Participants: Chris Shelton (Host), Kenny Shelton
Series Code: BTLP
Program Code: BTLP000060
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00:41 Hello and welcome to Behold the Lamb Presents.
00:44 I'm Chris Shelton, your host 00:46 and I want to thank you for tuning in with us today. 00:49 In fact in many ways today's program 00:52 truly belongs to many of you. 00:55 How could that be you are wondering? 00:57 Well, several times Pastor Kenny has asked you to write him 01:01 or to call with your questions 01:02 or subjects that you would like to know more about. 01:05 And today's message is the first of a three part series 01:09 that we have put together 01:11 to answer a reoccurring concern 01:14 that we have been asked about 01:15 over the past several months. 01:17 And that is "Does our appearance 01:20 really matter to God?" 01:22 Does our appearance really matter to God 01:26 and since so many of you have asked 01:29 that this subject be addressed 01:30 we felt that God was directing through His people 01:33 that it be studied here on Behold the Lamb Presents. 01:37 And really why not look into this topic? 01:40 It's certainly not a new topic for a Christian to study into, 01:44 it may be that its just one as a bit blurry 01:47 for many of us in today's society 01:50 was so much emphasis on high fashion, tradition, 01:54 and just peer pressure to fit in. 01:57 And may be that's the question 01:59 that all of us should ask ourselves 02:01 who or what group exactly do we want to fit in with. 02:06 Hopefully, hopefully your hearts desire 02:08 will be to fit in with God and His heavenly beings. 02:11 If so I want you to stay tuned with us 02:14 as we delve into another 02:17 so searching study with Pastor Kenny Shelton. 02:20 But first we are so blessed 02:22 to listen to a song that is entitled 02:25 "He Hideth My Soul "as sung by Diane Anders 02:29 and coming to us from the 3ABN worship centre. 02:51 A wonderful Savior 02:56 is Jesus my Lord 02:59 A wonderful Savior to me 03:07 He hideth my soul 03:11 in the cleft of the rock 03:15 Where rivers 03:18 of pleasure I see 03:23 He hideth my soul 03:28 in the cleft of the rock 03:32 That shadows a dry, thirsty land 03:40 He hideth my life 03:44 in the depths of His love 03:48 And covers me there 03:52 with His hand 03:56 And covers me there 04:01 with His hand 04:17 A wonderful Savior 04:22 is Jesus my Lord 04:26 He taketh my burden away 04:33 He holdeth me up 04:37 and I shall not be moved 04:42 He giveth me strength as my day 04:50 He hideth my soul 04:54 in the cleft of the rock 04:59 That shadows a dry, thirsty land 05:07 He hideth my life 05:11 in the depths of His love 05:16 And covers me there 05:20 with His hand 05:23 And covers me there 05:28 with His hand 05:32 He hideth my soul 05:36 in the cleft of the rock 05:41 And covers me there 05:45 with His hand 05:49 And He covers me there 05:54 with His hand 06:10 Thanks, for joining us here in Behold the Lamb Ministries. 06:12 We certainly appreciate all the cards, 06:14 letters and phone calls and many-- 06:17 a lot of good questions that you send in. 06:19 We thank you for that. Continue to do it. 06:21 Many of you have written in or some emails, 06:23 and some of you know, you do three or four, five, six pages 06:26 praise God that's all good. 06:28 You have taken lot of time to let out 06:29 what's on your heart and on your mind 06:32 and we get lot of those, 06:33 some time we are very slow in responding, 06:36 we don't mean to be. 06:37 If we are too slow in responding 06:38 and it's really something that you really need 06:41 that's why we have a phone number here 06:43 that you need to call us. 06:44 And some times you don't get a hold you call again 06:48 so that we can get back with you 06:49 because you are important, 06:50 this is what makes the programming 06:52 that's coming out is people just like yourself. 06:54 So you are important and some of you say, 06:56 well, we didn't get-- 06:58 if you first don't succeed what is that say, try, try again 07:01 because we want to get back with you. 07:03 We are not trying side track anything. 07:05 In fact, if we were we would not be doing 07:07 the subject three part series that we are doing right now. 07:11 It would be a subject that's better 07:13 some time left to the side. 07:16 Why? Because people get so upset. 07:18 You know does God really, you know, does He really 07:21 care about our appearance? Does He? 07:23 Does it really matter what we wear, what we don't, 07:25 or what we put in our bodies, does He? 07:27 The Bible has a lot to say. 07:29 In fact, there is so much in my study 07:30 that had to show through it 07:32 and just kind of get some of the high points. 07:35 So this is a subject you won't want to miss. 07:37 I am going to cover what we wear, 07:40 I am going to cover make up, 07:41 and what we are going to cover jewelry. 07:43 And again subjects that were thinking 07:45 oh wow, these--they don't need to be controversial. 07:48 If you are a child of God, I am a child of God 07:51 and the Bible says that what difference does it make 07:53 if God is spoken on this subject let's take Him at his word. 07:56 What do you say? 07:57 Okay, before we really get into lets pray 07:59 we always do for the power of the Holy Spirit 08:02 and if the wall wins up right quick in front of you 08:04 ask God to take that wall down 08:06 because I know as a child of God 08:08 you are going to want to know, 08:10 or be reminded of this these important issues. 08:13 Let's pray together. Shall we? 08:16 Loving Father in heaven, we thank You for Your word. 08:18 We pray now for the power of the Holy Spirit 08:20 to take position of each and every one of us. 08:23 Lord, we pray that you will take the blinders also 08:25 as we take things that stop up our ears many times. 08:28 We pray that You will You give a spiritual discernment 08:31 that we may understand 08:32 that all aspects of life is important to You. 08:35 We are Your witnesses. 08:36 Help us Lord, as we study this word 08:39 make it clear in our ears, may we hear from heaven, 08:42 may it be a joy 08:44 and may we thank You for the things that we learn. 08:46 Thank you for each one of the viewers 08:48 those who hear, those who are passing on duplicating 08:51 and passing on this message to many people. 08:53 We thank you, for each one in Jesus name we pray. Amen. 08:58 So important, you know, as you study the word of God 09:01 to ask for the power of the Holy Spirit 09:02 because we can't understand these things. 09:05 And the first thing people do 09:07 when we cover these kind of subject 09:08 is they want to stop up their ears, 09:10 and I tell you why. 09:11 Because we become so selfish 09:13 and self centered God's words say is 09:15 but we like, we want to do, 09:18 and what difference does it really make. 09:19 I think you will see if you watch 09:21 all three of these programs 09:22 "Does our appearance really matter to God?" 09:25 Christian standards. Does it really matter to God? 09:28 Well, if doesn't matter then I am wasting my time. 09:30 If it does matter praise God, 09:32 let's look at it, let's evaluate it, 09:34 let's compare line upon line, precept upon precept. 09:37 Let's put it in the balance. 09:38 Let's get some weight of evidence here. Shall we? 09:41 One very important passage in the scripture 09:43 and I found this in the Book of Job 09:45 and you may want to write these things down in Job 5:17. 09:48 The Bible is-- it says this, 09:50 "Happy is the man whom God correcteth." 09:54 What? 09:56 "Happy is the man whom God correcteth." 10:00 So if we need correcting 10:02 instead of being long face, upset, 10:04 well, I am going to quit if that's what God desires 10:06 or that's what He want, happy. 10:08 So we should be happy so we will thank You, Lord. 10:10 Didn't really realize it is such. 10:12 And so as we study 10:13 pray for the power of the Holy Spirit 10:14 to consume us all. 10:15 We are going to be happy Christians. 10:17 Let me just start with some things 10:19 that really are starling to the mind. 10:20 At least to my mind as I read this 10:22 and I looked at the Spirit of Prophecy, 10:24 I look at the Bible and say, oh, 10:25 God is clear on these issues. 10:28 Does God really just accept-- you know half service? 10:32 Does He just accept us because we read something? 10:34 We will say, I choose this and the rest of it I leave out. 10:37 Oh, what kind of God do we serve? 10:39 Notice what this says here, this is First Testimony. 10:42 If you have the book page 137 10:44 those of you have them you need, 10:45 need to be reading them. Here's what it says. 10:48 "As soon as any have a desire to imitate" 10:52 listen to me "imitate the fashions of the world, 10:57 and they do not immediately subdue." 11:00 Did you get that? 11:01 Any time, any of us here right we have a desire to imitate, 11:05 notice this, the fashions that's plural of the world 11:09 and we don't immediately subdue those things. 11:12 Notice this, "Just so soon God ceases" did get--God what? 11:18 "God ceases to acknowledge them as His children." 11:25 Wow, some of you are gonna say, ouch. 11:31 Evidently this is important what we are talking about here 11:33 because the things of the world 11:36 as soon as we start to go after those things, 11:38 if we don't subdue them immediately 11:40 then in that very moment 11:41 we go after the world it said God ceases, 11:43 is called as what? His children. 11:46 And none of us want that, do we? 11:47 This is very, very important. You say, well, I am not sure. 11:50 Look as we look in passage-- scripture in 1 John 2: 15, 11:57 the Bible says, "Love not what? 11:58 Good you got it. 11:59 "Love not the world or the things that are" what 12:02 "that are in the world," why? 12:05 "If any man loves the world, 12:07 the love of the Father is not in him." 12:10 Is that plain? 12:12 That's why when they-- 12:14 we want to imitate the fashions 12:15 or the things of this world 12:17 that we have to subdue it rather quickly 12:19 or we cease to be the children of God, what. 12:21 Because the Bible said, 12:23 the love with the Father is not in Him, 12:25 when we do the things of the world. 12:26 Its real easy test as we go through all of these subjects 12:30 three part series is that we look 12:32 and if we look like everybody else in the world. 12:37 If we just fit in when we go to Wal-Mart. 12:40 If we just fit in where ever we go 12:42 and we fit right in, there is something wrong. 12:46 We are to be a peculiar people, different. 12:49 That means not only the way we dress, 12:51 the way that we talk, the way that we act, 12:52 our conversation. 12:54 See the Bible says this in Ephesians 5:10 12:58 and read all of it. 12:59 This simple says, "Proving what is acceptable unto God." 13:04 Do you really want to know what's acceptable to the God 13:07 or if you just so steeped in what you want 13:10 and how you want it and this is the way it's going to be? 13:13 You are not going to listen with that attitude. 13:15 Please don't do that. 13:17 Again if we want to do a subject, 13:18 you know that be pleasing and everybody shout 13:20 and say hallelujah it wouldn't be these subject. 13:23 But, you know, what? 13:24 We see such a-- a vast change, 13:27 changes are going on in all churches, 13:29 all denominations around the world 13:31 that it makes me hot sick I don't know about you. 13:34 I can't understand it. 13:36 And we looked at the world so much 13:38 and we doesn't want to imitate the world. 13:40 Well, as soon as we do 13:42 we are no longer the children of God. 13:44 The love of the world, the love of the father is not in us. 13:46 So there must be something going on here 13:48 that we need to examine may be closer than we ever have. 13:51 So the Bible says we need to prove 13:53 what is acceptable unto God. 13:56 And while about as we look 13:58 2 Thessalonians 5:21 makes a statement. 14:01 It says, "Prove all thing 14:03 and hold fast to that which is good." 14:08 Now, I am not asking too much here, am I? 14:10 The Bible says, to prove, good, 14:14 good all things 14:16 and then you hold fast to that which is good. 14:19 So even--these subjects that we are talking about 14:21 here we have to prove if it's good. 14:23 If it is good we have to hold on to it. 14:26 And if it's not good why is it in scripture? 14:29 Why does the Spirit of Prophecy talk over and over about it? 14:31 Does our witness not matter or why they get to us. 14:35 Have may of our churches fallen apart 14:36 because of the things that we that we put on our body 14:38 or may be we don't put on? 14:41 Or the way we talk, the way we act. Oh, yes. 14:44 So its imparity than that we are to be like Jesus. 14:47 Psalms 32:8 the Bible says, 14:50 "I will instruct thee and I will" what? 14:53 Good the next word is 14:54 "Teach thee in the way which thou shalt go, 14:58 I will guide thee with mine eye." 15:02 Beautiful precious promises his here. 15:04 So just those couple of passages 15:06 put in together quickly with me, if you will do that. 15:09 So we are to prove what? 15:10 What is acceptable to God 15:13 and then we are to hold on to it. 15:15 Shall have problems in years passed. 15:16 Even in our moment here we prove from scripture what is, 15:20 what is good but we are not been holding fast to it. 15:22 We have been slowly slipping, slipping, slipping, 15:24 ever so slightly away, away, away 15:26 until we are so far away. 15:28 Is--can there be a coming back? 15:30 Can there really be a reformation 15:32 among our churches? Can there really be a change? 15:37 Well, we know the Holy Spirit can do that 15:38 but you know what he needs a willing individual. 15:41 Willing to change, willing to be pleasing in the side of God. 15:44 So we are to prove and then we are to do what? 15:47 Hold fast to that which is good. 15:50 Now and then God will instruct, 15:53 God will teach, and God will guide. 15:57 That all three passage scripture that we read. 15:59 So we are we are told here 16:01 that God will do all of these things for us 16:03 if we first--the Bible said if there first be what? 16:06 Come on. Good. 16:07 If there first be a willing mind. 16:10 Oh friend, do you have a willing mind today? 16:13 Isn't, oh. 16:14 And listen I realize these subjects 16:16 that we are doing here in the series. 16:18 Listen, the first and the most important thing as you-- 16:21 is to come to Jesus Christ, 16:23 is to get to know Him, fall in love with Him. 16:26 And when you do 16:27 these things that we are talking about 16:28 will fall into place. 16:30 So if you are just getting acquainted with Him 16:33 just pray the Holy Spirit will help you to understand 16:35 what you need to understand. 16:37 But I am really addressing 16:39 those who have been in and around 16:40 we call Christianity in the church for many years 16:43 and we are letting down standards that God has set. 16:47 You know better 16:48 but you know as we continue to let the stand or down 16:50 spiritually we go darker and darker and darker. 16:53 We don't know day light from dark. 16:56 May God help us to see the importance of the issue. 16:58 See God is willing as we read in these passages, 17:01 He is willing to show us. 17:03 He is willing to teach us what is acceptable in His side. 17:06 But let me tell you this, my brother and sisters. 17:08 He will never force you. God will never force you. 17:13 He will make the information available to you. 17:17 In fact notice with me in Job 5:27 17:20 we read a passage while ago 17:21 but Job 5:27 says this, he was--this was speaking 17:26 if you read the whole chapter 17:27 and I like we always do that. 17:28 Read before and read after 17:29 but it says here, this is speaking of God's 17:31 His justice and His mercy and all His truth. 17:35 And here's what it says, what Job said. 17:37 He said, "Lo this, we have searched it, 17:42 and so it is, we hear it, 17:46 and we know that it is for thy good." 17:51 Interesting, we searched it. 17:53 So as we are studying we are doing what? 17:55 We are searching it 17:56 and we are going to do as Job said, 17:58 we hear it and then we are to know it 18:01 and then what because this is for our own good. 18:04 See this passage of scripture that we can really, 18:06 we can really chew on. 18:08 Let's give you a little bit example about 18:10 God's not going to force you. 18:12 You remember-- you remember Balaam? 18:14 He is supposed to be you know a prophet of God. 18:17 What happened with Balaam? 18:18 Balaam fell apart. 18:19 You know why he fell a part and he went against God? 18:22 Listen he wanted his own way. 18:27 I have to pray a lot of times 18:28 when I hear--when you read a passage or scripture 18:30 and it's very, very clear. 18:31 And some one will say, well I know what it says 18:34 but I know what it says 18:36 but I know what God will want me to do 18:39 but I want too. 18:41 Do we not really understand 18:43 what we are saying in the face of God? 18:46 Are we not throwing Him out? 18:47 Are we saying we don't want that teaching? 18:49 And then we turn on say but I like this over here. Why? 18:52 Because may be our lifestyle was acceptable to that 18:55 and it's easy over here. 18:57 Then when something else is comfortable 18:58 or something we like to do we just say 19:00 well, you know, God is not really particular. 19:02 Well, listen to the study. 19:03 You stay with this program and you're gonna see. 19:06 You see if God is not particular 19:07 if He is or He isn't. 19:09 But remember God-- 19:10 Balaam here he followed his own will 19:14 and there became trouble. 19:17 God let him follow his own will. 19:20 Number one, is because-- 19:22 can read this in Spirit of Prophecy 19:23 in Patriarchs and Prophets 440. 19:25 You can read it in the Book of Numbers 19:27 Chapter 22 through 24. 19:29 Balaam, listen Balaam was determined 19:32 to have his own way. 19:35 This is the problem we have in every area of life. 19:39 If we are determined, if you are determined 19:40 to have your own way today 19:42 nothing is going to change your mind. 19:44 God is not going to force you to do it. 19:45 He is gonna give you plenty of information. 19:47 He loves you. He wants you to be his child. 19:49 He will give you information 19:50 and then you have to make that choice that decision. 19:53 And remember Balaam once again 19:55 for those who may be have not studied or read, 19:58 he was once a good man, once a prophet of God. 20:01 But what? He slipped into apostasy. 20:04 You hear this word all the time, 20:06 I think we are slipping further and further in apostasy 20:08 and we are calling everything good, 20:09 everything is going fine. 20:11 My friend, all we have to do is just look around. 20:13 Balaam slipped into apostasy, apostasy is simply this. 20:17 He abandon what he wants believe to be the truth. 20:22 So many of you today listening, watching 20:25 you are in apostasy. Not trying to judge. 20:28 I don't--no, I am not talking about specific individual. 20:31 Those of you who know better, 20:32 those of you who have learned what truth is 20:34 and you said I know what it is 20:35 but then you turned on that today, 20:37 you are in apostasy. 20:39 That simply says listen carefully, 20:40 you are in a lost condition. Oh. 20:42 you don't want to stay there, do you? 20:45 It's easy to make that turn around 20:46 by the grace of God, isn't it? 20:49 Now remember Balaam here 20:50 he didn't seek to do the will of God. 20:53 This is all in setting up a platform 20:56 for the subjects that we talking about. 20:58 He did not want to follow the will of God 21:01 he wanted his own way 21:03 and he tried to then to then justify 21:06 and then he tried to convince himself that God approved. 21:11 Have you ever met any one like that 21:13 or may be have you-- have you ever been that way. 21:16 I think I found myself in there several times. 21:19 That, you know, God's word has said 21:21 but yet we want our own way 21:23 and so then we begin to justify it 21:25 and we try to get a group of people 21:27 who will say amen to it 21:29 and, you know, and lot of times they-- 21:31 they wants to end up for what is right 21:33 and afraid of own Jew 21:34 and so they just say, oh yeah. 21:35 And so and then we begin to say 21:37 oh I believe God approves of this. 21:40 I wonder if the word is so clarity 21:42 that we can't figure out what God approves us 21:44 or what He does or what He doesn't. 21:46 Isn't that clarity? 21:47 No its not, its clear, its straight. 21:49 See, many are doing the same thing 21:51 that I am talking about today. 21:54 They have no problem with giving up 21:58 or doing something for God as long 22:02 as it's in harmony with what they want. 22:07 Have you ever met anyone like that 22:08 or may be have you been like that? 22:11 May be you are. 22:13 Why have any problem giving this up 22:15 and that up as long as it doesn't cross me. 22:18 Is that really denying self taking up the cross? 22:22 See the Bible here really reveals truths for us today. 22:26 So clear that we can understand them, 22:29 a child can really understand them. 22:31 But when these Bible truths come home to us 22:35 and it tell us things that rub against the grain 22:39 that goes against my-- 22:43 my desires, may be your desires, 22:46 then we have we can do one or two things. 22:48 We can say, thank you Lord, for revealing it. 22:51 I am a happy man now. Thank you, Lord. 22:55 Or we can begin to lay aside scripture. 22:58 Oh, lay a side scripture and we begin to justify it. 23:03 Well, I did because or God doesn't really mind. 23:07 Things have changed. 23:08 Let me tell you for those who keep saying that, 23:10 please don't keep saying that. 23:12 Please don't say, God is the same 23:13 yesterday, today and for ever. 23:15 We read that in passage and scriptures, we go along. 23:18 Never say God changed so the times change. 23:21 They change every minute. 23:24 But God doesn't change. 23:25 And we are balancing now with the word of God. 23:28 Now how I feel, not what I want, 23:30 not what the world is doing, not what the church is doing. 23:32 But what does God say 23:34 that I need to be doing as part of His family. 23:38 We begin to justify, we begin to tell ourselves, 23:41 and begin tell others. 23:42 Here is what I have heard people say. 23:45 They have been just proving on the spot was clear they-- 23:47 you know what they say? 23:48 They say, look I will tell you what I am gonna do. 23:49 I tell you I am gonna-- I know what's clear 23:52 and I think I understand what it is 23:54 but, you know what I am gonna go home 23:55 and I am gonna pray about it. 23:56 I am going to search the scriptures a little bit more 23:58 and I am gonna pray a little bit more. 24:00 Now I am not, I'm not down charting that, dear friend. 24:02 But you know what? 24:03 Sometimes when people say, 24:05 many say it because there are seriously searching. 24:08 But many say it because they are trying 24:09 to buy time as it were, to say, well I am praying 24:13 and I am searching about and they go on and on 24:15 for years and months in the same old route. 24:17 They never change and they are saying I am praying. 24:20 Yeah, but they just say it, 24:21 I know what the word say it. 24:24 If you know what the word says 24:25 what are you doing praying more about the answer? 24:28 I think you get when I am talking about here. 24:30 You already--God has already reveled that truth to you. 24:34 You already know the answer. 24:37 And here's something very interesting. 24:39 If you already know the answer, 24:43 you have already prayed about 24:44 and time pass and you already know 24:45 but you are not willing to do it, 24:47 let me tell you, 24:49 God leaves those individuals to their own desires for him. 24:55 Look, we can't be left--we need the power of the Holy Spirit. 24:59 We need God, we need Jesus, 25:02 we need the powers of heaven in our life 25:04 but if we want to do our own thing 25:06 after we already know and we are just saying, 25:08 well, we will pray more of that and we will see what's going. 25:10 If you already know, 25:11 God will leave you to your own desires. 25:14 You say, loud. 25:15 Listen I will give you a passage 25:16 in Psalms 81:11, 12. 25:21 Here's what, here's what the Bible says. 25:23 Jesus talking about his people, 25:24 whether Old Testament or New Testament 25:26 God loves His people, loved them back then, 25:28 He loves us today, all He loves us all the same. 25:31 God says here and I know 25:32 this is not talking about the world 25:34 and the devil and the innocent. 25:35 "My people would not hearken to my voice." 25:39 Now remember if God says something in His word, 25:41 whether it's he, dress, put on, 25:43 take or whatever it might be, 25:44 He means what He says. 25:46 This is what we have to get to our head. 25:47 If no longer as a child of God, 25:50 I believe in Christian to say well I know but. 25:52 No, not any more 25:55 because He will leave us to those stouts. 25:57 The Bible says here, "My people would not 25:59 hearken to my voice." 26:02 Listen, oh how painful this must be from heaven. 26:05 I don't understand all of that. 26:07 But I know how painful in this life 26:08 when your family, your friends 26:09 or people you study with and you love leave you. 26:13 Jesus said, "So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust, 26:20 they walked in their own counsels." 26:24 Comes a point God says, I gave them up. 26:28 Why, because they wouldn't listen to counsel. 26:31 They wouldn't listen to His voice. 26:33 So when God then shows us what is right, 26:37 we really see it. 26:38 Now I mean, may be you have never heard it. 26:40 You never--these three series you never heard 26:42 may be before many of you have 26:44 when you rejected what the Bible has said 26:46 we need to get back to the word. 26:49 All we need to revive. All we need a reformation. 26:51 Yes we do, and that's more than 26:53 just talk about it is acting, it's doing something about it. 26:58 But when, you know God shows us it's right 27:00 and we say, all I understand is right. 27:02 Don't please, don't presume, 27:04 presume to go to-- to God and to pray that 27:08 somehow He is going to excuse us 27:12 from following his counsel. 27:14 That's what some people mean. 27:16 Well, I want to go back and pray about it some more. 27:18 Well, you already said you understood the subject, 27:20 I am not talking about those who really don't understand. 27:22 We pray about it, you continue to study. 27:23 Get that square to way down. 27:25 Talking about that already been squared away. 27:27 You know what it says, do not go to God 27:29 and say God is going to make exception, 27:31 you the exception, 27:33 He is going to excuse you from following his counsel. 27:37 Oh friend, when we see these beautiful truths 27:41 and with the humble spirit. 27:42 Praise God, you have to have a humble spirit, 27:45 a submissive spirit what it means, doesn't it. 27:48 Ask God for strength and ask Him for victory. 27:50 Ask Him for love for the truth 27:53 and a love for Him and say Lord help us, 27:57 help me, help us to be obedient to Your word. 28:02 See, are we willing to-- willing to do that 28:07 say, Lord I want to be submissive. 28:10 We are going to be talking about 28:11 some things people say, oh. 28:13 This is what I hear all the time. 28:15 Well, God won't keep me out here 28:16 not really for just one little thing. 28:20 He has some real okay, oh its just one little thing 28:22 I am doing all these other things right, are you? 28:25 We might say that, but not just one little thing. 28:31 We will touch on that in just a moment 28:32 but notice, I just I was kind of moved 28:34 as I read this article from Review and Herald. 28:37 And notice the writing it takes place 28:40 November 17, 1885. Wow. 28:43 You wouldn't think that some of these issues, 28:45 these topics would be something back then. 28:47 Yes, they were. 28:50 It says, we need, "We must become aware" 28:53 notice this "aware of pretended holiness 28:59 that permits transgression of the law of God." 29:03 Did you get the word pretended, holiness, 29:07 that permits transgression of the God's law? 29:12 "Those cannot be sanctified 29:16 who trample upon the law of God 29:19 and put it under their feet" and notice this, 29:22 "and then judge themselves 29:25 buy a standard of their own doing." 29:30 See, that's what happens. 29:31 God gives us a standard, we don't like what it says, 29:34 it doesn't meet our lifestyle of what we think it all 29:36 because we watch the world, 29:37 and we have been out of the world 29:38 and that's what the world look 29:39 and we do want to be different from. 29:40 Are you following? 29:43 He set the standard up but we put His standard aside 29:46 and we set up our own standard. 29:48 Are we any different from the enemy 29:50 who said I will go what? 29:51 I will go, I will be above. 29:53 I will sit in the seat of the most high. 29:57 Wow, are we any different when we do that? 30:00 Some that to consider when you think? 30:04 So in our search for what pleases God, 30:08 in our search--now remember not pleasing the church, 30:11 not pleasing man, not please-- 30:14 but in our search to please God, 30:16 to be part of His family. 30:19 Please consider this passage with me 30:21 found in the Book of 2 Corinthians 4:4, 30:24 2 Corinthians 4:4. Here's what is happened. 30:27 Here's what the enemy has done. 30:29 This is why we have so many problems in the world 30:33 and in the church and we don't even realize it 30:36 and we would just fasten and carry on and leave 30:39 and take our names off and every thing 30:42 because we think that we are right. 30:44 The Bible says, "The God of this world." 30:49 "The God of this world 30:51 hath blinded the minds of them 30:55 which believe not." 30:57 But you say, well, no I believe. 31:00 The enemy doesn't care whether you say 31:02 I believe or not, 31:03 not long as you are not willing to conform. 31:07 God of this world has blinded 31:08 the minds of them which believe not, 31:11 or they read something in scripture 31:12 and say well I see it 31:14 but I don't believe God is going to really require that. 31:16 He is not going to hold me accountable for that. 31:18 He become an nonbeliever because the word already says. 31:22 It puts this in a bad light here. 31:23 See, we need God, 31:24 let's not say this is something lie. 31:26 I am talking about eternity for you an eternity for me. 31:30 Changes must come. They must develop. 31:33 It's getting worst and worst 31:34 and worst and not better. 31:37 And so God is giving us some clear input here. 31:41 Remember He is drilling the minds, 31:44 he's blinded the minds. 31:46 There is another part if when I say 31:47 of which do not believe 31:49 or they which will not separate from him. 31:54 He blinds the minds the enemy does are those 31:57 who do not separate from Him. 31:59 So if we have the worlds you see 32:01 and running around us and we are following all that. 32:03 Then what? 32:05 We are not separated from the enemy 32:07 or for the world and so he blinds your mind 32:09 to say right is wrong and wrong is right, 32:13 very interesting. Five Testimonies 5:12. 32:16 See part of our problems we are not reading scripture, 32:18 we are not reading the Spirit of Prophecy. 32:19 Well, I have a book or two I have a-- 32:21 you are not reading it friend, that's why we don't know. 32:24 Praise God for the help that 32:25 He's given his last day church 32:27 so that we can understand these things that what-- 32:29 about please Him that's acceptable to Him. 32:33 Five Testimonies 5:12, this powerful. Oh, pray. 32:37 Uncle always said pray kids. Pray kids, pray. 32:40 That we hear these words and then we say, 32:43 oh Lord what would you have me to do? 32:47 Notice this we just talked it in passage of scripture 32:50 in 2 Corinthians 4:4 about the God of this world. 32:53 But now listen to this. 32:56 His voice, now we are talking about Jesus. 32:59 As a Christian I am interested in His voice 33:00 I know you are too. 33:02 His voice and what we are talking about its not important 33:04 I wouldn't be talking about it. It is important. 33:07 It can be life and death, yes it can. 33:10 "His voice Jesus will be is recognized if." 33:15 "Jesus voice will be recognized 33:17 if we do not separate our souls from Him." 33:23 Somebody needs to listen. 33:26 We can recognize the voice of the Savior 33:29 if we don not separate from Him by--by what? 33:35 Listen, "By walking in our own ways, 33:40 doing according to our own wills, 33:45 following and following the promptings" 33:48 notice "of an unsanctified heart," 33:53 here is what happens and then, 33:55 "until the senses have become so confused" 33:58 somebody stay with me, 34:00 "so confused that eternal things are not discerned, 34:07 and the voice of Satan is so disguised 34:11 that it is accepted as the voice of God." 34:15 Friends, these are not just little words 34:17 I am talking about here. 34:20 That people says, well, the Lord tell me, 34:22 the Lord told me. 34:24 If we are following our own ways, 34:27 if we are doing according to our own wills, 34:30 if we are following the promptings 34:32 of our unsanctified hearts. 34:35 See the sanctified heart is one thing 34:37 the unsanctified belongs to the enemy. 34:41 We become so confused-- 34:42 well I am going to do because this is my, 34:43 I am a grown up I can do what I want to do. 34:45 You are walking in your own will, 34:46 you are walking in your own ways, 34:48 you are own devising. It's an unsanctified heart. 34:52 And all of a sudden we think we are hearing 34:54 and we are impressed what we need to do 34:56 but if the enemy we become so confused we cannot-- 34:59 the Bible says spiritual things are 35:00 spiritually to descend didn't it. 35:03 But we can't descend a spiritually immortal 35:05 somebody brings it up to you. 35:06 Oh, I don't want to hear it anymore, 35:07 I don't make any difference. 35:09 A child of God will never say 35:11 when it comes to something in scripture 35:12 that it doesn't make any difference. 35:14 My Bible as I read it, it says every word 35:16 that proceeds out of the mouth of God. 35:20 If you are child of God, 35:21 if you are not in your ways of the world you say, 35:22 well I am a willing I don't care anymore then say it. 35:26 Don't want you to, but you say it. 35:28 Don't say I am a Christian and I know 35:30 but I don't have to listen to God. 35:33 Please do not, please do not accept 35:35 the voice of the enemy as the voice of God. 35:40 Oh my brother and sister, 35:41 if you ever have any doubt on any subject 35:45 always first consult scripture 35:49 and then you fully put your self in the hands right of Jesus 35:56 and say, Lord, listen I will follow thee 36:01 where ever this leads I want Your will to be done. 36:07 Lord, even if it's against my will, 36:10 if its against my taste 36:13 and my desires I need to desire You more. 36:16 I need to love You more than all these 36:18 little weedy nothings of the world 36:21 and sometime I put those ahead of You. 36:24 And then sit in this not my will but thine be done. 36:30 Isn't that what Jesus prayed three times 36:32 Matthew 26:44 oh read it. 36:36 See God done agonizing, 36:37 He said, "Not my will, but thine be done." 36:39 Can we do that's a-- you realize how that would 36:41 just turn this moment around 36:44 if all goes well, we could owe for a higher house 36:46 and want to please our self and do what we want to do, 36:47 regard of being a witness for Jesus-- 36:49 it doesn't matter, we say it doesn't matter. It does. 36:53 That's why Jesus said if any man will come after Me, 36:58 let him deny his self. 37:00 See the first thing you find where the person 37:02 who is just wants to be like the world 37:03 and do the things of the world, 37:05 they don't want to deny their self. 37:06 They are just not going to do. Why? 37:08 Because they walk to do it. They follow their own council. 37:13 He said, "Take up the cross and follow Me" Luke 9:23. 37:20 Since we dig into this subject 37:22 and we are just-- we are scratching 37:23 but I want a foundation that's so solid 37:26 that when we really begin to boom, boom, boom 37:28 from the word of God from the Spirit of Prophecy 37:30 you are going to say, I realize its is not these individual, 37:32 its not the Pastor Shelton, 37:33 here is not this group or that group, 37:36 it's the word of God. 37:37 It's God speaking to me that I am His child 37:40 and He does expect some things from me. 37:46 And can we say at the close of the day 37:47 I wonder how I have done my best for Jesus 37:51 because He is done so much for me. 37:54 Yeah, we are never willing to give up a thing, 37:56 He gave up all of glory to come down here to seek 37:58 and save you and me. 38:01 As we really dig into the subject 38:03 on Christian standards or you know does God really 38:07 you know, approve, does it really matter about 38:09 our appearance to God? 38:12 Does our appearance really matter to God? 38:16 Christian standards, see already what little bit 38:20 we've read the word of God is already reminding me 38:25 that there are things that are acceptable 38:27 which automatically means there are things 38:29 that are not acceptable to Him. 38:32 I am thankful that He makes them plain. 38:34 Why--why is the water become so muddy? 38:38 Why are we so confused? 38:41 Is it because we don't read 38:43 what the way God says in his word, 38:45 we don't want to hear it. 38:47 See God is willingly we read to show us, 38:50 He is willing to guide us but He will not force us 38:53 against our will to accept any part of the scripture. 38:59 And to me it's kind of interesting. 39:00 When it comes to Christian standards 39:04 many believe this there should be-- 39:06 wow, there should be no absolutes. 39:09 Oh, there should be-- there should be 39:11 no right and really wrong. 39:13 There should be no restrictions 39:15 and I just need to do what I feel is right. 39:20 Friend, what if everybody began to do what they feel is right. 39:27 Do you see we need a standard from the word of God. 39:30 This is why the world is in the mess that's in 39:32 and many, many different areas 39:34 because everybody wants to do what they feel is right. 39:39 This is not any motions here this is principle of God's word. 39:43 And if we have this one standard up here 39:45 we would all be thinking pretty much the same, would we? 39:48 If we use the standards, sure we would. 39:50 Is it worrying about people, worried about our job, 39:52 and worried about saying anything about in the church 39:54 because people will get all upset about it? 39:59 So will you-- I have no absolutes, 40:01 I don't have no restriction, no rules and then you'll say 40:04 people are bold enough to say I just not gonna give it up. 40:07 I say where it is, wow. 40:10 Please may I remind you this, 40:13 true Christians who love Jesus, 40:16 right who love Him with all of their heart they want 40:20 and they strive to please Him in all things 40:26 if you love Jesus. 40:29 And because of the choices of many professing 40:33 to be God's children today, 40:35 God's people we face certain issues 40:39 in teachings and doctrines 40:41 that's conforming us day in and day out 40:45 and surely it includes eating and drinking 40:49 and what we put on our bodies. 40:54 It, it talks about it. 40:59 And then we mentioned a few moments ago, 41:01 few minutes ago is God really that particular. 41:05 Does He really care? 41:06 This is kind of interesting please pay attention to this. 41:08 We need to get this home we get nothing else 41:10 as we delve into this 41:12 fascinating at least to me in subjects 41:15 but something that I see that's going haywire 41:19 in among God's last day people. 41:21 Must be addressed, must be talked about, 41:23 must be dealt with. 41:26 I heard people say, well, God is not that particular. 41:31 It's not a life and death situation, 41:34 it's not a life and death deal does not really particular. 41:38 Surely God will not keep me out of heaven 41:40 because I choose to ware something 41:43 or not to wear or to put something on. 41:46 Even though God has made it clear in His word, 41:49 oh no He is not going to keep me out of heaven, 41:51 I heard people plea their case. 41:57 This question let me pose it to you 41:58 right now or you are thinking. 42:00 If I got, hopefully we got your attention, 42:04 can one thing keep you, keep me out of heaven? 42:10 Oh, we have got people bawling, 42:11 scrolling right now, oh no, no-- 42:14 what does God's word had to say. 42:15 See how I feel about it in my emotions 42:18 and all the sins it doesn't has, 42:19 cannot play a part in learning 42:21 and knowing what truth is. 42:23 I must go to God. 42:24 Can one thing keep me out of heaven? 42:29 Oh, yes pretty powerful isn't it. 42:32 Listen, I happened to read the Bible 42:33 one time in James Chapter 2 42:36 and you have read it too I know verse 10. 42:39 God said this in his word. 42:40 Listen he said, if you offend in one point, 42:45 you are guilty of all. 42:48 Surely God won't keep me out of heaven 42:50 just for one little thing, after all, all these good things 42:52 what you are doing. 42:55 God doesn't look at all like that. 42:58 The Bible says, if I offend in one point I am guilty of all. 43:02 Now let's give some illustrations here 43:04 of our Lord and our Savior Jesus. 43:06 Does it make it different? 43:07 Jesus said this in Matthew 10:37 very simple, 43:13 he said, "He that love of father 43:18 or mother is not worthy of me." 43:22 He didn't say mom and dad at one or two or three thing. 43:25 He said if you love daddy, father, 43:27 more than you love Me you are not worthy of Me. 43:30 If you love mother more than Me 43:32 you are not what worthy of Me. 43:34 If you love anyone thing in this world 43:37 more than you love God you are not worthy of Him. 43:40 Well, one thing keep you out of heaven you, 43:42 you decide for that. 43:43 You go through that and see what was Jesus saying. 43:49 Oh you want another one, good. 43:51 You remember the rich young ruler. 43:53 What did Jesus say to him? 43:55 He said, go and sell what you have and give all. 43:59 Wow, and then Jesus came to him 44:03 and said to him, now listen carefully. 44:05 Jesus said, all this you lack one thing. 44:11 How many things? You lack one thing. 44:17 He had to sell all the right and give. 44:20 Read that in Luke 14:33. 44:22 So we must be willing to forsake all or give up all 44:27 but the rich young ruler loves something what-- 44:30 one thing more than God. 44:33 Will one thing keep us out of heaven? Absolutely. 44:39 Here is the bottom line. 44:41 If we just allow one thing, 44:44 one person to separate us from God 44:49 and doing his will-- 44:52 I must say this so plain we won't miss it. 44:54 We can't go to heaven. I'll include myself in all this. 44:59 I am trying to point a figure. 45:00 I don't know who you are, 45:01 what your relationship with Christ 45:03 until when you put the Bible's here. 45:04 What the Holy Spirit impress me, 45:06 we cant go to heaven. 45:08 Why, because the commandment says what? 45:10 "Thou shalt have no other" come on "Gods before me" 45:16 Not just one God before him. 45:18 We are not worthy of Him. 45:20 So does one thing make a difference in our life? 45:23 Yes, it does. See Jesus is serious. 45:29 That's what made me think. 45:31 Just a few days ago 45:32 I heard of some kind of reading here 45:34 on the rich young ruler. 45:36 You see because this is what we face in the church. 45:38 We face issues that need to be corrected 45:40 and need to be changed 45:41 but the pastor has not the spiritual backbone 45:43 to do anything about it 45:44 or the elders don't do anything about it 45:46 and so we let the situation go 45:48 and it get worse and worse and worse. 45:50 Remember when Jesus has spoken 45:52 He doesn't change His mind. 45:55 And so you think about the rich young ruler here, 45:58 He told the rich young ruler 45:59 what he need to do to have eternal life. 46:01 And that's what Jesus said 46:02 I came to seek and save that was lost. 46:04 The rich young ruler said, no. 46:06 Are you still with me, he said no. 46:09 Jesus didn't say what-- 46:11 ah okay we don't want you to leave the church. 46:13 Now, okay we don't want you hurt your feelings now 46:15 and follow with Me. Come on. 46:17 We don't want you cause you troubles 46:19 don't tear the church apart. 46:20 So why don't you just give half, 46:23 just give half and you can stay. 46:24 We will all be friends everything will work out good. 46:26 Jesus doesn't compromise truth 46:29 and you should either at your church 46:30 and I should either. 46:33 The young man turned away sorrowfully because why? 46:36 He had great riches. 46:37 He lost his soul because of one thing, 46:42 but Jesus never change what true, isn't it? 46:45 He never changed it and He still doesn't change it. 46:48 So this is one thing matter you better it. 46:53 We have to remember its not-- 46:57 don't get me wrong board meetings are important, 46:59 churches are important, council is important 47:01 but you know its not what a board says, 47:05 its not what a denomination says, 47:07 its not what a church says, 47:10 what a man says that's important. 47:15 You know where I am going with this. 47:16 It's what God word tells us. 47:18 See immediately change their mind 47:21 but as we quoted earlier Hebrews 13:8, 47:24 "God is the same yesterday and today and forever." 47:27 He changes not. I am glad He doesn't change. 47:33 I am glad He doesn't change his mind. 47:35 I am glad He doesn't compromise. 47:38 You can't compromise truth 47:40 because if you do it's a lie. 47:43 You wanted it down, you have nothing. 47:44 Holy Spirit cannot accompany on truths compromised. 47:49 Share those areas or you can't 47:50 but not the truth of God's word, 47:52 things are eternal. 47:55 So how do the people of God view modesty? 47:59 How do we view modesty? 48:03 It's in the word the Bible talks about it 48:05 how important it is. 48:07 Webster's dictionary says modesty and keep these in minds 48:10 we do all this three part study in this, 48:12 its talking about behavior, modesty deals with dressing, 48:17 it deals with speaking in a way that is considered proper, 48:21 the course, decent, humble in appearance and style. 48:28 That's what a worldly-- 48:29 be careful worldly dictionary says. 48:33 So how does spiritual house the Bible talk about, 48:35 so how should we fit here? 48:39 Just to share one passage in few moments 48:40 we have got left on this, 48:41 we are just now started to dig now 48:43 in the book of 1 Timothy 2:9, 10 48:46 lets really scratch a dig here. 48:49 When we are dealing with how a Christian dresses 48:52 thus the Bible really look at this issue 48:54 absolutely yes, modesty. 48:56 1 Timothy 2:9, 10. 48:58 The Bible says, "In like manner also, 49:00 the women adorn themselves in modest apparel." 49:04 Now let me just make this plain 49:05 I am not picking on the woman 49:06 I will have a lot to say about it. 49:07 You know why? 49:08 Because the word of God addresses the women 49:11 and not the men. Did you get it? 49:15 Say first excuse the person we will get 49:17 and I am not picking on. 49:18 The Bible say, in like manner also, 49:21 that women adorn themselves what? 49:24 Be honest about. 49:25 As you will know the biggest problem 49:26 in dressing in what we put on our body 49:28 women have it more than men. 49:31 It's a fact. 49:33 I am not picking on it's a fact, 49:35 some of you not going to like it. 49:37 But you know what? 49:38 The Bible addresses women so that what we will address. 49:42 Doesn't mean the men don't have the issue. 49:43 Oh yes absolutely. 49:45 Bible said that, in like manner also, 49:48 that women adorn themselves in modest apparel." 49:50 That means orderly, 49:51 that means an good arrangement, 49:54 that means something that's good. 49:55 You know something with and it says 49:57 "with a shamefacedness." 49:59 You know what that means that means while you dress 50:01 and while you go out you should do it. 50:02 Well listen when it comes towards men 50:05 it should be with bashfulness 50:08 not exposing but for bashfulness 50:13 and then we talk about 50:14 in reverence and all towards God. 50:18 The woman addresses herself with shamefacedness. 50:22 That means bashfulness toward men. 50:25 That means reverence and all towards God. 50:29 And then it says they need to be with sobriety. 50:32 That means they need to have self control, 50:34 soundness of mind and says not with braided hair. 50:38 I have heard all kind of excuses 50:39 in different interpretations of this 50:41 but it means hair that is twined 50:43 that means its binned its plated 50:45 that's folded it could be any kind of a hairstyle 50:49 that's made up to attract attention. 50:53 This is what Timothy was talking about. 50:54 Her something that attracts attention to yourself is wrong. 50:57 Jesus never did one thing that brought attention to Himself 51:01 when he be lifting at Jesus Christ. 51:04 We don't want anything here. Why? 51:07 It would be against the principle set forth. 51:14 That Paul is concerned, Timothy is concerned 51:17 for the Christian style 51:18 the lifestyle, the respectful modesty. 51:23 Have we lost our respect for modesty? 51:27 Does it not matter is there no difference 51:29 between men and woman? 51:32 Does it no longer matter that we cover our, our bodies? 51:38 Does God really care? 51:41 Here's--you know we think about bottom lines 51:45 when we read these things. 51:47 See Paul goes on makes it even more. 51:49 He talks about mentions no gold, 51:52 no pearls, or costly array. 51:55 How is that a Christian can somehow look at this 51:59 and it says mentions no gold, no pearls, no costly array. 52:07 How do we overlook that? Can we? 52:11 Compare that scripture with 1 Peter 3: 3-6 52:16 we just have a few minutes, 52:18 it takes a little bit longer in which to do that 52:20 but may be if we give you that to think on 52:22 if you haven't read it in a while. 52:24 1 Peter, turn with me your bible to 1 Peter. 52:27 Now as we read this right here, 52:28 notice these are words from God this is God's word. 52:32 1 Peter 3:3-6 52:35 1 Peter 3:3-6 the Bible said, 52:40 "Whose adorning" right, 52:43 "let it not be that" of what? "Of the outward adorning." 52:48 Talks about the "Plaiting the hair, 52:49 and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel, 52:52 But let it be the hidden man of the heart, 52:56 in which is not corruptible, 52:58 even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, 53:02 which is in the sight of God of great price. 53:06 For after this manner in the old time 53:07 notice this in woman holy women also, 53:11 who trusted in God, adorned themselves, 53:13 being in subjection to their own husbands. 53:16 Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, 53:19 calling him Lord whose daughters ye are, 53:21 so long as ye do well, 53:24 and are not afraid with any amazement." 53:26 Passage of scripture you see Peter lays it out. 53:31 He lays it out clear and simple straight 53:33 just like Timothy is it the truth 53:35 or is it not the truth. 53:37 Can we get around it? 53:39 And still we please into God, 53:41 who has God really spoken here. 53:44 Now we are gonna take this in our next program, 53:46 we are going dissect these passages 53:49 that I just read quickly here 53:51 because it deals with adoring 53:53 and arrangement and hair and gold 53:55 and all that apparel that we put on 53:56 and it will give the spirit of prophecy in the Bible. 53:58 It becomes very clear to us 54:00 that God does care about our appearance. 54:03 We are his children and he loves us. 54:07 And there is something that we gotten away from, 54:09 so far away that it demands a change 54:12 and we will talk about some of those changes 54:13 and may be how those changes can take place 54:16 if we have real spirit of filled men and woman leading out 54:20 is there in the church things can happen. 54:21 We can receive the blessing, 54:23 we can get the, what, the council of God 54:25 and put it in operation again. 54:26 Won't you pray with me about that 54:28 right now before we close? 54:29 Would you do that? Let's pray for the Holy Spirit. 54:32 Merciful Father, in heaven. 54:33 We thank You, for your precious word. 54:34 We thank You, for helping us 54:36 to set a solid foundation 54:37 in which to build these beautiful truths. 54:39 We thank You Lord, for hearing and for answering prayer. 54:42 We thank You, for the words that are clear, 54:43 with none need to be mistaken how You care about us 54:47 and what You desire for us and we thank You 54:50 and we praise You in Jesus name. Amen. 54:54 As we say so often 54:56 now this program is coming to you 54:57 wouldn't be possible with out, 54:59 you know, wonderful love gifts that you send to us 55:02 and so that's so, so, so, so very important. 55:04 We don't talk about it too often 55:06 and we are not trying to do that. 55:07 We are in great need in the cause of Christ. 55:09 The more we preach these messages 55:10 the more people want to hear it, 55:12 the more cards and letters that we get to say 55:14 we haven't heard this kind of messages in a long time. 55:16 But mine is why not, we should be hearing them all the time. 55:19 And so people who are wanting more material 55:21 and so sending out, so would you just 55:23 prayerfully consider what you can do 55:25 to help this ministry to continue on help 3ABN 55:28 to continue on to be supportive 55:30 around the world for what is truth. 55:32 We believe in a straight testimony. 55:34 Straight testimony is going to divide 55:36 and separate the bunch of people isn't it? 55:38 Who is giving a straight testimony? 55:40 We need to be praying. 55:41 Now who's table are you eating at, 55:43 who are you been fed by? 55:44 We know it is by the spirit 55:45 of living God by the Holy Spirit. 55:47 But dear friends, we just we solicit your prayer, 55:50 your support, your question, your comment 55:52 anything we can do to help you, 55:53 you helped us so much. 55:54 Let's continue to get these programs into your home. 55:56 We thank you, God loves you, 55:57 we will see you next time. 56:01 Hello and greetings once again. 56:04 As we study and get to know our Savior more intimately 56:09 we begin to see much more clearly 56:11 that God accepts our coming to Him 56:14 just as we are. 56:16 All banged up and molded like the world 56:20 but He very gently take our clay bodies 56:23 and in such a loving passion He begins to remolded 56:26 and reshape us into the image of Jesus 56:30 and to fit us for His kingdom. 56:32 What a beautifully loving impatient God that we serve. 56:36 If only we extended the same care towards others 56:40 as God does towards us. 56:42 We have so much, so very much to learn 56:46 and I know that you will want to hear this message again 56:49 allow with the two that are yet to follow. 56:52 Therefore we are making this three part series 56:55 "Does our appearance really matter to God?" 56:58 Available to you for our love gift to help of set 57:02 the cost of bringing these messages 57:04 into your homes of just $23 or more. 57:08 And don't forget when you call 57:09 ask about our special sharing price. 57:13 In closing we would also like to remind you that Pastor Kenny 57:17 and I are available to come to your church 57:19 may be for a weekend 57:21 or even to hold the whole series of evangelistic meeting. 57:24 All you'll need to do is call us here 57:26 at Behold the Lamb Ministries 57:27 and make the needed arrangements. 57:30 Our phone number here in the Untied States 57:32 is 618-942-5044 57:36 that's Central Standard Time. 57:38 Or you may write us at Behold the Lamb Ministries, 57:41 PO Box 2030 Herrin, Illinois 62948. 57:46 You may also email us 57:48 at BeholdTheLambMinistries @yahoo.com 57:51 Or order on our website at BeholdTheLambMinistries.com. 57:56 Friends, until next time may our precious Lord 58:00 continue to richly bless you and yours. |
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