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00:38 Hello and welcome to Behold the Lamb Ministries,
00:41 we are so thankful 00:42 that you are joining us during this hour, 00:44 during this time of praise and worship. 00:46 That's what we're going to do this morning, 00:48 we're going to worship the Lord. 00:49 We've been worshiping the Lord, 00:51 we're going to continue to worship the Lord. 00:53 And this morning I'm not going to take 00:55 too much of Brother Kenny's time 00:56 because I know he has a powerful, powerful message 00:59 to deliver to us this morning. 01:01 But I'm so thankful 01:03 for those of you who may not know, 01:04 my name is Ryan Day, 01:05 I work for 01:07 and I'm part of the 3ABN Ministries, 01:08 the Three Angels Broadcasting Network. 01:10 And I'm so thankful to be here at Behold the Lamb Ministries. 01:14 We're kind of just all one big family. 01:16 And it's a blessing to be invited here 01:18 to be able to minister and to witness for Jesus Christ 01:21 and also to get to know each and every one of you. 01:23 It's a blessing. 01:24 So, before we leave today, 01:25 be sure to shake my hand 01:27 and I'd like to get to know you, 01:28 I'm horrible with names. 01:30 So, if I don't remember your name, 01:31 please don't judge me for that, 01:32 I have to usually meet a person 01:34 two or three or four times before it sticks. 01:35 But nonetheless, we are so thankful 01:37 that you at home are joining us wherever you are, 01:39 whether you're watching online 01:41 or you're tuning in live or whatever it is, 01:42 we thank you for your time 01:44 because we know you could be doing 01:45 something else. 01:46 But praise the Lord that you are here with us 01:48 to worship the Lord. 01:49 I have a special song to sing. 01:52 And I'm going to do it a cappella. 01:54 Not to make fun but you, back in the day, 01:57 I didn't, I never understood this 01:58 for many years, 02:00 but somebody would want, 02:01 when I told them I was going to sing a cappella. 02:02 They say, oh, you're singing at church 02:04 of Christ style. 02:05 And I didn't understand that for years, right, 02:07 until I actually attended a church of Christ 02:09 and then I learned what that meant, 02:10 no instruments. 02:12 And you know what? 02:13 There's nothing wrong with that. 02:15 Because, 02:16 well, I believe that we still can use 02:17 and should use instruments to praise the Lord, 02:19 but sometimes it's just great 02:21 to just uplift your voice for Jesus 02:23 without an instrument playing. 02:24 And that's what I'm going to do at this moment. 02:26 In fact, the song I'm going to sing 02:28 is one that we're going to repeat 02:29 and sing again at the end of this service, 02:33 after Brother Kenny, I just think a good, 02:35 a good beginning and a good capstone 02:37 at the end would be nice. 02:39 But I'm choosing to sing this song 02:41 also as a special song because it has a story. 02:43 And with the story, it's even better, 02:46 because it's a true story, it's not a made-up story. 02:50 The story behind this song, 02:52 and I'm not going to say the name of it yet. 02:54 But the story behind the song goes like this. 02:58 There was a missionary, a Christian missionary, 03:02 who traveled to India. 03:04 And this was back, I think in the late 1800s, 03:06 early 1900s, somewhere around there, 03:08 but he had traveled over to one of the states of India 03:12 and he was doing missionary work. 03:13 He was sharing the gospel and the good news. 03:15 Now, if you know anything about India, 03:17 even to this day, 03:19 and of course, it was very bad back then, 03:20 but it's even, I mean, it's still pretty bad today. 03:24 I mean, Christianity is not really widely accepted 03:27 in the country of India. 03:28 In fact, it's, if you ever look at one of those maps, 03:30 where it says, you know, where it kind of color codes, 03:32 things of where Christianity is not accepted, 03:34 the country of India will be highlighted in red 03:37 as a nation 03:38 where Christianity is actually banned, 03:41 it's illegal to share Christianity 03:43 in certain parts of India. 03:45 And so that long story told short, here it is, 03:48 man missionary goes to India back in the late 1800s 03:52 and he's sharing the gospel and he ends up 03:54 out in the middle of some village 03:55 somewhere in the middle of the woods 03:57 in India. 03:58 And he actually goes into this village, 04:00 a rather large village 04:01 and he finds a family 04:03 that is interested in hearing the gospel. 04:05 And so, this family invites this missionary gentleman 04:07 into their home and for weeks at a time, 04:09 this man was giving them Bible studies 04:12 and sharing the good news 04:13 of the Gospel of Jesus with them. 04:14 And shortly, you know, soon, every single day, 04:17 a little bit by little bit, 04:19 these people's lives begin to change, 04:20 the whole family, the father of the house, 04:22 the woman, the mother, and also their children. 04:25 They begin to, 04:26 their hearts and minds begin to be changed 04:28 because they were learning about who Jesus was, 04:29 and now he had died for them. 04:31 Now fast forward a little bit, 04:33 the missionary ends up leaving 04:34 but by this time news has spread 04:37 that around the village which is primarily Hinduistic 04:41 that this family has left the faith of Hinduism 04:45 and they've converted to Christianity. 04:48 So, they are arrested and the chief counsel, 04:53 they are presented before the chief counsel 04:54 in the middle of their village there 04:57 in the courts of their village, 04:59 and the chief of this village 05:00 basically gave an ultimatum to this man and his family 05:03 and he spoke directly to the man 05:05 because the man was the head of the house, 05:06 right? 05:08 If he can convince the father, 05:09 then the mother and the children will follow, 05:11 right? 05:12 And the story goes like this, 05:13 the chief gave them an ultimatum said, 05:15 "You recant, renounce this faith 05:17 and return to Hinduism 05:19 or you and your family will lose your life." 05:23 And, of course, the man couldn't do that, 05:28 because he had already been told 05:30 about how Jesus had died for him. 05:32 And he himself would have, 05:34 was glad to die for Jesus and for the faith of Jesus. 05:38 But this chief knew exactly where to get this man. 05:40 He told him, he gave him one last warning, he said, 05:42 "Either you recant and let go of this faith 05:44 and return to the Hinduism 05:47 or, again, I will take out you and your family one by one." 05:52 Well, this man previously in days or weeks past, 05:56 had written a poem, 06:01 and while he's standing there in those courts, 06:04 listening to this chief and these people, 06:08 you know, supporting the idea of him 06:09 and his family being murdered. 06:12 This poem came to his mind. 06:14 Now later this poem would be put to music. 06:18 And right there in front of everyone 06:19 and in front of this priest 06:21 or this chief priest or chief of the village, 06:27 he began to chant these words. 06:31 I have decided 06:35 To follow Jesus 06:40 I have decided 06:44 To follow Jesus 06:49 I have decided 06:52 To follow Jesus 06:57 No turning back 07:00 No turning back 07:05 And the chief had his two little children 07:08 murdered in front of him. 07:13 And so again, he made his appeal to the man, 07:15 he said, "Look, 07:17 you and your wife don't have to die. 07:19 Just give up this crazy Christian faith 07:22 and you can spare you and your wife's life at least." 07:27 And he looked at his wife with tears. 07:31 And he said... 07:33 Though none go with me 07:38 Still I will follow 07:42 Though none go with me 07:46 Still I will follow 07:50 Though none go with me 07:54 Still I will follow 07:58 No turning back 08:02 No turning back 08:08 And they murdered his wife in front of him. 08:13 And so, the chief made one final appeal, he said, 08:15 "This is it. 08:17 You can spare your own life 08:20 or you can meet the demise 08:21 that your children and your wife have. 08:24 What do you say?" 08:27 And in a strong emotional state that you could imagine, 08:31 he begin to plead out... 08:33 The world behind me 08:37 Whole the cross before me 08:41 The world behind me 08:45 The cross before me 08:50 The world behind me 08:54 The cross before me 08:58 No turning back 09:02 No turning back 09:09 And the chief had him murdered. 09:12 That's a sad story, right? 09:14 And it's a true story, by the way. 09:17 But there's a positive to the story. 09:21 You see, 09:23 that whole village witnessed 09:27 that this family 09:29 was willing to give up their life 09:31 for some guy named Jesus, 09:34 that they had to come to know who is this Jesus 09:38 that these people are willing to die? 09:41 You see, these brothers and sisters 09:42 would never give up their life 09:45 for some, you know, Hinduistic god. 09:48 They'd never seen that before. 09:51 And in the weeks and months to pass, 09:54 one by one by one, that's a true story. 09:57 One by one by one the people begin to convert 10:01 and eventually the chief of that village 10:04 that had this man murdered gave his heart to Jesus Christ 10:07 all because of the blood that was spilled that day 10:10 for the faith in Jesus. 10:13 So, what appears to be a sad story 10:15 was ultimately a passionate, 10:17 wonderful, powerful gospel story 10:19 because sometimes, 10:22 lives are lost for their faith in Jesus. 10:26 But as we see, 10:28 as history has told us time and time again, 10:31 the more and more you spill Christian blood, 10:33 the more and more and more Christians there are, 10:35 that appear. 10:38 Jesus gave His life for that family 10:40 and that man and his family would give gladly 10:42 and as they did give their life for Him that day, 10:45 but because of it, 10:47 lives were transformed by the Gospel of Jesus. 10:51 Well, we're glad you're here today. 10:52 Praise God. 10:54 We're going to be talking about subject I believe 10:55 that's very, it's an interesting to me 10:56 because we are, 10:58 we believe by the grace of God, 10:59 God has given this movement, a message to give to the world. 11:05 And we need to be about our Father's business, 11:07 do we not? 11:09 Absolutely, we do. 11:10 People ask all the time, 11:12 especially what's going on in the world, 11:13 they're asking is, you know, what's happening? 11:16 What's going to happen next? 11:18 And they are concerned 11:19 and rightly so with what's happening. 11:22 And we need to have an answer by the grace of God 11:24 to give these individuals, 11:26 point them to the things 11:27 that are happening in the world, 11:28 and that Jesus is coming. 11:30 There's no doubt about it. 11:32 I like to start with something 11:33 you might call it controversial. 11:35 I do not 11:36 because it's happening in the world today 11:37 we need to be aware of what's happening. 11:40 It's that simple, over and over again, 11:42 aware of what's taking place in the world. 11:44 This actually, man gave this to me, 11:48 and I though how interesting it is. 11:50 We're going to be talking about, 11:51 we're talking about diversion from preparation. 11:55 The enemy is out to do what? 11:57 To divide, to separate, to get diversions out there, 11:59 so that we cannot prepare for the soon coming of Jesus. 12:03 He wants to keep us busy until probation has closed 12:07 in the things we're doing in the world. 12:09 And then, you know, then he's got his prey. 12:11 But by the grace of God, 12:13 we're not going to be caught in those deceptions. 12:15 You know, that the enemy's 12:17 throwing out there because we have to know, what? 12:19 What is truth? 12:20 This little article comes actually from, notice this, 12:22 thecatholicnewsagency.com. 12:26 So, this is something they have read, 12:27 God has good people everywhere. 12:30 There's no doubt about it. 12:31 And some of these who wrote this letter 12:33 are good men of God. 12:35 And this is who wrote this, because they have questions. 12:38 They see things that are going on 12:39 and so they begin to write a letter to their, 12:42 the ones who are in charge 12:43 and it starts out something like this, 12:45 from the Denver news room, 12:47 May 13, 2020, just a few days ago. 12:50 Notice, it says, 12:52 neither the Vatican nor the US bishops 12:54 have responded to a letter 12:56 signed by several Catholic bishops. 12:59 So, several, what? 13:00 Catholic bishops began to write a letter 13:03 that argues that the Coronavirus pandemic 13:06 they said 13:08 has been exploited 13:09 in order to create a one world government. 13:12 Interesting how they're thinking. 13:13 They're saying, but we think this thing has been created, 13:15 even though devastating as it is 13:17 and what it's caused in the world, 13:18 we understand with, 13:20 you know, we don't wanna dismiss it. 13:21 But we realize minds are thinking 13:24 could this be some way that we might be diverted, 13:28 you know, from preparing for the soon coming of Jesus. 13:31 This May 7 letter title 13:33 appeal to the church and the world. 13:36 I think we live in a world right now 13:37 where we need to see some of these letters our self 13:40 appeal to the church, 13:41 for the church to get ready for the coming of Jesus. 13:43 That's God's people, 13:45 it's not a building we're talking about. 13:46 God's people need to be ready for His coming. 13:49 It says here, 13:50 they claim there are powers interested in creating, 13:53 notice this, a panic among the world's population. 13:58 With the sole aim 13:59 of permanently imposing unacceptable forms 14:02 of restrictions on freedoms, 14:04 controlling people and tracking their movements. 14:08 Interesting where this is coming from. 14:10 Proven for and they are saying here, 14:11 it looks like it's to track people. 14:13 This look 14:14 like it's going to take away our freedom, 14:15 freedom, our rights that we have, 14:17 freedom of speech, freedom of press. 14:20 I don't see any of that today to be honest, 14:22 it's all changing. 14:23 And then they go on to say here, 14:25 disturbing prelude 14:27 to the realization of a world government 14:29 beyond control. 14:32 Among its claims, 14:33 the letter says the fight against COVID-19 14:36 however serious, notice this, 14:38 must not be the pretext 14:40 for supporting the hidden intentions 14:44 of the strong commercial and political interest 14:47 in tracking systems, 14:49 notice this, used to fight the pandemic 14:51 in some countries. 14:53 Man, some got together, 14:54 they're thinking 14:55 and they're writing these things down 14:57 and it says, there's more than meets the eye. 14:59 So, if we just look at this, 15:00 it's something is bad 15:01 that's taking place and taking lies, 15:03 we need to look deeper based on the Word of God. 15:06 We look, there's something behind, 15:08 there's something sinister 15:09 behind what's taking place in the world today. 15:12 And we need to be aware of that, 15:14 so that we might warn the world. 15:16 You know, this old business of just coming to church 15:18 and sitting in the pew 15:20 and then going home and that's it. 15:21 Those days should be over. 15:23 A long time ago, 15:24 I've been in this movement 15:26 ever since I can't remember any other since like this. 15:29 And I've seen a lot of idle time 15:31 and a lot of idle things going on. 15:33 This is like we were just, 15:34 you know, we're just occupying a little bit, 15:36 we're not worried 15:37 about what's happening in the world. 15:38 But I see something happening, 15:40 I see the Holy Spirit of God 15:41 being poured out in an abundant way 15:43 to illuminate some beautiful truths 15:45 that we need to bring to the world 15:47 and how the enemy is also trying 15:49 to hoodwink the world, 15:51 so that he can catch people unawares. 15:54 Some aspects of this letter reading on, 15:56 it says here resembles claims 15:58 made by the pandemic of the viral video. 16:01 Many have probably seen this here 16:03 which simply says this, 16:04 see if there might be some truth to this. 16:06 Notice what it says, released this month, 16:08 argues that the pandemic has been manipulated 16:12 through the NGOs. 16:14 That's non-government organizations. 16:18 In order to profit vaccine makers, 16:20 that death rates 16:22 have been exaggerated by hospitals 16:24 that stand to receive, 16:25 notice, recoup Medicare reimbursements, 16:28 for Coronavirus and related deaths. 16:31 Boy, 16:32 that's like hitting some nails on the head right here, 16:34 but maybe a little too heavy for some people. 16:37 The letter says, goes on, these, the Catholic priests, 16:41 The Guardian, you know, 16:42 they're simply saying this right here. 16:44 The letter says that there's an invisible enemy 16:47 aims to use these Coronavirus pandemic 16:50 to divide citizens, 16:53 to separate children from their parents, 16:56 grandchildren from their grandparents, 16:59 faithful, notice this, people from their pastors, 17:04 students from teachers and customers from vendors. 17:09 It sound like something is taking place 17:10 right now, does it not? 17:12 And then it cautions, it says here, 17:14 it cautions its readers not to allow, 17:16 notice this, 17:18 centuries of Christian civilization 17:20 to be erased under the pretext of a virus 17:24 and an odorous technological tyranny 17:27 to be established in which nameless, 17:29 faceless people 17:31 can decide the fate of the world 17:33 by confining us to a virtual reality. 17:36 Man, there's some heavy duty stuff 17:37 that's going on here. 17:39 Listen, this simply says, bottom line, 17:40 the Vatican has offered no comment on the letter. 17:44 They probably will not make any comment on the letter. 17:46 They will not, if it does, 17:48 it will not be any reading like we just had here. 17:50 Man, I start with something here 17:52 that's interesting to me. 17:53 And this will be a foundation that I want us to build, right, 17:56 and keep in mind 17:57 because of what is taking place in the world. 18:00 Remember, if you think you have, 18:02 we've repeated over and over, 18:03 if you think you have freedoms 18:05 based on the Bill of Rights or a Constitution, 18:08 whoever it might be, you're sadly mistaken. 18:11 Every one of those have been taken away 18:13 and we want to prove that from the Word of God 18:15 and certainly the Spirit of Prophecy. 18:17 I am a believer in the Spirit of Prophecy. 18:20 I thank God for the Spirit of Prophecy. 18:22 I thank God for right now, where would I be? 18:26 God is teaching us, 18:27 God understood 18:28 the minds of the people in the last days. 18:31 That's so cloudy it seems like, 18:33 and our minds are so dark 18:34 and we're so in this world of sin and things 18:37 in the city, we behold it, 18:38 we're involved in it day by day, 18:40 that it's hard for us to see clearly now 18:42 where we're at. 18:44 And God says, I want you to know, 18:45 I don't want you to be fooled. 18:47 And I'll just read this First Amendment 18:49 and just see how it's being attacked. 18:51 First Amendment here again, diversion from preparation. 18:56 Man, there's a preparation right now. 18:58 I see things coming to an end rather quickly, 19:00 I don't know about you, 19:02 but it can possibly be as God sees fit. 19:04 It's time for us to quit we say playing church. 19:07 It's a time for us to get on the ball. 19:09 It's time for us, you know, 19:10 to really get with the program of what God has given us to do. 19:14 First Amendment to the US Constitution 19:16 says this, Congress shall make no law. 19:19 Respecting an establishment of religion 19:23 or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. 19:27 As any of these areas been attacked lately, you think 19:30 or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. 19:33 We had freedom. 19:34 They said, don't go to church, close the doors, 19:39 because there's a health epidemic... 19:43 or abridging the freedom of speech. 19:45 Have you seen speech? 19:47 You think we have that free speech anymore? 19:49 There's things that we don't want to hear, 19:50 things that come out in the world 19:52 we don't want to hear, 19:53 but I believe every person has a right 19:54 to speak their mind. 19:57 That's called freedom of speech. 19:59 And not everything that you say should be labeled a hate crime. 20:03 But yet you know what? It is. 20:06 So, we're looking at, we're being pressed right now, 20:08 freedom of speech, freedom of the press. 20:10 Remember the First Amendment, the right of people to, 20:12 notice this, peaceably to assemble. 20:15 Praise God. 20:16 And we know that they're assembling, 20:18 but it's not peaceably now, 20:19 it's been mentioned several times here. 20:21 Things are going on, 20:24 for the government for redress of a grievance. 20:27 Remember, we are supposed to be able to go 20:29 to the government and say this doesn't seem to be right. 20:32 We are the people here 20:33 that means in a remedy, and adjustment. 20:38 What a world we live in. Boy, I'm telling you. 20:42 I want to read something else, too. 20:43 I think in just a moment, we have time to do that. 20:46 With this just said, 20:48 I'm going to read something from the Great Controversy, 20:49 page 442 and 443. 20:52 But you keep this in mind now, if you will, 20:54 just about the First Amendment, 20:56 all the areas that are being attacked. 20:59 And most of the time when we were attacked, 21:00 most of us are set by and done nothing. 21:03 We've kind of went along with the parade. 21:07 As one man said the other day, well, don't you think, 21:09 we understand kind of what's going on, 21:11 we're just not going to get in line 21:12 and do like this. 21:14 We know what, 21:15 for about one, two weeks into this pandemic, 21:17 they call it that we were doing like this. 21:22 It's true. 21:23 But he was saying them so, 21:25 we won't do that 21:26 when we see these things happen. 21:29 Really? 21:31 Great Controversy, 442 and 443 says this, 21:33 notice talking 21:34 about the Declaration of Independence 21:36 and the Constitution. 21:37 It said, "The founders of this nation 21:38 wisely sought to guard against the," 21:42 notice, "employment of secular power." 21:44 All right, the civil power of the government, 21:46 on the part of the church. 21:48 So anytime the church reaches out 21:49 right for a secular power or the government, 21:52 we're in trouble. 21:53 Because it always. 21:55 something always happens, it's inevitable. 21:57 Every time found through history 21:58 is never failed. 22:00 There's intolerance and persecution. 22:03 When you have that government and church and state 22:05 as it were working together. 22:06 We believe in separation of church and state. 22:10 We believe wholeheartedly 22:11 in separation of church and state. 22:13 We have to have a position on these things 22:16 because you will be challenged with them. 22:18 But we find those in high authority 22:20 and the government today, 22:21 they don't really believe in that separation. 22:24 Interesting. 22:27 They do not believe in a separation, 22:28 but we see because of 22:30 and we were given that freedom supposedly here, 22:34 whenever the church, 22:35 we found this out through history 22:36 has attained secular power, 22:39 she has employed it, right, 22:41 to punish as it were, those dissidents, 22:43 those who didn't agree with their doctrines. 22:46 Let me give you a quick example. 22:47 You remember in, 22:49 we're talking about the Church of England, 22:50 we're talking the 16th and the 17th century. 22:54 Some things went on 22:55 that our minds ought to be wrapped 22:56 around here for today. 22:58 Those who would not conform as it were to with Rome, 23:02 and it was including ministers and pastors 23:04 and members and people. 23:06 Can I just say people here? 23:08 Were subject number one to, 23:09 if you didn't agree with Church of Rome, 23:11 you were fined. 23:12 Interesting. 23:14 We're not living 23:15 in somewhat of that time right now. 23:16 If you don't go along 23:18 with what's going on in the world today, 23:19 first of all, you stay off the beaches. 23:21 I'm not saying all this writer, 23:22 I'm not taking a position on that. 23:23 I'm simply saying is we're going to fine you. 23:26 You went to religious meetings. 23:27 So, we're going to take 23:29 your license plate numbers down, 23:30 as you will know, 23:32 and we're going to send you a ticket in the mail. 23:34 See, these things 23:35 that we saw in 16th and 17th century right here, 23:38 they're happening today, right now. 23:40 We're going to know who you are 23:42 and what you stand for and what you believe in, 23:45 what you're advocating to the world. 23:48 For in some of us will not be arrested, 23:50 some of us will not be fined 23:51 because we don't stand for anything. 23:54 Now certainly it's no one here I'm talking to. 23:57 We have to stand right for something 24:01 before they can say you're guilty, 24:02 supposedly, but you know what? 24:04 That's not even in the world that we live in today. 24:07 They can point a finger and say you're guilty, 24:09 and then all of a sudden they make you guilty. 24:15 So those who would not conform were, 24:17 notice, first of all started with a, what? 24:19 With a fine. 24:21 The 16th, 17th century, 24:22 notice this, then they were in prison, 24:25 they were thrown into jail. 24:27 Then what happened? 24:29 And then there was torture. 24:31 This is all in history books. 24:33 And then after that they were martyred 24:34 or they were killed. 24:36 Did you notice how it got from even in the day we live in 24:39 is going to be a fine, then we're going to, 24:42 notice in New York, they doubled the fine. 24:46 And the next day, if it doesn't work out, 24:48 we have a place for you, we'll keep you. 24:53 And I guarantee you, push comes to shove, 24:54 you might have heard the other at the end. 24:57 It'd be better to get rid of a few 24:58 than the whole nation to suffer, 25:00 for you to carry this disease or this pandemic, 25:03 you know, COVID-19 to anybody out. 25:07 Listen, there's some odd things that are going on today. 25:12 I mean, some odd things. 25:14 Wow. 25:16 What led? 25:18 And I think it leads today, I'm watching the time, 25:20 Lord have mercy. 25:22 Pray, kids. 25:25 What led the early church is a good question. 25:27 What led the early church 25:29 to seek the government for help? 25:32 Think about it. 25:33 Now, the early church did, 25:35 they begin to seek the government for help. 25:38 What are we living in, 20, 30, 40 years? 25:40 What are the people doing? 25:42 What is the church doing? 25:43 We're going to the government 25:45 to try to define if abortion is okay. 25:48 I think that's a moral issue. How about you? 25:50 You don't have to ask the government 25:52 but we've done it. 25:53 We go to them in droves and say, 25:55 you need to pass a law on this thing. 25:57 We the people, 25:59 there should be a separation there. 26:02 So, what caused all of this, 26:04 let me read 26:05 from the Great Controversy, 443, quickly, 26:07 it says, it was, now notice the word, 26:09 it starts with a, somebody say A-P-O-S. 26:14 Somebody say apostasy, I'll get tickled. 26:16 It was apostasy that led the early church 26:19 to seek the aid of the civil government. 26:21 It was what? 26:23 And don't tell me 26:24 we don't have apostasy in the church today. 26:28 If we say we do not, 26:29 I just, I encourage you 26:31 to get your head out of the sand, 26:32 they say I'll say that nice as I can. 26:34 It's time for us to open our eyes 26:36 and look around, there is apostasy. 26:39 People say, well, now let's be careful, 26:40 we don't air our dirty laundry. 26:42 Calling sin by its right name is not airing dirty laundry. 26:45 There is a big difference in airing dirty laundry 26:48 and calling sin by its right name 26:50 which we need to do 26:51 which is preparation for the coming of Jesus. 26:54 Getting sin out of life by the grace of God, 26:56 living the victorious life through Him, 26:59 being like Jesus. 27:01 Man, this is part of the preparation, 27:02 don't be deceived, 27:04 don't let these diversions come along in this life 27:07 that have me and you diverted in so many different way, 27:09 we don't know where we're at. 27:11 And it happens. 27:12 We get diverted, 27:14 I get diverted some time 27:15 on things that are good within themselves. 27:17 Then I missed out what I should maybe be doing 27:19 or where I should be at. 27:21 And the older you get, the more you realize 27:22 you can't do all the things you did 30 years ago. 27:27 Okay, as some of the older ones said, 27:29 amen, young ones were laughing. 27:31 All right now you'll get there if the Lord should tarry. 27:35 I hope to God that you don't. 27:36 Why? Because what? 27:38 Because I believe Jesus is coming. 27:40 It's not too many years in the future, maybe months, 27:42 it could be decade, we don't know, it's just, 27:44 we need to keep our minds and heart open to realize 27:46 that these movements that we saw, 27:48 God is just showing His last day people, 27:50 I think, these things will come quickly. 27:52 Last movements will be, what? 27:54 We said it for year, I grew up on that. 27:56 I grew up on that hearing it all of the time 27:58 that almost got tired of it. 28:01 Because I heard all the time, these last movements, 28:03 but these last movements will be rapid ones. 28:05 And I'm saying, oh, rapid ones. 28:07 Man, in two weeks time the world changed. 28:12 Did it not. 28:14 It's not the same. 28:16 And you know what, 28:18 if you're looking forward to go back to where it is, 28:19 I hate to say 28:20 but I don't believe it will ever go back. 28:22 It never went back in 2008 the big disaster economic, 28:26 the 2011 it never went back to that point. 28:29 And what the changes we see take place now. 28:31 I don't think they'll ever be removed again. 28:35 Things are circling around, right, 28:36 the enemy is encircling especially people, 28:40 a group of people that love God 28:41 and keep His commandments. 28:44 Apostasy. 28:48 And you know what apostasy in the church led to? 28:51 Apostasy, that, yes, apostasy in the church 28:53 prepared the way 28:55 for the development of the papacy or the beast. 28:59 Paul said it like this in 2 Thessalonians. 29:02 See, I like for somebody to challenge me on it. 29:04 See, I like a good challenge. Why? 29:06 Because, listen, this is our message. 29:08 I'm not going to be by the grace of God shy 29:11 about the message that we are to give, 29:13 which is all three angels' message, 29:15 the third angel's message 29:16 warning against the mark of the beast 29:18 and the image to the beast. 29:19 We cannot be shy right now. 29:21 Well, this person won't like it, 29:23 that person won't like it. 29:24 I'm worried about 29:25 whether God will like it or not, 29:27 aren't you? 29:28 I'm concerned 29:29 about that pleasing my Heavenly Father. 29:31 He said it's time, 29:33 it's time for us, it's way past time, 29:35 man, we've missed, we've missed 29:37 100, 150 years of doing what we should have been doing. 29:40 God have mercy on us. 29:43 Paul said in 2 Thessalonians, you know it well, 29:46 2:3, the Bible said, "There shall come," what? 29:49 "A falling away." 29:50 You remember talking about the papacy. 29:52 There'll be a, what? 29:53 A falling away 29:54 and that man of sin be revealed. 29:57 How is the man of sin, right, 29:59 going be revealed if you don't do it? 30:04 Regardless if your mom, oh, be careful. 30:06 Regardless of your mom likes it or not, 30:09 regardless of your husband or wife like it, 30:10 you see what I'm saying, 30:12 I'm not trying to be smart about it. 30:13 I'm simply saying, 30:14 it's time for the chains to be broken. 30:16 It's time for us to step up to the plate. 30:18 You can't hit the ball 30:19 if you're sitting in the dugout. 30:21 There's too many dugout players, 30:22 there's too many talkers. 30:23 God wants them out on the field, 30:25 taking their position. 30:26 Remember, everyone's not a pitcher, 30:28 everybody's not a catcher, but you can be a player. 30:31 And God wants you in the game as it were right now, 30:33 a game of eternal life. 30:35 We have a job to do, you're first baseman, 30:37 don't play first base like you play left field. 30:40 I think you got it. 30:42 There's come a falling away 30:44 that man of sins is going to be what, 30:46 revealed that son of perdition. 30:49 That's what the Bible said, isn't that right? 30:50 You get strong language right here. 30:53 In 2 Timothy 4:3, 30:55 the Bible says, now listen to this, 30:57 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy 4:3, and the Great Controversy, 31:01 page 594 and 595. 31:04 Listen to these two things, how they come together, please. 31:08 "The time will come as," in 2 Timothy says, 31:11 "they will not endure," what? 31:12 "Sound." 31:14 They're not going to endure. 31:15 If you think 31:16 the world's enduring sound doctrine today, 31:18 the church is not enduring sound doctrine today. 31:21 I don't say that it's a hit or a cut. 31:23 I'm simply saying it is or it isn't. 31:26 It is or it isn't. 31:29 I've been around long enough 31:30 and I realized some of the things 31:32 that are going on. 31:33 And I realized 31:34 that I need to be into the Word of God 31:36 so that I'm not going to be deceived 31:37 by what happens. 31:39 We set by and we just deceive ourselves 31:41 when you're not studying and don't know what truth is. 31:44 The time will come 31:45 when they will not endure sound doctrine. 31:48 Now, does anyone believe that maybe that time is here? 31:51 Absolutely. 31:53 It's already here a long time ago. 31:54 They're not endured, 31:55 they don't want to hear it 31:57 and you try to give it 31:58 to a brother or sister or a co-worker. 32:00 Oh, you're out of your mind. 32:01 And that just scares us to death. 32:03 I don't, Brother Jan, I don't want anybody to think 32:04 I'm out of my mind. 32:06 I guarantee there's more people think 32:08 I'm out of my mind than we are anyway. 32:11 The time is going to come the Bible said, 32:13 they will not endure sound doctrine. 32:15 I basically and I mean this, 32:17 I want to mean it the right way. 32:19 I don't care, 32:21 you see what the world might say. 32:24 See, I do in the sense 32:25 that I want to represent Jesus Christ, 32:27 but to change 32:28 what God has impressed my mind or your mind 32:30 to do we should not, we do not change it. 32:33 We go forward in that. 32:36 Now notice the Great Controversy says this 32:38 about that passage. 32:40 Notice, "That time," whoo, "has fully come." 32:44 You realize how many years ago this was written. 32:46 There's a time coming 32:47 when the world will not endure, what? 32:49 Sound doctrine. 32:50 They're not going to, 32:51 they're not going to worry that you say, 32:53 well, you know what the Bible says, 32:54 the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. 32:57 That's what it says? 32:59 Somebody shout. Yes. 33:02 And you say, well, you tell them, they go, 33:04 well the world is no, 33:05 no, we don't want to hear, that's now changed. 33:07 Well, who changed it? 33:09 Most of the world cares not enough about truth 33:11 that they dig in to find out 33:13 who did the changing or thought to change. 33:15 Daniel 7:25, who thought to change, what? 33:18 Times and laws. 33:20 It's more 33:21 than just where we're going to church 33:23 on a day. 33:24 It's a day that God said to go on. 33:26 Can we not have the holy boldness 33:28 to say this is God said it, then I want to do that. 33:29 Amen. 33:31 Isn't that right, ain't that 33:32 and that's a boldness He wants in us, 33:33 we come boldly to Him. 33:36 "The time," notice, The Great Controversy says, 33:38 "The time has fully come. 33:41 Multitudes, 33:42 no, my multitudes do not want Bible truth." 33:47 They don't, no matter what they say, 33:49 oh, we go to church, 33:50 we go to our own place, blah-blah. 33:52 I praise God there's good people 33:53 we rise everywhere. 33:54 But you know what? God is calling them out. 33:57 He's calling them into His movement of the day 34:00 and you can identify that movement 34:01 by those who keep the commandments of God 34:03 and have the testimony or faith of Jesus Christ. 34:05 Ain't that the two identify marks? 34:07 Yes. 34:08 Now, 34:09 regardless of how many times you've heard that, 34:11 or I have heard that, I believe God's ministers, 34:13 now his folks 34:15 and whatever you're teaching in the class, 34:16 we need to go on with this. 34:18 We need to continue to bring it before the people 34:21 where we show some fire that's going to be caught. 34:23 This church needs to be on fire. 34:25 If we don't invite the Holy Spirit here 34:27 and we're not on fire, 34:28 then you'll call the fire department 34:29 and go home. 34:31 Ain't that right? Put the fire out and go. 34:32 I don't want the fire put out. 34:34 We want the power of the Holy Spirit 34:36 right to grab around us to shake us up. 34:39 And Jesus said, 34:40 but be My witnesses to the world, 34:43 multitudes do not want Bible truth. 34:44 Why? 34:45 Because it interferes 34:47 with their sinful world loving heart. 34:49 That's why. 34:50 We want to have our own way. 34:52 We want to do what we want to do, 34:54 you ever heard that said? 34:56 Read something to you, and I found 34:57 at the Signs of the Time article, 35:01 and I'm sure you read it many times before, 35:03 but to me, this is just some powerful stuff. 35:06 And if there ever was a time we need some powerful stuff, 35:09 would you not say it's now? 35:12 See you, we all say that but when that comes out, we go. 35:16 Let's not mention. 35:19 Let's not mention, as I told you before, 35:21 one man many years ago, 35:22 everybody would know His name for years ago. 35:24 He's talking about me. 35:26 He said, "Kenny, you're killing us 35:27 when you're presenting the third angel's message." 35:28 And I said, "How would that be?" 35:30 He said, "You go too far." 35:31 Said, "What do you mean go too far?" 35:32 "Well, you identify who it is." 35:35 He said, "What you do is you identify the, 35:37 you know, the man of sin and all this stuff here. 35:38 And then you say, 35:40 if you want to know more you write in 35:41 and we'll send you the information." 35:43 I said, "Bro, when I get that hot, 35:45 right when we get up and are on fire for Jesus 35:47 and you do all the identifying marks right 35:49 of who the beast power is. 35:50 I can't keep my mouth shut. 35:52 I just have to go ahead and spill the beans. 35:54 I may not have another opportunity. 35:55 You may not either. 35:57 Man, somebody get on fire. 36:00 Bible says, now wait, apostasy in the church, 36:04 apostasy in the world. 36:05 What would that... 36:07 Well, the simple definition, 36:09 would that be maybe backing up on things 36:10 that you understand and learn to be truth? 36:13 And then all of a sudden 36:14 now you're backing up from those things, 36:15 you've passed that, 36:17 you no longer say we have to keep, 36:18 it's no longer important. 36:20 We're that in our own church. 36:21 You don't really have to do that anymore. 36:22 Really? Did God change? 36:24 I don't think He ever changes. 36:25 The Bible said no. 36:28 Let me read something here in the Signs, 36:30 Signs of the Time, March 22, 1910. 36:34 I'm squinting. 36:36 I'm squinting. 36:37 I thought I have my glasses. 36:39 I'm squinting still yet, it's all right. 36:41 Let me dig down through here. 36:44 I dropped the pin out there, it didn't do me no good. 36:46 I can't see with a pin. 36:48 All right, somebody, you're gonna hang with me. 36:49 I want to read apostasy and national ruin. 36:51 You know this and here well, 36:53 again Signs of the Times, March 28. 36:54 I really can't see much better with them. 36:57 It says, 36:58 "When the Protestant churches shall unite 37:02 with the secular powers to sustain a false religion, 37:05 for opposing 37:07 which their ancestors endured fierce persecution." 37:10 Are you there? 37:12 "When the state shall use its power 37:14 to enforce the decrees, 37:16 sustain the institution," is that happening? 37:18 Oh, my, come on. 37:20 "Of the church." Notice it. 37:21 "Then will Protestant America 37:23 have formed an image to the Papacy, 37:25 there will be national apostasy which will end in, " what? 37:29 "National ruin." 37:31 So, if we see this apostasy and we say, 37:32 yeah, we see they're joining hands, 37:34 we see what's taking place. 37:35 It's just here. 37:37 See, the whole point is what? 37:38 It's here right now. 37:39 We don't need to say 37:41 one of these days is going to happen. 37:42 I want to encourage you today that it's here right now. 37:44 We need to make our decisions and choices for God right now. 37:49 All right. 37:50 I say this, 37:52 let not the commandment keeping people of God 37:54 be silent at this time. 37:57 We are in a warfare 37:59 and God expects His people to stand up, 38:01 put on the whole armor of God 38:03 and march forward with this message. 38:05 We don't have to accept gracefully. 38:08 We've read this, right, in Spirit of Prophecy, 38:09 gracefully, what's going on in the world today 38:12 and just say nothing about it. 38:14 God expects us to stand for what is truth. 38:16 Did we not hear our special music today? 38:18 Do you think those people did not stand 38:20 for what was truth and right? 38:21 Their love for Jesus was paramount. 38:23 But many times we have too many loves. 38:25 We have too many loves of the world 38:27 and things of the world and we don't wanna... 38:28 We got to love Jesus with our whole heart, 38:30 our whole soul, right? 38:31 And our whole mind. 38:33 This is what it's about right now we know that, 38:35 even though there's a risk of imprisonment, 38:38 and there will be and of death 38:42 and being killed for the true sake. 38:45 But you can be sure that you'll have eternal life, 38:47 you die for Jesus, He promises that. 38:49 None of us can say, oh, I want to be a martyr. 38:51 Who said? 38:52 people say today, I want to be a martyr. 38:54 We need to give them a lie detector test. 38:58 Are you still with me? 38:59 Yeah. 39:00 Because we wanna speak that I understand that, 39:02 I probably said that in times past 39:04 but really think about it. 39:06 I simply say if God so designs 39:08 that's what I've to be or you are to be and know, 39:11 God will give you what you need in that time, 39:13 but just a spare death right in the face 39:15 or shotgun at face right now. 39:16 You gonna say, oh, have mercy Lord. 39:19 God will give us what we need in that time, 39:21 all be sure of that. 39:24 Here it seems like, just seems to me that we are, 39:27 we're so near the end, 39:30 as we see these things taking place. 39:33 That's now taking place today. 39:35 I wanna read something to, you notice, 39:36 Five Testimonies, 451 says this. 39:39 Now again, we're looking at 39:40 because we're seeing 39:42 all these things fulfilled, right, 39:43 that's taking place in the world right now. 39:45 This tells us how close we are to the coming of Jesus 39:48 if we never got it before. 39:50 Five Testimonies, 451 says this, 39:53 under, now this, I'm not quoting at this point, 39:55 I'm just going to condense it down. 39:57 "Under the threefold warning," 39:59 that's papacy, 40:01 Protestantism and spiritualism or the certainly devil rapid. 40:05 Did you get it? 40:06 "Our country shall repudiate what? 40:09 Every principle of the Constitution." 40:12 Those who are holding on, 40:13 say we've got these freedoms what? 40:14 The time will come, time will come, it is now. 40:18 Every principle of our Constitution 40:21 is repudiated or basically covered, 40:23 we're not gonna take the Constitution in my opinion 40:25 and just light a fire and put it all, 40:27 people not gonna stand for that, 40:28 it's going to stand intact 40:30 but our brilliant lawyers of today 40:31 have found a way 40:33 around every part of that Constitution 40:34 and Bill of Rights. 40:36 Every one of them, it can't be, I'm serious. 40:39 Do you know that? 40:40 They've got ways around it, they got the mind to do it. 40:42 And they will do it, well, you can't do it this way 40:44 but we can get around it this way. 40:46 Taking all your freedoms right now. 40:48 Listen, they're doing it. 40:50 I heard a Congressman say just the other day said, 40:52 don't you realize you have none of these freedoms. 40:54 Don't you realize we have a way around every, 40:56 when he says you can't do it this way 40:58 then they apply something else, something that has health. 41:03 This world has been closed down 41:05 because and I'm not belittling at all 41:07 because a lot of good people have died 41:09 I think in this, 41:10 in the United States in it alone, over 100,000. 41:14 It's a real bug, and it gets certain people. 41:18 But I'm telling you right now they are working on, 41:20 the government's working on fear. 41:23 We have nothing to fear but fear itself. 41:25 Only fear we have to do 41:27 is if we forget how God has led us in the past. 41:30 It's best enough to say, 41:31 the God has taken care of me in the past, 41:33 He's going to take care of me in the future. 41:36 He's going to meet all of my needs 41:37 just as He said that He would be. 41:38 Oh, praise God for that. 41:42 "Under this threefold," reading on, "the union, " 41:44 papacy, Protestantism, spiritualism, 41:46 "our country shall do," what? 41:47 Once again. 41:48 "Repudiate, as it were, 41:50 go around every principle of the Constitution. 41:52 And as they," notice this. 41:53 "And as a Protestant and republican government, " 41:58 listen, "the time for the enemy, 42:01 the Satan, the time has come for Satan 42:03 to do his marvelous works, his works." 42:06 Notice this. And notice this. 42:08 "And that the end is near." Did anybody get this? 42:14 When we see what's being attacked today, 42:16 the Constitution, 42:17 we see all of these things repudiated. 42:19 And they're all just like, oh, we're here, it were, 42:21 the warning is given, 42:22 there's time for the enemy to start working 42:24 like he's never worked before. 42:26 He's always been a worker, trust me, he's been a worker. 42:29 He worked every time he gets an opportunity on me. 42:32 But God's still working on me too. 42:34 I still desire to be what Jesus wants me to be. 42:37 I serve one that's bigger than the enemy. 42:38 How about you? 42:40 I serve one who's victorious. 42:41 How about you? 42:43 I'm one that does whatever God says 42:44 like, you know, I want you with Me in paradise. 42:47 Praise God. 42:48 I hear that, He may have told or said somebody else 42:50 but I've taken as He said it to me. 42:52 He said, I prepared a place for you. 42:54 And if I go to prepare a place for you, 42:55 I will come again. 42:57 Jesus loves you so much to say, come on in. 43:00 But notice, 43:01 when these things are being attacked 43:03 like they are, 43:04 and people are making the comments that they are, 43:06 notice this, it says the end is near. 43:10 This is such evidence, Lord, have mercy. 43:14 The example, just give you a quick example. 43:18 You know this well, before Jerusalem was destroyed, 43:23 was there a warning given? 43:24 Yes. 43:25 Oh, absolutely, there was a warning given. 43:27 When you see the Roman armies riding camp around, 43:30 come up, surround them, 43:31 or you see him 43:33 as it were pull up to the front, 43:34 plant their little banner as it were, 43:36 and then all of a sudden by man can't figure it out. 43:39 They decide to pull away, did they not? 43:40 But God said when you see these things coming back, 43:43 it's your time to get out. 43:46 See, we are worn at this time. 43:48 We're getting very close to the time 43:50 when God's people will be required 43:52 to maybe leave the places of security. 43:56 It's way past that time, 43:59 but, you know, get out of the cities. 44:02 See, we can say it over and over. 44:03 But listen until it works, until people really get it 44:06 because the time will come 44:07 when you will not be able to leave the cities. 44:11 You will not. 44:13 People always, you remember years ago, 44:14 they say, well, you know, something happened bad here, 44:16 they're gonna do some martial law, martial. 44:19 You know, that don't sound farfetched to me at all. 44:22 That is so simple to implement that. 44:25 You know, all these great big highways 44:27 that go around all these cities 44:28 how easy it is to shut that city off 44:30 just about a few exits, come on, somebody. 44:33 It's all in the plan the enemy has, you know that. 44:40 When the end is near, 44:42 when you see the Roman armies go around this city, 44:44 you know that destruction is soon to come. 44:47 When you see that our Constitution, 44:49 our Bill of Rights, 44:50 and some people who are in positions 44:53 of passing laws and legislating 44:56 and supposed to be leaders of our country 44:57 have went out of their minds. 45:00 Is it okay to say that? 45:02 See, I believe that, I'm not trying to downtrod, 45:04 I'm not trying to make fun of them. 45:06 These are some brilliant people in this position. 45:08 But the enemy is so taken 45:09 possession of the minds right now 45:10 they're coming up with almost like goofy, 45:13 and finally with some goofy things, 45:15 some things 45:16 that just don't make sense right now, 45:18 because the enemy is what? 45:20 He's deceiving here, notice, decisions, decisions, decision, 45:24 diversions, diversions, diversion. 45:27 Every time we look, there's a diversion. 45:30 We need to be careful, we're having visitors today. 45:32 So, you don't want to speak on this subject. 45:34 I say no, I want to speak on it more. 45:37 See, the Holy Spirit knows what's going to be said. 45:41 You don't make adjustments 45:42 because somebody has come in for the first time 45:44 even though it seems like we should. 45:46 God knows what's going to be said, 45:48 He knows the heart is going to be there. 45:50 And He knows the ones who are going to accept it, 45:53 that their hearts are open. 45:54 See, if you're not looking for truth today, 45:56 you're not going to find it. 45:57 If you don't love the truth, 45:58 you know, 46:00 you're never going to accept it. 46:01 You're going to leave and say, 46:03 well, I don't want to hear that kind of stuff anymore. 46:04 Or you might say, 46:05 man, there's some things here I need to dig into. 46:09 Apostasy, there is a sign to us that God's cup is full. 46:15 The faint little things that we say, 46:16 you could name dozens and dozens and dozens 46:17 on and on, you know it, you listen to the news. 46:20 These are just trying to put some little thing together 46:22 that maybe there's little dots, 46:23 right dot the eye across the T. 46:26 There's apostasy in the church, 46:28 there's apostasy in the world, the things that are going on, 46:31 God's cup is full, our nation's iniquity is full. 46:37 And God says that's enough. 46:39 And let me tell you, 46:40 the angel of mercy is about to take you, right, 46:42 take its flight, 46:44 and it never will return again where you stand. 46:48 From the Atlantic.com says this, 46:51 has been, things are being attacked, 46:52 you know, in response to the crucial movement 46:55 in the history of our Constitution in the US, 46:58 United States 47:00 and The National Constitution Center 47:02 and the Atlantic, notice, 47:03 are launching a new project, 47:06 the battle for the Constitution. 47:09 Things are going on, Early Writings 269 says this, 47:12 and listen, my brother and sister, 47:13 we need to pay close attention. 47:15 I have to when I read these things. 47:16 In fact, I get goosebumps at times. 47:18 In fact, I read some of this stuff 47:19 and be honest with you, 47:21 it gets too heavy. 47:22 It gets too heavy, 47:23 I have to, I quit, I quit for a moment. 47:25 I say Lord, it's just, it's too much for my mind, 47:27 I have to get up and walk around 47:28 maybe then come back to my studying, 47:29 I read a little more, oh, it's, Lord, have mercy. 47:33 Things that we just can't even fathom 47:35 getting ready to happen. 47:36 And the church for most time sits idle. 47:39 They're doing this soft, 47:41 petal soft, so soft, sweet stuff, 47:43 whatever it is out from the pulpit, 47:44 they don't have time to say prepare for Jesus. 47:46 Get your life right with Christ. 47:48 Get rid of sin by the grace of God. 47:51 Early Writings, 694 says this. 47:53 "If every watchman on the walls of Zion 47:58 had given the trumpet a certain sound, 48:01 oh, the world might have ere have been heard," what? 48:04 "This message warning." Note the message of warning. 48:07 "But the work is years behind. 48:10 While men have slept, 48:11 Satan has stolen a march on us." 48:15 See, be better when I say, 48:16 when we don't read those things. 48:18 You know, I want to know, well, we have slept. 48:21 Well, we've been busy 48:22 just trying to pacify the church, 48:24 pacify the people, give them a pacifier, 48:26 let them take their nap. 48:27 Don't wake them from that, 48:29 you know, just make everything go good 48:30 rather than just say look it, 48:31 here's what God has said in His Word, 48:33 you decide what you want to do with it. 48:34 I have to decide 48:36 what I want to do with these things. 48:37 If I give the trumpet, what? 48:39 A certain sound. 48:41 1 Corinthians 14:8, 48:43 it talks about that trumpet, doesn't it? 48:45 Give the trumpet a certain sound. 48:46 There's nothing worse than a trumpet 48:48 that's out of tune 48:49 than a trumpet that's making a blast 48:51 and the noise over there 48:52 and all it does is hurt your ears. 48:54 You need tuned up. 48:56 We need to be in harmony. 48:57 Give it a certain sound, the Bible said, 49:00 and while we've been asleep, 49:01 while we've not been doing what we should be doing, 49:03 the enemy has come and he has stolen it. 49:05 We've seen it, 49:06 more people go out the back door 49:07 than come in the front. 49:09 Something's wrong. 49:12 Ezekiel 33:3 says, 49:14 we need to blow the trumpet and warn the people, 49:16 did you get it? 49:18 Do what? 49:19 Bible said, we'd to blow the trumpet. 49:20 We're to give the trumpet a certain, what? 49:22 A certain sound. 49:23 Joel 2:1 says, 49:25 you need to blow the trumpet in, where? 49:27 Blow the trumpet in Zion, sound alarm, you see. 49:30 I'm excited about 49:31 because I realized 49:32 who's blowing the trumpet in Zion. 49:34 Is Zion supposed to be his church, his church? 49:37 In the church, 49:39 they say don't blow it too loud 49:40 because that will awake the people. 49:42 Blow the trumpet, wake the people up. 49:44 We are in the time of the shaking 49:46 and have been for a very long time, 49:47 my brothers and sisters. 49:48 And if you're not fastened down, 49:50 you will be shaken out. 49:51 We have to be fastened down 49:52 with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, 49:54 fastened down in the love of Jesus Christ. 49:58 Revelation 8:13, 50:00 I don't want to take this out of context, 50:01 but I want you to kind of put it in here. 50:02 It talks about the voice of the trumpet 50:05 of the three angels. 50:07 Whoo, the voice of what? 50:08 Of the trumpet. 50:10 And if we could just put it right over there and say, 50:11 listen, we have a message to give. 50:13 We are to blow that trumpet in Zion, 50:15 we're to call a solemn assembly, right? 50:17 A fast and call our people together 50:19 and say Jesus is coming. 50:21 And how we need to be ready. 50:23 Oh, we might say, well, I need to go. 50:26 You know, I need to go over here. 50:27 Listen, 50:29 you don't go to church anywhere 50:30 where you're gonna die. 50:31 Somebody, okay, I might as well be quiet. 50:37 Did you get it? 50:39 Well, I went there, all my life and I should have done that. 50:43 I basically, you know, for the first 40 years, 50:45 I basically belonged to one church basically. 50:46 So, I don't want to, right now, 50:48 you won't, you don't want to go 50:49 where you're going to die spiritually. 50:51 You need to go where you're fed. 50:53 You sit at the table and feed 50:55 and Jesus is going to feed you with a Word of God. 50:58 Go where we can breathe, where we can live, 51:00 where we can realize a mission that we have to the world. 51:03 Blow the trumpet in Zion, what the Bible says. 51:07 David Rockefeller years ago said this, 51:09 he said, notice, 51:10 "We are on the verge of a global transformation." 51:15 Now notice, all we need, 51:19 all we need it said to write major crisis. 51:24 And the nations will accept the new world order. 51:28 See, they're saying on the pulpit, 51:29 oh, don't talk about the new world order. 51:30 No, I'm gonna talk about it. 51:32 Don't talk about victory over sin. 51:34 No, I'm gonna talk about it. 51:36 Don't talk about what happens when you die. 51:38 No, I'm gonna talk about it. 51:40 Don't talk about the sanctuary, it's too heavy. 51:41 No, I want to talk about it. 51:43 Because it's changed my life. 51:45 These truths have changed my life. 51:47 I pray for eternity. 51:49 I praise God for those truths 51:50 and they brought joy to my heart 51:52 and I want you to have that joy 51:53 if you don't have it today. 51:55 I want you to have the joy and the peace 51:57 that passes all understanding in this major crisis 52:00 as it were that's going on. 52:02 Decisions, decisions, decisions, 52:04 God help us to realize 52:08 these doors being open to our churches is essential. 52:11 They are essential, they're more than that, 52:14 than you talk about the pot houses 52:16 and the, you know, 52:17 the place where you buy booze and all that kind of business, 52:20 open all these places, get your nails done, 52:23 get a, what is it, a pedicure. 52:25 What? That's not essential. 52:29 But the church doors being open, 52:30 what I want you, it's essential. 52:33 And we were fooled too long, 52:35 where it'll be a few weeks 52:36 that we had them close and we played the game. 52:39 And I thoroughly I'm a believer that need to be open 52:41 where God's people can come together, 52:43 that we can learn the truth of God's Word. 52:46 And that we can realize this hour, 52:48 the things just barely hit on right now 52:50 tells us what? 52:51 Jesus is soon to come. 52:53 There's no doubt about it. What is it you go after this? 52:56 Jesus is going to come. 52:58 Everything's going to break loose, 52:59 time of Jacob trouble coming, Sunday laws are coming. 53:01 Man, we got to be ready. 53:02 No way we can be ready 53:04 as we give our life to Jesus Christ. 53:06 I want to have just a short prayer here 53:07 as we end, 53:09 just have 15 or 20 seconds left 53:10 and I just want to pray right now 53:11 and I ask you just bow your heads 53:13 and pray with me there those at their home. 53:14 Father in heaven, we thank You for Your precious Word. 53:16 Thank You for Your love. 53:18 Thank You for the warning that You've given. 53:19 Thank You for the power that You promised 53:21 to Your last day people. 53:22 We thank You and we praise You. 53:23 And thank You for those who have made a decision 53:25 to follow Jesus. 53:26 His name we pray and for His sake, amen. 53:28 Amen. 53:29 Amen. 53:31 God bless each and every one, we did, 53:33 just barely got going stuff on it 53:34 but hey, you know what? 53:35 It is what it is, right? 53:37 The Holy Spirit and we pray 53:38 has impressed your heart and your mind. 53:40 There may be, you know, somebody here need to say, 53:42 you know, I need, I need, 53:43 I need some, I need some prayer. 53:45 I need some more prayer 53:46 because I realize all of these things 53:48 are happening in the world that the end is near 53:50 and I want to make sure I'm ready for Jesus to come. 53:54 Because we would hear this closing song 53:55 that you have it's perfect, it's perfect for it. 53:57 And you need to be singing 53:59 in your heart and your mind right now 54:00 but more than that, is committing, 54:03 committing your life to Jesus Christ right now. 54:05 And if you want to commit your life to Jesus Christ, 54:07 you don't know what the future holds. 54:08 I don't know what the future holds, 54:09 other than what's revealed in the Word of God. 54:11 How long it's going to take, but I do believe it's soon, 54:13 it's even at the door. 54:15 And the best way we can do, 54:17 what we can do is commit our life 54:18 to Jesus Christ today. 54:21 Do it today. 54:22 Don't worry about, well, if I do it today, 54:24 but I've still got this habit, I still got that habit. 54:26 Oh, God's good 54:27 about getting rid of those habits. 54:29 Isn't that right? God gives you victory. 54:31 All you do but you submit to Him first. 54:34 And watch Him open those doors, 54:36 and watch you gain the victories that you need to, 54:37 the main thing you say, Lord, I want to follow you 54:40 regardless of what happened in my life, 54:43 it will be the best decision that you have ever made, 54:46 will be someone today 54:47 or maybe all I would like to stay in 54:48 and say, you what, 54:50 I give my life to Christ right now today. 54:51 All right. 54:53 I can't afford, I can't afford not to. 54:56 What if the Lord should come? 54:57 What if I should die today? What if there be an accident? 55:00 At least you'd be covered by the blood. 55:01 You may not have all the victories gained 55:03 that you want to 55:04 but you made that decision today to follow Him. 55:06 I've been following for a long time 55:07 and He's still working on me. 55:09 There's still things He's working out in my life. 55:10 And I praise God for that. 55:11 I get comfort and cheer and encouragement by the grace 55:14 that God has to continue to work on somebody like me. 55:19 His grace is greater than any sin. 55:20 Would anybody else that want to stand today 55:22 and just say yes. 55:24 I'm just going to be bold about, listen, 55:25 everybody in this church ought to stand up, 55:27 there should be not one person glued down to their seat. 55:29 Why? 55:30 Because you're standing. Thank you. 55:32 You're standing for Jesus Christ. 55:33 You're not standing for Behold the Lamb. 55:35 You're not standing for Brother Ryan, 55:36 myself or any. 55:37 You're standing in for the King of kings 55:39 and Lord of lords. 55:41 And you know what heaven's done? 55:43 Heaven's jotting down as it were, 55:44 those commitments 55:46 and what's going through your mind 55:47 and through your heart right now, it's written down. 55:50 I have decided, whoo, 55:53 I have decided to follow Jesus. 55:57 Amen. 55:59 I have decided 56:04 To follow Jesus 56:09 I have decided 56:13 To follow Jesus 56:18 No turning back 56:22 No turning back 56:25 Though none go with me. 56:27 Though none go with me 56:31 Still I will follow 56:36 Though none go with me 56:40 Still I will follow 56:45 Though none go with me 56:50 Still I will follow 56:54 No turning back 56:59 No turning back 57:02 My cross I'll carry. 57:04 My cross I'll carry 57:08 Till I see Jesus 57:13 My cross I'll carry 57:18 Till I see Jesus 57:23 My cross I'll carry 57:28 Till I see Jesus 57:32 No turning back 57:37 No turning back 57:40 The world behind me. 57:42 The world behind me 57:47 The cross before me 57:51 The world behind me 57:56 The cross before me 58:01 The world behind me 58:06 The cross before me 58:11 No turning back 58:15 No turning back. |
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