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Make sure our name is written
in that Lamb's Book of Life.
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Another powerful
scripture to at least consider,
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Revelation 20:12.
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It goes right
along with this, notice.
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And he said,
"And I saw the dead,"
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and notice this,
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"small and great
stand before God."
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Everyone is going to
have to stand before God.
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Interesting.
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Remember the
good deeds or the bad
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weighed in the balances.
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And how are you
gonna be found today?
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That's the big questions
we go through the study.
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Where are you going to be found?
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How am I going to be found?
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It said the books were open.
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And another book,
which was a Book of Life,
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the dead were
judged out of those things,
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which were written in the books.
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Notice this,
according to their works.
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Did you get that?
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According to what?
According to their works.
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Many people are interested
in, I'm certain I'm interested.
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The question has been asked,
when will probation close?
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When will probation...
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Has anybody ever
asked you that question?
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When will probation close?
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You know, Bible,
doesn't give an answer to that.
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Spirit of Prophecy
doesn't give an answer that
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I know of,
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but I wonder
what people would do
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if we knew that next
week, next month, next year,
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that probation was
going to close for us.
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How would we react?
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What would we
be doing right now?
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What kind of
decisions would we be making?
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Would we be making the same ones
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that we are right now?
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Or would they be
little bit different?
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God knew that.
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He knew that.
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So He didn't give
it as far as I know,
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a definite time on
the close of probation.
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But the Bible does say clearly
when we study the Word of God,
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that it is...
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You know, that we are
to work while the day last,
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because night comes, what?
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When no man can work.
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I want this to be an
encouragement to you.
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Yes, weighed in the balances.
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Yes, there comes a time
that God is going...You know,
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He's coming back after us
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and we need to be
ready for that great day.
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But the Bible says, we
need to work right now.
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John 9:4,
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the time is coming
when no man can work.
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And let me ask
you another question.
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Is it possible that we
could be weighed in the balances
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and found wanting?
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Notice this,
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because we're wasting time.
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Well, I think
I've wasted enough time
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and I don't want to
waste any more time,
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and God has
impressed my heart and mind
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as well as I'm
sure that He has yours,
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that we need to
be redeeming the time
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that we have wasted,
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notice.
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We are
accountable for the things,
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notice this, that
we will be counted
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for things that we have done,
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but we understand that
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we're going to
be held accountable
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for those things
that we left, good undone.
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So, wow!
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We need to look
at it very closely.
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And so, if I want to
look at this and examine it,
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I would look at
Jesus, wouldn't you?
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Jesus was an earnest,
constant, consistent worker.
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You'll read that in
the first part of John 9:4,
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notice what Jesus said.
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He said, I must
work. I love that.
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I must work the
works of Him that sent Me.
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Don't you feel
that in your soul?
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Don't you feel that in
your heart, and your mind,
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from day to day
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that we need to be working
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the works of
our heavenly Father?
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Why?
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Because He's coming soon
because the world is in a mess.
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Things...
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People don't know
right from wrong anymore.
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They don't know when it's dark,
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they don't know when it's light.
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Someone has to give, right,
the good news of salvation.
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Will it be you?
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That's quite a
question that's posed.
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Jesus said, I must work those...
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My grandpa said
many times to us,
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and I wanna call it this way.
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When we went to
work on the farm,
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when we went to
work on the farm,
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grandpa would say
something like this.
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Now, listen, guys, I don't
want any shirking going on.
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Well, when I was a younger
guy, don't want any shirking.
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What are you
talking about? Shirkers.
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He didn't want any
shirkers in his field.
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And so, he'd
say, you know, listen.
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I think I maybe
understand it better
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now than I did back then.
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He wanted...
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When we came out
there to work for him,
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he wanted us to
care about our work.
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He wanted us to be
responsible for our work.
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He wanted us to take up the work
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where he didn't have to
keep an eye on us all the time.
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He said, "No shirkers."
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May I make this comment?
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I don't believe there's
going to be any shirkers
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in the kingdom of God.
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So I'm sure you
don't want to be one.
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You know, I've
thought about that.
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But Christ said, you know,
00:14:52.35\00:14:53.69
just a few words
in the Desire of Ages,
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I love the book, Desire of Ages.
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I hope you do too. And
you've been reading it.
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Page 73 gives this and
it refers to just exactly
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what we've been
talking about here.
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Let's go over
that just for a moment.
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And you know what?
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This article
uses the word shirk.
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Yeah. It says it.
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Notice this,
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Jesus did not shirk
care and responsibility
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as many do who
profess to be followers.
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Now, notice why do they shirk?
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Why is there
shirkers in the field?
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Well, the shirkers in the field,
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the article goes on and says,
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it is because they seek
to, notice the word evade.
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They seek to evade.
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To get rid of, to put
off, to not accept it,
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got other things to do.
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I'm busy,
00:15:42.10\00:15:44.64
but they put things off
because they want, notice this.
00:15:44.67\00:15:47.64
They want to evade
Christ's discipline,
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that this is the
reason that so many of us,
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the article says we
are weak and inefficient.
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If we maybe are
weak and inefficient
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in our Christian experience,
00:16:00.79\00:16:03.39
maybe, just maybe it's because
00:16:03.43\00:16:05.73
we have shirked
our responsibility
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toward Christ and what?
00:16:09.13\00:16:11.13
Remember along
with this shirking come,
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sometime there's some discipline
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that follows.
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The article goes on and says,
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because of this
evading discipline,
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or can I say
being spiritually lazy,
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notice this.
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They are, notice,
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nerveless and almost useless
00:16:28.58\00:16:32.49
when difficulties to be
met and obstacles surmounted.
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In this hour, my
brothers and sisters,
00:16:37.29\00:16:39.16
this hour that we live
in, it's no time to beat,
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and I'll be careful, nerveless.
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Did you get it?
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People are just,
they're shook up all the time.
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And when you're
shook up all the time,
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you're just about...
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The word in here in
the article says useless.
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Have you ever met
someone that's shook up?
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Ever met someone that's
like their nerves are shocked?
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They're just shaky all over.
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They can't think properly.
00:17:02.72\00:17:04.05
And you're trying to help them.
00:17:04.09\00:17:05.42
They can't seem to
hear what you're saying.
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Maybe it's because maybe
we've just kind of evaded
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the life that Christ
would have us to live
00:17:12.79\00:17:14.50
and the corrections that
He would have in our life
00:17:14.53\00:17:16.90
so that we may be
bold in this hour,
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in the judgment hour.
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God's looking for boldness.
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He's not looking for laziness.
He's not looking for shirkers.
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He's looking for those
00:17:25.24\00:17:26.57
who are willing
to go into the field
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and do whatever it takes
00:17:28.08\00:17:29.88
to get this
message out to the world.
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But you know what?
You have to love it.
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You have to love this message.
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Now, don't say it in
that sense while we're going,
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you just have to love it.
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If you love the message,
00:17:40.02\00:17:41.36
you're going to be
willing to give it.
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You want to give it,
you want to be involved.
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And you know what?
00:17:44.73\00:17:46.06
People that hear you
will respond to that.
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This is no time
for us to be lazy.
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This is no time to
shirk in this hour.
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And it could be the last
hours of earth's history.
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Now, how many...
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How often have you heard that?
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Hopefully you're hearing that
more and more and more and more
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because I believe it's a fact.
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Our world is going to change
00:18:03.55\00:18:05.51
and we're not even
going to recognize it.
00:18:05.55\00:18:08.92
How are we
going to adjust to it?
00:18:08.95\00:18:11.35
Are we willing to
get more freedoms?
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What are we gonna do
when we're really challenged,
00:18:14.09\00:18:16.02
our faith is really challenged?
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There's so many
talkers in the world today
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and professors,
as you well know,
00:18:21.00\00:18:23.16
and I'm looking at myself,
00:18:23.20\00:18:24.53
I want to be
more than a professor.
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I want to be able to
stand on the truth, don't you?
00:18:25.93\00:18:28.87
Be counted of heaven.
00:18:28.90\00:18:30.54
Somebody I can...
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Heaven can count
on to give the message
00:18:31.94\00:18:33.58
that God would
have us to get today.
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Just simply once
again go through the mind,
00:18:35.21\00:18:37.55
Jesus is coming,
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I need, I want to
be ready for that day.
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Now, why this statement
useless or it's difficult
00:18:43.45\00:18:47.16
or nerveless or spiritual lazy?
00:18:47.19\00:18:49.76
Notice what it's laziness.
00:18:49.79\00:18:51.13
Notice, it goes on to say,
00:18:51.16\00:18:52.86
that which is in Christ
is to be developed in us
00:18:52.89\00:18:58.47
through the same, notice this,
00:18:58.50\00:19:00.34
discipline that He endured.
00:19:00.37\00:19:03.41
Wow, He endured some discipline,
00:19:03.44\00:19:05.37
did He not?
00:19:05.41\00:19:07.48
And sometime we have
difficulty with discipline.
00:19:07.51\00:19:09.64
We have difficulty
with being corrected.
00:19:09.68\00:19:12.71
We have difficulty with
people saying things about us
00:19:12.75\00:19:16.18
or saying
things that you believe
00:19:16.22\00:19:17.55
maybe it's truth and
they're attacking us.
00:19:17.59\00:19:19.65
We learn sometime
through difficult situations.
00:19:24.56\00:19:28.56
I can remember at
home years ago growing up,
00:19:28.60\00:19:31.70
we did something
00:19:31.73\00:19:33.07
in the
Seventh-day Adventist Church,
00:19:33.10\00:19:34.44
probably most churches
don't do that I know of.
00:19:34.47\00:19:36.50
And that's called in gathering.
00:19:36.54\00:19:38.37
So, every time,
00:19:38.41\00:19:39.74
couple of weeks
before Christmas,
00:19:39.77\00:19:41.11
man, we just, you know,
00:19:41.14\00:19:42.48
in the cold who wants to go out.
00:19:42.51\00:19:44.18
You know, if
you're 10, 11, 12, 13,
00:19:44.21\00:19:45.91
man, you've got
other things to do seems,
00:19:45.95\00:19:49.05
but it was always our
duty for those two weeks,
00:19:49.08\00:19:50.95
every night to go
out and there'd be a car.
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And you know, there'll be,
00:19:53.52\00:19:54.86
you know, some music
on there and playing,
00:19:54.89\00:19:57.43
you know, some
religious songs about Jesus
00:19:57.46\00:20:00.86
and you'd knock on the doors
00:20:00.90\00:20:02.23
and ask for a
little bit of finances
00:20:02.26\00:20:03.70
to help those who are
needy, who needed help.
00:20:03.73\00:20:07.47
Well, I did that,
00:20:07.50\00:20:08.84
you know,
several years enrolling,
00:20:08.87\00:20:10.91
I guess I'm
probably 13 years old.
00:20:10.94\00:20:12.47
And so, my dad always said,
00:20:12.51\00:20:14.68
you know, about 6
o'clock we'd go out.
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He said, "Well, Kenny get
ready in gathering night?"
00:20:16.31\00:20:20.45
I looked at him.
00:20:20.48\00:20:21.82
I said, "I'm not going tonight."
00:20:21.85\00:20:23.18
He said, "What?"
00:20:24.72\00:20:26.19
I said, "I'm not going tonight."
00:20:26.22\00:20:27.76
"Oh, you've made your mind up.
00:20:27.79\00:20:29.12
You've made that upon your own."
00:20:29.16\00:20:30.49
Yeah. Yeah.
00:20:30.53\00:20:31.93
So, he said, well, let's see,
00:20:31.96\00:20:33.29
your brother Ronnie
00:20:33.33\00:20:34.66
was just a year younger than me.
00:20:34.70\00:20:36.03
He said, Ronnie, how about you?
00:20:36.06\00:20:37.57
Well, he said,
00:20:37.60\00:20:38.93
"Well, Kenny is not gonna
go. I'm not gonna go either."
00:20:38.97\00:20:41.17
Dad said,
00:20:41.20\00:20:42.54
"Well, well, okay,
I see what you want.
00:20:42.57\00:20:44.57
I'll tell you
what I'm gonna do."
00:20:44.61\00:20:45.94
Now, we're
talking about discipline.
00:20:45.97\00:20:47.31
We're talking about
trying to correct and help
00:20:47.34\00:20:49.21
this today would not be accepted
00:20:49.24\00:20:50.68
because we're not
being, you know what?
00:20:50.71\00:20:52.78
The twigs, we're
not bending those twigs
00:20:52.81\00:20:54.58
when we can
bend them, our youth.
00:20:54.62\00:20:58.59
We wait until
they're older sometime.
00:20:58.62\00:20:59.95
And then we tried to
bend and it's very difficult
00:20:59.99\00:21:02.02
because they'll say,
00:21:02.06\00:21:03.39
"Oh, they made me go to church.
00:21:03.43\00:21:04.76
That's why I
don't go to church now."
00:21:04.79\00:21:06.13
I never did say that.
00:21:06.16\00:21:07.50
It was just a custom.
00:21:07.53\00:21:08.86
That's what we did.
00:21:08.90\00:21:10.23
That's how we were raised.
00:21:10.27\00:21:12.27
But in gathering,
00:21:12.30\00:21:13.64
I just thought I
just wasn't gonna go.
00:21:13.67\00:21:15.00
So, day said, "I'm
gonna give you a choice.
00:21:15.04\00:21:16.67
You don't have to go.
00:21:16.71\00:21:18.04
Ronnie, you don't
have to go either,
00:21:18.07\00:21:19.41
but you're gonna to
have to get a whipping.
00:21:19.44\00:21:20.78
Which one you want?"
00:21:20.81\00:21:22.14
I said,
00:21:22.18\00:21:23.51
"Just bring the belt on.
00:21:23.55\00:21:24.88
Go ahead."
00:21:24.91\00:21:26.25
I'd rather have
the whipping than go.
00:21:26.28\00:21:27.62
He said, "Okay." Said,
"Ronnie, how about you?"
00:21:27.65\00:21:28.98
He said, "Well, if
Kenny's going to take one,
00:21:29.02\00:21:30.35
I'm gonna take one too."
00:21:30.39\00:21:31.72
Well, So we got
a good thrashing.
00:21:31.75\00:21:35.32
I'll just put it
that way. A good one.
00:21:35.36\00:21:38.36
No more was said about it.
00:21:38.39\00:21:39.76
We got out of it that night.
00:21:39.79\00:21:41.13
So, I just thought,
this is the way it is.
00:21:41.16\00:21:43.13
I don't have to go anymore.
00:21:43.16\00:21:44.60
I just... That
was well worth it.
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Next night, about 6
o'clock "Kenny, you ready?"
00:21:46.67\00:21:49.40
"Ready for what?"
00:21:49.44\00:21:50.77
"Go in gathering."
00:21:50.81\00:21:53.64
Thought I was over with.
00:21:53.68\00:21:55.01
"No, no, it's not,
but you've got a choice.
00:21:55.04\00:21:59.71
You can go tonight or
you get another whipping,
00:21:59.75\00:22:01.65
what's it going to be?"
00:22:01.68\00:22:03.39
I looked over at
Ronnie and Ronnie said,
00:22:03.42\00:22:04.75
"I'm going in gathering tonight.
00:22:04.79\00:22:06.12
I don't know about you."
00:22:06.15\00:22:07.49
I said, you know,
after what we got last night,
00:22:07.52\00:22:08.86
I think maybe I will go.
00:22:08.89\00:22:11.59
Some things that
just happen in our life.
00:22:11.63\00:22:13.16
We'd say, oh, we
could all go back on
00:22:13.19\00:22:15.30
and say, oh, this
was a horrible nightmare.
00:22:15.33\00:22:16.67
May old people
shouldn't be treated that way.
00:22:16.70\00:22:18.07
It helped us.
00:22:18.10\00:22:19.70
It was an encouragement to us.
00:22:19.73\00:22:21.80
It was under difficult times.
00:22:21.84\00:22:24.31
Nerve-wracking as it were.
00:22:24.34\00:22:26.44
God disciplines His people.
00:22:26.47\00:22:28.54
And I'm thankful
for godly parents
00:22:28.58\00:22:31.35
that was showing
us the right way,
00:22:31.38\00:22:33.38
giving us a choice.
00:22:33.42\00:22:35.38
But what would happen if you do
00:22:35.42\00:22:36.75
and what would
happen if you don't?
00:22:36.79\00:22:38.85
Is it possible?
00:22:38.89\00:22:40.22
We are weighed in the balances
and we can be found wanting?
00:22:40.26\00:22:45.73
If we don't give
this last day message
00:22:45.76\00:22:47.53
the way God said to give it.
00:22:47.56\00:22:49.70
I don't know
you hear that a lot,
00:22:49.73\00:22:51.07
but listen, this
is so imperative.
00:22:51.10\00:22:53.80
Oh, we're giving
the message away.
00:22:53.84\00:22:55.30
You know, this last day message.
00:22:55.34\00:22:56.81
Are we giving it the way
00:22:56.84\00:22:58.24
that God would
have us to give it?
00:22:58.27\00:23:00.74
And I just put it like it,
00:23:00.78\00:23:02.11
because it is a
life and death matter.
00:23:02.14\00:23:05.71
It is not just, oh,
well, take it or leave it
00:23:05.75\00:23:09.72
or just, you know, soft pellet.
00:23:09.75\00:23:11.92
We have to give it as
it is life and death issue.
00:23:11.95\00:23:15.16
The whole world is
going to be tested and tried
00:23:15.19\00:23:18.29
on this last day
message of the three angels
00:23:18.33\00:23:20.63
of Revelation 14
00:23:20.66\00:23:22.76
and all that's
involved with that.
00:23:22.80\00:23:25.33
And I pray, I know that
you're hearing it here on 3ABN
00:23:25.37\00:23:28.10
and it should be over
and over and don't go,
00:23:28.14\00:23:30.01
ever get tired of it.
00:23:30.04\00:23:32.64
Our message is a life and death.
00:23:32.67\00:23:34.84
And it's going to be the
testing truth of this age.
00:23:34.88\00:23:38.28
And the world needs to hear it.
00:23:38.31\00:23:39.71
We need to take it in.
00:23:39.75\00:23:41.08
It needs to change our
hearts and change our life.
00:23:41.12\00:23:44.19
What if we don't
give this message
00:23:44.22\00:23:45.85
the way God said to give it?
00:23:45.89\00:23:48.32
The way He's
revealed it here in His Word.
00:23:48.36\00:23:52.53
And we just want to
give it in our own way
00:23:52.56\00:23:54.93
so that we can say,
well, we're giving the message.
00:23:54.96\00:23:59.53
I asked the question here.
00:23:59.57\00:24:00.90
Is it time to fight error?
00:24:00.94\00:24:03.74
It's a simple question,
but well worth pondering.
00:24:03.77\00:24:07.41
Is it time that we fought error?
00:24:07.44\00:24:09.68
See a lot of
times as a Christian,
00:24:09.71\00:24:11.05
we just stand back
00:24:11.08\00:24:12.41
and we don't want
to cause any trouble.
00:24:12.45\00:24:13.78
We just...
00:24:13.82\00:24:15.15
You know, we're just going
to be real quiet as everybody.
00:24:15.18\00:24:16.52
Is there a time we have to stand
00:24:16.55\00:24:17.89
and fight as it were,
00:24:17.92\00:24:19.25
even though God said,
I'll fight your battles.
00:24:19.29\00:24:20.96
We have to make
a stand on issues.
00:24:20.99\00:24:23.66
I found this article
Review and Herald in 726,
00:24:23.69\00:24:27.86
written in 1898.
00:24:27.90\00:24:29.86
Notice almost 120 years ago.
00:24:29.90\00:24:34.80
Remember, truth doesn't change
doesn't matter how old it is.
00:24:34.84\00:24:38.57
The article says then,
even then it says, it is time.
00:24:38.61\00:24:41.81
The time has come
00:24:41.84\00:24:43.18
when the truth
is to be proclaimed
00:24:43.21\00:24:45.05
against falsehood and error.
00:24:45.08\00:24:48.45
The truth is what?
00:24:48.48\00:24:49.82
Is to be proclaimed
between falsehood and error.
00:24:49.85\00:24:52.95
People say, "We have
to be careful with it."
00:24:52.99\00:24:54.72
We need to follow
exactly what it said here.
00:24:54.76\00:24:56.83
If it was truth back
then, how much more today?
00:24:56.86\00:25:02.36
We have to fight
against that falsehood and error
00:25:02.40\00:25:04.80
because the devil has deceived
and led millions down his path.
00:25:04.83\00:25:08.80
And God is looking for people
00:25:08.84\00:25:10.31
who will march as
it were to his orders.
00:25:10.34\00:25:13.51
March and give the
message like never before.
00:25:13.54\00:25:17.71
I've mentioned already,
00:25:17.75\00:25:19.08
but I just have to mention it
00:25:19.11\00:25:20.45
with what's going
on in the world today.
00:25:20.48\00:25:23.42
Lord have mercy,
00:25:23.45\00:25:24.79
it demands our
attention like never before.
00:25:24.82\00:25:30.19
I don't know about you,
00:25:30.23\00:25:31.56
but there's times I kind of like
00:25:31.59\00:25:33.96
to get it off my mind
it seems like for a while,
00:25:34.00\00:25:36.06
but the Lord doesn't allow that.
00:25:36.10\00:25:38.03
And I'm glad that He doesn't
00:25:38.07\00:25:39.50
because He understands,
00:25:39.53\00:25:41.60
He realized He's coming soon.
00:25:41.64\00:25:43.30
He wants us to realize that
00:25:43.34\00:25:45.37
so that we can be
about our Father's business.
00:25:45.41\00:25:49.28
What you see happening
and taking place right now,
00:25:49.31\00:25:52.51
surely it reminds
you of His coming.
00:25:52.55\00:25:55.05
This is not a
time we can be silent.
00:25:55.08\00:25:57.42
This is time we need to
push like we never pushed before
00:25:57.45\00:26:00.06
because I'm telling...
00:26:00.09\00:26:01.42
I just know and
you know by reading
00:26:01.46\00:26:02.79
the time will come
00:26:02.82\00:26:04.16
when you'll not be able to do it
00:26:04.19\00:26:05.53
without being fined and arrested
00:26:05.56\00:26:06.93
and thrown into prison.
00:26:06.96\00:26:10.83
And so, I asked
myself over and over,
00:26:10.87\00:26:12.47
what is our work now?
00:26:12.50\00:26:15.44
What is our work?
00:26:15.47\00:26:16.81
Well, we know nothing
has to occupy our mind,
00:26:16.84\00:26:18.87
but the giving of
the three angels' message
00:26:18.91\00:26:20.84
but notice how this work,
00:26:20.88\00:26:22.21
what we should
be doing right now.
00:26:22.24\00:26:23.58
Again, the article in
Review and Herald 726,
00:26:23.61\00:26:27.52
1898 says this.
00:26:27.55\00:26:29.58
Now it starts out this way.
00:26:29.62\00:26:30.95
So there's no
questioning about it.
00:26:30.99\00:26:32.39
It says, notice this,
00:26:32.42\00:26:33.76
the work now,
00:26:33.79\00:26:35.59
the work what?
00:26:35.62\00:26:36.96
The work now is to
be done in our world.
00:26:36.99\00:26:39.29
Whoa!
00:26:39.33\00:26:40.66
Is to exalt the law of the Lord
00:26:40.70\00:26:43.70
and call, notice it,
00:26:43.73\00:26:45.07
the attention of
the people to it.
00:26:45.10\00:26:47.60
To me, that's very simple.
00:26:47.64\00:26:49.50
Our work now is to do what?
00:26:49.54\00:26:51.74
To exalt, to lift
up the law of God,
00:26:51.77\00:26:55.71
to bring the attention
of the people to the law.
00:26:55.74\00:27:00.65
Now remember the man of sin.
00:27:00.68\00:27:04.25
What is he saying?
00:27:04.29\00:27:05.62
Oh, he's going to
exalt another day.
00:27:05.65\00:27:07.99
He has great power.
00:27:08.02\00:27:09.36
We understand
that, the man of sin.
00:27:09.39\00:27:12.53
We might even say,
he's got big bridges,
00:27:12.56\00:27:14.36
but you know what?
00:27:17.37\00:27:18.70
No matter how big we might think
00:27:18.73\00:27:20.07
this person or
that person may be,
00:27:20.10\00:27:22.24
they cannot and know
what God has declared
00:27:22.27\00:27:26.07
to be stand fast forever.
00:27:26.11\00:27:29.88
But the law of God is
being attacked right now.
00:27:29.91\00:27:33.62
So as the law of
God is being attacked
00:27:33.65\00:27:35.18
and we see these
changes taking place.
00:27:35.22\00:27:36.75
Do I withdraw?
00:27:36.79\00:27:38.12
Do I try to
behave myself as it were?
00:27:38.15\00:27:41.12
Or do we want to
exalt it and raise it up?
00:27:41.16\00:27:43.06
Let me give you something here,
00:27:43.09\00:27:44.43
I found it very it's
an undated manuscript 145,
00:27:44.46\00:27:48.93
but please listen to this.
00:27:48.96\00:27:50.30
It makes sense to me.
00:27:50.33\00:27:51.93
This is the position
00:27:51.97\00:27:54.50
those will occupy who loved God.
00:27:54.54\00:27:56.77
Ooh, there it is.
00:27:56.81\00:28:00.94
Did you get that?
00:28:00.98\00:28:02.31
This is the position
00:28:02.34\00:28:03.88
that those who
love God will occupy.
00:28:03.91\00:28:05.55
Okay.
00:28:05.58\00:28:06.92
I want to know
what it is, don't you?
00:28:06.95\00:28:08.75
Those who love God sincerely
00:28:08.78\00:28:10.99
and their
neighbor as themselves.
00:28:11.02\00:28:13.15
Oh, as what?
00:28:13.19\00:28:14.72
And their neighbor as themselves
00:28:14.76\00:28:16.09
on these two hang all
the law we understand that.
00:28:16.12\00:28:19.66
Notice this,
what will we be doing?
00:28:19.69\00:28:21.70
Notice,
00:28:21.73\00:28:23.06
they will exalt
the commandments,
00:28:23.10\00:28:25.90
listen, in proportion
as the contempt increases.
00:28:25.93\00:28:31.24
Is it being
challenged right now?
00:28:34.51\00:28:36.14
Oh, absolutely,
it's being challenged.
00:28:36.18\00:28:39.55
It's increasing every day.
00:28:39.58\00:28:42.75
It's happening
right under our noses.
00:28:42.78\00:28:44.65
And most of us say,
Oh, way down the road,
00:28:44.69\00:28:46.52
it's going to happen,
00:28:46.55\00:28:47.89
the change of the Sabbath
to Sunday, as we will know.
00:28:47.92\00:28:51.39
As the law of God is
being, right, being attacked,
00:28:51.43\00:28:55.70
we need to raise up
00:28:55.73\00:28:57.40
and we need to
talk about it more
00:28:57.43\00:28:58.97
than maybe that
we are right now.
00:28:59.00\00:29:01.94
After all Psalms
119:160 says this,
00:29:01.97\00:29:05.97
"Thy word is true" from where?
00:29:06.01\00:29:08.44
"From the beginning."
00:29:08.48\00:29:10.68
Oh, I like this.
00:29:10.71\00:29:12.05
Every one of thy
judgments endureth forever.
00:29:12.08\00:29:15.85
Every one of the
righteous judgments
00:29:15.88\00:29:17.89
endureth forever.
00:29:17.92\00:29:21.06
So, that may come
back at you again.
00:29:21.09\00:29:22.89
Is there any contempt
now shown on the law of God?
00:29:22.92\00:29:27.76
Is there any contempt now?
00:29:27.80\00:29:29.13
You start saying,
00:29:29.16\00:29:30.50
"Oh yes.
00:29:30.53\00:29:31.87
It's being
challenged everywhere."
00:29:31.90\00:29:35.07
David understood this as he...
00:29:35.10\00:29:38.24
I want to say that he
poured out his heart to God
00:29:38.27\00:29:42.11
in Psalms 119.
00:29:42.14\00:29:43.48
You remember this one,
00:29:43.51\00:29:44.85
that'd be
verses 111 through 115.
00:29:44.88\00:29:47.52
Read that when you
have the opportunity.
00:29:47.55\00:29:49.12
He was pouring
his heart out to God.
00:29:49.15\00:29:51.15
And he said to God right now.
00:29:51.19\00:29:52.55
Oh, interesting, notice here.
00:29:52.59\00:29:54.12
He said show
that there is a God.
00:29:54.16\00:29:57.46
God show that you're God.
00:29:57.49\00:30:00.00
I prayed that a lot.
00:30:00.03\00:30:01.36
And I'm sure
you've prayed that a lot.
00:30:01.40\00:30:02.73
God, show yourself to be God,
00:30:02.76\00:30:04.53
not to be mocked of men
00:30:04.57\00:30:05.90
and not to
trample upon God's law
00:30:05.93\00:30:07.74
or the truths
that He's given to us,
00:30:07.77\00:30:09.87
but what?
00:30:09.90\00:30:11.24
Let stand up for what is truth.
00:30:11.27\00:30:14.68
Show them, He
said there is a God
00:30:14.71\00:30:16.58
and there are, notice,
limits to His forbearance.
00:30:16.61\00:30:21.65
Hmm.
00:30:21.68\00:30:23.89
Is it possible to
presume upon His mercy?
00:30:23.92\00:30:27.72
Is it possible to exalt,
you know, exhaust His mercy?
00:30:27.76\00:30:32.23
Sure, it is.
00:30:32.26\00:30:33.60
Sure.
00:30:33.63\00:30:36.03
Thank God that we
serve a God who loves us.
00:30:36.06\00:30:39.80
He's challenging us
today to reverence His law,
00:30:39.83\00:30:42.34
to elevate it, lift it up
00:30:42.37\00:30:46.31
more as we see
00:30:46.34\00:30:47.94
that, you know, it's
disregarded and contempt
00:30:47.98\00:30:50.41
and people are
trampling on this day.
00:30:50.45\00:30:52.81
Psalms 119,
quickly, 136 says this,
00:30:52.85\00:30:55.98
here's the way.
00:30:56.02\00:30:57.35
And I don't know if
you've ever had this happen.
00:30:57.39\00:30:58.95
I'm sure that you have,
but in Psalms there in 119:136,
00:30:58.99\00:31:03.09
talking about David,
00:31:03.12\00:31:04.46
he, notice this, he said,
00:31:04.49\00:31:05.83
rivers, rivers of waters,
00:31:05.86\00:31:08.10
waters run down my eyes
00:31:08.13\00:31:10.77
because they keep not thy law.
00:31:10.80\00:31:13.67
Rivers!
00:31:13.70\00:31:15.04
He cried tears over it.
00:31:15.07\00:31:16.87
How many of us were so busy
00:31:16.91\00:31:18.24
with everything that's going on?
00:31:18.27\00:31:19.61
Do we ever, you know,
concerned about the love of God
00:31:19.64\00:31:21.88
what's taking
place in our world,
00:31:21.91\00:31:23.81
the commandments of men
00:31:23.85\00:31:25.18
rather than the
commandments of God.
00:31:25.21\00:31:27.08
How many of us,
again the challenge today,
00:31:27.12\00:31:29.08
how many of us
are really sighing
00:31:29.12\00:31:30.49
and crying for the abominations
00:31:30.52\00:31:32.29
that be done inside
and outside the church?
00:31:32.32\00:31:35.59
Those are legitimate questions
00:31:35.62\00:31:36.96
they're in the Spirit
of Prophecy there in it.
00:31:36.99\00:31:38.86
You read
Ezekiel 8 and Ezekiel 9.
00:31:38.89\00:31:41.46
Man, we are
challenged as the people.
00:31:41.50\00:31:43.37
How many of us are sighing
and crying for the abominations
00:31:43.40\00:31:45.53
that would be done in the land?
00:31:45.57\00:31:48.67
Do you realize that if we don't,
00:31:48.70\00:31:50.04
I want you to
study, many of you study?
00:31:50.07\00:31:51.41
If we're not signing and crying
for the abomination to be done
00:31:51.44\00:31:53.44
inside and outside the church,
00:31:53.48\00:31:54.88
we will not
receive of the latter rain.
00:31:54.91\00:31:57.11
We will not be able to go
00:31:57.15\00:31:58.48
through the big time of trouble.
00:31:58.51\00:31:59.85
We will not be
saved in God's kingdom.
00:31:59.88\00:32:01.22
This is something I believe
00:32:01.25\00:32:02.58
that we really
need to look at closely.
00:32:02.62\00:32:04.32
If you disagree with
it, you disagree with it.
00:32:04.35\00:32:06.19
But I encourage
you please to study it.
00:32:06.22\00:32:10.19
Reverend say, well, we
need to be careful what we say.
00:32:10.23\00:32:11.99
Yeah, maybe we didn't
need to be really careful.
00:32:12.03\00:32:14.03
Make sure we say the
things that God wants us to say,
00:32:14.06\00:32:18.23
abominations that be
done in the land for the...
00:32:18.27\00:32:21.00
is it the contempt,
00:32:21.04\00:32:22.37
the disrespect
shown for the law of God.
00:32:22.40\00:32:28.14
And again, if you don't...
00:32:28.18\00:32:30.08
I don't know if I
believe that or not.
00:32:30.11\00:32:34.32
Isn't it time that
we cast our care on Him
00:32:34.35\00:32:36.58
because He cares for us.
00:32:36.62\00:32:39.65
He's trying to
wake up His people.
00:32:39.69\00:32:41.16
He's trying to wake me up.
00:32:41.19\00:32:42.52
I don't know about you,
00:32:42.56\00:32:44.03
but I want to be wide awake
00:32:44.06\00:32:45.39
of the things
that are transpiring
00:32:45.43\00:32:46.76
in the world today
00:32:46.80\00:32:48.13
that I don't
understand all of them,
00:32:48.16\00:32:49.50
but I understand enough
00:32:49.53\00:32:50.87
to know that I'll tell
you things are happening
00:32:50.90\00:32:52.67
and it could
break lose any moment.
00:32:52.70\00:32:54.27
Ten Commandments,
00:32:58.17\00:33:00.38
if you think this is
not an issue in there.
00:33:00.41\00:33:02.44
All you have to do is
just mention to a person
00:33:02.48\00:33:05.61
that you believe
that by God's grace,
00:33:05.65\00:33:07.02
we should keep
all Ten Commandments.
00:33:07.05\00:33:09.15
Watch their reaction.
00:33:09.18\00:33:11.65
They may be your
friend one moment,
00:33:11.69\00:33:13.05
they're not your friend now.
00:33:13.09\00:33:16.46
So what should we get?
00:33:16.49\00:33:17.83
Another question comes back.
00:33:17.86\00:33:19.19
What should we be doing
00:33:19.23\00:33:20.56
who believe in keeping God's law
00:33:20.60\00:33:21.93
especially at this time?
00:33:21.96\00:33:24.10
After all we do believe
Ecclesiastes, do we not?
00:33:24.13\00:33:26.74
Oh my, what a beautiful passage.
00:33:26.77\00:33:28.37
Ecclesiastes 12:10
and, of course, verse 13.
00:33:28.40\00:33:32.81
Verse 10 is
interesting. Hardly...
00:33:32.84\00:33:34.88
I don't hardly
ever hear it read,
00:33:34.91\00:33:36.24
but it starts out.
00:33:36.28\00:33:37.61
Notice, the preacher,
00:33:37.65\00:33:38.98
the preacher sought to
find out acceptable words.
00:33:39.01\00:33:42.88
You know what?
00:33:42.92\00:33:44.25
A lot of
preachers, including myself,
00:33:44.29\00:33:45.62
we need to be seeking out
00:33:45.65\00:33:47.59
the words that God
would have us to say,
00:33:47.62\00:33:50.09
those things that
are acceptable to God,
00:33:50.13\00:33:52.76
not just get
through a Sabbath sermon,
00:33:52.79\00:33:54.56
not just get through a
little series of meetings,
00:33:54.60\00:33:56.46
not just to kind of get by,
but to really give the flock,
00:33:56.50\00:33:59.77
you know, something to
eat, words, meat to chew on.
00:33:59.80\00:34:04.11
Verse goes on and says,
00:34:07.18\00:34:08.51
and that which was
written was upright
00:34:08.54\00:34:11.21
even words of trees.
00:34:11.25\00:34:12.88
So the preacher
then sought to do what?
00:34:12.91\00:34:14.98
Find out, find acceptable words,
00:34:15.02\00:34:16.99
which was written upright,
even the words of truth.
00:34:17.02\00:34:20.36
So we need to be
proclaiming what is what?
00:34:20.39\00:34:22.52
What is truth?
00:34:22.56\00:34:23.89
Verse 13, you know this well.
00:34:23.93\00:34:25.76
Let us hear what?
00:34:25.79\00:34:27.13
Let us hear the
conclusion of the...
00:34:27.16\00:34:29.16
Ooh, the whole matter, notice,
fear God and keep His, what?
00:34:29.20\00:34:32.77
Good.
00:34:32.80\00:34:34.14
Keep His commandments,
00:34:34.17\00:34:35.50
for this is the
whole duty of man.
00:34:35.54\00:34:37.47
You've heard it.
00:34:37.51\00:34:38.84
You've memorized
it, but are we...
00:34:38.87\00:34:40.44
Have we applied it to our life?
00:34:40.48\00:34:42.68
Are we really
living it out in our life?
00:34:42.71\00:34:44.78
I talked to people
who know, they know,
00:34:44.81\00:34:47.08
and they let you
know that they know,
00:34:47.12\00:34:51.25
but really has
that truth come in
00:34:51.29\00:34:52.79
and change your life.
00:34:52.82\00:34:54.22
You're no longer
the same anymore.
00:34:54.26\00:34:57.69
The whole duty of
man is to fear God
00:34:57.73\00:34:59.43
and keep His commandments,
00:34:59.46\00:35:01.20
for it's their whole duty.
00:35:01.23\00:35:02.56
Look up that word, whole duty.
00:35:02.60\00:35:03.93
It just simply means all.
00:35:03.97\00:35:05.53
It simply means everything
that has to do with life,
00:35:05.57\00:35:09.90
for this is the
whole duty of man.
00:35:09.94\00:35:13.04
I hope we're
seeing it that way today.
00:35:13.07\00:35:14.64
We're gonna be
weighed in the balances.
00:35:14.68\00:35:18.25
I do believe this,
00:35:18.28\00:35:19.61
if we really
believe as a people,
00:35:19.65\00:35:20.98
that we're the people of God.
00:35:21.02\00:35:23.18
If we really think, you know,
00:35:23.22\00:35:24.95
Satan is out as a roaring lion
00:35:24.99\00:35:27.06
and he's certainly going to,
00:35:27.09\00:35:28.42
right, get rid
of all that he can.
00:35:28.46\00:35:30.39
He's going to try to entrap.
00:35:30.43\00:35:31.76
He's going to try
to disguise himself.
00:35:31.79\00:35:35.80
How many of us are
really preparing for that?
00:35:35.83\00:35:40.54
I like what Paul had
to say in Romans 7:12.
00:35:40.57\00:35:42.67
He said, "Wherefore by the law,
00:35:42.70\00:35:44.04
the law is holy
00:35:44.07\00:35:45.41
and the commandment
is holy and it's" what?
00:35:45.44\00:35:47.21
"It's just and good."
00:35:47.24\00:35:48.58
I'm wondering what people do
00:35:48.61\00:35:49.94
with this simple
passage of scripture
00:35:49.98\00:35:51.88
when they read
them and this like,
00:35:51.91\00:35:53.82
there's no, the
light doesn't come on.
00:35:53.85\00:35:56.92
Bible say the commandments
are holy and they're just,
00:35:56.95\00:35:59.05
and they're good.
00:35:59.09\00:36:00.42
You notice that.
00:36:00.46\00:36:02.52
Remember, the law does
what it's designed to do.
00:36:02.56\00:36:06.03
It's simply Romans 3:20.
00:36:06.06\00:36:07.63
It points out what sin is.
00:36:07.66\00:36:09.60
It's doing its duty.
It condemns the sinner.
00:36:09.63\00:36:13.74
But we know as Seventh-day
Adventist Christians and we...
00:36:13.77\00:36:16.17
You should know
studying the Word of God.
00:36:16.20\00:36:17.84
The sinner can only be
saved by the blood of the Lamb.
00:36:17.87\00:36:21.18
Did you get it? Revelation 7:14.
00:36:21.21\00:36:23.48
We're saved by
the blood of the Lamb.
00:36:23.51\00:36:25.71
Isn't that beautiful?
00:36:25.75\00:36:27.62
Ephesians 2:8, "By grace
are you saved through faith."
00:36:27.65\00:36:30.25
This is what it's all about.
00:36:30.29\00:36:32.85
The one in whom
we have redemption
00:36:32.89\00:36:35.06
through the blood
of His forgiveness
00:36:35.09\00:36:36.73
and his sins, Ephesians 1:7.
00:36:36.76\00:36:40.93
Please
remember, please remember,
00:36:40.96\00:36:45.43
the law was not
changed in any way
00:36:45.47\00:36:48.64
to meet fallen
man in his condition.
00:36:48.67\00:36:51.41
It remains what
it has always been.
00:36:51.44\00:36:55.44
It's holy, it's
just, and it's good.
00:36:55.48\00:36:58.65
The Bible is clear.
00:36:58.68\00:37:01.72
No one who
believes in Jesus Christ
00:37:01.75\00:37:03.72
is under bondage
to the law of God,
00:37:03.75\00:37:07.46
for the law of the
Bible says is the what?
00:37:07.49\00:37:09.66
Law of life.
00:37:09.69\00:37:11.56
"Life is in the
Son," 1 John 5:11.
00:37:11.59\00:37:16.67
These are good. The key is here.
00:37:16.70\00:37:18.93
The Word of God is
live to those who obey.
00:37:18.97\00:37:21.80
This is beautiful, the precepts.
00:37:21.84\00:37:24.57
"The law is
spiritual," Romans 7:14.
00:37:24.61\00:37:28.68
Romans 8:6,
00:37:28.71\00:37:30.41
"To the spiritually
minded is life and peace."
00:37:30.45\00:37:36.69
I wonder how many of us
are really contemplating
00:37:36.72\00:37:39.82
the nearness of
the coming of Jesus.
00:37:39.85\00:37:42.46
The power that there is
in the blood of the Lamb,
00:37:42.49\00:37:46.39
how God will raise
us up from this world
00:37:46.43\00:37:48.63
and use us in such
a mark wonderful way,
00:37:48.66\00:37:52.63
but he can take man, sinful man,
00:37:52.67\00:37:55.70
come in.
00:37:55.74\00:37:57.07
And as they sup
with him and change him.
00:37:57.11\00:37:59.57
Change those natural desires
00:37:59.61\00:38:01.91
and those tendencies
00:38:01.94\00:38:04.61
above temptation
that leads us into sin.
00:38:04.65\00:38:08.02
God is able to give us
that victory in our hearts,
00:38:08.05\00:38:10.32
in our lives.
00:38:10.35\00:38:11.69
No one said it would be easy.
00:38:11.72\00:38:13.49
It's not going to be
without trials and tribulations
00:38:13.52\00:38:15.39
and heartaches
and maybe failure.
00:38:15.42\00:38:17.66
You fell down, you get back up,
you fall down, you get back up.
00:38:17.69\00:38:20.76
But praise God,
if something happens,
00:38:20.80\00:38:22.53
you go down and get
back up by the grace of God.
00:38:22.56\00:38:26.07
God has begun a
good work in you.
00:38:26.10\00:38:27.44
I know He's going to finish it.
00:38:27.47\00:38:30.54
Enemy is working I know
in many, many disguises.
00:38:30.57\00:38:34.04
There's no doubt about that.
00:38:34.08\00:38:35.41
We need to be
calling more and more,
00:38:38.41\00:38:40.42
in my opinion,
00:38:40.45\00:38:41.78
more and more
for the people of God
00:38:41.82\00:38:43.45
to stand in the old paths.
00:38:43.49\00:38:47.06
Those straight testimony.
00:38:47.09\00:38:49.19
Stand in the old ways places.
00:38:49.22\00:38:50.69
You remember that in Isaiah 58?
00:38:50.73\00:38:52.23
Sure, you do.
00:38:52.26\00:38:54.66
We need to be a people
that restores the path,
00:38:54.70\00:38:58.00
but are we really doing that?
00:38:58.03\00:38:59.70
We might talk about it,
00:38:59.73\00:39:01.07
but we are living
it out in our life?
00:39:01.10\00:39:03.61
God said, these are the people.
00:39:03.64\00:39:05.27
These are my
people in the last days
00:39:05.31\00:39:07.51
that's gonna
restore this old path.
00:39:07.54\00:39:09.51
They're gonna go back to
the way it's supposed to be.
00:39:09.54\00:39:12.55
Not some new-fangled thing.
00:39:12.58\00:39:15.78
I mean, I hear sometime,
00:39:15.82\00:39:18.35
somebody might disagree with me.
00:39:18.39\00:39:19.85
That's all right.
00:39:19.89\00:39:21.72
But I hear all the time,
00:39:21.76\00:39:23.09
well, this
church is conservative.
00:39:23.12\00:39:25.39
This church is
liberal. Come on now.
00:39:25.43\00:39:29.70
I thought that was
in the political field
00:39:29.73\00:39:31.13
that you could say that.
00:39:31.17\00:39:33.40
God has a church
00:39:33.44\00:39:34.77
and He has
identified His church.
00:39:34.80\00:39:36.14
And what makes up
His last day church?
00:39:36.17\00:39:39.57
To me, if you say it's liberal,
00:39:39.61\00:39:40.94
that means you're not
living up to the light
00:39:40.98\00:39:42.31
that God has given
because you're liberal.
00:39:42.34\00:39:43.91
You want other thing.
00:39:43.95\00:39:45.28
If you're conservative,
00:39:45.31\00:39:46.65
that means you're sitting on
00:39:46.68\00:39:48.02
like a hen sitting
on an egg, somebody...
00:39:48.05\00:39:49.38
And we're afraid to move forward
00:39:52.39\00:39:53.72
with the light that is given.
00:39:53.76\00:39:55.66
God never
identifies His church that way
00:39:55.69\00:39:58.16
the world identifies
in the political realm.
00:39:58.19\00:40:02.53
Please think about,
please think about that.
00:40:02.56\00:40:04.47
God's people need
to stand right now
00:40:08.00\00:40:10.81
because we're in
the judgment hour.
00:40:10.84\00:40:12.84
There's a
weighing that's going on.
00:40:12.87\00:40:15.51
When your name comes up,
00:40:15.54\00:40:17.21
there's going to
be a final verdict.
00:40:17.25\00:40:20.32
And how will you be found?
00:40:20.35\00:40:24.02
What is the platform of truth?
00:40:24.05\00:40:27.52
I love the
message that God has given
00:40:27.56\00:40:29.42
to this last day church.
00:40:29.46\00:40:30.79
Revelation 14, I love it.
00:40:30.83\00:40:34.26
No one said it
was an easy message,
00:40:34.30\00:40:35.63
but it is a wonderful message
00:40:35.66\00:40:38.03
that test and
tries and sanctifies,
00:40:38.07\00:40:41.17
prepares the people to meet Him.
00:40:41.20\00:40:44.14
And there's a
warning against those
00:40:44.17\00:40:45.51
who are trying to
attempting to change,
00:40:45.54\00:40:50.48
to change the
three angels' message
00:40:50.51\00:40:52.31
or to change the law of God
00:40:52.35\00:40:54.58
or the change is coming about
00:40:54.62\00:40:55.95
that we see this right
just around the corner,
00:40:55.98\00:40:58.19
in my opinion, right now
00:40:58.22\00:40:59.55
from the seventh day to
the first day of the week.
00:40:59.59\00:41:03.59
And I just wanna encourage you
00:41:03.63\00:41:04.96
to never, never, never
exalt the institutions of man
00:41:04.99\00:41:09.13
above the institution of God.
00:41:09.16\00:41:12.27
When we do this,
00:41:12.30\00:41:13.64
we're showing
contempt for the law giver.
00:41:13.67\00:41:16.50
No one wants to do that.
00:41:16.54\00:41:17.87
I know you
don't want to do that.
00:41:17.91\00:41:20.21
We cannot give way
00:41:20.24\00:41:21.58
from what the Bible
has said and stand on it.
00:41:21.61\00:41:23.41
This is what we are challenged
to do as a people today.
00:41:23.45\00:41:27.88
How will you stand
00:41:27.92\00:41:29.45
right at this moment?
00:41:32.45\00:41:36.86
Right now, today,
00:41:36.89\00:41:38.23
I'm talking
about at this moment.
00:41:38.26\00:41:39.59
Men are trampling
upon the law of God.
00:41:39.63\00:41:43.40
They're making up their own laws
00:41:43.43\00:41:46.20
and their own laws
00:41:46.23\00:41:47.57
that they're making up is
manufactured by the enemy.
00:41:47.60\00:41:50.07
There's no doubt about it.
00:41:50.11\00:41:53.17
They're
affecting our liberty, huh?
00:41:53.21\00:41:58.81
They're affecting
our religious freedoms,
00:41:58.85\00:42:03.08
liberty of conscience again.
00:42:03.12\00:42:05.59
There's a forming of
the image of the beast.
00:42:05.62\00:42:07.79
These all things are
being done in darkness,
00:42:07.82\00:42:11.66
but yet they're
going to come to light
00:42:11.69\00:42:13.06
in a very near future.
00:42:13.09\00:42:14.43
And how will you
stand and how will I stand?
00:42:14.46\00:42:17.17
I don't want
anybody coming up to me
00:42:17.20\00:42:19.00
later on and say,
00:42:19.03\00:42:20.37
"You knew these
things were going to happen
00:42:20.40\00:42:21.97
and you didn't say anything."
00:42:22.00\00:42:23.41
Some of you preachers
and teachers and elders
00:42:23.44\00:42:24.91
and whoever we might be,
00:42:24.94\00:42:26.27
that's people of God right now,
00:42:26.31\00:42:27.94
don't purpose in
your heart right now.
00:42:27.98\00:42:29.74
You're not going...
00:42:29.78\00:42:31.11
You don't want anybody
coming up and saying to you,
00:42:31.15\00:42:32.78
"You knew these
things were going to happen.
00:42:32.81\00:42:34.65
You knew these judgments
00:42:34.68\00:42:36.02
are going to be
falling in the land.
00:42:36.05\00:42:37.39
You knew there could
be wars and rumors of war.
00:42:37.42\00:42:39.59
You knew there was
going to be destruction.
00:42:39.62\00:42:41.32
You knew there
was going to be famine
00:42:41.36\00:42:42.89
and pestilence in the land.
00:42:42.92\00:42:44.26
You knew there was
going to be Sunday law.
00:42:44.29\00:42:45.96
You knew it could come
about by climate change.
00:42:45.99\00:42:48.26
And yet you said nothing."
00:42:48.30\00:42:51.67
Oh, we don't want that.
00:42:51.70\00:42:54.17
Lord have mercy on us.
00:42:54.20\00:42:57.67
There's three things quickly
before the close of probation,
00:42:57.71\00:43:00.41
I'm going to remind.
00:43:00.44\00:43:01.78
And I think remind
over and over and over
00:43:01.81\00:43:03.41
while I'm trying
to remind you of it.
00:43:03.45\00:43:05.45
Remember, when I say remind
00:43:05.48\00:43:06.82
that means, I accept that you,
00:43:06.85\00:43:08.18
I'm sure you know it no
more than I know about it,
00:43:08.22\00:43:10.75
but there's three things
that's very, very important
00:43:10.79\00:43:13.36
when we talk about this,
00:43:13.39\00:43:14.72
the close of probation
00:43:14.76\00:43:16.86
and the change.
00:43:16.89\00:43:18.29
And, of course, we're speaking
00:43:18.33\00:43:19.66
about the
attempted change of what?
00:43:19.69\00:43:21.03
The seventh day to
the first day of the week,
00:43:21.06\00:43:22.90
we understand that by the law.
00:43:22.93\00:43:24.60
Daniel says in Daniel 7:25,
00:43:24.63\00:43:26.43
"And he shall
think to change" what?
00:43:26.47\00:43:28.27
Good "times and laws."
00:43:28.30\00:43:29.70
So, we know this is
they shall think to try
00:43:29.74\00:43:32.37
and change times and laws.
00:43:32.41\00:43:34.04
So we realize
00:43:34.08\00:43:36.34
as we see this,
00:43:36.38\00:43:37.71
you know, this movement
going forward right now.
00:43:37.75\00:43:40.52
We have been put
here on this planet,
00:43:40.55\00:43:43.22
in my opinion, for
such a time as this.
00:43:43.25\00:43:47.26
To warn, let them laugh,
00:43:47.29\00:43:50.09
let them heckle
right now if they want to.
00:43:50.13\00:43:51.99
Let them think
that you're not so,
00:43:52.03\00:43:53.36
you know, you don't,
you've lost it up here,
00:43:53.40\00:43:55.46
but at least tell them that.
00:43:55.50\00:43:57.20
And when it comes to
pass, then they will know,
00:43:57.23\00:44:00.74
at least they'll ask questions.
00:44:00.77\00:44:02.10
They'll say you knew...
00:44:02.14\00:44:03.47
You told us before
this was going to happen.
00:44:03.51\00:44:05.11
It never had, we
didn't believe it.
00:44:05.14\00:44:06.51
But now we see it come to pass.
00:44:06.54\00:44:08.64
What else is
going to take place?
00:44:08.68\00:44:10.01
Then you'd go to the Word of God
00:44:10.05\00:44:12.28
and reveal that
which God has given to you.
00:44:12.31\00:44:15.25
Number two,
00:44:15.28\00:44:16.62
we know that the
will, this will, will be...
00:44:16.65\00:44:19.72
This is a Sabbath question
is going to be the big test.
00:44:19.75\00:44:23.89
This is the last
test of the people of God.
00:44:23.93\00:44:26.76
Our eternal
destiny depends upon it.
00:44:26.80\00:44:31.27
Think about it.
00:44:31.30\00:44:32.63
If you really knew you
were taking a test right now,
00:44:32.67\00:44:34.77
your eternal
destiny depended upon it.
00:44:34.80\00:44:38.04
Wouldn't you concentrate on it?
00:44:38.07\00:44:39.91
Wouldn't you do the very best?
00:44:39.94\00:44:42.91
This is exactly what
you're going to run out.
00:44:42.94\00:44:44.85
This is the test.
00:44:44.88\00:44:46.21
This has been
the test since 1844.
00:44:46.25\00:44:49.65
Oh, what a comment.
00:44:49.68\00:44:51.02
And I know it deserves
some studies for most of you,
00:44:51.05\00:44:54.12
but what a test,
this is the great test.
00:44:54.16\00:44:56.16
Eternal destiny
is depending on it.
00:44:56.19\00:44:58.86
Letter 11 in 1890 says this.
00:44:58.89\00:45:03.16
This is the test.
00:45:03.20\00:45:04.80
Now we're talking
about the Sabbath and Sunday
00:45:04.83\00:45:07.07
or the Sunday laws.
00:45:07.10\00:45:08.44
Notice this.
00:45:08.47\00:45:09.80
This is the test that
the people of God, what?
00:45:09.84\00:45:12.24
Must have, notice,
before they are sealed.
00:45:12.27\00:45:17.38
People go on and on
about all this kind of stuff
00:45:17.41\00:45:19.65
and waste time on it
00:45:19.68\00:45:21.02
when it's very clear
from the Word of God,
00:45:21.05\00:45:22.92
let's just accept it, right?
00:45:22.95\00:45:24.29
Just accept it what it says.
00:45:24.32\00:45:26.25
There's going to be a test
00:45:26.29\00:45:27.62
that's going to be given
as a Sabbath Sunday issue
00:45:27.66\00:45:30.36
before they are sealed.
00:45:30.39\00:45:34.43
How many
Adventists who claim to keep
00:45:34.46\00:45:36.70
the Seventh-day
Sabbath is going to say,
00:45:36.73\00:45:38.07
okay, the test,
00:45:38.10\00:45:41.20
I'll stand the test
by the grace of God,
00:45:41.24\00:45:43.47
because the
opposite is, if you don't,
00:45:47.31\00:45:49.34
then you're going
to accept the man...
00:45:49.38\00:45:51.51
You know, the man of sins day,
00:45:51.55\00:45:54.65
and after the law is passed
00:45:54.68\00:45:56.02
that will simply be
the mark of the beast.
00:45:56.05\00:45:57.72
We can't be ashamed about that.
00:45:57.75\00:45:59.09
Don't anybody shutter
00:45:59.12\00:46:00.46
when we talk about
the mark of the beast.
00:46:00.49\00:46:01.82
Don't anybody shutter
00:46:01.86\00:46:03.19
when we talk about
the image to the beast.
00:46:03.22\00:46:04.83
Don't back down
00:46:04.86\00:46:06.19
because God has
put it in His Word
00:46:06.23\00:46:07.66
and He looks at you and He said,
00:46:07.70\00:46:09.03
I've called you out of darkness
00:46:09.06\00:46:10.40
unto marvelous life.
00:46:10.43\00:46:11.77
I've called you for
such a time as this.
00:46:11.80\00:46:13.13
I've called you
to warn the world
00:46:13.17\00:46:15.30
of what's going to take place.
00:46:15.34\00:46:16.91
When His wrath is
full, His cup is full,
00:46:16.94\00:46:19.11
He's going to come.
00:46:19.14\00:46:21.58
Oh, dear friends,
we've got to be ready.
00:46:21.61\00:46:26.11
The laws of land,
00:46:26.15\00:46:27.55
you know, they make void the law
00:46:27.58\00:46:30.12
and every person
has had the opportunity
00:46:30.15\00:46:32.19
to understand what truth is.
00:46:32.22\00:46:35.79
What will you do?
00:46:35.82\00:46:37.16
Oh, it's gonna be difficult.
00:46:37.19\00:46:40.56
You're gonna have to do without.
00:46:40.60\00:46:41.93
I'm gonna have to do without.
00:46:41.96\00:46:43.30
There's gonna be some
self-sacrificing here.
00:46:43.33\00:46:45.83
The whole world is
going to turn against you
00:46:45.87\00:46:47.44
if you stand for truth.
00:46:47.47\00:46:48.94
Are you prepared
by the grace of God?
00:46:48.97\00:46:50.51
Am I really prepared?
00:46:50.54\00:46:51.87
I question myself every day,
00:46:51.91\00:46:53.24
oh, Lord, help
me to be prepared.
00:46:53.27\00:46:56.71
All we do without
sometimes is one meal
00:46:56.75\00:46:58.41
and we think we're gonna die.
00:46:58.45\00:47:02.22
I think some of you are
getting what I'm talking about.
00:47:02.25\00:47:06.62
Remember law, the laws
is being passed right now.
00:47:06.65\00:47:09.12
You know, Satan is
behind every one of them.
00:47:09.16\00:47:10.96
There's no doubt about it,
00:47:10.99\00:47:12.33
because they're
against the laws of God.
00:47:12.36\00:47:16.13
They're under a
disguise or under a cover.
00:47:16.16\00:47:19.57
They're under the cover of this.
00:47:19.60\00:47:21.30
It's going to be
good for the country
00:47:21.34\00:47:23.04
if we do such and such,
00:47:23.07\00:47:26.17
it's going to be
good for the country
00:47:26.21\00:47:27.94
or it's going to be
for the common good of all.
00:47:27.98\00:47:32.51
Really?
00:47:32.55\00:47:34.15
It can't go against the laws
00:47:34.18\00:47:36.08
that God has in
His Word here, can it?
00:47:36.12\00:47:38.35
It couldn't be
good for all of us.
00:47:38.39\00:47:41.12
And the other
part, they'll say what?
00:47:41.16\00:47:42.92
This way, if we
pass certain laws,
00:47:42.96\00:47:44.29
it's going to keep,
00:47:44.33\00:47:45.66
you know, it's
going to keep evil down.
00:47:45.69\00:47:47.60
Really?
00:47:47.63\00:47:48.96
The Bible says it's
gonna wax worse and worse
00:47:49.00\00:47:50.33
to the coming of the Lord.
00:47:50.37\00:47:52.83
As I mentioned a while ago,
00:47:52.87\00:47:54.20
it's certainly come
under climate change
00:47:54.24\00:47:55.60
or economic
disaster, a health pandemic,
00:47:55.64\00:47:58.34
which we're
like here in COVID-19
00:47:58.37\00:48:00.44
you're hearing the first wave
00:48:00.48\00:48:02.14
we've been, it's
talking about the second wave,
00:48:02.18\00:48:04.25
it's even mentioning
the third wave right now.
00:48:04.28\00:48:06.38
And our leader said
right now, ooh, he said,
00:48:06.41\00:48:08.45
"This is a dark time."
00:48:08.48\00:48:12.12
Next few months he said,
00:48:12.15\00:48:13.49
"It's going to be a dark time
in the history of this world."
00:48:13.52\00:48:17.59
I wonder what they
might know about it
00:48:17.63\00:48:19.16
that maybe we don't know.
00:48:19.19\00:48:20.53
We should know
more than they know
00:48:20.56\00:48:21.90
based upon the Word of God.
00:48:21.93\00:48:23.53
Is this the time,
00:48:23.57\00:48:26.23
God's cup is full
00:48:26.27\00:48:28.00
and He's gonna let
it play out this time.
00:48:28.04\00:48:30.34
I have to mention
everything once again,
00:48:34.68\00:48:36.64
this is my third time,
00:48:36.68\00:48:39.61
that everything
that's going on in America
00:48:39.65\00:48:41.65
and around the world,
00:48:41.68\00:48:44.29
it's all gonna boil down to
something very, very simple.
00:48:44.32\00:48:48.22
Those who obey God and
those who don't obey God.
00:48:48.26\00:48:52.36
And you know that.
00:48:52.39\00:48:53.73
And you have known that
00:48:53.76\00:48:55.10
for literally years and
years and years and years,
00:48:55.13\00:48:56.67
but we're not hiding
the Word of God in our heart
00:48:56.70\00:48:58.47
where we're gonna
know the difference.
00:48:58.50\00:48:59.93
I say, based on the Word of God,
00:49:03.51\00:49:06.57
tough times are ahead.
00:49:06.61\00:49:09.34
We need Christ
more than ever before.
00:49:09.38\00:49:12.28
There's no doubt in my mind,
00:49:12.31\00:49:15.82
we're gonna need
Him just to survive,
00:49:15.85\00:49:18.22
to try to get by.
00:49:18.25\00:49:19.59
The world's not gonna
have anything to do with you,
00:49:19.62\00:49:21.52
as you will know.
00:49:21.56\00:49:24.89
And I'm encouraging you today,
00:49:24.93\00:49:26.26
to be true to God
00:49:26.29\00:49:28.70
or you're gonna
be true to mankind.
00:49:28.73\00:49:32.00
The test is coming.
00:49:32.03\00:49:34.54
The test is here.
00:49:34.57\00:49:37.34
Many of you by the grace
of God been passing that test,
00:49:37.37\00:49:40.58
but it's going to
be a little more severe
00:49:40.61\00:49:41.94
as the law, certainly,
the lands are passed that way.
00:49:41.98\00:49:47.08
What should we do now?
00:49:47.12\00:49:49.55
Think with me, what
should we be doing now?
00:49:49.58\00:49:51.39
I've asked that several times,
00:49:51.42\00:49:52.75
but again, what
should we be doing now?
00:49:52.79\00:49:54.12
Review and Herald
1-1-1889 says this,
00:49:54.16\00:49:57.76
Ooh, I like this right
here, because somebody said,
00:49:57.79\00:50:00.23
oh, you're just
making a bunch of racket.
00:50:00.26\00:50:01.83
Listen right here what it says.
00:50:01.86\00:50:03.20
Let not the commandment
keeping people of God do what?
00:50:03.23\00:50:06.53
Be silent at this time.
00:50:06.57\00:50:09.34
Let not what?
00:50:09.37\00:50:10.71
Let not the commandment people
of God at this time beaten,
00:50:10.74\00:50:14.54
like we gracefully
accepted a situation.
00:50:14.58\00:50:18.38
Notice, there is
a prospect before us
00:50:18.41\00:50:21.12
of waging a continuous war
00:50:21.15\00:50:23.89
at the risk of all imprisonment,
00:50:23.92\00:50:27.02
losing property,
even life itself.
00:50:27.06\00:50:30.23
Know what? To do what?
00:50:30.26\00:50:31.59
To defend the law of God.
00:50:31.63\00:50:33.56
Coming back to
the beginning, right?
00:50:33.60\00:50:34.96
Law of God.
00:50:35.00\00:50:36.33
Psalms 119:126.
00:50:36.36\00:50:37.77
So familiar to
you, I know it is.
00:50:37.80\00:50:39.13
It says,
00:50:39.17\00:50:40.50
"Oh, it's time for thee,
00:50:40.54\00:50:41.87
oh Lord, to work
for they have what?
00:50:41.90\00:50:43.24
For they have made void thy law.
00:50:43.27\00:50:46.71
This is the cry.
00:50:46.74\00:50:50.75
Psalms 119:173 quickly.
00:50:50.78\00:50:52.78
Notice what it says.
00:50:52.81\00:50:54.15
Let thine hand...
00:50:54.18\00:50:55.52
Whoa!
00:50:55.55\00:50:56.89
I cry out to God,
Lord, let your hand
00:50:56.92\00:50:58.35
help me, for I have
chosen thy precepts.
00:50:58.39\00:51:02.62
What have you chosen today?
00:51:02.66\00:51:03.99
Oh, God, Lord, have
mercy on us today as a people,
00:51:04.03\00:51:07.76
of a languishing people,
00:51:07.80\00:51:09.13
I'm putting myself
00:51:09.16\00:51:10.50
and I'm not trying to
point fingers at anybody.
00:51:10.53\00:51:11.87
I'm not trying
to condemn anybody,
00:51:11.90\00:51:13.30
but if I could stir
you up by the grace of God
00:51:13.34\00:51:14.97
through the power
of the Holy Spirit,
00:51:15.00\00:51:16.74
just say, I know I'm
weighed in the balances.
00:51:16.77\00:51:19.17
I don't want to
be found wanting.
00:51:19.21\00:51:22.28
Oh wow!
00:51:22.31\00:51:26.38
There is a great
work left to be done.
00:51:26.41\00:51:29.22
God has a work
especially for you to do.
00:51:29.25\00:51:33.89
We need to stay close to Jesus.
00:51:33.92\00:51:36.96
It seems like the
whole world is guilty
00:51:36.99\00:51:40.16
and will be guilty
00:51:40.20\00:51:41.53
of receiving the mark
of the beast and be lost.
00:51:41.56\00:51:44.60
Whose names are not
written, Revelation 13:8,
00:51:44.63\00:51:46.70
in the Lamb's Book of Life.
00:51:46.74\00:51:48.07
I can't hardly
stand that thought.
00:51:48.10\00:51:50.27
I think of family
and friends and...
00:51:50.31\00:51:52.11
Who will you choose today?
00:51:55.71\00:51:58.38
I'm gonna call my
dear sister-in-law up here,
00:51:58.41\00:52:00.92
Sister Yvonne Shelton.
00:52:00.95\00:52:04.42
Gonna sing one of my,
00:52:04.45\00:52:06.02
I liked this,
one of my favorites,
00:52:06.05\00:52:08.22
one of my favorite songs,
00:52:08.26\00:52:10.36
"Fairest, Lord Jesus."
00:52:10.39\00:52:12.53
Fairest Lord Jesus,
00:52:23.07\00:52:29.41
ruler of all nature
00:52:29.44\00:52:35.95
O thou of God
00:52:35.98\00:52:40.92
and man the Son!
00:52:40.96\00:52:46.26
Thee will I cherish,
00:52:49.30\00:52:56.24
Thee will I honor
00:52:56.27\00:53:02.84
Thou art my glory,
00:53:02.88\00:53:07.45
joy, and crown
00:53:07.48\00:53:12.89
I'd rather have Jesus
00:53:17.36\00:53:23.57
than silver or gold
00:53:23.60\00:53:29.77
I'd rather have peace
00:53:29.80\00:53:34.58
than have riches untold
00:53:34.61\00:53:40.82
I'd rather have Jesus
00:53:40.85\00:53:47.59
than anything
00:53:47.62\00:53:52.99
This world
00:53:53.03\00:53:56.97
affords today
00:53:57.00\00:54:01.27
Than to be the king
00:54:04.41\00:54:09.74
of a vast domain
00:54:09.78\00:54:15.85
And be held
00:54:15.88\00:54:19.32
in sin's dread sway
00:54:19.35\00:54:23.59
I'd rather have Jesus
00:54:28.40\00:54:33.80
than anything
00:54:33.84\00:54:39.71
This world
00:54:39.74\00:54:44.05
affords today
00:54:44.08\00:54:48.88
Give me Jesus
00:54:52.95\00:54:59.19
Give me Jesus
00:54:59.23\00:55:05.67
You can have all this world
00:55:05.70\00:55:12.27
But give me Jesus
00:55:12.31\00:55:15.01
Give me Jesus
00:55:19.45\00:55:25.79
Give me Jesus
00:55:25.82\00:55:31.69
You may have
00:55:36.40\00:55:41.10
all this world
00:55:41.14\00:55:45.34
But give me Jesus
00:55:50.88\00:55:56.82
Oh, glory.
00:56:14.90\00:56:16.24
Praise the Lord. Thank you.
00:56:16.27\00:56:17.71
Oh, I love that song.
00:56:17.74\00:56:19.07
And I know it's a
blessing to each one of you,
00:56:19.11\00:56:21.21
you know, it talks
about fairest Lord Jesus,
00:56:21.24\00:56:23.01
and just give me Jesus.
00:56:23.04\00:56:25.11
I'm praying right
now as we come to a close
00:56:25.15\00:56:28.15
in 3ABN Worship Hour.
00:56:28.18\00:56:30.69
I pray that your
prayer is give me Jesus.
00:56:30.72\00:56:34.92
If that's all
you can pray today,
00:56:34.96\00:56:36.29
just give me Jesus.
00:56:36.32\00:56:37.79
I guarantee He'll
come into your life
00:56:37.83\00:56:39.23
in a very, very special way.
00:56:39.26\00:56:41.46
He wants to do
something great for you.
00:56:41.50\00:56:42.90
He wants you to be
saved in the kingdom,
00:56:42.93\00:56:44.90
He wants me to be there too.
00:56:44.93\00:56:46.27
He wants the whole world,
00:56:46.30\00:56:47.64
but we have to
give our life to Him.
00:56:47.67\00:56:49.40
Would you not do
that right now today?
00:56:49.44\00:56:50.77
I wanna pray for you.
00:56:50.81\00:56:52.14
And then I want you
to be praying for me too.
00:56:52.17\00:56:53.74
I'm gonna kneel right here,
00:56:53.78\00:56:55.11
just having a
quick closing prayer
00:56:55.14\00:56:56.48
that the Spirit
of the living God
00:56:56.51\00:56:57.85
would touch your heart
and teach your life right now.
00:56:57.88\00:57:01.52
Loving Father in heaven,
00:57:01.55\00:57:02.88
thank You for
Your precious Word.
00:57:02.92\00:57:04.25
Thank You for
the beautiful words
00:57:04.29\00:57:05.62
of this song.
00:57:05.65\00:57:06.99
Thank You for the love.
00:57:07.02\00:57:08.36
We thank You for Brother
Tim playing that piano so nice.
00:57:08.39\00:57:10.03
The gift that
You've given Sister Yvonne.
00:57:10.06\00:57:12.16
May these words and
music touch hearts and lives
00:57:12.19\00:57:14.66
and may they turn
them over to you today
00:57:14.70\00:57:16.93
is my prayer in Jesus' name.
00:57:16.97\00:57:18.53
Amen.
00:57:18.57\00:57:19.93
God bless each
and every one of you.
00:57:19.97\00:57:21.80
Thank you for
joining 3ABN Worship Hour.
00:57:21.84\00:57:23.87
And you know what?
00:57:23.91\00:57:25.24
In the very near future,
00:57:25.27\00:57:26.61
we look forward
to seeing you again.
00:57:26.64\00:57:28.58
God bless you.
00:57:28.61\00:57:29.94