Participants: Danny Shelton
Series Code: WOFP
Program Code: WOFP000007
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00:19 We bid you good evening and happy Sabbath
00:22 and welcome to this, 00:24 the sixth nightly service of the seventh service 00:28 in total and as such the penultimate service 00:30 in what has been really a wonderful week 00:32 of spiritual meetings, 00:34 powerful preaching and prayer 00:36 as we've gathered together to join with our world church 00:40 in our annual week of prayer and I'm hopping, 00:42 trying to put a little bug in Pastor Jim Gilley's ear 00:44 that we can make this an annual event 00:47 because it has been really a spiritual, 00:50 dare I say shot in the arm, a spiritual encouragement. 00:53 The preaching has been wonderful 00:55 and very, very powerful, very, very pointed. 00:57 On Sunday evening Shelley Quinn spoke to us from this desk, 01:02 followed by our president Jim Gilley on Monday, 01:05 and on Tuesday John Dinzey spoke, 01:08 our Pastor John Lomacang spoke on Wednesday, 01:11 I spoke on Thursday, 01:13 and tonight will be our founder Danny Shelton 01:16 and we're always encouraged. 01:17 He does not claim to be a preacher 01:19 and perhaps he is not, 01:20 but he is an excellent communicator of the word. 01:23 And we know that when he stands on this desk 01:26 he comes from his heart, 01:27 a heart anointed by the Holy Spirit, 01:29 so we expect a very, very fine message from him this evening 01:33 as we move throughout our night. 01:35 Each evening we have focused on a particular aspect 01:39 of the Christian walk 01:41 and made that the subject of our prayer for that evening. 01:45 Tonight we are going to focus on youth and youth ministry 01:49 and if there ever was a group of people 01:51 that needed prayer, it is our young people today. 01:54 I'd say this, it is tough being a young person 01:57 in this world today, 01:58 it is much tougher than it was when I was a child, 02:00 there are more ways to get sick, 02:02 more ways to get injured, 02:03 more ways to get hurt, and frankly more ways to die. 02:06 We live in a dangerous world 02:09 and young people are assaulted by so many, many things 02:13 that simply didn't exist 20 or so years ago 02:16 and we were coming along Pastor Jim, 02:18 and it's a dangerous world, 02:21 and so we want to pray for our young people 02:23 but also for all of those 02:25 who are involved in youth ministry 02:27 in your churches, 02:28 and on our college campuses, and at our academies. 02:32 We need to pray for the young people 02:34 who sit in those class seats. 02:36 But we also need to pray for the teachers 02:38 and I say this sincerely, teaching is ministry. 02:43 Teachers are ministers, they shape lives, 02:46 they form opinions, 02:48 they encourage our young people, 02:49 we give them into their hands six, seven hours a day, 02:52 and of course when they leave and go away to academy 02:55 or to college or university, 02:57 we turn them over to these teachers 02:59 and their minds are filled and encouraged, 03:01 sometimes discouraged by what they hear 03:04 in these class rooms. 03:05 So we not, need not only to pray for young people 03:09 but we need to pray for those 03:10 who are called to teach young people 03:12 from the Sabbath schools to the Pathfinders 03:15 to colleges to universities 03:17 because they truly are ministers 03:18 of the highest order 03:20 and it is quite true 03:21 that if you can get a young mind 03:22 locked on to Jesus early on, 03:24 you'll stand a good chance of Christ 03:26 holding on to that mind throughout the life 03:28 of that young person. 03:29 So would you now bow your heads with me as we pray? 03:34 Gracious Father, we praise You 03:37 and thank You for this Sabbath day 03:40 that has come upon us. 03:42 We thank You for our time of rest and respite, 03:45 a time when we can shut off 03:47 and shunt aside the cares of this world, 03:51 and concentrate for a little while 03:54 on the things of Jesus. 03:57 We thank you that we can sit 03:59 for little while in heavenly places 04:01 and muse over the goodness of God. 04:06 And we are thankful that when these hours come, 04:09 you draw divinely near us as we focus upon you. 04:15 So we thank you, Lord, 04:16 for the church and for the Sabbath. 04:19 Now, Lord, as we sit in this house 04:22 and as this broadcast goes around the world 04:25 and as we join 04:27 millions of others of our brothers and sisters 04:30 in a week of prayer and spiritual emphasis, 04:33 we pray dear Father 04:35 that Your Spirit may be the center 04:38 and circumference of all that we do 04:41 that our lives maybe knit with Jesus 04:43 that tonight as we take one more step 04:45 along that road to glory 04:47 that we will see a new Christ 04:50 and the soon coming kingdom, 04:52 but also that we maybe warned and prepared for the dangers 04:57 and the snares that Satan will surely send our way. 05:02 Give us spiritual eye sight and eye salve, 05:07 so that we can see things as they truly are. 05:10 In the universities and colleges of this world, 05:14 Lord, may Christ be lifted up along with the academics, 05:18 help us, Lord, to truly get wisdom 05:21 and to know that the fear of the Lord 05:24 is the beginning of that wisdom. 05:27 In the academies and classrooms for the younger ones, 05:30 oh, Lord Jesus, be with the teachers, 05:32 anoint them so that they don't train these young minds 05:36 to be skeptical of the things of God 05:38 but to accept the things of God 05:41 and to know that the word of God 05:42 is their all their strength and their sufficiency. 05:47 To the local Sabbath school teachers 05:49 and those who handle the cradle role 05:51 and the primary and the juniors and the youth 05:54 to those who are called to train these young lives 05:57 from Sabbath to Sabbath, from time to time, 06:00 oh, Lord give them a blessing 06:03 so that they may pass that blessing 06:05 on to these young lives, 06:07 to the pathfinder leaders, Lord, help them to do 06:12 all they can to train our young people to be useful, 06:16 to be service oriented, 06:18 to be shining lights for Jesus Christ. 06:22 Father, help these young minds to accept you very early 06:26 so that they can have the blessing of your presence 06:29 and power throughout those formative years 06:31 when characters are molded 06:33 and lives are shaped for eternity. 06:37 And now this night, dear Lord, 06:38 we ask that You would be with he 06:41 who has been called to speak a word to our hearts. 06:44 Anoint him so that he can speak the truth, the whole truth, 06:49 and nothing but the truth. 06:51 Bless him so that he may bless us, 06:55 teach him so that he may teach us, instruct him, 06:59 so that he may instruct us in righteousness as you lead. 07:03 Give us a good sitting this night 07:06 and prepare us for Sabbath morning 07:09 for the worship service on tomorrow 07:12 and we thank you, dear Lord, in Jesus' name. 07:15 Amen. 07:17 I would hasten to remind you that our prayer lines are open. 07:21 I think JD Quinn, the manager of our pastoral department 07:25 is on the receiving end of the calls this very night 07:29 and so should you want prayer, 07:31 if you have maybe a young person 07:32 who is on your heart, 07:34 on your mind, you can call JD 07:36 and pray with him 07:37 and he would be more than happy to do that. 07:41 As we have mentioned our speaker is Danny Shelton. 07:45 I don't know anybody 07:48 that I have met in all of these years 07:50 who can just stand before an audience 07:51 and come from his heart 07:53 and hold an audience spellbound. 07:54 God has given him that gift. 07:56 He is a gifted communicator. 07:59 He doesn't say preacher, I'll say it for him, 08:01 he's a preacher and a communicator of the word. 08:04 Tonight he wants to speak of the power of compromise 08:08 and I think that is a fitting subject 08:10 for this evening. 08:13 Pastor Lomacang touched on this last Sabbath 08:16 as we began our meetings, the idea, 08:18 and this has come back over and over again 08:19 during this week. 08:21 The idea that we must come back to the basic 08:24 and we use this term for the past few years, 08:26 pillars of our faith, 08:27 we must hold up those tenets of our faith 08:30 that has made us a unique people, 08:32 and those Satan is trying to creep 08:34 in many ways, many times with many ideas. 08:37 God's people must be awake 08:39 and alert to all of the wiles of the devil. 08:42 The cost, the price you pay 08:44 for being a child of God is vigilance. 08:47 You do not ever get to go to sleep. 08:50 You must always be awake 08:51 and on the battlefield for the Lord. 08:53 And so we expect a very fine message 08:56 from our founder Danny Shelton this night. 09:00 The music for this week 09:02 has come from the Pillars Hymns project 09:05 which was taped as has been mentioned so many times 09:07 on this particular stage on last year. 09:11 The song that we're going to hear tonight 09:14 is one that Danny did with a number of our young people. 09:17 It is a, it is a happy song. 09:19 It is a joyous song. 09:21 In fact the title is, "Tis Love that makes us Happy" 09:25 and after you shall have heard that particular piece of music, 09:28 the next voice you will hear will be that of our friend 09:32 and our founder Mr. Danny Shelton. 09:56 This world is full of sorrow 10:02 Of sickness, death and sin 10:07 With loving hearts, we'll do our part 10:12 And try some soul to win 10:17 And when this life is over 10:22 And we are called above 10:26 Our song shall be, eternally 10:33 Of Jesus and His love 10:40 God is love, we're His little children 10:47 God is love, we would be like Him 10:53 'Tis love that makes us happy 10:56 'Tis love that smoothes the way 11:00 It helps us mind, it makes us kind 11:03 To others every day 11:08 God is love, we're His little children 11:15 God is love, we would be like Him 11:21 'Tis love that makes us happy 11:25 'Tis love that smoothes the way 11:28 It helps us mind, it makes us kind 11:32 To others every day 11:34 All right, kids. 11:37 Praise Him, praise Him 11:40 All ye little children 11:43 God is love, God is love 11:50 Praise Him, praise Him 11:54 All ye little children 11:57 God is love 12:00 God is love 12:05 God is love, we're His little children 12:11 Sing with us. 12:12 God is love, we would be like Him 12:18 'Tis love that makes us happy 12:21 'Tis love that smoothes the way 12:25 It helps us mind, it makes us kind 12:28 To others every day 12:33 'Tis love that makes us happy 12:36 'Tis love that smoothes the way 12:40 It helps us mind, it makes us kind 12:43 To others every day 12:48 Praise Him, praise Him 12:50 All ye little children 12:56 Amen. Amen. 12:59 Thank you, kids. 13:00 Our children are absolutely, 13:02 I guess our most important commodity, isn't it? 13:04 Our most important asset 13:05 that we have for our church of tomorrow 13:08 and I want to talk to you tonight, 13:11 I have to be honest with you, just to begin with, 13:13 hope I'm honest with you about everything 13:15 but I'm saying, I'm gonna have to confession, 13:17 Rick Rockwell used to say, it's good for the soul 13:19 but hard on the reputation and mine is that normally, 13:24 let me finish what I'm about to say 13:25 before you laugh, 13:27 but normally when I go to churches, 13:28 I speak all around the world, 13:30 I don't take very much thought in what I'm gonna say 13:33 before I get up. 13:34 Some people say, yeah, I know it sounds like it, 13:36 I hope that's not the case, 13:38 what I mean by that is there are so many stories 13:40 over almost 28 years of 3ABN, 13:44 so many miracle stories, 13:45 so many stories of encouragement, 13:48 and I love to go encourage people 13:50 that God is alive and He is on the throne. 13:52 And then when He said, "Go ye into all world" 13:55 that He counted His resources in advance 13:57 and found that He is not wanting, 13:59 so I don't worry about. 14:00 I said, Lord, you let me say what the people need to hear. 14:04 And even if I don't say what I mean to say, 14:07 still let them hear what you want them to hear. 14:09 So I tell people, if you're coming here tonight 14:11 looking for a blessing, you'll find one. 14:14 If you're coming here to look over the speaker, 14:15 you're gonna say, he's shorter than I thought he was. 14:19 He's not that good looking either, 14:20 he's uglier than I thought, you'll say all kinds of things 14:23 'cause so tonight is my prayer 14:24 that we are all deeding in the spiritual 14:27 and not the physical. 14:28 So when we talked about this subject of 14:32 maybe doing something about with music or scripture, 14:35 music I said, you know, I really I'm not, 14:38 you know, I don't know, 14:40 let me think about it and pray about it. 14:41 So in the last couple of days I have spent hours studying, 14:45 Lord, what would You have me and I begin to type out 14:48 and I did something like 12 pages of notes. 14:51 Now I never speak with notes. 14:53 I mean, that is just, forget it, 14:54 I can't look down, I don't stop. 14:56 I guess if you speak 250 words 14:59 and meant it would gust up to 550, 15:01 it's hard to slow down enough to look at your notes. 15:04 So I hardly ever do that. 15:05 So, but I said I want to do it. 15:06 This is a great topic, 15:08 I'm finding so much information in the Bible 15:10 and checking a lot of things out on the internet 15:13 making all these, this is great. 15:15 A 15 minutes before I came over here, 15:17 I looked at all of that 15:19 and I said I'm gonna put this down. 15:20 There's no way I can go do all of that. 15:22 So now I said, Lord, 15:24 I think now I know what it means to be nervous. 15:26 See my dad always said me, even when I was a kid, 15:29 I get upfront to do something, 15:30 he'd say, "Son, don't you ever get nervous?" 15:33 I said, "No, am I supposed to?" 15:34 And he said, "I don't think you're all there," 15:36 he said, "I think something's missing." 15:38 He used to tell me, "Most people get nervous," 15:40 he said and I said, "Really? 15:41 Well, I didn't know I was supposed to get nervous." 15:45 But I kind of know that 15:46 and I do that sometimes when I sing 15:47 'cause I don't consider myself that greater singer. 15:50 But I'm usually comfortable upfront. 15:52 So I'm back here praying had several people, 15:54 Jim was in there and Shelley and JD, and Yvonne and CA, 15:59 everybody is praying so I said, 16:00 "Lord, let the people hear tonight 16:02 what you want them to hear." 16:04 But as I listened to these little children, 16:07 the devil is out to steal, kill, and to destroy. 16:11 We're aware of that, right? 16:12 The devil is out to steal, kill, and to destroy, 16:15 so nothing he has is good. 16:16 The Bible says we can enjoy the pleasures of sin 16:19 for a season 16:21 but that's all, you notice 16:22 that season is not very long usually. 16:24 We have seasons here about four of them 16:26 in Southern Illinois 16:27 and none of them seem to last that long, 16:30 and sometimes I'm glad the winter one doesn't. 16:32 But our children, 16:34 right now the devil is not only out to destroy us 16:36 but especially our young people 16:39 and he does it through myriads of ways 16:41 and one is music. 16:42 I won't go into all the music stuff tonight, 16:44 I might make a few quotes from some of those 16:46 but Pastor Lomacang has done an incredible series 16:49 on the power of music. 16:51 And tonight we're talking about the power of compromise, 16:54 the power of what music can do for good or for bad, 16:58 in the Bible music was used for joy, for happiness, 17:01 for sadness, for war, you name it 17:03 and there are scriptures all over. 17:05 I've found pages after pages 17:06 and I said, wow, this is incredible 17:09 what music can do to uplift the spirits 17:11 when a person's sad, I mean, you name it, 17:14 there is music and music plays a huge part. 17:17 Satan knows that, he was also the music coordinator 17:20 we'll call it in heaven, right? 17:21 And so knowing that, knowing all about music, 17:25 down now he is on this earth so he says, 17:27 how do I get these young people? 17:28 How do I get some of the older people? 17:30 So that's what he does, he creeps in. 17:33 Joe Crews wrote a book 17:35 called Creeping Compromise years ago 17:37 but Satan comes in to compromise. 17:39 Compromise means for those maybe young folk 17:42 who are listening, 17:43 it means when you give into something 17:45 and do something, 17:47 you know you shouldn't but it doesn't seem too bad 17:48 because everybody else around you is doing it. 17:51 Right? 17:52 That's kind of what it seems like, 17:53 you know, well, it's really not that bad, 17:55 but I want to tell you to begin with. 17:57 When we compromise, 17:58 the power of compromise does one thing, 18:00 it destroys you. 18:01 In the end it will destroy each and every one of us. 18:05 And, you know, this is next week is 18:07 literally the 28th anniversary 18:09 since the Lord impressed me to build a television station 18:12 to reach the world 18:13 with an undiluted three angels' messages, 18:15 one that would counteract the counterfeit. 18:18 And I've always said, Lord, I know it's the message 18:21 that's important. 18:22 And I believe God has blessed 3ABN over 28 years 18:25 because we have not compromised the message. 18:27 We're still focused on giving 18:29 an undiluted three angels' messages, 18:31 one that would counteract the counterfeit. 18:34 But as I look around us, I begin to wonder. 18:36 I said, "Lord, are we really doing that?" 18:39 We know Revelation 18 says, 18:41 talks about come out of her my people, right? 18:43 It talks about coming out of Babylon 18:45 and be a separated people, 18:47 and yet we're always looking at folks and other churches. 18:51 We're looking around, well, these folk, 18:52 they don't have the truths 18:53 and they're going to church Sunday 18:55 or they're doing whatever 18:56 and they really need to come out of that. 18:58 They need to accept all the truth. 19:00 And it used to concern me. 19:01 I said, "You know, over the years I'm so excited. 19:04 We have a television and radio ministry, 19:07 now the internet that can reach the world. 19:10 Reach hundreds and millions of people 19:12 if they choose to watch." 19:13 It's amazing the ministry that we have, 19:16 and I'm so excited about it, 19:17 I'd say, "Lord, why is it when I go places 19:19 people don't seem to be excited about the gospel the way 19:22 I remember when I was a child?" 19:24 We used to have these long prayer meetings, 19:27 now granted I'd rather be in home sometimes 19:29 but now I look back and say, praise the Lord 19:31 that the folks cared enough 19:32 to stay on their knees and pray. 19:34 I'm thankful that I had a father and a mother 19:37 who did not allow us to compromise. 19:40 I mean, no telling where I'd be today 19:42 if I was still alive, 19:43 but he had a deterrent for that, 19:45 it was called the bell. 19:46 I know that's not politically correct today 19:49 but usually what I wanted to do to compromise 19:52 when I looked in, 19:53 and I would weigh it in the balance, 19:54 I say, "You know what? 19:56 I better leave this one alone." 19:57 I'm thankful that I had parents 19:59 who loved me enough to make sure 20:01 that they put a safety net around. 20:03 I was in a safety net and, folks, 20:05 we need to do that with our children. 20:07 We need to embrace them, we need to let them feel secure 20:11 and know that they can trust us 20:13 that we're doing everything in our power, 20:15 in power in God's to see 20:18 that they make it to heaven. 20:20 I think it's absolutely incredible, 20:22 it's amazing that God has given us a tool 20:25 to reach the world, 20:27 but when I go to places and churches, 20:28 people don't seem as excited as they used to 20:31 when I was a child growing up 20:32 and we had seem like we were in church all the time. 20:35 Seem like there's always something going on 20:37 that we'd go to church and we loved it 20:39 'cause we got the fellowship, we had good time, 20:41 but we also saw the people like Mr. Micheff 20:44 who used to come down and Mrs. Micheff. 20:46 They'd pray sometimes, it seem like for eternity 20:48 when your kid is like get it over with, you know, 20:50 'cause I want to get home, I'm tired, 20:52 but now I'm thankful to know the people, 20:55 the generation before me that the power of prayer 20:58 and they believed and they saw what was coming, 21:01 they stuck to the word of God. 21:02 Now I say as Seventh-day Adventist 21:05 where are we in the media? 21:06 Where are we, 21:08 where's our excitement and our joy 21:10 about getting an undiluted three angels' messages 21:12 out to the world. 21:14 So I always, I've said for a number of years 21:16 are people ashamed 21:18 of the three angels messages' anymore? 21:20 Are we afraid that we might compromise? 21:22 Are we afraid we might offend somebody? 21:25 Maybe we're afraid we would offend somebody. 21:28 Why don't we want to get out the truth? 21:30 I mean, years ago we all we had was tents. 21:33 We could put up tents in towns or in our own little churches 21:36 or we could rent a red lines, red roof in, 21:39 or lines whatever they are and have a little meetings 21:41 and bring people. 21:42 Now we can reach millions and hundreds of millions. 21:45 People walk into our churches 21:47 and they'll call us many times and say, 21:49 "You now, 3ABN depict what I see on there 21:51 is not what I see in the churches." 21:54 People aren't excited about the message 21:57 and I'm wondering, "Lord, why? 21:59 Why is it?" 22:00 And I tell people, you know, they say, well, we don't, 22:02 well, I was in a church, 22:04 I won't tell you where, it was a church. 22:06 And when I went there, the elder, 22:07 I don't do this anymore, 22:08 I used to stay at people's homes 22:10 and now it says, it's worth 22:11 80 or 90 bucks staying in hotel sometime, 22:13 I won't get into all the reasons why 22:14 but you stay in different people's home 22:16 and a lot of people have agendas for you 22:18 and you're there and you're traveling, 22:19 so they wanted me to stay in their homes so I did. 22:22 They are nice people 22:23 so I stayed there in their home. 22:25 At night the elder said, 22:26 "Look, I want to talk to you just a little bit. 22:28 We have our church is split. 22:30 We have a problem, our church is split, 22:32 and I want you, maybe you could help us with this." 22:35 I said, "What's the problem?" 22:37 "Well, the problem is this, there are a lot, 22:39 there are people in the church who want to pass out. 22:42 They want to get a lot of the great controversies 22:45 and go door to door in this area." 22:46 And I said, "Oh, what do you think about that?" 22:48 "Oh, no, no I am not for that." 22:50 I said, "Why?" 22:51 He said, "Lot of the people up here, 22:53 we're in the North, there is a lot of Catholics 22:55 and a lot of Lutherans 22:56 and I'm afraid we'll offend them, 22:58 we're their neighbors right here, 22:59 the church all around this neighborhood 23:01 and we work with these people, 23:02 we don't want to offend these people." 23:04 And I said, "Well, then how do you, 23:06 do you believe that then we have truth 23:08 that they need to hear 23:10 in the closing moments of earth's history? 23:11 Do we have light to give to them?" 23:14 "Oh, absolutely." 23:15 I said, "Well, how do you suggest 23:17 getting the message to him?" 23:18 "Oh," he said, "let me tell you, 23:20 he said, I believe in love and the people in." 23:23 I have always believed in love and the people into the church. 23:25 That's the way to do it. 23:27 These books and going out like this, 23:28 he said, "This doesn't do any good. 23:30 It turns people off. 23:31 It get's them upset at you, 23:33 but I just love people in the church. 23:35 He said. "Would you put in word a tomorrow, 23:36 somewhere don't let anybody know I told you, 23:38 but just kind of, you find a way 23:40 to bring it up and kind of, you know, 23:41 let people know how you feel." 23:43 Suddenly I felt that way and I didn't even, 23:45 I didn't even tell him so, so I said, 23:47 "Well, I tell you what," I said, 23:49 "I think that's a good idea. 23:50 I'll do that," I said, "I'm all for loving people. 23:53 I think that's great. 23:54 But I do need to ask you a question or two." 23:57 "Okay, so what's that?" 23:59 I said, "Now how long have you been 24:00 a member of this church?" 24:02 "Oh, I've been a member since 19, 24:03 it was 1940 some odd since then, 50-60 years." 24:07 "I said, "Wow, basically all your life 24:09 you've been a member of this church." 24:10 "Oh, yes, sir." 24:12 And I said, "Is it always been your method 24:14 to love people in the church, 24:16 rather than to pass out books or hold meetings and, 24:18 you know, send stuff in the mail?" 24:20 "Oh, yeah, yeah." 24:21 I said, "I know the figures are astronomical, 24:23 but how many people have you loved into the church 24:26 since you've been here all your life?" 24:30 "Oh." 24:32 His wife said, "Well, remember, honey, 24:33 about 10 years ago we had a family 24:35 that came for a while 24:37 that you talked to, well, they didn't stay, 24:39 they didn't get baptized or anything." 24:41 And I said, "You're telling me that your way of loving people 24:44 into the church for 60 years, you haven't seen any results?" 24:48 "Well, I don't look at it that way." 24:50 I said, "You know what? I'm for the other side. 24:51 I don't care what they're doing and what they're passing out, 24:54 anything is better than that. 24:56 Did you know if you try to start a club right now 24:58 and said this club is exclusive, 25:00 we're accepting no new members? 25:02 Over 60 years you would. 25:03 People would demand to be in, right? 25:06 You couldn't keep them out if you want, 25:07 but in church we say that and nobody comes in. 25:10 Well, I believe in love in people too. 25:12 I believe that we need to love them enough 25:14 to give them the message." 25:16 A lady called me years ago, she said, 25:19 "They said she will and she has to talk to you. 25:21 She wants to talk to Danny." 25:23 I said, "She'd been watching Revelation seminar." 25:26 She said, "I'm so excited, 25:28 I am so excited about this Revelation seminar," 25:30 she said, "I have been a Catholic all my life," 25:33 and she said, "I have learnt so many truths 25:37 that I want to join the Adventist church 25:39 but my problem is, I'm older, I'm in a wheelchair, 25:42 I can't really get out much," 25:44 but she said, "I'm so excited about these truths that I just, 25:48 I'm frustrated at the same time." 25:50 She said, "In fact, I'm holding hard feelings 25:52 against my neighbors." 25:54 And I said, "Uh-oh." 25:55 I pictured the neighbor's dog right going over something 25:58 in her yard and she said, "I'm upset at my neighbors, 26:01 I'm holding hard feelings." 26:02 And I said, 26:04 "You don't have to worry about things like that," 26:06 I said, "the Lord can help you overcome that." 26:08 She said, "No, my neighbors are Seventh-day Adventist." 26:12 I said, "Uh-oh." So I said, "Yes." 26:15 And she said, "Can I tell you what I'm offended about?" 26:20 And I said, "Well, you don't have to, 26:21 I'm thinking of her background where she's coming from." 26:24 She said, "I want to get over, I want to get over 26:26 but I'm very much upset right now 26:29 and I'm holding hard feelings." 26:30 She said, "I have been best friends. 26:32 These neighbors have been best friend of mine 26:33 for 20 plus years." 26:35 And she said, "For the last 10 or 12 years 26:37 I can't even get my groceries, 26:39 they go to town and buy my groceries, 26:41 they bring them over to me, they are friendly to me, 26:44 they are kind to me, but I never... 26:47 They all of these 20, I think it's 24 years, 26:49 they never loved me enough to tell me the truth." 26:54 She said, "They," and now she said, 26:56 "Do you realize if I had learned this truth 26:58 20 some years ago, 27:00 I was young enough and healthy enough, 27:02 I'd been up and down every street 27:03 knocking on doors telling people about Jesus 27:06 and the truths that I have learned 27:09 in the Seventh-day Adventist church." 27:11 You see, folks, we're afraid to get the message out. 27:15 And I've told people before. 27:16 I said let's say this, Jim and Camille, 27:17 they are my neighbor and Johns and Angies 27:19 are neighbors on the other side. 27:22 3 o'clock in the morning Angie wakes up 27:24 and goes to get a drink. 27:26 Are you with me now? 27:27 She looks out of her window, she sees smoke and flames 27:30 coming out of Jim Gilley's roof. 27:33 So she runs to the bedroom, she says, 27:38 "John, come here quick, look, I see flames 27:41 coming out of Jim and Camille's roof, 27:43 out of the shingles, it's up there, 27:44 I don't see Jim and Camille outside, 27:46 there's no fire engines, maybe they are asleep, 27:49 they don't even know it." 27:50 So John comes lazily to the window 27:52 and he looks out and he says, "What do you want me to do?" 27:56 "Call Jim and Camille, 27:57 let them know their house is on fire." 27:59 He says, "Angie, it's 3 o'clock in the morning, 28:03 I'm not going to, you think I would offend them 28:06 if I call them at 3 o'clock in the morning, 28:08 they are sleeping." 28:09 Now, we laugh at that, right? 28:11 We laugh at that but that's what we do 28:13 with people's soul all the time? 28:15 Come on, am I telling the truth? 28:17 We do that with their souls all the time. 28:19 Well, we don't want to wake them up. 28:21 We don't want to tell them the truth 28:22 because we don't want them to be angry at us. 28:26 We don't want them to be angry at us. 28:27 Shall I quit now? Is that enough? 28:29 You heard enough, I'll go on. 28:31 I'll tell you why this concerns me. 28:32 Over the years I've been very concerned 28:36 that we as Adventists seem to be losing 28:39 and here we have more technology 28:41 than we ever had, 28:42 and as Christians we're losing our love, 28:45 our first love for Jesus 28:47 and our desire to go tell the world 28:49 that Jesus is coming. 28:51 See, Satan's knows 28:52 that if he can get within our ranks as Christians, 28:56 not just Seventh-day Adventists, 28:57 for all of you watching, Christians, 28:58 if he can get within our ranks, 29:00 then he can cause us to compromise to fall asleep 29:04 or to give in because of the certain pressures 29:07 that he has us. 29:08 We don't have to go out suddenly 29:10 do all these bad things 29:11 and go into drugs and do all this. 29:13 All he wants to do is put us asleep, right? 29:16 And if he puts us to sleep, 29:18 guess who else will fall asleep? 29:19 Our children. 29:21 So we all have to be on the alert 29:23 that Satan is out to steal, kill, and to destroy. 29:26 He wants our children 29:28 but he's gonna start within the church. 29:30 There are so many things that I'm amazed at parents 29:33 that when you, it comes to getting Bible tools 29:37 in their hands, CDs, DVDs 29:40 like these that are giving the truths, 29:42 Brenda Walsh's bed time stories, you know, 29:45 the Kids Time and Tiny Tots DVDs 29:49 and all of this material available. 29:51 I've actually had parents say, 29:52 "Boy, I'd like to get some of that stuff 29:54 and send to my grandkids, but it's pretty expensive." 29:59 And the grandson is over here with an iPhone, 30:01 eight years old and he is sitting." 30:03 And so I asked one lady 30:05 but I won't tell you where out west, 30:06 I said wow, I said to kid, 30:08 "Wow, son, that's a nice iPhone, 30:10 where did you get that?" 30:11 He said, "Oh, grandma brought it for me." 30:13 He looked up and smiled and I said, 30:14 "Now grandma was just telling me 30:16 that she couldn't afford to buy any of these CDs and DVDs, 30:20 was wondering if we would even give some to her." 30:23 And I said, "Now wait a minute she can afford an iPhone," 30:25 that see people, my dad used to say this, Jim, 30:27 "People do what they want to do." 30:30 My mother would be talking on the phone right here 30:33 and we have party lines backed in too, 30:35 but I hear my mother on the phone. 30:37 She would be talking to somebody. 30:39 And one day I happen to come through, 30:40 I was probably about 12 years old, 30:42 come through the house and my mother said, 30:44 "Yeah, you know, I wanted to go to that funeral, 30:46 yeah, I knew those folks, I wanted to go to that, 30:49 but, you know, I was just so busy, 30:50 I just, I couldn't make it." 30:53 So she hung up. 30:54 My dad said, "Honey, I want to talk to you about something." 30:56 He said, "Now you told the person 30:58 that you couldn't go to that funeral." 31:00 She said, "Well, you know, I was so busy." 31:01 He said, "Honey, we had a car and we got gas 31:05 and it's only a mile from here 31:07 and there was nothing you had to do. 31:08 I'm here with the kids. 31:09 You could have gone, if you really wanted to." 31:11 So he said, "I'm just bringing." 31:13 She said, "Well, I never really though about it." 31:15 He said, "I want to tell you something, 31:17 people do what they want to do." 31:19 : If you love Jesus, 31:20 you are gonna get the gospel to the world. 31:22 But my concern is now that we wake up 31:24 because see I used to be concerned 31:26 as I said earlier that people in our church, 31:30 that maybe we're, you know, we say we're bashful. 31:33 Oh, well, I'm too shy. 31:35 I can't really, Danny, you can talk. 31:37 Boy, you get up and talk and, you know, John, 31:40 you can sing and, you know, Shelley, you can do this 31:43 and, Jim, all these people, you all can do this 31:45 but I'm just too bashful. 31:46 I was at another folk's house and they said, they said to me, 31:51 we went to dinner, they had a beautiful home 31:53 and we went to lunch at their house 31:56 and I was talking about sharing the gospel 31:57 and the guy said, you know, 31:59 I want to let you know something. 32:00 Now I give money but I can't talk. 32:03 He said I have no gift for talking, he said, 32:06 I just can't communicate, I'm not good 32:08 but I know what I do as I send money to 3ABN, 32:11 I pay tithes to our church and that's what I do. 32:14 And I said, "Really?" I said, "You can't talk." 32:15 And he said, "No, I don't have the gift for it." 32:18 And I said, "Man, this is a beautiful house." 32:20 He said, "Oh, yeah, it is." He said, "Thank you so much." 32:23 And I said, "Did you build it?" "No, we bought it." 32:25 I said, "How long you had it?" "Oh, just couple of years." 32:27 I said, "Wow, it's great." 32:28 And he said, "Man, we got a deal on it too." 32:30 He said, "Do you know economy is going down, 32:32 we jumped on this thing, I was out in California, 32:35 price has gone way down." 32:36 And I said, "Oh, great, I said, who negotiated it for you?" 32:40 He said, "What?" 32:41 I said, "Who bought it for you?" 32:42 "Oh, I did." 32:44 I said, "Oh, I thought you told me you couldn't talk. 32:45 You couldn't talk. 32:47 You're not a good communicator." 32:48 Now he was telling me how good a deal 32:50 he got on his house. 32:51 People do what they... 32:53 I think I'll change the title of this. 32:54 People do what they want to do, right? 32:56 Forget the other title. 32:57 People do what they want to do, 32:59 'cause that's exactly what we do. 33:01 We do exactly what we want to do, 33:02 where our treasure is, their our heart is also, 33:05 isn't that what the Bible says? 33:07 So I've been concerned over the last few years, 33:10 as Adventists are we ashamed of the gospel? 33:14 There's excuse that we're afraid 33:16 that we're gonna offend somebody, what is it? 33:18 But after the last few months and the last several weeks 33:21 and I'm hesitant to get into this, 33:23 and I'm glad as I was traveling the other night, 33:25 I turned on the radio and I heard John Lomacang, 33:27 I heard you, John, I was almost in way 33:29 to going to Paducah, 33:30 I was actually going to Nashville, 33:32 the signal got real good down there, Jim, 33:33 I was way down by Vienna could still hear 3ABN 33:36 and I heard John say, 33:38 now you know I don't want to get into politics 33:40 but I guess after the election it's okay, 33:42 I can say I didn't vote. 33:44 And so I said, okay, all right, John, that's all right. 33:47 He said, I made up my mind that, you know, 33:50 I'm gonna worry about serving the Lord 33:51 and not get into all this other stuff, 33:54 but it's been concerning me in the last several months 33:57 especially as I see Seventh-day Adventists 34:00 and other Christians around the world 34:02 and I say, you know, what is Satan doing right now 34:06 for the power of compromise. 34:07 I see compromise all over 34:10 because of an election for instance, 34:12 we can name anything but we all, 34:14 I think we all are glad it's over. 34:16 Aren't we glad the election is over? 34:18 Anybody not, I'm gonna check and see if you're okay. 34:20 I'm gonna have you checked out. 34:22 But news and everything else took a back table 34:27 to the election 34:28 'cause that's all we would get 24x7, 34:31 but I began to wonder, I said, you know what? 34:34 I'm wondering, we're telling people, 34:36 giving them the three angels' messages 34:38 and calling them out of Babylon, 34:40 but it really concern me. 34:41 Now, I'm not so concerned as about, 34:44 the question isn't just, well, are people, 34:46 are we too bashful to get the gospel out, 34:49 the three angels' messages to the world, 34:51 to call people out of Babylon. 34:52 Are we afraid that we will offend them? 34:54 Now, yes, I'm afraid, shouldn't use the word afraid, 34:57 but I'm very much concerned that many of us are in Babylon 35:01 and need to be called out ourselves. 35:04 We always think about calling everybody else 35:06 out of Babylon to our side, 35:08 but many of us have been caught up in Babylon ourselves 35:11 and the sad part is just like everybody else 35:14 we don't know it. 35:15 That's why we're gonna have to be close to Jesus, folks. 35:18 If we don't want to compromise, we've got to be close to Jesus 35:22 and ask the Lord, 35:23 Lord, keep us nothing between me and you. 35:27 There's this song "Nothing between You and Me, 35:29 " nothing between me and you, Lord. 35:31 And we have to keep focused on the word of God. 35:33 We cannot allow anything to cause us 35:37 and I'm so amazed to see division, 35:39 a house divided against itself can't stand, is that right? 35:42 It will fall. 35:44 And I saw not only within our church, 35:46 all kinds of churches divisions 'cause some of them said, 35:48 well, I'm Democrats and they'd go to church 35:50 and some of the preachers were saying, 35:52 we got to get in President Obama. 35:53 Then I saw others say, you know, we don't want that, 35:56 I'm a Republican, we've got to get in, 35:57 we've got to get in Mitt Romney, 35:59 and within churches there's no room for that 36:02 to say go to this side and go to this side 36:04 and try to get divided among ourselves 36:07 because we don't serve President Obama, 36:09 we don't serve Mitt Romney, 36:10 we serve the Lord Jesus Christ, right? 36:13 We serve the creator of heaven and earth 36:15 and our allegiance has to go to Him. 36:17 So, John, I like you, I will confess this time 36:19 I didn't vote. 36:21 Now, I vote a lot of times, now I haven't always voted 36:24 but I said, you know what? 36:25 I don't think I want to do that this time. 36:27 It's amazing to me, and I want to ask you a question 36:29 and here's where for some of you at home 36:31 have a little patience, try not to be offended 36:34 because what I'm saying I want to do it in love 36:37 and I'm not judging anybody. 36:38 I'm not a judge. 36:40 And so you think about your own life 36:42 and your relationship with the Lord, 36:44 and so you and God work all this out, 36:47 but questions I have to ask myself. 36:50 And so, as I speak here tonight, 36:52 I mean, I'm trying to do everything 36:54 that I do with love, 36:55 as I told you I wasn't sure which direction I'm going, 36:57 but as I sense that direction, then I want to go with it, 37:01 but I want you to know that I'm not judging anybody, 37:03 but I want you to ask yourself some questions. 37:06 Twenty eight years ago, 37:07 I was impressed to build a television station 37:09 to reach the world. 37:10 Now, 28 years ago 37:13 if someone had come to your church 37:16 and a pastor was upfront and he said, 37:18 we're gonna have someone running 37:20 doesn't make any deference what party, 37:21 whether it's Democrat, Republican, independent, 37:24 and we're gonna have somebody running 37:26 for president of the United States of America 37:30 and we have a party 37:31 who endorses same sex marriage and abortion. 37:35 Now, how many of you Christians are gonna vote for them? 37:39 Twenty eight years ago, 37:40 do you think any hands would have gone up? 37:42 Oh, boy, they got quiet on me now. 37:45 They got quiet on me now. 37:47 What I'm trying to say to you, again now, 37:49 don't get all excited. 37:50 Somebody is saying amen, this guy is all for, 37:52 you know, Romney, no, 37:54 I'm gonna go the other side here in just a minute. 37:56 Gonna bring the balance 'cause I'm not serving people, 37:58 we're gonna serve God. 38:00 I'm glad John took the leadership here to say, 38:01 we're gonna serve God and I'm gonna do that too. 38:03 I'm doing it for a reason. 38:05 Again think about the changes, what has changed. 38:09 A hundred years ago do you think 38:11 that we would have elected somebody 38:15 who stood up and said, 38:16 "I believe in same sex marriage at a party." 38:19 We believe in the same sex marriage 38:21 and we believe in abortion. 38:23 Would we have done it? What's changed? 38:26 Did God change? Did He change His law? 38:30 Well, who's changed? 38:32 Did we change? 38:34 What is it that, how did we change? 38:36 Because how do we go from seeing it to, 38:39 I'm sure it would have got gasp, 38:40 even 28 years ago. 38:42 What? You got to be kidding me. 38:44 Nobody would run for president, 38:46 no party would endorse that, right? 38:49 Well, 28 years ago, 38:50 let me ask you another question. 38:52 How many of you sitting here 28 years ago, 38:55 if somebody said, you know, 38:57 we've got a Mormon that's running 38:58 and God loves people and has people in all churches. 39:00 I'm not trying to run anybody down tonight. 39:02 I'm gonna make some statements. 39:03 We've got, there's gonna be Mormon running 39:05 for president of the United States. 39:07 You have a Catholic vice-president, 39:09 gonna be a Mormon. 39:10 And how many of you would vote 28 years ago? 39:13 How many of you Christians, you Adventists, 39:15 you others would vote to have a Mormon? 39:17 Now, keeping in mind that Mormons don't believe 39:20 like much of the rest of Protestants and Christians, 39:24 even Catholics about salvation for one thing, 39:28 they believe and I'm not name calling tonight. 39:30 I've done my homework on this. 39:32 They believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers. 39:36 Hello? 39:38 Somebody with me? 39:40 They believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers. 39:43 They do not believe 39:44 because they believe Jesus was a created being also. 39:47 If He is created and He created the devil, 39:49 makes sense that they are brothers. 39:51 They do not believe that we're saved by grace. 39:55 No? 39:57 You have to read the Book of Mormons 39:58 and see what Joseph Smith has to say about it 40:01 and he has a long list of things 40:03 very similar to what you might read. 40:05 Well, he has his own list of things, 40:08 so 28 years ago somebody came in and said, 40:10 "Hey, wow, we got our Mormons running for president. 40:13 We got a Catholic that's gonna be vice president. 40:16 How many of us are gonna vote for him? 40:18 How many hands you think you'd see going up 40:20 especially in an Adventist church? 40:23 Hello? Not very many, would you? 40:26 And yet today we have done it. We are doing both sides. 40:31 Now again, I'm not gonna judge you 40:32 for what you're doing, 40:34 I just want you to think about what's already passed. 40:36 I wouldn't have said this before the election 40:38 because I don't really get up here 40:40 and I don't have a platform so I don't have an agenda. 40:42 The election is over but there's another one coming, 40:44 should the Lord tarry? 40:46 There's another one coming 40:47 and we have to decide whose side are we on? 40:50 Some people say, well, you know, I don't, 40:53 and especially if we're talking to our Adventist folk, 40:56 well, you know, I don't agree with everything that these, 40:59 this side, you know, 41:00 for instance let's start with the Democrats, 41:01 I don't agree with everything, 41:03 of course I don't agree with same sex marriage, 41:04 of course I don't believe in abortion 41:06 but, you know, hey, it's the best of two evils. 41:09 So I'm gonna vote for that. 41:15 I mean, think about that, so well, it's here, 41:17 so, you say wait a minute, what did somebody just say? 41:20 What are we saying? 41:22 So I had to question myself 'cause I thought about it, 41:24 what should I do? 41:26 What should I do here? 41:27 People said to me, it's un-American not to vote. 41:31 Hello? Anybody else heard that? 41:33 Some people said, well, people fought and died 41:35 so that you have a right to vote. 41:37 And I said, well, you know that's true, 41:39 but let's say that the city of West Frankfort, God forbid, 41:43 the city of West Frankfort 41:44 decides that they're going to bring in a strip joint. 41:47 Now two different strip joints want to come in. 41:49 They are gonna give a license for one. 41:52 So two different strip joints want to come 41:54 and be get that one license. 41:57 Now the city has to take a vote. 41:59 Which one are you gonna vote for? 42:01 Which strip joints are you gonna vote for? 42:04 Hello? 42:05 Isn't there somebody with me or am I by myself on this? 42:09 Am I by myself because see what happens is, 42:11 there comes a point in time 42:13 that we have to forget what our culture is, 42:15 we have to forget what our background is, 42:17 where we have been raised, all of these things 42:19 and say how does it line up with the Bible? 42:21 If it lines up with the Bible, I'm gonna do it. 42:24 I also, people lived and died 42:26 for this freedom in America that says, 42:28 if I don't choose to vote this time, 42:30 I don't have to. 42:31 Hello? Am I, somebody still with me? 42:34 Isn't that true? I don't have to. 42:36 So what I'm saying is, I'm not here dogging anybody, 42:39 if you voted that's fine. 42:40 You voted for Romney, you voted for Obama, 42:43 whoever you voted for, if you didn't vote at all, 42:46 it's between you and God, 42:47 but I want us to think about the bigger picture. 42:51 The bigger picture is this, Satan is coming in, 42:56 seeking those that he can destroy. 42:59 He's coming in all kinds of doors, 43:02 coming in and dividing 43:04 and conquering is what he is doing. 43:07 Now, if Jesus is coming back 43:09 for a purified bride and a purified church 43:12 and I'm gonna talk about, 43:13 I know God has people in all churches. 43:15 We're in a peck of trouble right now. 43:18 We're in a peck of trouble, folks, 43:20 because the world doesn't see as us any different 43:23 than they are. 43:25 The world doesn't see us 43:26 in most things any different than they are. 43:28 Us as Seventh-day Adventist Christians, 43:30 we tell people when they learn the truths 43:33 of the fourth commandment and God's Sabbath, 43:35 the commandments haven't been done away with, 43:37 come out of her, my people. 43:38 You have to separate yourselves from that, 43:41 but when it comes to us if it's a political thing, 43:43 we say, well, you know, I'm gonna go ahead 43:45 and go with this one. 43:47 Well, why don't we come out ourselves? 43:48 See, the Lord wants us to come out 43:51 and literally it's about who am I gonna serve? 43:54 That's all this whole thing is about, folks. 43:57 Who are we gonna serve? 43:58 Satan is out to steal, kill, and to destroy. 44:01 He wants our children, 44:02 but he's going to work to get those children through us. 44:06 We have no idea when I began to look 44:08 into this some weeks ago. 44:10 I have been amazed, amazed at what is going on 44:14 under the table 44:17 to take our children away from us. 44:19 It's amazing. 44:21 I'm gonna give you 44:22 just a little bit of a sample right now. 44:24 So again, God loves everybody and so do I, 44:29 no matter what you are, I don't care what you are. 44:31 We are all sinners saved by grace, 44:33 so I'm no better off than you are, 44:35 and you're no better off than I am. 44:37 And yes, we, you know, we teach against, 44:39 we talk about taking care of our bodies and, of course, 44:41 we talk about to abstain from alcohol and tobacco 44:46 and do these things and live right 44:48 and healthy before God, 44:49 of course, we want to do that. 44:51 If you're doing those things, involved in drugs 44:53 or you're a thief or whatever, guess what? 44:55 Come under me all ye that are heavy laden 44:56 and I will give you rest. 44:58 See the church is a place, should be a place of hospital 45:01 for the sinners, right? 45:02 They come in where people don't condemn you 45:04 but people love you, so we want you to come in, 45:07 but still on the order hand 45:08 this has been one of the problems 45:10 that we have with standing up 45:11 'cause we are afraid if we say something, 45:13 we'll offend somebody, but it occurred to me, 45:16 it occurred to me that Satan's folks, 45:19 the folks that he's using to literally bring wickedness 45:24 and perversion on this nation 45:25 and now voted into law same as sex marriage 45:29 voted into law, 45:31 those people are working as though 45:33 there are no tomorrow, 45:34 and the Christians are working 45:36 as though Jesus is not coming for a 1000 years. 45:39 There's something wrong with that. 45:41 There's something wrong with that picture. 45:42 We should be out there. 45:44 These people only a minority of people 45:47 are changing the whole nation. 45:50 Now, let me tell you what happened. 45:52 I'll go into this and again God loves all people, 45:55 I wouldn't even mention the fellow's name 45:59 if he doesn't mentioned it himself 46:01 and has his own website, you can find out about him, 46:03 but in 2009 President Obama appointed Kevin Jennings. 46:08 You can look him up on the internet, 46:10 Kevin Jennings to give you a little bit of his background. 46:13 He appointed him as the assistant deputy 46:16 of secretary of our school systems. 46:20 Kevin is, was the literally 46:23 the CEO of a group called GLSEN. 46:28 It says he is the founder 46:30 and until recently the president of the gay, 46:32 lesbian, straight educational network, 46:35 G-L-S-E-N, 46:37 a nation's leading homosexual pressure group 46:41 working to meet homosexuals propaganda 46:44 to insert homosexual propaganda into America's public schools. 46:49 In three years, two years time he only stayed in 46:52 for two years, he's no longer in there 46:56 because he chose to leave 46:57 not 'cause we all kicked him out 46:58 but he started from 300 gay and homosexual groups 47:04 in our public schools 47:05 all the way as early as middle school, 47:07 from 300 he took it up 47:09 with government funding to over 4000. 47:12 4000 homosexual groups 47:15 and they take the gay and lesbian teachers 47:17 and teach them how to train the young people 47:20 that homosexuality is normal. 47:22 That shame on anybody who says anything about it. 47:25 So they put him in charge of safe 47:27 where of course it comes under the title of bullying 47:30 and what we have and we shouldn't bully people. 47:31 I'm all for that. 47:33 But we shouldn't, we should not sit 47:36 by while people are stealing our children, 47:39 while they are perverting our children 47:41 because guess what's happened? 47:42 See, Sodom and Gomorrah, we know that story, 47:45 we know that story, things got so bad 47:47 that when two angels came into the city, 47:49 Lot took them to their house. 47:50 It says the men old and young surrounded their house 47:54 demanded him to bring this men out 47:57 so we can have them. 47:58 Men, and young and old, it got so bad 48:01 and they were so bold about it and when Lot said, 48:04 "No, I'll give you my daughters." 48:06 They said, "How dare you speak of this, 48:08 you're a foreigner." 48:10 You know what? 48:11 If you're gonna be like that, 48:12 we'll do you worst than we're gonna do to them. 48:14 Now turn them loose. 48:16 These people were literally, 48:18 literally out full of the devil, 48:22 that's all I'm gonna say, they were possessed. 48:24 Now what we're trying to say and what I'm trying to say is, 48:27 folks, there's things going on undercover 48:29 that we don't even know about, that's probably bad term. 48:31 I wish this weren't alive, 48:33 I take that word, last line out. 48:35 Don't think about it. 48:36 There's things going under the table, 48:37 it shouldn't be going under, right? 48:39 There's things that are happening 48:41 and compromises 48:42 that our government leaders are making 48:44 with all of these anti God groups 48:46 and anti Bible groups in order to get their vote 48:50 because they know they'll stand up and work 48:52 like crazy to help them get elected 48:55 and to stay in office 48:56 and what are you and me doing about it? 48:58 Not every much, 48:59 we don't even know what's going on. 49:01 So what I'm saying to you today is this. 49:03 Now, while I've said that, 49:04 I know some of you gonna be upset, 49:05 some of you don't like it, but I don't think 49:08 and I didn't really want to get up and do this, 49:10 but I don't think I can live with myself 49:12 if I don't stand up tonight 49:14 because we're talking about our children. 49:16 We're talking about we as a church. 49:18 We're talking about 49:19 the undiluted three angels' messages, 49:21 one that would counteract the counterfeit. 49:23 And this should be a wake up call, 49:25 what has happened in these elections 49:27 on both sides, 49:28 what's happening within our government 49:30 to destroy our children's minds should be a wake up call 49:34 that Jesus is coming very soon. 49:36 Jesus is coming very soon 49:38 I really believe this is the end of the end. 49:41 I believe that what's happening in the next four years. 49:44 Now we also have to look down the future 49:47 when we look at prophecy 49:48 we realize there's gonna be an organization 49:50 that's gonna come up 49:52 and this correlation is gonna come up, 49:53 and I don't have time 49:55 and I'll let the preachers talk about apostate Protestantism 49:58 and you can call 3ABN, I'm sure we have information on it. 50:02 You can find out all kinds of information 50:05 because it's out there 50:07 that all of these groups and we can't, 50:09 I don't believe that we can... 50:10 This is time that we should spend allegiance, 50:12 or give allegiance to any of this folk. 50:14 I think that our allegiance 50:16 should be to the Lord Jesus Christ, 50:18 and I believe as hard as it is to get up and say something, 50:21 we need to do it. 50:23 I think if we, if God gives us a tool 50:27 to reach the whole world just 3ABN a tool literally... 50:33 You think about it, if you've never been here, 50:35 what's been a cornfield, 50:37 what was farming property for years. 50:39 We can send signals around the world to millions 50:42 and I'm told even billions of people. 50:45 God gives us that kind of tool 50:47 and then we for whatever reasons say, 50:50 well, we better not talk about these things, 50:52 people will be offended. 50:54 The one thing that I've learned, 50:55 in America you can pretty well say anything 50:57 you want to say, right? 50:59 If these people can get up and teach and say 51:01 all the ungodly things they say, 51:03 how much more should you and me as Christians 51:06 and as Adventist Christians 51:07 stand up and say what we believe. 51:09 Our time is short, 51:11 we won't be able to do this forever. 51:12 While God has this door open for us, folks, 51:15 we need to take advantage of it. 51:17 Do not be ashamed of the gospel of Christ 51:19 for as the power of God unto salvation 51:21 to everyone that believeth. 51:23 So that is you and me today. 51:24 so in closing as we're winding down 51:26 the last few minutes, 51:27 I just want you to think about your own life. 51:29 I hope what I've said has not been offensive. 51:32 Some of you, if you're upset 51:33 of what I'm saying some of these things, 51:35 I would challenge you with the Bible. 51:37 If you want to call, please, don't call 51:38 and leave a message and say, 51:40 "Danny shouldn't have said this, 51:41 or he shouldn't have said that, 51:43 or shouldn't have talked about this organization, 51:45 or about politics in any way about who to vote for or not." 51:49 Because I didn't offer you who to vote, did I? 51:51 I didn't tell you, I'm not for Republican, 51:53 I'll say it again, I'm not Democrat. 51:56 I'm for whoever that I believe is in office this time 51:58 I just didn't happen to believe 52:00 I could vote for either one of them, 52:01 but if you have anything you want to say or write, 52:03 please give me a Bible scripture to say 52:05 that I shouldn't be up letting people know 52:09 that there is a huge plan 52:11 that Satan has working right here 52:14 in the United States of America 52:16 to steal the minds of our children 52:18 and the salvation or our children, 52:19 and we as Christians and particularly 52:21 Adventist Christians need to standup and say, 52:25 Jesus is coming very soon 52:27 and we need to tell the truth as it is in the word of God, 52:31 but in order to tell the truth, 52:33 we can't be over here on one side part of the time 52:36 and over here another part of the time 52:37 and then decide that we will at certain times 52:40 and we're gonna go by the Bible. 52:41 We'll have to, we're like Martin Luther, 52:43 it's the Bible and the Bible only 52:44 or we need to put it down. 52:46 But right now people need to see consistency. 52:49 They need people who are preaching and teaching 52:51 and living a Christian life 52:55 because they don't care how much you know. 52:57 I found that out with people, I've lived long enough. 53:00 Michael, people don't care 53:01 if you know the whole book of Revelation, 53:03 they don't really care. 53:04 They want to know how do you act 53:06 in time of trouble. 53:07 How do you act when you're sick 53:08 and find out that you got cancer, 53:10 or how do you act 53:11 when you just lost a husband or wife? 53:12 How do you act when you're just bankrupt 53:14 and you don't have anything? 53:15 How do you act when you just went through a divorce? 53:18 How do you do it? Do you blame God? 53:20 Do you do all these things? 53:21 Or do you say, 53:23 "Great peace have they which love thy Lord, 53:25 and nothing shall offend them?" 53:27 Because I want to tell you something, folks, 53:29 today and for those who have been watching, 53:30 if you say well, I'm offended by the service tonight, 53:33 Psalms 119:165 says, 53:36 "Great peace have they which love thy law, 53:38 and nothing shall offend them." 53:39 Being offended is a choice. 53:42 People say to me, 53:43 "Well, I don't go to church anymore 53:44 because I'm offended. 53:46 Somebody offended me in the church." 53:47 I say, "How can somebody offend you?" 53:50 "Well, they said something I didn't like." 53:52 I said, "But you chose to be offended. 53:54 They are not God, you didn't go to church 53:56 because of them, 53:57 you don't have to choose to be offended, 53:59 am I telling the truth? 54:01 Oh, but they, well, this person made me angry. 54:03 He should not have said that. 54:05 I'm never going back to that church again. 54:07 Who does that hurt, them or you? 54:10 That hurts us, right? 54:12 That hurts the person who said that, 54:13 that's exactly what the devil wants. 54:15 No, folks, we need to look beyond that. 54:17 We need to look right now beyond all of this stuff 54:19 and say, come together, 54:21 we need revival and reformation in this church. 54:24 If we are gonna get the three angels' messages 54:26 into all the world, fear God and give glory to Him 54:28 for the hour of His judgment has come. 54:30 That's something exciting. 54:32 The hour of His judgment is coming, 54:33 and guess who is living in these closing moments? 54:35 We are. 54:37 It's no accident 54:38 that when Jesus was hanging on the cross, 54:39 you and me was on his mind, right? 54:42 He could look down that stream of time 54:44 and see if people that would be 54:45 willing to give their lives onto death if necessary 54:48 for the cause of God. 54:49 Folks, we have that, 54:51 we are blessed to be here 54:53 in these closing moments of earth's history. 54:54 And I don't think we've seen anything, yet. 54:56 I think for Christians the opportunities 54:58 to give the truth to the world is amazing time. 55:01 We should never be discouraged. 55:03 We should always be encouraged 55:05 because God is always there for us, 55:07 He is on our side. 55:08 We never have to look back. 55:09 We don't have to look around us, 55:11 just keep going. 55:12 He said, "Go ye into all the world." 55:14 All power is given me in heaven and earth. 55:16 Go ye therefore, 55:17 my God shall supply all of your needs 55:19 according to His riches and glory. 55:20 I can do all things through Christ 55:22 who strengthens me. 55:24 We can go on, for we know that all things work together 55:26 for good to them that love God 55:28 and are called according to His purpose. 55:29 That word all is tremendous, folks, I live on that word all. 55:33 Earthly terms, I live and die. No, we don't. 55:36 We live on that word all. 55:38 We serve a God who supplies all of our needs 55:42 according to His riches, and when He said, 55:43 "Go ye into all the world." 55:45 There is no reason that we can't do it 55:46 and we need to do it joyfully. 55:48 But many of us who know about the truth 55:51 don't really know the truth. 55:52 So I'm gonna encourage you in the last minute tonight. 55:55 I want you to think about your life 55:57 and your relationship with Jesus. 56:00 Are the things worth that you once loved, 56:02 are you now beginning to hate? 56:04 Are the things worth growing strangely little dim 56:07 in the light of Christ's glory and His grace? 56:10 Because if they are not, you need a brand new touch 56:12 from Jesus right now. 56:14 And that's my prayer today. 56:16 I'm again, I'm not here, forgive me if I sound like 56:18 I'm scolding somebody, if I'm judging somebody, 56:19 I'm not. 56:21 We're all frail human agents, we're all clay, 56:24 but here maybe some of the things I've said, 56:26 if it's gonna shock us into thinking, 56:28 you go home and think and pray about your own life, 56:30 that's what I'm doing with mine. 56:32 Lord, what would You have me to do? 56:33 Why am I here in these closing moments 56:35 of earth's history? 56:37 Draw me closer to You because see what happens 56:39 when we accept Jesus Christ as Lord and savior of our life, 56:42 He brings a joy. 56:43 Jesus is the center of our joy. 56:45 And when we're joyful, everybody around us knows it, 56:48 and we're excited 56:50 because we wanted to tell people 56:51 what Jesus has done for us. 56:52 And when we do that, we're lifting Him up, 56:55 and when we lift Him up, He says, 56:56 "I, if I be lifted up from the earth will draw," 56:59 how many men? 57:00 That little word again, "all men unto me." 57:03 It's a joy today to serve the Lord. 57:05 I praise God for 28 years, this coming week 57:09 of Three Angels Broadcasting Network. 57:11 I praise God for all of you 57:13 that have help support this financially, prayerfully, 57:16 and we pray that you'll continue to do so 57:19 as we work together. 57:20 I believe revival and reformation 57:22 is badly needed, 57:24 and I believe it's gonna happen 57:25 and very soon we'll see Jesus come back 57:28 in the clouds of glory. |
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