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Help In A Time Of Crisis

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00:12 Welcome to Anchors Of Truth from the 3ABN Worship Center.
00:18 The Great Controversy with John Bradshaw.
00:22 Hello friends and welcome to 3ABN's worship center
00:25 here in Thompsonville, Illinois.
00:27 Located right down the street from 3ABN which is in
00:31 West Frankfort, Illinois.
00:32 And that may sound like it's very confusing and far apart,
00:35 but it's just a stones throw away.
00:38 But tonight, you're joining us here at our worship center
00:40 for the continuation of the meetings that have been held
00:44 by Pastor John Bradshaw on the topic of The Great Controversy.
00:49 Tonight's sermon title is, Help In A Time Of Crisis.
00:53 Now as you know, the world is in crisis in one way or the other.
00:57 We're even wondering how the season's have
01:00 become so warm so quickly.
01:02 And maybe on the heels of that blessing
01:04 there's another crisis coming.
01:05 We don't know.
01:06 But we always know that in every crisis there is an answer.
01:10 And that answer is Jesus.
01:13 So tonight, as Pastor Bradshaw brings the message,
01:15 take time to sit down.
01:17 The Sabbath has started here in the Midwest.
01:19 And wherever you're joining us from, we know the blessing of
01:22 the Lord is available to you.
01:23 We also have some messages on tomorrow.
01:26 We'd like to encourage you to join us on tomorrow morning,
01:28 Sabbath morning, for our 11 o'clock message.
01:31 And then Sabbath afternoon for our final presentation
01:34 on the five part series on The Great Controversy.
01:38 Pastor John Bradshaw is the speaker and director
01:40 of It Is Written.
01:42 He is an exuberant person, one that is on fire for the Lord.
01:45 Can you say amen to that?
01:47 And he has blessed us from night to night.
01:49 And we know that tonight is not going to be an exception.
01:52 We have some wonderful music also from one of our
01:54 very own, Jill Morikone.
01:56 We are blessed from Sabbath to Sabbath with her musical gift.
02:00 And tonight, she's going to bless us right after our prayer.
02:03 So bow your heads with us as we go to the Lord in prayer.
02:08 Let's pray together.
02:09 Our gracious Father in heaven, we thank You for Your goodness
02:12 and for Your mercy.
02:15 We thank You, Lord, that in this time of crisis
02:17 when the world is looking for an answer, whatever the
02:21 question may be, the answer is still Jesus.
02:24 Lord, we pray tonight that You will fill Your manservant again,
02:28 that You'll pour into him that he will be the vessel
02:31 through which You share the blessing with our audience;
02:34 whether by television or by radio or by computer,
02:37 whatever the medium may be.
02:38 May they sense the connection to Christ as
02:41 the Word of God is unfolded.
02:43 We also pray a blessing on our music tonight, Father.
02:45 What a wonderful song, His Eye Is On The Sparrow.
02:48 And tonight, as the sparrow continues to fly and You provide
02:52 his need, we pray that tonight, Father, in the midst of
02:55 this crisis we will know that You will continue
02:58 to provide our need.
03:00 So keep our hearts focused, Father, as You speak to us.
03:03 In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
03:06 After our music tonight, the next voice that you'll hear
03:09 is Pastor John Bradshaw.
07:41 Well, I have been blessed already.
07:43 What about you? Can you say amen?
07:45 Good evening everyone and welcome to Anchors Of Truth.
07:48 We are studying about the great controversy,
07:51 which itself is one of the great anchors of truth.
07:54 One of the great anchors of truth.
07:55 You know, there is a book by that same name.
07:57 Are you aware of that?
07:59 I hope you know about that.
08:00 There is a book by the name, The Great Controversy.
08:03 We're not studying the book tonight.
08:04 The book is aptly titled because it deals with that
08:07 great controversy down through the eons of time
08:10 between Christ and Satan.
08:12 I have a soft spot for that book.
08:14 It was that book that changed my life.
08:17 Now truth be told, truth be told,
08:18 it's the Bible that changes a person's life.
08:20 But without the book called, The Great Controversy,
08:23 I may never had come to the place where I would have
08:25 picked up the Bible.
08:26 It spoke to my heart and helped me understand big issues and
08:30 large questions and significant things that were taking place.
08:34 It answered a lot of questions for me.
08:36 And I discovered the answer to those questions was Jesus.
08:41 And perhaps before we're done this weekend,
08:43 I might have a chance to share a little bit more with you about
08:45 what the book, The Great Controversy, did for me.
08:49 In the meantime, we'll study the great controversy theme.
08:53 The great central theme of the Bible, it has been called.
08:57 I concur. I believe that is true.
09:01 And I think that if you don't mind, we will pray and dive in.
09:04 And make the most of the time,
09:06 always limited time, that we have.
09:08 Let's pray.
09:09 Our Father in heaven, we thank You tonight that we can
09:12 come to you in the name of Jesus.
09:13 We gather here in this location, but we gather together
09:17 around the world, from sea to shining sea and beyond.
09:23 I pray that You would grab our attention and focus it
09:27 with laser beam intensity on the things of Scripture.
09:31 I pray that You would have our attention.
09:33 I pray that You would give this faulty vessel
09:38 freedom of expression and clarity of thought.
09:41 I pray that You would give everybody watching and
09:45 listening and meditating upon these things
09:48 clear minds and a willing heart and an openness to the
09:52 moving of Your Holy Spirit.
09:56 Guide and bless us please.
09:57 And I don't pray bless us for selfish reasons.
10:00 I pray please will You bless us for Your glory.
10:03 Undoubtedly, You would like to see something achieved
10:06 over these next few minutes.
10:07 Whatever that is, please Lord, do Your work.
10:11 This we pray in Jesus' name.
10:13 And we say it together, amen.
10:19 The year is 2154.
10:26 I'm not trying to tell you the year now is 2154.
10:28 It's still what it was when you arrived.
10:31 But in this little illustration, the year is 2154.
10:37 And a mining operation on a distant moon in this galaxy
10:45 has begun to threaten the existence of the native peoples
10:51 in that corner of the galaxy.
10:55 You see, the human beings doing the mining
10:58 have come up with a clever plan to convince the natives
11:02 to cooperate with them.
11:05 But it wouldn't be a Hollywood movie worth anything
11:08 if everything didn't turn to custard and if a good
11:11 war did not break out.
11:13 Both things happened.
11:15 The plan failed, war took place, the natives were angry,
11:19 the miners were upset.
11:20 Everybody was at each others throats, people died.
11:24 A human being fell in love with an alien.
11:29 And the movie, remarkably, based on my description
11:34 you'd think, "Well, that's ridiculous."
11:36 Evidently, the more ridiculous, the better.
11:40 Because that movie has gone on to gross just about as much
11:42 money, if not more, than any other movie
11:44 in the history of movie making.
11:47 Interplanetary travel, good versus evil, greed and lust,
11:53 and the existence of a planet jeopardized.
11:57 Does it sound familiar?
11:58 It ought to.
11:59 You don't have to see the movie to experience
12:03 a plot line like that.
12:05 Ladies and gentlemen, we are living it right now.
12:08 Interplanetary travel as beings, holy and unholy, travel from
12:13 here to there.
12:15 Many of them with mischief on their mind.
12:17 Some of them with good on their mind.
12:20 Good versus evil. That's easy.
12:23 Greed and lust.
12:25 Anyone who hasn't surrendered to God embodies those principles.
12:29 The existence of a planet jeopardized.
12:32 Our planet is in jeopardy.
12:37 We are in the middle of something big.
12:39 It is not science fiction.
12:41 It is more compelling than science fiction could ever be.
12:44 It's the real thing.
12:46 Too real.
12:48 And the stakes are much higher.
12:50 Much, much higher than anything Hollywood could ever dream up.
12:57 As we look at the Bible, it's important that we consider
13:01 the big picture.
13:03 Vital, as a matter of fact.
13:04 The Bible is more than just a collection of stories
13:08 and of thoughts.
13:09 If you pick up the Bible and start at the beginning,
13:13 you will read the creation story.
13:15 Shortly thereafter, you will read about the tragic fall and
13:19 descent of our original grandparents;
13:21 granddaddy Adam and grandmamma Eve.
13:26 You will then read about the history of the
13:28 patriarchs and of the prophets.
13:29 There's a lot of ink given in the book of Genesis to Abraham.
13:32 Even more, I believe, given to the story of Joseph.
13:35 Long story.
13:36 Takes up a lot of the back part of the book of Genesis.
13:39 And you wonder why.
13:40 You get into Exodus, they start wandering in the wilderness.
13:43 They eat bread from heaven and they drink water
13:45 that came from a rock.
13:47 And they complain and want to turn their backs on God
13:50 and wander back to Egypt from whence they came.
13:54 Then we come to Leviticus and the sacrificial system.
13:56 And there was blood flowing.
13:57 Man, there was blood of bulls and there was blood of goats.
14:00 And there were turtle doves being offered,
14:02 and there were lambs slain.
14:04 There were meat offerings and drink offerings,
14:07 and offerings of fine flour, and all of the rest.
14:10 What in the world?
14:13 And then we read on in Deuteronomy and the law,
14:16 and Numbers and the numbers.
14:21 And we say, "What is this?
14:24 What really is it all about?
14:27 Is the book of Numbers just a civics lesson?
14:29 There were so many of these folks and so many of those."
14:32 We go on and read the story of Job.
14:34 Poor man suffering. I mean suffering.
14:37 Why?
14:39 What's at the heart of what Job is going through?
14:43 Is that story just to tell us that some poor fellow
14:45 had a hard time?
14:46 Some man was sick and wanted to be well.
14:48 And he suffered and his friends came, and his wife said,
14:50 "Curse God and die."
14:52 What's that?
14:54 The wisdom of the Psalms.
14:55 Is it just wisdom?
14:57 The wisdom of the Proverbs, I'm sure I meant to say.
15:01 Is it just wisdom?
15:03 The Psalms, David's rather up and down journey through
15:08 his meditations.
15:09 He deals with God's faithfulness to him
15:11 and his struggle at the hands of his enemies.
15:14 He's running, he's fleeing. He is sinning.
15:16 He deals with the sin issues and the salvation issues.
15:19 David cries out to God.
15:20 What's that?
15:22 Is it more than just the struggles, the travails,
15:25 and the joys of a Middle Eastern king?
15:28 What is the framework that transforms the varied,
15:32 the disparate stories and facets of the Bible
15:36 into a cohesive narrative?
15:37 What is it?
15:38 What lines up the stories of the Bible, and the teachings
15:40 of the Bible, and the doctrines of the Bible,
15:42 in such a way as they're pointing in the same direction
15:45 as they are pieces that make up the one picture
15:49 presented by a puzzle, a beautiful thing?
15:52 Pieces put together presenting us the picture of the whole.
15:57 What is it that helps us make sense of, not just a story
16:01 in the Bible, not just a verse in the Bible,
16:03 not just a character in the Bible, but what is it that
16:07 helps us bring it all together and helps us see that the Bible
16:11 is as a whole pointing in a direction and illuminating
16:14 certain central truths?
16:15 What is that? What do we call it?
16:19 This framework, this cohesion, we call it the
16:21 great controversy theme.
16:24 And if you'll look in your Bible, you will discover that
16:26 this great controversy theme runs like a golden thread
16:29 from the creation and fall of man to the restoration of man.
16:33 From sin to salvation, from creation to redemption.
16:37 Or should I say more appropriately,
16:39 from creation to recreation.
16:42 The great controversy theme traces all of that.
16:46 It provides us with a clear understanding of
16:49 where this world is heading.
16:52 It helps us to see where we've been, where we are,
16:55 and why all that is taking place is taking place.
17:01 I'd like for you to keep something in mind
17:03 as we begin tonight.
17:05 Long ago, this world was a perfect place.
17:08 The heartbeat of the universe was one heartbeat.
17:15 There was no sin.
17:17 Only harmony.
17:19 Can you imagine that?
17:22 Can you imagine what your life would be like
17:25 if there was no sin in the world?
17:27 How much different would it be?
17:29 I remember when I was a little boy and our family was
17:31 getting ready to go away for the weekend.
17:33 And I said to my dad, "Dad, what are you doing?"
17:35 He was up on a ladder or standing on a chair,
17:38 or something, and he was messing around with the windows
17:42 in a room, like the living room.
17:45 And I said, "Dad, what are you doing?"
17:47 He said, "Son, I'm locking the windows before we go away."
17:53 I was shocked.
17:54 I said, "Dad, our windows have locks?"
17:58 I had no idea.
18:01 We had never locked the windows ever.
18:04 Dad had to get out the WD-40 just to get those
18:07 locks working again.
18:09 When we went on vacation, it was our practice to leave the
18:12 back door of the house open in case somebody wanted to get in.
18:17 Now when we go on vacation, we lock the back door
18:20 in case somebody wants to get in.
18:23 Life has changed.
18:25 It's almost impossible to imagine life without sin.
18:29 Without insurance and without doctors and without...
18:34 I mean, would you even need Kleenex?
18:38 I just wonder.
18:39 I don't know.
18:41 A fairly agricultural thing to be thinking, I suppose.
18:44 But how would life change?
18:46 Back then, there was no sin.
18:49 Nothing like that.
18:51 There were no arguments, there was no dissension.
18:53 There were no brows furrowed in frustration and anger.
18:58 None of that.
19:00 Only harmony.
19:02 And then sin entered.
19:06 Like a rock smashing a glass window,
19:10 the peace of heaven was shattered.
19:14 It was broken.
19:15 And there would be no going back for a time.
19:19 Lucifer chose, for reasons that we can never really
19:22 fully understand, to rebel, to harden his heart,
19:24 to choose to place himself, before himself, above God.
19:29 We've read in our Bible in this series on The Great Controversy
19:32 already that in Isaiah chapter 14, Lucifer said,
19:35 "I will be like..." Who?
19:39 "I will be like the Most High." That's right.
19:41 He wanted to sit in God's place.
19:44 He wanted ultimately to receive worship,
19:50 to receive worship.
19:52 "I will be like the Most High."
19:56 When Jesus was living on this earth,
19:59 Satan came to Him in the wilderness of temptation
20:02 with three temptations.
20:04 Jesus was out there just weeks after He had been baptized,
20:07 just weeks after He had heard His Father say,
20:10 "This is My beloved Son in whom I am well please."
20:15 And Lucifer turns up and the first thing he says to Him is,
20:18 "If You are the Son of God..."
20:19 Isn't that something?
20:21 Jesus just heard His Father say, "This is My beloved Son,"
20:23 and Lucifer says, "Really? Really? Is that right?
20:26 Can You even trust Your Father?"
20:30 That's what Lucifer said to Adam and Eve down there by the
20:32 tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
20:33 "I know what God said, but did He really mean that?
20:35 Can you really trust that?"
20:38 And so he said to Jesus, "I know that You are hungry.
20:39 You haven't eaten in almost six weeks.
20:41 Why don't You just make these stones into bread?"
20:43 And I don't know if you've ever had a good look at the
20:45 wilderness there in Israel.
20:46 I've never been there.
20:48 But I've seen a lot of pictures and video of folks who have.
20:51 This place is rocky.
20:52 Man, there's rocks everywhere.
20:54 This is a real bona fide desert.
20:56 And Satan said, "If You're the Son of God,
20:59 just turn these stones into bread."
21:01 And then Jesus answered by saying, "It is written..."
21:03 And I'm partial to those verses in the Bible that
21:05 begin with the words, "It is written."
21:07 He said, "It is written, man shall not live by bread alone,
21:11 but by every word that proceeds from out of the mouth of God."
21:13 There, Satan was defeated.
21:16 But he wasn't done yet.
21:17 He said, "I know what the Bible says, so why don't You
21:19 throw Yourself off this high place.
21:21 The word of God says the angels are going to catch You up,
21:23 lest You dash Your foot against a stone."
21:26 And Jesus turned to him and He said again, "It is written."
21:29 I hope you're getting the picture.
21:30 I hope you're seeing the pattern.
21:31 When Satan comes to you with temptation,
21:33 you can afford to meet him with the Word of God.
21:36 If you can confront him with the claims and the power of
21:39 God's word, he will be defeated every time.
21:41 "It is written, thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God."
21:44 "Hmmm," he said.
21:45 "Now I'm going to play my ace card."
21:47 He said, "Now Jesus, I know that You know that
21:49 You're going to go die on a cross.
21:51 And I know that You're not very glad about that.
21:53 I was watching when You saw the lamb being slaughtered
21:55 back there in Jerusalem when You were 12 years old.
21:57 And the penny dropped and You understood why You were here.
22:01 And it's been 18 years.
22:04 And You're getting closer to the cross.
22:06 Listen Jesus, I can save You the trouble.
22:08 I own this world.
22:09 I am the prince of this world.
22:10 I stole it.
22:12 I got Adam and Eve and they came over to my side,
22:15 and virtually everybody since.
22:17 They're following me, so here's what I'll do.
22:19 I will give it to You.
22:21 You won't even have to go to the cross to buy it back.
22:23 I will give it to You if You'll just bow down and..."
22:27 Do what?
22:28 You see, what he's been after is worship.
22:31 In heaven he wanted worship.
22:32 Now he was somewhat successful.
22:34 One out of three angels went with him.
22:36 But he wasn't wholly successful, and heaven stood.
22:39 Heaven withstood his coup attempt.
22:43 He came down to the earth and he said to Jesus,
22:45 "Why don't You just bow down and worship me."
22:49 The audacity, the audacity.
22:53 Ultimately, the book of Revelation makes clear
22:55 that Satan has not abandoned his agenda
22:58 to gather for himself the worship of the world.
23:01 The Word of God says in Revelation chapter 13 verse 8,
23:04 "And all that dwell upon the earth shall..." Do what?
23:08 "...worship him, those whose names not written
23:10 in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the
23:12 foundation of the world."
23:14 Revelation chapter 13 and 14 talks about Satan using
23:17 the mark of the beast as a focal point, as a rallying point,
23:22 as a meeting place, as a mark of authority.
23:25 Of a sign that says, "Satan is in control.
23:29 Here, Satan owns my heart."
23:31 That's the sign, the mark of the beast.
23:33 God is letting sin run its course.
23:38 This is the great controversy that burns white hot.
23:45 Is there wisdom in that, I wonder?
23:47 God being God can do anything that He wanted to do
23:50 were He to allow Himself to do it.
23:52 He could have just wiped Lucifer out.
23:53 He could have just taken him with a thought.
23:57 He could have been gone.
23:59 Maybe with a thought, He could have adjusted the thinking
24:01 process of everybody else in the universe and they
24:03 would never have known.
24:04 I don't know.
24:07 If He's God.
24:09 But God is letting this thing called sin runs its course.
24:12 It's a great controversy.
24:14 Satan is seeking to receive the worship of the world,
24:17 to win the world, to steal the world, to gain the world,
24:20 to demonstrate that God is untrue.
24:24 God is letting this thing run its course.
24:26 He knows He has nothing to hide.
24:27 You know, I have had certain people, medical people even,
24:30 tell me that with some sicknesses it's better to just
24:33 let them run their course.
24:36 There are times you get a sniffle or a snuffle or a fever,
24:39 or a this or a that, and you run to the drug store
24:41 and you buy something and you take it
24:42 because you want to knock it out.
24:44 Now there might be times that's appropriate.
24:46 Sure, I'm not against that.
24:48 But there might be times that by buying something and
24:51 intervening medically or chemically that you are
24:52 causing a little more harm than good.
24:56 The good is, you recover quickly.
24:58 The harm is, maybe there are side effects.
24:59 The harm is, maybe you address the symptoms
25:02 without addressing the cause.
25:04 See?
25:05 So maybe there are times when intervening,
25:09 maybe there are time when refusing to let a sickness
25:12 run its course, might not be the best thing.
25:15 There are times, undoubtedly, it is the best thing.
25:17 But there might be times when intervening to cut a sickness
25:22 short might not be the very best thing.
25:26 I am told that if you want to, you can get your children
25:30 vaccinated against chicken pox.
25:33 Now when I was a child, of course there were no
25:35 vaccinations for chicken pox.
25:36 And good chance that when you were a child, there was no
25:39 vaccination against chicken pox.
25:40 You got it, you got over it, and you went right on.
25:42 But now you're offered a vaccine, and inoculation,
25:47 for your children against chicken pox.
25:48 Now that's one way to deal with it, I suppose.
25:50 But there is another way.
25:51 Several ways.
25:53 I've heard of parents, I have not done this,
25:55 I've heard of parents who, when they find out that
25:57 one of the kids in the group has chicken pox,
26:01 they call around and they say, "We're having a
26:03 chicken pox party.
26:06 Let's go."
26:07 And they crowd all the kids into the room with
26:09 the sick kid with chicken pox.
26:11 For the purpose of causing their children to become
26:16 contaminated with chicken pox so they get it,
26:19 they fight it, they get over it, and it's gone.
26:23 Now you will understand that I'm not recommending that,
26:26 nor am I speaking against it.
26:27 I'm simply reporting it.
26:30 You can intervene and prevent.
26:33 And there are some who say, "Well, by doing that
26:36 you might be doing more harm than good."
26:38 Or you can let it run its course and take the natural approach
26:42 and say, "Bring it on.
26:43 Let the antibodies build up.
26:45 Let the system throw it off.
26:47 And then we'll let the kids move on."
26:49 Again, understand, I'm not trying to position myself
26:51 as a physician or give you medical advice.
26:53 I'm simply saying there's more than one approach.
26:55 Sometimes you intervene, sometimes you let it
26:58 run its course.
26:59 God chose that He would run its course.
27:02 Now if you let it run its course, the kid
27:05 may end up itchy, may end up with bumps.
27:07 May end up with a couple of scars depending on the
27:09 severity of the chicken pox.
27:10 That's no fun.
27:13 It can be uncomfortable to let something run its course.
27:17 It might cause you some pain to let something run its course.
27:22 God is letting this sin thing run its course.
27:28 Could it mean a little pain for God?
27:33 God could have treated it, I'm sure, with a single shot.
27:35 Bam, Lucifer's gone. One shot, gone.
27:39 He could have.
27:40 But He knew that in this case, intervention would not have
27:45 been the smartest thing.
27:46 He knew that even though there would be
27:50 some pain to bear, the complications caused by
27:54 intervention would be too great.
27:57 You can just imagine how heaven would have been destabilized
28:00 when Lucifer started to question and then the angels got together
28:04 under the tree of life, or wherever it was they
28:06 congregated, and said, "Did you hear?
28:08 Lucifer asked the question.
28:10 Yes, God wiped him out; dead."
28:11 "What?"
28:13 You can imagine the trouble that would have caused.
28:15 You can imagine the questions that would
28:17 not have been answered.
28:18 Everybody would have said, "Maybe Lucifer was right."
28:22 There was just one way for God to demonstrate the
28:24 true nature of Lucifer and the true nature of Himself.
28:26 And that was to let sin run its course.
28:29 There'd be some pain.
28:33 But this way, our recovery from sin would be complete
28:37 and it would be total.
28:39 A price to pay? Yes.
28:41 A price even for us to pay if you want.
28:45 In Ephesians chapter 6, Paul said that we wrestle.
28:49 Now what he said was, "We do not wrestle with flesh and blood,
28:54 but we do wrestle with principalities and powers.
28:57 We wrestle with spiritual wickedness in high places."
29:01 We're involved in a fight down here.
29:04 We're involved in a titanic struggle down here.
29:08 And we'll come back and speak more about this later,
29:10 maybe tomorrow.
29:11 But it helps us to remember just what we are on this earth for.
29:15 We are here to glorify God.
29:18 And in the context of the everlasting gospel found
29:21 in the three angels messages, we discover God has a
29:25 very special purpose for His people.
29:27 A special purpose.
29:29 If we read in the book of Revelation, we see in
29:31 chapter 13 that there comes a time, I said before,
29:33 that all the world wonders after the beast.
29:36 Keep the big picture in mind of you would.
29:38 Long ago Satan lied about God, made accusations about God.
29:42 He charged things to God's account that were not
29:45 appropriate and were not valid.
29:46 God could have wiped out Satan, as I just said,
29:49 but the universe would have been destabilized.
29:51 So God said, "Let sin run its course.
29:53 Here's what We'll do.
29:54 If they want to know what I'm really like,
29:56 I will send My Son made in My image.
29:59 The One who will say, 'If you have seen Me,
30:01 you have seen the Father.'
30:02 I will send My Son to this earth.
30:04 And My Son will demonstrate to the universe
30:08 what heaven really is like.
30:10 And in so doing, it will be demonstrated to the universe
30:13 what Satan is really like."
30:16 God knew that one day He would have a group of people on
30:18 this earth who would vindicate Him before the universe.
30:21 Let's turn in our Bibles to Revelation chapter 14,
30:24 for there we read the message that produces
30:28 God's last day people.
30:32 Revelation chapter 14 verse 6 I shall read in your hearing.
30:36 "And I saw another angel flying in the midst of heaven,
30:39 having the everlasting gospel to preach to them that dwell
30:42 on the earth; to every nation, kindred, tongue, and people."
30:46 I am glad God has a message that will ultimately go to
30:49 every last creature under the sun.
30:53 Verse 7, "The angel says with a loud voice,
30:56 'Fear God and give glory to Him, for the hour of His judgment
31:00 is come; and worship Him...'"
31:03 Do not worship the beast of Revelation 13 and Revelation 14.
31:06 "...worship Him who made heaven and earth,
31:09 and the sea and the fountains of waters.
31:11 Now there was another angel that said,
31:13 'Babylon is fallen, is fallen...'"
31:16 You see what's interesting.
31:17 Ultimately it is going to be proven that sin is a lie.
31:22 Ultimately it is going to be proven that injustice
31:25 and oppression and hatred cannot stand
31:29 before the presence of God.
31:30 It will be said, Babylon is what?
31:34 Fallen.
31:36 Sin may think it is having its day now,
31:40 but there is going to be payday someday;
31:42 as Babylon will be fallen.
31:46 "...that great city, because she made all nations drink of
31:49 the wine of the wrath of her fornication."
31:51 And now verse 9, "A third angel followed them saying with a
31:54 loud voice, 'If anyone worships the beast and his image,
31:57 and receives his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
32:03 the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God,
32:07 which is poured out without...'"
32:09 You know, this is some serious language, isn't it.
32:12 It's some serious language.
32:14 But it's good to know that this is a serious business.
32:17 And it's good to know seriously that God is seriously going to
32:20 triumph in this great controversy.
32:22 Satan cannot win.
32:23 We are on the right side.
32:25 "He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence
32:28 of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb."
32:30 We're going to jump verse 11 and get to verse 12.
32:32 Verse 12 says, "Here is the patience of the saints:
32:35 here are they that..." Do what?
32:38 "...that keep the commandments of God..."
32:40 Don't end. "...and..." What?
32:41 "...and the faith of Jesus."
32:42 In actual fact, if you look in Revelation chapter 7,
32:46 you discover that God is planning on putting the seal
32:51 of God into the foreheads, which is another way of saying
32:55 into the minds of His people, the 144,000.
33:01 The 144,000 are the saved people on earth ready to meet Jesus
33:06 when He comes again.
33:07 The living saints when Jesus returns.
33:10 Revelation 22 and verse 4 says, "And they shall see His face;
33:15 and His name shall be in their foreheads."
33:19 And it has been said, I'm not the first to say this,
33:22 that God's name represents His character.
33:25 You see, what we read here is that at the end of this
33:28 great controversy between Christ and Satan;
33:31 a battle over who rules the minds of the
33:36 people of this earth.
33:38 I mean where does it end up?
33:39 Everybody's got a mind.
33:40 In it, either the seal of God or the mark of the beast.
33:44 This great controversy is a battle for the mind of you,
33:50 as a matter of fact.
33:51 The mind of you.
33:53 The Word of God says, ultimately we will see His face.
33:56 And His name, His character, will be in our minds.
33:59 The image...
34:00 Now I want you to think about that, if you would.
34:04 The image of God is going to be restored in the minds
34:07 of the very people...
34:08 And by that I mean the very type of people.
34:10 ...who, just two millennia before, took the Messiah
34:13 and nailed His hands to a cross, like you might
34:16 nail two pieces of wood together.
34:20 I wonder if you would stop and think about that.
34:25 I met a fellow the other day, this was on an airplane.
34:27 He was traveling to the United States to pick up some dogs.
34:33 He was taking a dog with him to California.
34:37 And he was going to get...
34:39 I don't know, they had been breeding or something like that.
34:41 And he was going to bring his dog and three others home.
34:44 And he lived in the Netherlands.
34:47 I said, "What kind of dogs?"
34:49 I like dogs.
34:50 Man, I like Labradors. I like Golden Retrievers.
34:56 These little things that look like dogs if they grew up,
35:00 they're okay, but I like the big ones that go "woof," like that.
35:04 German Shepherds; I like them.
35:07 There are some other dogs I've seen; these Weimaraners
35:09 and Rhodesian Ridgebacks, oh lovely dogs.
35:14 I said, "What kind of a dog?"
35:16 He said, "Let me show you."
35:17 And he pulled out his phone, because that's how you show
35:20 people photographs these days.
35:22 He pulled out his phone.
35:24 I may be getting this wrong.
35:25 He said they're called Bully Pits, I think.
35:28 I should have looked that up.
35:29 I think he said they're called Bully Pits.
35:32 It was like a Pitbull, but if you had taken a
35:36 bicycle pump and pumped the Pitbull up.
35:39 It was like a Pitbull, but it's chest is this wide.
35:43 And his head is this big.
35:46 He said they grow up and they weigh...
35:49 Did he say they weight about 180 pounds when they're full grown?
35:54 Now you know, when he said Pitbull, I kind of did this...
35:58 Like that.
35:59 I didn't mean to.
36:01 I meant to look like this...
36:07 But Pitbulls.
36:09 Now I know that there is someone listening or watching
36:11 and they're saying, "Come on Bradshaw.
36:12 Don't say anything wrong with Pitbulls.
36:14 They're the nicest dogs that ever lived."
36:17 At the same time, there's someone saying,
36:18 "Please stop talking about Pitbulls.
36:20 My child was attacked by one."
36:21 You know.
36:23 You see, when this man talked about a Pitbull,
36:25 I said, "Oh, those things are killers, aren't they?
36:28 I've read the news reports.
36:31 Those things will eat you up one arm at a time.
36:34 Then your legs and then whatever is left.
36:36 They'll eat you up.
36:38 Chew on your bones."
36:40 You know what he said?
36:41 He said, "These dogs are just the nicest things
36:45 that you'll ever find.
36:47 Sweetest dog."
36:49 He could tell I was skeptical.
36:52 "Sweetest dog."
36:53 You know what was in my mind was this,
36:55 this was what was in my mind,
36:56 those dogs have got a lot of bad publicity.
36:58 I'm not calling them bad dogs. I'm not doing that.
37:01 I'm simply saying they've got a lot of bad publicity.
37:03 My question was, is it possible for one,
37:07 especially one that big...
37:09 It was like the incredible hulk of dogs.
37:12 Is it possible for them to be sweet?
37:16 And according to my Dutch friend, the answer was yes.
37:20 These great big things, he says, sweet as pie.
37:28 I thought, "That's almost hard to believe.
37:31 But I'll believe you."
37:32 Now here in the Bible, the Word of God says that
37:35 God is going to take His seal, put it in the foreheads
37:39 of a bunch of Pitbulls.
37:42 Yea?
37:43 Of a bunch of savage human beings
37:46 who took the Savior and opened up His back with
37:48 whips and plucked out His beard and nailed Him to a cross.
37:53 And then out of spite, took a sword and jammed it in His side
37:57 and caused all the blood to flow out, and then the water.
38:01 How can it be possible that God is going to take
38:04 these people and restore them so that you look at a
38:09 Pitbull human being and see a kitten?
38:13 How can that be possible?
38:15 The Word of God says it's going to happen.
38:18 But friend, if we're going to be honest, getting from
38:21 here to there, getting from lost to saved, getting from
38:25 a cesspool to paradise, getting from unconverted to converted,
38:29 the truth of the matter is, it's a battle in the march.
38:33 Now we might want to word that better in case you think
38:36 that I'm being just a little bit self reliant here.
38:38 It's a journey of faith that rests solely upon
38:40 the grace of God.
38:42 But how in the world in this great controversy
38:44 would God take a group of rebels and turn them into loyalists?
38:48 How would God take the offscouring of the earth
38:51 and turn them into exhibit A before the entire universe
38:53 of what God's grace is able to do?
38:56 How?
38:58 You read about Adam and Eve, and they're down there in the
39:00 Garden of Eden and they eat the tree...
39:01 No, they don't eat the tree.
39:03 They eat the fruit off the wrong tree.
39:05 And then you get to the end of the Bible
39:06 and now we're all gathered under the tree of life.
39:09 To me, this is almost, this would be unthinkable.
39:13 This would be the grand impossibility.
39:15 Except we read in the Bible that it's going to take place.
39:18 Adam and Eve fall into sin.
39:19 Adam blames Eve for all of his problems.
39:22 They are kicked out of the garden.
39:24 Cain kills Abel.
39:25 It doesn't get any better for thousands of years.
39:28 It fact, it isn't long and God destroys the world with a flood.
39:33 It even says in the Bible that God repented
39:36 that He had made man.
39:38 Satan harries God's people, he hounds God's people,
39:42 he hassles God's people, he tempts God's people.
39:48 He makes animals out of God's people.
39:52 And yet these are the same people God uses to demonstrate
39:55 to the universe that His side of the
39:59 great controversy story is true.
40:03 How in the world?
40:04 Revelation 12 and verse 17 says, "The dragon was angry with the
40:08 church and went to make war against the remnant of her seed;
40:12 those who keep the commandments of God
40:13 and have the testimony of Jesus Christ."
40:16 There's that warfare again.
40:17 That same idea Paul expressed to the Ephesians
40:20 in Ephesians chapter 6.
40:22 A thinking person would wonder, if a third of the angels fell,
40:26 angels, and if a third of them fell...
40:30 I don't know how long Adam and Eve had been alive on the earth
40:33 before Lucifer got them in his noose.
40:35 I don't know. It wasn't long.
40:39 A thinking person would be excused if they wondered
40:43 just how is that going to happen.
40:47 I want to assure you of something.
40:49 God has not left us without help in a time of crisis.
40:54 There are times you wonder why God bothers.
40:58 At the time of the golden calf apostasy, God said to Moses,
41:02 "Whoever has sinned against Me, I'm going to blot
41:04 that person out of My book."
41:07 They only survived due to the intercession of Moses.
41:11 Moses was a type of Jesus.
41:12 They survived because Moses interceded.
41:15 There's a message there for us, ladies and gentlemen.
41:19 David asked God a searching question,
41:20 "What is man that Thou art mindful of him?"
41:22 What?
41:24 He wrote later on in the Psalms that God knows our frame,
41:28 and He remembers that we are dust.
41:30 God knows all about us.
41:32 He knows that we are feeble and we are frail.
41:34 He knows that we are prone to wonder.
41:36 He knows that we are weak at best.
41:39 But God has promised you help in a time of crisis.
41:44 And friends, this is a time of crisis.
41:47 Can you say amen?
41:48 There's no question.
41:50 The enemy of souls has got us weak.
41:54 After 6000 years of sin, we are a sin addled,
41:59 sin addicted bunch.
42:02 Access to sin has never been easier.
42:04 There have been more ways to sin now than ever before.
42:09 I remember that somebody wrote over a hundred years ago
42:12 when the author said, daily the church is being
42:15 converted to the world.
42:16 My goodness, what about now?
42:19 History is littered with the failings of God's people.
42:25 They wanted to turn around and go back to slavery back there.
42:29 They killed the prophets, they crucified the Messiah.
42:33 They rejected truth and the purity of the early Christian
42:37 church gave away to the darkness of the medieval church.
42:40 Today, Christianity is a mess. It's confusion.
42:46 There is pluralism and postmodernism
42:49 and lackadaisicalism.
42:51 And I know I just invented that word.
42:52 And there's laodiceanism.
42:55 And yet, you know what I'm grateful for?
42:56 I'm glad that God didn't cut me off when I failed.
43:00 I am glad that where sin abounds,
43:03 grace does much more abound.
43:05 Instead, God promises us that even though the world is dark,
43:10 and even though the question might be asked,
43:12 "When the Son of Man comes, will He find faith in the earth,"
43:16 we can say, look into the Revelation.
43:20 "Here is the patience of the..." Who?
43:22 "...the saints.
43:24 They keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus."
43:29 Friends, according to what we read in the Word of God,
43:32 God is going to get it done in our lives.
43:35 Thank the Lord.
43:37 Two men were in a car.
43:39 One of them was late for an appointment.
43:40 "Oh no," he said, "we are going to be late."
43:43 The driver said, "Don't you worry about a thing."
43:45 And when he put his foot down, this unassuming looking car
43:48 took off like a rocket.
43:49 The passenger looked at him with eyes wide open.
43:52 The driver said, "There is something under the hood
43:54 of this car that you don't know about."
43:57 I'm not going to tell you who those gentlemen were.
43:59 You see, there was a power there.
44:03 There was a power that was unseen to the passenger.
44:06 In fact, it was unseen to the driver.
44:07 But there was a power there that could turn mom's car
44:11 into the space shuttle.
44:14 We find ourselves in a spiritual battle.
44:16 We are up against a foe bigger than ourselves.
44:18 Bigger, much bigger.
44:19 But the good news is that God is able to transform us
44:22 from weakened failures into champions for truth, champions.
44:26 God said in Luke 11 verse 13, "If you then being evil
44:31 know how to give good gifts to your children,
44:32 how much more will your heavenly Father give the
44:35 Holy Spirit to them that ask."
44:37 God will give us this great gift.
44:39 Which in other words is simply the personal presence
44:43 of Jesus Christ in our lives.
44:45 God has called us to a high calling.
44:47 But higher than the highest human thought can think is
44:50 God's ideal for His children.
44:51 "He is able to do exceeding abundantly..."
44:53 What's the next word? "...exceeding abundantly..."
44:55 "...above.." Above what?
44:56 "...above all that we can ask or..."
44:59 When you can't think it, God can do it.
45:02 When you can't think it, God can do even
45:04 more than you can't think.
45:05 Wait.
45:06 That makes sense of you think about it.
45:09 When it seems way too big for you, it's nothing for God.
45:15 Because God is God and God is able.
45:18 God is going to take some of these Rottweilers,
45:22 some of these people with a nature that you think
45:24 can't be tamed, and he's going to take them and
45:26 use them to tell His side of the great controversy story.
45:30 I would have found more reliable witnesses.
45:34 But the grace of God can do more than we might even imagine.
45:38 In Philippians 2 and verse 13, it says, "It is God who works
45:42 in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure."
45:46 Powerful things when God works in you.
45:49 God transforms.
45:51 That's what the gospel is all about.
45:53 Ladies and gentlemen, never sell it short.
45:54 The gospel is another word for transformation.
45:58 The gospel is another word for saying God can take the lost
46:01 and make them saved.
46:02 God can take the broken and make them whole.
46:05 God can take the ruined and make them pristine again.
46:10 God wants to take the grump and make the grump joyful.
46:13 You know what's interesting in our churches?
46:16 We talk about the big sins, man.
46:18 We talk about, you don't want to get smoking that and eating that
46:22 and you don't want to do that with your money.
46:25 We don't spend nearly enough time
46:26 talking about grumpy people.
46:32 Hmmm?
46:34 You mean it's a sin to break the Sabbath but it's
46:36 perfectly acceptable to be mean as sin?
46:40 I don't think so.
46:42 Folks ought to be happy.
46:45 But the good news is, God is able to take the grumpy person
46:49 and give that person something to smile about.
46:51 God is able to take the addict and dry him out.
46:54 God is able to take the drunk and sober her up.
46:57 God can take the crooked and make the crooked straight.
47:01 The crooked and the drunks and the liars,
47:03 and the grumps too for that matter,
47:06 are telling Satan's side of the story.
47:09 They're saying, "This is all we're capable of."
47:11 But when Jesus takes possession of a life,
47:15 that life changes dramatically.
47:19 In answer to the prayer of faith God will send the Comforter.
47:22 I like that name, the Comforter.
47:26 God will comfort you when you're broken.
47:28 He will lift you up when you're down.
47:29 He will put His arm around you and say, "It can be better."
47:32 God will sit down next to you when nobody else will
47:34 and say, "There's a better day coming if you'll lean on Me."
47:37 God sends the Comforter to bring Jesus to us.
47:40 You can't get more power than Jesus.
47:42 It is Jesus who said, "All power in heaven and earth
47:45 is given unto Me."
47:47 I read where somebody wrote...
47:49 Friend, I would like for you to develop some sanctified
47:53 impatience here.
47:55 Somebody said that the Holy Spirit awaits our
47:57 demand and reception.
47:59 When was the last time...
48:01 I mean, I'm not going to ask you this question,
48:03 but if I did, I might say, when was the last time
48:05 you went up to the teller at the bank or at Wal-Mart
48:08 and said, "I demand some service around here."
48:10 Now you would never do that.
48:12 But you can imagine somebody doing that.
48:14 When was the last time you turned up to the throne of God,
48:17 and I don't mean to be blasphemous,
48:19 but after a holy fashion pounded on the throne and said,
48:21 "I demand that You give me the Holy Spirit."
48:25 And why would we not?
48:27 We've been told the Holy Spirit awaits our demand and reception.
48:30 Now you might want to be careful about your
48:32 tone of voice and your manner.
48:33 But maybe in pray you can pray and say,
48:35 "God, You must. God, You have promised.
48:38 Now keep Your promise and pour Your Spirit out on my life."
48:42 And when He does, this power...
48:46 You know, it is insanity that we don't appeal to God
48:50 day in and day out that He baptize us in the Holy Spirit.
48:55 And when He does, we are complete in Him.
48:58 And you know, the Spirit of God isn't given to us
49:00 like a tank of gas.
49:01 You go and buy...
49:02 First, you mortgage your house.
49:03 Then you buy a tank of gas.
49:07 Your car is filled up with gas, or your truck or whatever it is.
49:10 And you go on your way and you watch the gauge.
49:12 And it starts at F for full and then it comes on down like this.
49:16 And when it's down about E, you go back and say,
49:19 "I need you to fill it up again."
49:21 That's not how we go with the Holy Spirit.
49:22 We come to God and we get connected.
49:24 The pump goes in wherever it goes and stays in.
49:29 It stays in.
49:30 It's like an IV.
49:32 It stays there for as long as you're in the hospital so that
49:35 the drip can keep on going right into your bloodstream.
49:38 The Holy Spirit wants to get connected to us in such a way
49:40 that there's no place, there's no time for unhooking the pump;
49:43 going your own way and coming back when
49:45 you see the tank getting low.
49:47 No, we stay connected.
49:48 When we are connected, God does amazing things.
49:54 You know what happens.
49:56 God's character will be seen in even you.
50:00 Paul wrote to the Thessalonians and he said,
50:02 "Faithful is He that calleth you, who also will do it."
50:05 I like that.
50:06 He wrote those words after he was discussing the subject
50:10 of sanctification.
50:13 And after talking about sanctification...
50:14 Now, you know what?
50:15 There are some who have this idea that we are justified
50:17 by faith and sanctified by works.
50:18 No.
50:19 When it comes to sanctification, "faithful is He who calleth you,
50:22 who also will do it."
50:24 God's power will work sanctification in your life.
50:28 Who is up to such a thing?
50:30 Only God.
50:32 Which of us can say we are worthy?
50:34 None.
50:35 But if we will yield, if we will surrender,
50:38 the Holy Spirit will come and be the power, the help,
50:41 that we need in earth's final crisis.
50:43 "Faithful is He who calls you, who also will do it."
50:46 That's the same as saying, "The life that I now live
50:48 in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God
50:51 who loved me and gave Himself for me."
50:54 It's like saying, "Here is the patience of the saints,
50:56 here are they that keep the commandments of God
50:58 and the faith of Jesus."
51:01 Controversy raging.
51:02 Satan has said, "This is my place."
51:04 Satan has said, "You can't trust God."
51:06 Satan has said, "God is a liar."
51:08 Satan has said, "This whole idea of obeying God and keeping
51:11 His commandments; unusual, unreasonable, unacceptable."
51:16 But God is going to have a people who don't believe the
51:19 publicity of Satan, who instead say, "Lord, here I am.
51:24 Give me Your Holy Spirit.
51:25 Let it be a regenerating agent."
51:28 Christ died, yes.
51:29 But without the Holy Spirit, what Jesus did will
51:32 not be made effectual in your life.
51:34 We must be filled up with the Holy Spirit of God.
51:37 We will be cleansed and be made partakers of the divine nature.
51:40 We can see ourselves in that group by faith,
51:44 that Revelation 14:12 group, when we are vessels to be filled
51:47 with the Holy Spirit of Almighty God.
51:49 The Holy Spirit is power.
51:52 A power against which all the powers of hell cannot prevail.
51:57 Jesus taught a parable.
51:58 He said the kingdom of heaven is like when a woman took some
52:01 leaven and put it in three measures of meal.
52:04 I think that's flour, isn't it?
52:06 And what happened was, the leaven worked.
52:08 And before long, that flour was transformed.
52:11 And instead of being a flat little pile of something,
52:14 it was a, it was a, well it grew.
52:17 It was leavened now. It rose now.
52:20 You couldn't see it working.
52:23 You can't tell exactly how it did it.
52:25 But you could see the results.
52:26 It's like when Jesus spoke to Nicodemus
52:28 talking about the wind, the wind blows where it will.
52:30 You don't know where it comes from, you don't know
52:31 where it's going, but you can see its results.
52:33 That's the Holy Spirit working in you like leaven
52:38 to change you from the inside out.
52:40 You don't know what you're capable of
52:42 until God gets hold of you.
52:45 When God gets hold of you and you are His completely,
52:49 there is no telling what God can do.
52:52 Ours is to cooperate.
52:54 Take heart, Christian.
52:55 Yes, you're involved in a great controversy.
52:57 Yes, day in and day out you might find yourself
53:01 flattened on the roadway of life
53:05 hit again by what the devil throws at you.
53:07 But take heart, Christian.
53:10 God can change your character into the image of Christ
53:15 if you'll let Him.
53:16 Ours is to yield, ours is to cooperate.
53:19 Ours is simply to learn to say "yes."
53:24 Yes to Jesus.
53:25 We come to another fork in life's road,
53:27 we say "yes" to Jesus.
53:29 Again, "yes" to Jesus.
53:31 And you know something?
53:32 If you get into the groove, you can find that saying
53:34 "yes" to Jesus become a joy.
53:36 "Yes" to Jesus can become a habit.
53:38 "Yes" to Jesus becomes transformation in your life
53:41 so that it's all God and it's none of you.
53:43 "He must increase and we must..." Do what?
53:46 "...decrease." As the prophet said.
53:49 You don't know what God can do in your life
53:51 until you let Him have you.
53:54 Recently, I was in Oxford England.
53:58 What a great place.
54:01 I stood on the spot, the very spot where some great men
54:05 of God gave their lives.
54:08 Gave their lives for the sake of the gospel.
54:12 In 1555, and that sounds like a long time ago because it was,
54:19 Nicholas Ridley, the Bishop of London,
54:22 and Hugh Latimer, who had been the Bishop of Worcester
54:26 and the chaplain to King Edward VI,
54:29 were burned at the stake.
54:32 You see, they supported the reformation.
54:34 The church in England at that stage didn't like it.
54:36 The Catholic church hadn't been turned
54:38 into the Church of England.
54:39 And it must be admitted that even when the
54:41 Church of England became the Church of England,
54:43 it didn't leave behind persecution.
54:45 They still knew how to do plenty of that.
54:48 But there were Latimer and Ridley taken to a spot.
54:53 And in Oxford right on Broad Street outside Balliol College,
54:58 where Wycliffe was educated, historic place,
55:01 there is a cross in the road made of stones.
55:03 It's in the roadway.
55:05 It's remarkable.
55:07 You go over there and buy tee shirts just right there.
55:09 You turn and there's a tee shirt shop.
55:11 You buy a tee shirt, "Oh that's where the men died.
55:13 They were martyred, oh yes.
55:14 Can I have another tee shirt please."
55:15 It just doesn't seem right.
55:16 It seems to me like this is a sacred place.
55:20 Students ride by on their bicycles.
55:22 Riding right over the top of it.
55:24 And I wonder, do they know where they're riding.
55:26 I just wonder.
55:30 What gave these men the guts to be able to stand for Jesus
55:40 even though their lives were on the line?
55:43 You know, it is said that Latimer said to Ridley
55:46 as they were about to be burned, "Be of good comfort.
55:49 We shall light this day such a candle, by God's grace,
55:53 in England, as I trust shall never be put out."
55:57 And the reformation began to take hold and it flourished.
56:00 A year later on the same spot, the Archbishop of Canterbury,
56:04 Thomas Cranmer, was, let's be honest, murdered.
56:10 Executed, but it was murder.
56:14 He had seen the other two burned.
56:18 It's never pretty.
56:21 And so he wrote a recantation.
56:26 And then when they put him on trial again,
56:29 he recanted of his recantation.
56:32 And when they took him out to that same spot
56:34 right on Broad Street, and burned him,
56:35 he did what he said he would do.
56:37 He took the hand that he wrote the recantation with and
56:39 thrust it into the flames.
56:43 He died a martyr's death.
56:45 You ought to see the Martyrs' Memorial on Magdalen Street
56:48 right by St. Mary's church where the trial,
56:50 the sham trials took place.
56:53 Magnificent memorial.
56:56 What can turn ordinary men into champions?
57:03 Only the Holy Spirit.
57:05 That same power that's going to turn
57:09 sinful human beings
57:13 into such creatures as they reflect
57:15 the image of Jesus Christ.
57:18 In this great controversy, God has promised you help
57:23 in a time of crisis.
57:25 And you can receive from God now the power of the Holy Spirit.


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